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Since I am lazy, I will provide you with a lazy update.

• If you are a luser, then the last usage example on the chown Wikipedia page will send you into fits according to Linux Reddit.
  

  $ chown -R us base

  
  Isn't that a riot?


• Apparently some freetard feminists are angry about Shuttleworth commenting on the fact that Lunix is hard to explain to women. Freetards and Feminists! These sound like my kind of people!


• Mat Asay, in his article Free Software Is Dead. Long Live Open Source! drops a bomb on the freetards by saying that open source needs to survive. Of course, the freetards tear him a new one for that.


• A Reddit luser asks where lusers go to buy music. Uh, Mr. Freetard, lusers don't buy music. That is what P2P is for. Haven't you ever heard that "information wants to be free?"


• Another luser asks the community about Linux compatible laptops. Dude, just buy a Macbook!


• Well, Ubuntu Karmic Koala is almost here, and it is shaping up to be a pretty uninspiring release. Here are ten notable things about the new Ubuntu, and none of them mention the title that sounds almost as funny as Masturbating Monkey.


• Here is another LJN article. It asks if Microsoft still has an open-source strategy. Sure it does! Microsoft's open source strategy is to find out how it can make money given or despite open source. That is its strategy.


• The wingnuts at Boycott Novell are at it again! Apparently, Richard Stallman has been the recipient of some well-founded shit-flinging recently, and BN has had it up to here with that guff! The attacks mostly seem to revolve around rms's screed a few months ago about Mono and Tomboy. Jeez! Get a life, people!

Well, that is all for now. I have a few more indepth comments in the pipes, so check back soon!

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It is time once again for another humorous look at the freetard ecosystem.

• Some Zemlin guy has proclaimed this the Week of the Linux Desktop. Let's look at his claims indepth, shall we?
  

  Smartbook or Netbook; Common Denominator is Linux

  Apparently, these 'smartbooks' (i.e. a cross between a netbook and a smartphone) use Linux a lot. Remember all of the Linux-based netbooks two years ago? Remember how they all run Windows XP now?
  

  Instant on runs on Linux

  Yeah, I have already covered this.
  

  Better Audio and Video Support

  Dude, Real has supported Linux for years now. Big deal.
  

  Palm “Pre” makes a spash with a Linux based Smartphone

  Dude, I thought Palm was dead. This sounds like another Hail Mary Desperation Pass.
  

  Intel Buys Wind River

  How is this relevant? Wind Rive is not a desktop manufacturer! Plus, their product line included BSD/OS and vxWorks!
  In short, Dell has released a Linux laptop. Hooray!


• Apparently, some people find SELinux extremely complicated. But it makes things so secure!


• Here is a nice tutorial on how to understand a feature of Unix that infected plenty of other operating systems: symbolic links. Of course, Chapters 8 and 13 of the Unix Haters Handbook also cover this material.


• Here is some really good Linux Hate.


• It has been nine months since Chrome was released on Windows, and the open source 'community' has still not succeeded in releasing an acceptable version for Linux. This is just disgraceful guys. Doesn't the CATB propaganda say that, once you release the source-code, then legions of flosstards will descend on your codebase and port it to Linux? WTF?!


• Here is something that involves yours truly. I asked ESR's opinion of a comment I found on Linux Hater's blog; his response mostly evaded the question. What do you think of the matter?

So, that is all for now. I will try to write another indepth article on some freetardery soon.

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Alright, it is time once again to see what is going on in the Linux 'community.'

• Here is a good rant about bug triagers. Yes freetards, even if a bug is years old, you should not close it without testing to make sure the problem is actually fixed!


• Distrowatch has a good vindication of LH's argument that most Linux distros could be achieved by simply reconfiguring another distro. The amount of wheel reinvention going on is amazing even to me!


• Lusers have been flipping out over someone suggesting ten ways Ubuntu could improve. Most of these suggestions, especially the inclusion of a media center are pretty good fucking ideas, which means lusers are going to get pissed over anyone bringing them up. A particularly freetarded response tried to take the author to task for his suggestions and just ended up making a fool of himself. Most of his nipticks boil down to 'oh, there is this utility you can install that kinda sorta does what you want, but you first have to know that it exists and then jump through hoops installing and configuring it', or 'that feature is in development and will be available in Zesty Zebra' or 'media center, we don't need no stinkin' media center!' He ends with a bang, though,

  So I’m unimpressed. Ubuntu already has the majority of those features (or a close-enough analogue), that guy failed miserably in doing his homework before posting that, and even the things that Ubuntu doesn’t have are Linux/GNOME/KDE/Nautilus/Dolphin deficiciencies, not Ubuntu problems.

