I read a post today on Zonker’s blog called Selling vs. shaming. In it, the author argues that it’s better to have non-free software loaded on a mostly free software system if it pleases the user, rather than have a pure free software system that doesn’t meet the user’s wants or needs. I couldn’t agree …
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Get Google Chrome on Linux If you’ve been waiting impatiently for Google Chrome on Linux, there is now a developer version available for Ubuntu and Debian systems (x86 and x86-64-bit only). The first step to installing it is to go to Dev Channel on chromium.org and download the appropriate .deb package file for your architecture. …
Continue reading Test Driving Google Chrome on LinuxOne of the things you may find you want to do often from your command line is to view the contents of a text file. This could be to view the contents of some startup script or just one of your own basic configuration files like .bashrc or .bash_aliases. The command is simple to use. …
Continue reading Command Line Basics: View Text Files with moreLast week I read a half-witted blog post citing “3 Reasons why we shouldn’t use Linux”. I’ve got one tip for TechBirdy, the blog author. sudo apt-get a clue TechBirdy’s reasons are either borne out of complete ignorance, or from a desire to spread pure FUD.
Continue reading Three More Reasons Not To Use LinuxThe While Do Loop One of the most common structures in programming is the Do Loop. The version that I’m going to show today is the While Do Loop. The basic structure of the While Do Loop is: while condition A exists, execute the loop. Here’s an example program that counts to ten and then …
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