Entries Tagged as 'linux'

July 8, 2006

Colinux, xdmx & xgl and crappy dapper fonts

I’ve started playing with colinux on my laptop yesterday and got it to boot my dapper partition. I’m very impressed. It’ll come in handy sometime. (I usually run windows *yuck* on my laptop to play flash or some propriatary format or just to try out some software)
I’ve been wanting for ages to use my laptop [...]

March 21, 2006

FOSS means business

Went to the FOSS Means Business conference last Thursday in Belfast. The two main speakers being Bruce Perens and Richard Stallman. It was pretty damn good. Getting to see Perens and Stallman in real life seemed a bit strange though. The two most important lessons learned were that European Software Patents and Trusted (Treacherous) Computing [...]

March 13, 2006

Xgl

I finally got round to trying out XGL today, and it is amazing!

I used the Kororaa live cd. It booted perfectly and it let me try out all the amazing features. If you don’t believe me when I say how cool this looks then download this video.
Or watch this lower quality streaming version from google [...]