Month April 2009

Distro Review: Arch Linux 2009.02

After many broken promises and much procrastination, I finally made it onto Arch Linux and that’s where I’ve been for the past couple of weeks now. I had a failed attempt at Arch last year when my hard drive died;…

Weekly Rewind #9

Hello folks, it’s that time again already so I’d better fill you in on events this week: On Monday evening we did Linux Outlaws after a major delay and some technical problems. We were supposed to start at 7pm (UK)…

Jargon Jam – Linux

I’d thought I’d use today to launch a new series of articles I’m calling Jargon Jam. As you can probably guess from the title, the basic idea is to try and explain some of the jargon terms we Linux geeks…

Weekly Rewind #8

It’s Rewind time again. I don’t think it’ll be a long one this week, but then I always say that and still end up with 1000 words. Let’s get into it: On Sunday afternoon – technically last week I know…

Libre.fm – Building An Open Last.fm

If you’re anything like me and you’re dangerously obsessed with music (I really am); then chances are you’ve already tried the music-based social networking service Last.fm at some time. Like a lot of web services it doesn’t give much away…