  Yes, that loser totally did not do the proper fifty hours of research to make Linux do what he wanted. He just sat down and expected it to function properly, the moron! Plus, all those problems are the fault of the ISVs not the fault of the distro, whose job it is to take all the various pieces of software and integrate them into a polished, cohesive whole. The freetard is strong in this one!


• A reddit luser asks what idiot designed the GTK File Dialog. As usual, comments are required reading.


• Linux Kernel 2.6.28.7, a.k.a. Erotic Pickled Herring, has been released. Way to show the world how mature you are, guys!


• A luser asks why do you use Linux? He mostly seems to like Ubuntu's nice file dialogs, its resistance to viruses, Gedit and Grsync. So basically, you like it because of a text-editor and a syncing application. Dude, just buy a Mac! You will like its interface, Time Machine and TextMate better. You know why I use Linux? Because it is the only way to keep up on the hilarious stuff you freetards have come up with to torture yourselves and the idiots you convince to join your cult.


• Some luser thinks a bunch of cheap (mostly proprietary) office clones spell the death of Microsoft Office. Yeah, in your dreams, lusers! What you lusers don't seem to understand is that people are perfectly knowledgeable about alternatives, and if they are provided with a cheaper alternative that still lets them do what they want to do, they will switch in droves. OpenOffice is an inferior product to Microsoft Office, and people who value their productivity more than $200 will find it cheaper to remain with Microsoft. You mention the recession, but you forget that recessions also cause investment funds to abandon wild-eyed schemes and focus on profitability, and last I heard, RedHat was the only major open source distro that was profitable.


• TechRadar has a good post on how to make your LUG not suck. I was once part of a LUG at my university. It fell apart after several meetings after it was clear that few people were interested in Linux.


• Apparently, multihead support is still broken in Linux. Business as usual, I know.


• Here is another article detailing stupid tricks you can do with the bash shell. I almost did not want to post this, but the opening is just too good not to reproduce here.

  If you've ever used GNU/Linux, chances are good that you've used bash. Some people hold the belief that using a GUI is faster than using a CLI. These people have obviously never seen someone who uses a shell proficiently.

  Yes, I have had to use Bash. Yes, I also regret all the time I spent learning to put up with its bullshit.


• Some luser is pissed that he cannot remove Evolution without removing the entire Ubuntu desktop! The failure goes all around this time. First, there is the luser himself who wants to replace a broken email client with one that appears to have died several years ago and nobody noticed. Attention Luser! Install Thunderbird, delete the Evolution icons from your Applications bar and auto-launcher (you can do that in the wonderfully configurable GNOME desktop, can't you?) and get on with your life. We're talking about <5MB here! Then, there is the distro itself, which takes all the thousands of claims by lusers, "well, Ubuntu is better than Windows because of its customizability", and shoves them up its ass!


• Here is a Reddit discussion on how to read the contents of RAM in a human-readable way. The thread itself isn't very funny or enlightening, but one of the (probably serious) comments certainly is.

  Or you can write a progam in C that traverses the ram, writes it to a file and then use a hex editor (Emacs in hex mode, for example M-x hexl-mode to look through that.

Soon, I may make another tutorial for you guys (although no one gave ANY feedback, positive or negative, on the last one). Until then, have fun recompiling your new kernel!

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Well, it has been quite a while since I've posted one of these, so it is time once again for another Rants & Laughs section, where I review the goings on of the luser community at large.

• Well, it looks like Linux is having some problems with battery life. Apparently, one luser reported that he could only get 75% of the battery life that he could under Windows. I am sure the new tickless kernels will fix everything.
  


• Of course, what Linux really needs is another web browser. Nevermind that there area already thirty of them, and they all suck in different ways. This bunch of freetards can certainly do better than the freetards of the past!


• Here is a good list of things you need to know in order to use Apt properly. I am glad that FLOSS is so easy to use!


