Why does everyone hate Linux?

I don’t get it, and I’m really fucking pissed off about it.

Why?

Why does everyone hate Linux? What are they afraid of? It’s my god damned computer, I’ll fucking use it how I want seeing as how I paid for it on my meager ass $10 an hour part time job.

It’s my fucking iPod, I should be able to use it how I want seeing as I also paid for it on my meager ass $10 an hour part time job.

What is with these people? I pay for music but I can’t listen to it because I don’t have the hardware or software YOU fucking want me to listen to it on? Bullshit. When I pay for music I have NEVER signed, consented or approved of any type of license or restrictions in my PERSONAL use of the music. If I want to fucking listen to music on my preferred OS, then fuck off and let me do it. If I want to put that music on MY fucking iPod then fuck off and let me do that too.

Fuck off Apple. Fuck off Steve “motherfucking” Jobs. Lets not forget that your blessed OS is a Unix variant, and a FREE one at that you cheap bastard! Take free shit, sell it for millions, and then sit back, collect the dough and don’t give a damned thing back to the people you took it from? Fuck you Bill G…, wait – sorry – I forgot who I was talking about for a second.

99 cent music? Fuck you! How much of that gets back to the artist? 1 penny? Is that why the Beatles haven’t signed iTunes yet? They’re afraid they’ll go broke waiting for their half penny to show up in the mail you cheap shit.

Fuck you Steve Jobs.

And take this goddamned iPod and shove it up your motherfucking stupid white pimpled hairy fat ass.

A different idea for the 3D desktop

I came across this video today about a different (completely different) 3 dimensional desktop from OS X, MS Aero or Compiz. It’s called BumpTop and it’s interesting in that it is more like working with your Real Life desktop with documents scattered and strewn about your computer desktop, the ability to stack or pile them, sort them and rifle through them.

Check out the video, this is really compelling stuff!

Compiz-Fusion release 0.5.2 announced

Check it out here

For those who don’t know, Compiz-Fusion is a true 3D accelerated version of your desktop. Why not let your processor process processes and let your graphic card actually show you what you sunk $300 into it for?

Want to see Compiz-Fusion in action? Take a look at this video first, then head over to Youtube for more.

Sorry Windows users, Compiz is only for Linux. Billy et al already tried to give you a pretty interface with Aero. What? You can’t use Aero because your computer isn’t fast enough? Maybe you should switch to Linux, it’s making a damned fine entry into the desktop market with distributions like Ubuntu and Linux Mint.

I’ve been running Compiz-Fusion just dandy-fine for the last month on my 2004 Compaq Presario with a whopping 2 GHZ Athlon, 512 megs of RAM and a Geforce 6200 AGP-4x.

The GIMP User Interface gets updated!

I just picked this up off of the Ubuntu forums…

The GIMP is getting a User Interface (UI) redesign and we can expect portions to be available now (the new select/crop tool) and more in 2.4 (like a single window to rule them all!)

Huzzah!!

Check it out on their very own wiki 

Ubuntu Live Day 1 Wrap-Up

So let’s talk about day 1 of UbuntuLive shall we? There are countless blogs and news sites that are covering the “news” of the conference – instead I’ll be talking about the atmosphere, the people and the “vibe.”

Ubuntu Live right around the corner!

I got this in my inbox a few moments ago…

The inaugural Ubuntu Live Conference is only a few days away!

We’re looking forward to an exciting and dynamic conference, with
intriguing and thought-provoking presentations, lots of networking
opportunities, fun events, and much more. Below is information to help you
get the most out of your time at Ubuntu Live.

Well, it looks like Ubuntu Live is coming right up and I’m REALLY excited to be going thanks to Phoronix for the pass! I am looking forward to meeting Michael (the keeper of Phoronix) and asking him, among other things, where exactly the name Phoronix came from.

I’m still looking for input on what sessions people recommend that I go to. It turns out that I have a Sunday/Monday pass but no pass for Tuesday’s “Lesson Sessions.”

It’s been three months since switching (cold I might add) to Linux from WindowsXP. I still boot into XP on the very rare occasion that I need to retrieve something very specific (like a number out of my MS Fax console) and I have to say, Ubuntu is what did it for me.

I just hope I’m not the only noob there…

OpenGL in your Virtual Machine is here!

