Seriously how many instalments of this crapass series must they make?!
BTW.. after 3 years of anticipation, I got my hands on Final Fantasy 13!!
I’ll be playing that bad boy for the next 2 weeks solid, then maybe I’ll toss up a review on my Console Gaming section. Until then, do not call / text / email as I’ll be buried in my sofa growing a 7-day beard covered in sea-salt and vinegar chip crumbs and my hands firmly wrapped around the PS3 controller. I may even just soil myself without worry or care.
When people hear the word distro they typically think Fedora or Ubuntu (unless you’re a non-techie then you think I’ve just misspelled “disco”), they rarely think in terms of Slackware, Debian, or Red Hat. That’s natural seeing that the top 3 spots on Distrowatch are Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint, openSUSE.
So what’s the big deal? In the recent years where Linux is finally gaining some notoriety as a viable desktop alternative to the chicken wire, duct tape, Swiss-cheese-security-model madness that is Windoze, people often assume their distro of choice has just, well, always existed somehow. True in a sense but let’s take a look at the Linux cro-magnons and how the distro forks came to be.
This article from Linux Magazine details the Big 3 Linux forks that are responsible for nearly every distro in existence. Interesting read.
For a graphical representation of the forking time line (LOL forking time line… haha, ooooooh that’s forking funny!) click the pic below.
Debian, Slackware, and Red Hat
This week has been crazy nuts, but I’ll try and have the latest Yahtzee vid and FOSS Thursday up this afternoon! I know you’re all on the edge of your seat…
Like this guy says, I feel like a broken record these days when reporting on the latest IE bug/exploit/virus. As I’ve said before, do yourself a favor and run FireFox, Chrome, Opera or Safari. If you really love yourself you’d just install Linux, but you already knew I was going to say that 
More pics from this month have been added to the Feb 2010 Album including the new computer build!
So apparently my scheduled posts aren’t showing up this week, so I apologize for the late FOSS post!
It has been a long quest of mine to find a quality video editor for Linux that worked with my old hardware. Now that I have a beefy new machine I was able to download and compile Avidemux.
This full featured editor works great even with the newest of video/audio codecs. My MP4 wrapped avi’s are no match for this beast. While the interface could use some intuitive improvements, once you overcome the learning curve you can rip through basic editing tasks like Tiger’s wife through an SUV window.
The audio support seems to be the most lacking however, but I think this is due to my installed codecs. No fault of the editor, more fault of the compiler (me). I would also like to see Avidemux take advantage of multi-core systems during render time just to speed up the process.
..so why have two skillset trees you ask? Well you see its like my right hand on a Sunday night… beats the hell outta me.
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