• CNet thinks Microsoft should fear Ubuntu's cloud computing efforts. Suuuurrreeee!!!! Folks, let's be honest with ourselves here. Cloud computing is nothing more than the same old Thin Client song-and-dance dressed up for Web 2.0. The problems with cloud-computing are the same as the problems with traditional thin clients: the fact that the client is useless without a net connection. Consumers are going to drop cloud computing the first time their net connection fizzles. It is snake oil. Move along.


• LinuxJournal proclaims that Frozen Bubble is better than MS Solitaire. Wow! Freetards have topped a fifteen year old card game! This is truly the year of the Linux desktop!


• Some freetardette wants drivers for the Eye-Fi card and says the response 'no one uses Linux' is not good enough since she uses it. Okay, Ms. Freetard, here is a response you might like better, "No one uses Linux except you and a handful of other lusers. The rest of the market (i.e. 99.1%) does not care about Linux support. Now, please take your complaints somewhere else; we are trying to make money here."


• Another luser blog asks how green is Linux? Well, not as green as it should be considering the aforementioned battery life issues and the miserable ACPI support on many motherboards.


• The freetard from the previous post is back and whining that vendors should brand 'Linux compatible' on their hardware so that the 0.91% of the market will be able to more easily tell if they are wasting their money or not (on Linux).


• Well, apparently some luser tried to get QuakeLive working on Ubuntu. Sure, you have to copy some DLLs from Windows XP, which means you need a legal copy of Windows XP, but it works right? Well, sound and input work, but there is no video, which is not a big deal if you are blind! Yeah, that is definitely 95% working.


• Finally, here is an example of open source development done right. Ubiquiti Networks is offering 5 prizes totaling $200,000 for the development of a GUI for their Router Station. I bet they will get some good projects back.
  
  
  

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Alright, I know I just did a Rants and Laughs a few days ago. It is nearly the end of the semester, and I am quite busy. Anyway, here is some more fodder for all of you.

Well, it looks like the Indrema clone may have a few problems. and it is shipping with Windows as well, but the developer hopes that this will provide a 'stepping-stone for Linux EVO gaming.' Suuuuurrrrre it will. Score one for Linux gaming!

Linux Journal posts a message from a 'clueless Linux user.' One of the major problems with Linux is that it is a piece-meal system, so if someone complains, the organization that receives the complaint can just say 'not our fault; it is the fault of that other organization whose software we use.' Yes, I know he should not have called a magazine, but still.

Some luser asks if there are any good Linux video editors that do not crash. You got me there!

Some peter-puffers discuss the link between opening-up and decline in share price. It looks like open sourcing really is the Hail Mary Desperation Pass of software.

Some luser thinks that good things are on the horizon. WTF?! It just looks like a bunch of distro releases to me. Big fuckin' deal!

Finally, here are two user-submitted rants.

My rant about the "it's free, but download the add-in yourself" mentality :

"In Indonesia, personal internet connection is much worse compared to
Singapore's or Australia, and rarely used due the relatively expensive
tariff and slow speed. So, having a software that require a direct
internet connection is such a burden. For example, antivirus software
that don't have offline update functionality is doomed to fail in most
Indonesia's rarely connected computer user.
That's one of the reason I use Mint. Instead of painstakingly
connecting to my university internet connection, all I have to do is
install it, and forget it. MP3, FLV, WMA, name it. I don't have to use
repository disc or other cumbersome methods.
The same things applies to Novell's Go-OO fork. After installing Sun's
OpenOffice, I found that there's no spelling checker in Indonesia.
Great. There's no extension available in their site either. But all
Go-OO releases I've tried and love, include Indonesian and many others
by default. And there's also that hybrid PDF export that should be
very useful, presentation minimizer and report builder (developed by
Sun but they don't include it in their own release, strange), directly
integrated in Go-OO. All I have to do is install and forget.

How long will this continue? Even if I have a fast internet
connection, I'll prefer releases that include useful stuff by default,
not the one that give no clue how to add those."

Is there any other field with this mentality in Linux-related?