Several Virtual Machine developers have been promising OpenGL support for their VM’s in future releases. Well, the future is now thanks to Open Source programming with VMGL

From their site:

OpenGL apps running inside a Virtual Machine (VM) can use VMGL to take advantage of graphics hardware acceleration. VMGL can be used on VMware guests, Xen HVM domains (depending on hardware virtualization extensions) and Xen paravirtual domains, using XVnc or the virtual framebuffer. Although we haven’t tested it, VMGL should work for qemu, KVM, etc. VMGL is available for X11-based guest OS’s: Linux, FreeBSD and OpenSolaris. Finally, VMGL is GPU-independent: we support ATI, Nvidia and Intel GPUs.

Not really that interesting you say? I disagree – because this is open source and cross platform it means that we won’t necessarily be stuck with only one or two choices of VM software to support GL based apps. This is one of the final barriers to virtualized computing in my rather humble opinion…

Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon to include KDE 4.0 rc2

Apparently Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux distro will ship (presumably Kubuntu) with KDE 3.5.7 as well as KDE4 -rc2 available as a side by side WM’s for those of you geeking out over the new and improved KDE.

Yes Linus, this one’s for you…

Also to be included is:

Gnash – the open source Adobe Flash viewer.

Gran Paradiso (Firefox 3.0) Alpha (remember, alpha versions of software can be buggy!)

Compiz Fusion (will this ever NOT be an alpha?)

And finally, Gnome 3.20

Read it here

Razer Boomslang to retail for $99.99 (USD)

As previously mentioned, the Boomslang is coming back. They don’t yet list a price but Google shows something different – $99.00…

The specs are now up on Razer’s product page:

• 1800dpi Razer Precision™ 3G infrared sensor
• 1000Hz Ultrapolling™ / 1ms response
• Five independently programmable Hyperesponse™ buttons
• On-The-Fly Sensitivity™ adjustment
• Always-On™ mode
• 16-bit ultra-wide data path
• Zero-acoustic Ultraslick™ Teflon feet
• 32KB Razer Synapse™ onboard memory

And as I guessed, it’s closely based on the Razer DeathAdder internals:

• 1800dpi Razer Precision™ 3G infrared sensor
• 1000Hz Ultrapolling™ / 1ms response
• Five independently programmable Hyperesponse™ buttons
• On-The-Fly Sensitivity™ adjustment
• Always-On™ mode
• 16-bit ultra-wide data path
• Zero-acoustic Ultraslick™ Teflon feet
• 6400 frames per second (5.8 megapixels per second)
• Up to 60 inches per second and 15g of acceleration

The DeathAdder does not list 32KB of memory, but it’s there and supports profile switching. I notice that the Boomslang does not boast 5.8 megapixel and 15G of acceleration, though with the memory listing difference I wouldn’t be surprised if this similar rather than a different feature set.

Curious about 3G Infrared Sensor technology? Check out Razer’s 3G PR page

GPLv3 Released!

For those new not in the know or new to Open Source, GPL is an acronym for General Public License. Today marks the release of version 3 of said license, hence GPLv3. The GPL is licensing similar to, but almost completely opposite from a standard Microsoft End User License Agreement.

Read the GPLv3 here

Where Microsoft’s EULA’s are to prevent you from sharing or using their software other than specfically directed, the GPL generally protects you to allow you to copy, modify and distribute the software in any way you see fit, so long as you give proper credit where it is due, and you provide the original source code along with your modifications.

What’s new in v3? Lots, but not much really. The core is still the same as the first two, it adds a few more restrictions on corporate cross pollination (Microsoft/Novell) and tivo-ization in an attempt to further protect the contributions of free software developers and end users alike.

Here’s the biggest change, straight from the Preamble talking about these two very things:

“Some devices are designed to deny users access to install or run modified versions of the software inside them, although the manufacturer can do so. This is fundamentally incompatible with the aim of protecting users’ freedom to change the software. The systematic pattern of such abuse occurs in the area of products for individuals to use, which is precisely where it is most unacceptable. Therefore, we have designed this version of the GPL to prohibit the practice for those products. If such problems arise substantially in other domains, we stand ready to extend this provision to those domains in future versions of the GPL, as needed to protect the freedom of users.

Finally, every program is threatened constantly by software patents. States should not allow patents to restrict development and use of software on general-purpose computers, but in those that do, we wish to avoid the special danger that patents applied to a free program could make it effectively proprietary. To prevent this, the GPL assures that patents cannot be used to render the program non-free.”

Update: My opinion on how this deals with Tivoization can be read here