Category: Linux
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Raspberry PI’s $35 Computer Enters Production
From the FutureJournalism Project Raspberry PI Foundation, the UK-based non-profit, has begun production on its $35 Linux computer. It’s about the size of a credit card and will ship as an open board like that pictured above. For display, users can plug it into existing monitors or televisions. USB connections are available for keyboard and mouse.…
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Fedora 16 Grub2 Fail with “core.img is unusually large”
I was upgrading to Fedora 16 on my Dell Dimension E520, originally loaded with XP, and all manners of problems occurred with Grub2. The machine is set to dual boot Linux and Windows XP and has worked fine in this capacity while testing and using a number of Linux distributions including Fedora 14 and Fedora…
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In The Shop Today: Arch Linux
Arch Linux – “It is what you make it” For a brief overview of Arch Linux, an elegantly simple and thoroughly technically complex distribution, read this article. Many Linux distributions have taken the path of easy GUI-based installation, in order to appeal to a broader mix of users. But not Arch Linux, which emphasises simplicity…
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INFOGRAPHIC : The History Of Linux
Today’s infographic comes from BlogSearchEngine and it shows the history of Linux, starting in 1971 with Richard Stallman who would go on to set up the Free Software Foundation. Later would come the operating system called MINIX and in 1989, the Finnish student Linus Torvalds wanted to upgrade MINIX and, finding he was barred…