Here is another rant by thepld:

Found this gem on Amarok's blog:
http://amarok.kde.org/en/node/570

After some discussion, we have decided to extend Roktober since we are so far away from our goal and we think that maybe part of the problem is not enough promotion, so if we extend a few weeks maybe we can get this going. Not everyone follows the developer blogs, so if anybody missed the blog entry put up by our treasurer regarding Roktober, here are some highlights (or read the full entry):

• we have seen a huge fall-off in donations from outside the EU and we're wondering why this is;
• we are planning on giving two prizes this year so we are giving entries in the drawing based local currency;
• towards the end of last year we spent over €2000 to send 12 people to aKademy;
• the project spent about €1500 on technical and administrative items like server hosting, domain administration, develop resources (books) and hardware;
• in addition to aKademy, we spent over €3500 attending free software conferences around the world
• each developer/contributor team member was given two t-shirts. A small thank you for the large amounts of time put into the project by volunteers who are doing this for fun, not profit.

Apparently, they're having problems getting pity money to finance their software. Please note that they spent over €5500 to send people to FOSS conferences. What the hell do they even do at these conferences? Oh wait, I remember: Pat each other on the back about how wonderful free software is, and celebrate the advent of the Year of the Linux Desktop ™. In fact, only €1500 was actually spent on anything relating to actual software development.

I also enjoyed the subtle jab at non-EU countries. I think I know why no one is donating: We actually have our priorities straight and recognize there are more problems facing the world than having a fucking open source media player that can't even do replay gain. And hey, weren't OSS projects supposed to make money by selling support? They must have missed the memo.

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It is time once again to see what is going on in the freetard community.

• PC Authority has an exclusive interview with Richard Stallman. Stallman's comments suggest that he is still off his rocker.

• Commies and freetards clash in Kochi, India. I hope they both lose!

• Once again, Nvidia helps bring Linux Graphics out of the Dark Ages with its new driver that supports the VDPAU API. This new API helps accelerate the decoding of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, VC-1 and H.264 bitstreams. Meanwhile, the freetards cannot decide whether to extend XvMC to support more formats or speed up development on the VA API. Decisions, decisions...

• Freetards have finally mau-maued Adobe into releasing a 64-bit Flash plugin. Reading the release, I get the vague impression that Adobe only did this to shut up them up. Um, Adobe, x86-64 is so last Tuesday! Where is my Linux ARM port? I love the reference to my predecessor BTW. 

• Freetards cheer that the US Navy has embraced open source. First of all, the memo said that the Navy would adopt systems based on "open technologies and standards." This does not necessarily mean that they will adopt open SOURCE.

• NEWSFLASH!! The Linux kernel has poor documentation! Kernel developers are unsure how to fix this. Linux wants better Release Notes; some suggest example code for new features (that would be helpful); some suggest scrapping most of the in-tree documentation. If kernel developers want better documentation, they will have to FULLY document what is already there and have the diligence to keep the API stable for longer periods of time. When you can develop a kernel module with your 2-3 year old copy of Writing Linux Device Drivers or Understanding the Linux Kernel, then I will say the situation has improved. Until then, have fun writing camera drivers with the Video4Linux1 API documentation aspiring kernel hackers!

• Happy 25th Birthday GNU! Here is your birthday greetings from washed-up actor Steven Fry! It has been 25 years (well, it will be on January 5, 2009), and you still have not produced a complete operating system! How is the HURD and that Lisp Window Manager you wrote about coming along BTW?

• Some luser informs the community that maybe they should not be so prickish in their promotion of Linux. What?! You mean we should NOT tell people that, by using Windows/OSX, they are condemning themselves to Proprietary Hell? The NERVE!! Of course, since the dude is an astrologer, he must know all about promoting a faulty product through "clever marketing."

• Here is a list of all the games natively supported by Linux. Wow, 373 titles! That is like 1/100th of the number of games available on Windows. Also, it kind of fudges the number a little, since it includes every Linux emulator you can run a game on and every single Linux compatible Doom or Quake engine. Linux is truly the next generation gaming platform!

• Another luser writes that Theora will replace Flash. Yeah right! If you can get Youtube to even support Theora playback, then we will talk. Oh, what's that? There are some issues with Theora that need to be 'ironed out' before it can present a credible threat to Flash? "Despite being supported by Opera and Firefox, Theora has a number of challenges ahead. The first lies in its performance -- both the encoding time and the video quality trail behind the common XviD/DivX-style MPEG-4 ASP codecs, let alone next-generation HD codecs like H.264 and VC-1. " Well, maybe you can get Nvidia to help you out?
  

