So, Microsoft submits 20000 lines of code to the Linux kernel, all licensed under the GPL. Microsoft, who considers Linux a great threat, and once called the GPL a "cancer". Opinions on this one are flying all around us, but what does Linus Torvalds, Linux' benevolent dictator, think about all this?

 

Linus hasn't actually looked at the code yet. It's driver code, low-risk and he isn't very interested in driver code anyway. He trusts the maintainers will do their jobs. "I'll likely look at it when the code is actually submitted to me by the maintainers (Greg [Kroah-Hartman], in this case), just out of morbid curiosity," Linus adds.

 

As most of you will be aware of, Linus is very forthright, and generally doesn't hold back when it comes to his opinions. He's also very pragmatic, and both of these qualities come forward quite clearly when Linus talks about Microsoft's code drop. I'm not going to squeeze his words into running text.

 

more > http://www.osnews.com/story/21887/Linus_..._a_Disease

Hello there,

 

First of all, let me apologize for my poor English. I'm not a native English speaker.

 

My problem is as follows:

 

I just downloaded Ubuntu 9.04 because I have an old PC standing on my desk an I figured, I could finally give Linux a try. After burning the ISO to a disk and booting it up, I get a weird 'flashing' screen. Flashing perhaps is not the right word, it's more like the image is shifting left to right (or right to left for that matter) very rapidly.

 

When i put my mouse (which btw is shown just as it should) over the top left corner I can (barely) see a menu coming down. Just because the screen gets a little lighter in that part.

 

Can someone tell me what to do? I already used the 'Check for errors' (or whatever it's called in English) method in the startup screen and nothing came up.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

P.S. I'm using 'boot from disk' mode, not an installed version.

How can I share a hard drive or a folder as hidden?

 

I have a server (Intel 120 OCed to 225 w/ windoze 2000 and ZoneAlarm) that has access to my windoze partition and my wife's PC. Thanks to DMA it has no problems keeping up with our computers. Yeah it takes five minutes to boot up. Once booted it gets shoved back in the closet and forgotten.

 

However, all it has to do is:

1) ZoneAlarm tell NIC 2, "Yes you can pass that info from NIC 1" or "Nope! Not allowed!"

2) Scan our PC's for viruses. I just hate having a virus scanning util on my PC slowing everything down.*

 

*Note: I have not gotten very many virus. My current total is: Two viruses and one hyjacking over the span of 16 years. That's PC years, not total 'puter years.

 

Thanks in advance.

Hello,

 

I'm about to be a new linux user! I am currently in the process of installing Yellow Dog 6.1 on my PS3.

 

During the installation I was given the opportunity to specify any repositories I wanted to include.

Now I don't even know what a repository does, would there be a windows analogy somebody could relate?

 

I chose not to install any, but I noticed there was an option to install repositories at a later time.

 

I found this thread, but didn't find it very helpful:

 

https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2417

 

Thanks for any help!

~laz

Hello all there,

 

I am newbe to unix programing.

 

I want to implement event mechanism just like

"My eldest son is ten years old. He as been using computers in one way or another since he was 4, and he has already seen Linux because I had installed Ubuntu and SLED 10 on his XP computer some years ago. He impressed me some years ago when he got into bzflags, but he never really got interested in Linux simply because of the lack of games (that interested him).

 

It's now early July, and tonite Christopher did a yum update after he had a problem getting compiz to work properly. That's pretty cool because at the start of June, I set him a challenge to use nothing but Linux on his computer for a month (I thought he'd last a few days and then give up).

 

The month has passed and I wanted to see what Christopher thought about using Linux daily."

 

way to go Christopher !!!!!

Does anyone know of a linux(Fedora 10) package which can handle input of cd's and cassette tapes, provide editing facilities and convert recorded sound files to mp3 format? (Equivalent of basic Magix software for Windows)

 

Cheers, GM

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The Canonical announcement follows up on the April launch of the company's Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) service, in conjunction with the release of Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition. In May, Canonical launched a beta web-based "Ubuntu One" cloud service that offers online storage and file synchronization for Ubuntu 9.04 users.

hi all i have some virtual webservers in apache and if i leave out the www infront of the address eg: http://windows-noob.com it will open up https://www.linux-noob.com

 

which is quite funny but not the desired result

 

my httpd.conf file looks ok (i think) so where does the problem lie ? with DNS, or with httpd.conf ?

 

NameVirtualHost 94.75.228.161:80

 

<VirtualHost 94.75.228.161:80>

ServerAlias www.linux-noob.com

ServerAdmin anyweb@linux-noob.com

DocumentRoot /websites/linux

ServerName linux-noob.com

 

</VirtualHost>

 

<VirtualHost 94.75.228.161:80>

# ServerAlias www.windows-noob.com

ServerAdmin anyweb@linux-noob.com

DocumentRoot /websites/windows

ServerName www.windows-noob.com

 

 

</VirtualHost>