By Ed Hurst | Mar 18, 2008 at 22:42:44
The quest to get GNU/Linux to run well on a laptop has been a long running challenge. In this piece, Ed looks at his success with OpenSUSE on a Dell Latitude laptop.
By Ed Hurst | Nov 16, 2007 at 17:18:1
For more than forty years of my life, I’ve been serving Christ. There
are more stories there than several books can tell. Since I’ve read
stories from the lives of others written far better, and more useful to
building individual faith, than I could do, I’ll confine myself to a
little piece of my story here. It will be a little piece not often
addressed in the stories of others, how faith trumps the politics and
religious devotion many have to various expressions of high
technology.
By 2 | Oct 26, 2006 at 23:50:37
It’s nothing personal, you see. Human Resource (HR) directors don’t
hire people; actually, they hire skill sets. Naturally, that skill set
includes the ability to get along, a skill even the most evil sociopath
can learn. It’s not how good someone is, but whether they exhibit a
certain ability to perform. It’s strictly dollars for a product, even if
that product is a complex of human interaction. If you could get a robot
to do the job for less money, the robot would be used.
Those of us observing GNU/Linux over the past decade have spent so much time talking about how “next year is Linux’s year on the desktop” that it has become more of a humorous cliché than a useful statement. Nevertheless, while every year the Penguin has disappointed us in not quite readying itself to compete against Apple and Microsoft’s systems, at least in the small office and home office market, we can always cling to the eternal hope: next year. Or can we?
By 2 | Oct 12, 2006 at 7:41:46
You’ve installed FreeBSD, and it works fine, of course. If you are as seriously committed to using it as your desktop as I am, you’ll want to get the most out it. Let’s go hardcore! The key with FreeBSD is optimization — tweaking the compile process so the resulting binary code runs as efficiently as possible.
By 2 | Oct 4, 2006 at 22:33:30
Consumer grade machines with 64-bit processors have been around for
the past three years. At first it meant nothing, since the ones you
could buy off the shelf came with 32-bit Windows XP. However, that’s
still the case, as 64-bit Windows drivers have lagged for most consumer
hardware. Not so in the Open Source world, where the greatest source of
complaints — poor or missing drivers for some hardware — is its
greatest strength in the 64-bit arena.
Comp/Tech 
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the definitive Mac OS X reference, features OFB's
own Timothy R. Butler alongside Galen Gruman and Mark Hattersley.