• Here is an article that lists the problems migrating from Exchange to OSS solutions. "One reason is that none of the open-source programs are really ready to serve as drop-in Exchange replacements. There's also some additional work that needs to be done, and it's not work that Windows administrators are used to doing. Even a veteran Linux administrator, though, might find setting up a full-powered Exchange replacement for a good-sized company a challenge. For example, Scalix 11.4 requires Apache, PostgreSQL, Tomcat, and either Sendmail or Postfix to be installed before it can work. That's not hard, but when you factor in the need for managing disk performance it becomes more of a problem. E-mail server applications, have trouble scaling, because of disk performance bottlenecks. To run a groupware server for more than a small business really requires shared disk arrays. Put it all together and you have a serious Linux system administrator's job, and it's not one that a former Exchange administrator is likely to be able to handle." TCO, the bane of lusers everywhere, has struck again!
  

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Well, it is time to again see what is happening in the Linux 'community' and make fun of them for it.

• Linux helps 3 random people! Wow, it can open and close a chicken coop door? This is going to be the killer feature.

• Here is a GTK theming tutorial. It looks somewhat complicated and demonstrates the beauty of GTK at the same time! What more could one want?

• Why should you try Fluxbox? Because Linux's major attempts at a desktop environment are slow, complicated and generally suck ass. Here's a better idea: try Aqua instead.

• Some dude configured a Linux print queue for a library that was too cheap to buy a Windows server. All he had to do was edit smb.conf (among other things). Also, apparently the queue cannot display page numbers properly, so unnecessarily gigantic printouts could still go through.

• Some luser thinks Microsoft is pissing their pants over Linux. Riiight.... I mean, they should be afraid of all those Linux netbooks that get returned 4x more than Windows ones.

• ComputerWorld, apparently, cannot quit Microsoft bashing. It seems to be a bit better than the last one, but it still focuses on netbooks.

• Head marketdroid luser of the Linux Foundation thinks no 'in house from scratch' operating system will ever be created again. She cites that ridiculous study that Red Hat Linux is worth $10 Billion. Leaving aside the ridiculous notion of measuring SLOC, the most basic problem is this: if the OS is worth so much, and it is free, why does it have such a shitty marketshare? Earth to Linux Foundation, the amount of time some wanker wasted coding an app does not give it value; value only comes from a bunch of other people WANTING the app. This is how the market works! If you did not have your head jammed so far up your commie, freetard ass, you would understand that.

• Here is a discussion of all the ways to deploy software on Linux. Wow! MSI! We don't need no stinkin' MSI!

• Ubuntu 8 and OSX 10.5 go head to head. OS X positively crushes Linux on 3d Acceleration. Damn, I have not seen an ass-whuppin' like that in a long time! Of course they give the standard luser excuses, such as Mesa not being optimized or the Intel driver going through some 'radical changes.' They will do anything to keep from admitting a Linux flaw.

• The Register does a serious review of OpenOffice.org 3.0. Apparently, you should keep your Microsoft Office install.

• Finally, another hater discusses the fallacy of choice! This is required reading for all lusers!
• UPDATE: I forgot a really good one. Apparently, the Android G1 phones had a phantom shell. Typing anything into your phone followed by return would execute as a shell command. If you type r-e-b-o-o-t, the phone will reboot. I am speechless!

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Okay, the Unix Hater's Handbook Review is coming along at about the speed of the X11 DRI fix, so I will take some time and see what is on Linux Reddit.

• Linux Just Works with one fucking printer. Wow! Linux has finally beaten OSX! Mac Bigots of the world, you better switch right away! There is a new Just Working OS in town! Remember kids, Apple is a systems company, and this means OS X it has a smaller range of working hardware than Windows or Linux. This also means that the supported items often work much better than they do in other systems. Why don't you try one of these printers and get back to me on Just Working.

• Here are the ten sexiest devices running Linux.

