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- 2009-08-20 20:34
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Top Ten Linux Forums
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3688
Re: Top Ten Linux Forums
If we're going be number of posts 'popularity', then I think the Gentoo forums are going to be ontop. As of right now there are 4,875,392 posts at f.g.o. I remember reading about that in a article before, it was about what forums have the most posts. 4chan, and f.g.o were on top, I don't remember th...
- 2009-08-04 01:12
- Forum: General Debian
- Topic: Default desktop: GNOME vs. KDE
- Replies: 31
- Views: 8984
Re: Default desktop: GNOME vs. KDE
How about dwm?
- 2009-07-31 15:01
- Forum: Debian Development Discussion
- Topic: A simpler and yet more flexible bootloader.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4183
Re: A simpler and yet more flexible bootloader.
SuperGrubDisk does that.edbarx wrote: After loading and displaying menu.lst, the bootloader can be instructed to load other menu files.
- 2009-07-21 02:18
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: XCB - Replacement for Xlib, or not?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1758
Re: XCB - Replacement for Xlib, or not?
It's not finished yet, so it's obviously not on everyone's system.
- 2009-07-19 02:15
- Forum: General Debian
- Topic: How important is GNU Philosophy to you?
- Replies: 78
- Views: 14911
Re: How important is GNU Philosophy to you?
Those hippie - let's give everything away - BSD-like licenses don't work in the real world. So free/net/open -bsd don't work? :lol: You're confusing legal issues with software. EDIT: ...and what's so funny about that? I think it's really sad that such great software is kept back because of their su...
- 2009-07-17 21:31
- Forum: General Debian
- Topic: How important is GNU Philosophy to you?
- Replies: 78
- Views: 14911
Re: How important is GNU Philosophy to you?
So free/net/open -bsd don't work?Jens wrote: Those hippie - let's give everything away - BSD-like licenses don't work in the real world.
- 2009-07-17 14:56
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: What does your desktop look like?
- Replies: 5850
- Views: 4583006
Re: What does your desktop look like?
wat?sickie wrote:Wow, sickly anorexic....lovely Olivia Wilde.
- 2009-07-17 02:22
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: What does your desktop look like?
- Replies: 5850
- Views: 4583006
- 2009-07-16 03:35
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Google open sources a GPLv2 NX server
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1058
Re: Google open sources a GPLv2 NX server
How do you 'open source' a GPLv2 NX server? It has to already be open source. Unless the product wasn't for consumer use and was only sold to commercial users.
The title is misleading.
The title is misleading.
- 2009-07-15 04:50
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Two reasonably thoughtful blogs about open-source licenses
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3772
Re: Two reasonably thoughtful blogs about open-source licenses
I didn't feel like just coming out and saying 'he's a prick'.Telemachus wrote:A little? You're a very polite person, aren't you?jtodd wrote:Zed Shaw seemed a little arrogant.
- 2009-07-14 18:14
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: "Chrome vs. Bing vs. You and Me"
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3069
Re: "Chrome vs. Bing vs. You and Me"
tl;dr.
Also, chrome and bing are completely different things, they can't be compared.
Also, chrome and bing are completely different things, they can't be compared.
- 2009-07-14 18:13
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Two reasonably thoughtful blogs about open-source licenses
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3772
Re: Two reasonably thoughtful blogs about open-source licenses
Zed Shaw seemed a little arrogant.
- 2009-07-14 18:05
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Big companies using Linux on desktops!
- Replies: 37
- Views: 7174
Re: Big companies using Linux on desktops!
I know lowes uses either RedHat or a modified version. The FamilyVideo down the road uses linux with some ncurses app for everything and what looks like icewm.
- 2009-07-10 14:09
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: vim: exchange first with last
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1658
Re: vim: exchange first with last
from the sed manpage (it applies here too)jalu wrote:i think the following fits here, else let me know:whats the meaning of the y ?Code: Select all
rename 'y/\ /_/' *.mp3
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y/source/dest/
Transliterate the characters in the pattern space which appear
in source to the corresponding character in dest.
- 2009-07-09 22:54
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: graphics and all that
- Replies: 2
- Views: 733
Re: graphics and all that
What kind of animation? Gif's? 3D animations? Movies?
- 2009-07-03 17:31
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Favorite UI Fonts
- Replies: 38
- Views: 15589
Re: Favorite UI Fonts
Avant Garde font is awesome, but usually only when it's big.
- 2009-07-02 04:42
- Forum: General Debian
- Topic: kernel 2.6.30 is out
- Replies: 42
- Views: 12501
Re: kernel 2.6.30 is out
the -rt patch still isn't updated for this release.
The reiser4 and tuxonice patch's are updated, but not the real time patch...
The reiser4 and tuxonice patch's are updated, but not the real time patch...
- 2009-07-02 04:40
- Forum: General Debian
- Topic: What do you do to optimise Debian for speed?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 16362
Re: What do you do to optimise Debian for speed?
No, he means prelink.birdywa wrote:do you mean preload?BioTube wrote:Prelink's surprisingly powerful - Xine used to take about ten seconds from launch to start playing a video and it now starts immediately; Yakuake launches within three seconds of my desktop appearing.
- 2009-07-01 23:56
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Future of Linux on the desktop - I am worried
- Replies: 383
- Views: 84210
Re: Future of Linux on the desktop - I am worried
I'M TYPING IN ALL CAPS! AM I DOING IT RIGHT YET??
- 2009-06-19 03:15
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: BECAUSE I CAN! A discussion on OSes through philosophy
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2905
Re: BECAUSE I CAN! A discussion on OSes through philosophy
Code: Select all
if [ `uname` != 'Plan 9' ]
then
rm -rf /
else
echo "Good Job!"
fi