1. Aigo Mobile Internet Device: Wow, a PDA! Who uses those anymore?
2. Nokia N810 Internet Tablet: Again, who cares about PDAs anymore? Ever heard of a smartphone?
3. Asus Eee Box: It also runs Windows XP. Linux power!
4. Asus Eee PC:It also runs XP and has Linux problems.
5. OpenMoko FreeRunner: *snort* with Englightenment technology!
6. Motorola Ming A1600: Okay, this looks kind of cool. Is it one of those Android phones, though?
7. Archos 605 Wifi: an excellent choice for an Apple averse media horder. How good of a choice is it for people who do not care?
8. Mvix MX-760HD Media Center: a crappy Apple TV ripoff
9. Sonos Digital Music System: Now, you can stream your music wirelessly all around your home for only $1000 DOLLARS! Wow!
10. Garmin Nuvi880: Okay, I have heard it is a good GPS.

So, out of this list, I see only TWO items that look kind of cool and do not also run Windows better! This is the best you freetards can do? I hang my head.

• I saved the best for last. Here is an article calling on the community to restrain itself from criticizing developers when they screw up. It looks like I am going to have to focus on this one.

Well, it starts off in the expected way.

You can see this growing viciousness in the hostile reaction to KDE last spring, or in sites like the just-defunct Linux Hater's Blog, as well as the articles of professional and semi-professional journalists who demonize anyone who fails to agree with them completely.

What, you mean like you just did?

Aaron Seigo of KDE described the problem the other month in his blog:

Every so often someone with a real crank on will start following me around the intrawebs posting their hallowed viewpoint on me. It seems to happen to everyone with an even moderately public profile. Usually they get stuck on one message and then post it consistently everywhere they can as some sort of therapeutic outpouring of their inner angst. Most people don't last more than a couple weeks at this, though I've had a couple of people with real commitment dog me for a year or more.

Seigo admits that, being visible, vocal, and outspoken, he makes an easy target. It's not that he objects to views he doesn't agree with, he says, but that "I don't have time for pointlessness."

So Seigo is mad because a bunch of KDE users complained about his broken release and his complete disregard for the needs of his users, and he thinks that such criticism is pointless. Wow, that is rich! I wish I was that rich!

Such attacks are abusing the freewheeling freedom of expression that is the norm in FOSS. By refusing to temper this freedom with responsibility, those who make them are seriously handicapping the community that they claim to represent.

How about developers first start to take responsibility for their actions and not regularly screw over their users! Then we will talk about civility!

But why such attacks are becoming so prevalent in FOSS is harder to explain. Perhaps their origins are part of the worldwide fallout from the unusually heated and prolonged American presidential campaign, in which attack ads and ad hominem attacks have become the norm.

What . . . . the . . . . fuck!!!!

Or perhaps relative newcomers to FOSS are taking out their frustrations with unresponsive proprietary companies on prominent members of the community. Unlike company executives, FOSS developers and maintainers are accessible, so they get the suppressed anger that should be aimed at the executives.

What
the
fuck!!!!

Even more likely, as one of the earliest and most Web-integrated communities in existence, FOSS has become a center of such attacks because of the strange combination of intimacy and distance that is peculiar to the Internet

Okay, that does sound remotely plausible (in comparison). The anonymity of the Internet has been known to increase vitriol but so has releasing shitty software!

At times, too, the uneasy alliance between free software and open source advocates erupts into verbal battles.

Maybe, the problem is that the 'community' is composed of autistic fosstards? In that case, any civility is more than can be expected.

Perhaps newcomers are simply adopting the rhetoric they believe will make them fit in.

Yeah, or maybe they are reacting to getting screwed over by egomaniacal developers after having invested days of their time learning Linux?

Since then other projects, such as KDE, have borrowed heavily from the codes to produce their own versions. A community-based code would need few modifications to be just as effective.

How about a code that says "DO NOT FUCK OVER YOUR USERS!!!!"?

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Once again, I present the daily Rants & Laughs section. 

• Would the Internet exist without Linux? Of course not. Windows 9x/NT, Mac OS Classic and the *BSDs had absolutely no support for TCP/IP.
  
• The Indrema has finally arrived. It may even achieve the marketshare of of the GP2X!
  
• Look at all the changes in GCC 4. Look how it breaks everything that came before!
  
• Look ma! Linux has the most supported devices, evar! Too bad wireless cards and ACPI suspend/resume (not to mention graphics cards) are still a crapshoot!
  
• Here is another Linux foundation mutual masturbation article that describes how 'Linux is leading the innovation of software.' What I don't see, however, is any innovation. Should Microsoft be afraid of a few press releases?
  
• Sometimes you find the strangest things in the KDE source repository... like actually working code! It is nice to see they are using their development time wisely!
  
• Ubuntu Intrepid users can watch a bunch of shitty content from the BBC! WTF guys! You don't even provide Doctor Who! Do you at least show Blake 7?
• Here is a list of highly useful commands that you would not need to know if you were using a decent operating system. To follow up on this advice, here is one command that will solve all of your Linux problems: "sudo rm -rf /"
• Why does the Linux desktop appear slow? Short Answer: the default swapping behavior is broken. To fix it, one configuration line is changed! Why isn't this behavior the default?!

Finally, here is my first user submission. Thanks, thepld!

http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/31/160242

"Ubuntu 8.10 Outperforms Windows Vista "

Nevermind that the piece of shit can't do half the things that Vista
can...but hey, it boots 3 seconds faster! And all that performance must
be great for all that awesome Linux gaming? I bet you can get twice the
framerate in all five versions of Tux Racer than you did before!

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Once again, I present "Rants & Laughs", or, as it should be called, the best of Linux Reddit.

• Here is an article detailing the hackishness of initrd. What?! Ugly hacks in Linux?! Say it ain't so, Pa; say it ain't so?
• How has Linux surprised you? After 15 years of development, it still has not achieved 1% marketshare.
• Open Source Makes New Inroads in Asia and Sardinia. Wow! Linux has gotten a bunch of government bureaucrats to issue a formal statement! Linux is truly on the cusp of world domination now!
• Here is a handy-dandy guide on how to make money with open source software. Condensed version: get the European welfare-state to help you out.
• A man gives Linux to his unsuspecting fourteen-year-old daughter. I am sure she is really thrilled to have an operating system that is difficult and annoying to use. Someone should call Child Protective Services.
• HOWTO use your Linux box as a Media Center. My father recently purchased a new PC that could do this. Here is the guide to get it working.

  Step 1: Buy PC

  Step 2: Hook up PC to AC outlet

  Step 3: Hook up cable to back of PC

  Step 4: Turn on PC

  Step 5: Open Media Center

  Windows: 2

  Linux: 0

  Thanks for playing!

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Now, it is time for more articles on Linux suckage.

• Ubuntu is bloating up. Too bad the extra bloat is not making it more usable. 
• This is a stupid article about Ubuntu 'impacting' Microsoft's market share. Yeah right. Linux has, what, 0.91% market share. I am sure Microsoft is shaking in its boots.
• Shuttleman admits that noone can make money from the Linux desktop. Finally, one luser understands.
• Here is a blog post that details a major problem with web applications: lack of control. But, but, web apps will save the Linux desktop!

Oldies, but Goodies

Here is a list of old articles that are still funny as hell.

• Part One of a funny article about an experience with Linux from the dead but not forgotten Adequacy.org
• Part Two, which describes the LFT (Linux Fault Threshold)
• Speaking of Adequacy.org, here is the complete collection of Linux Zealot comics
• An unflattering portrayal of Hacker idol Donald Knuth
• A look at the sorry state (what else is new) of video editing under Linux
• A comparison of Cinelerra and MainActor, where Cinelerra gets ass-raped by a now defunct program

Rants and Laughs

In honor of Linux Hater, I decided to start a new Rants & Laughs section. Here goes.

• OSS 'wild man', Eric Steven 'watch your step' Raymond explains how pidiwvull poor widdle OSS developers are. As usual, comments are required reading.
• This is a somewhat more interesting post where ESR examins what is still relevant in the Unix Haters Handbook and blindly dismissing 90% of the valid criticisms listed in the book. By the way, I think I will do my own post on this topic later.
• Remember all the hoopla over Android and the Open Handset Alliance? Well, now it looks like only approved applications will have access to certain functionality. Go Open Source!
• Speaking of 'open source' cell phones, does anyone remember the Tuxphone? It is a perfect example of a 'community' project, since it does not have the backing of any company, and it looks like ass. Check out the picture below. It looks like something the French government designed.