When Microsoft first started addressing market pressure toward open source, the company didn’t get it. Probably it’s more accurate to say Microsoft didn’t want to get it. Or wanted to pretend not to get it. A key exhibit was the Shared Source Initiative (SSI), an early 2000s initiative to allow certain parties to view… Read More »
After using your PC for some time no doubt you would have accumulated some useful files. These files could be cherished family/personal photographs, music, videos, document, and some times applications. It as necessary for any computer user to have a back up strategy – a way of saving files outside the machines. This is because… Read More »
This is the second in a series of posts about how we can mange hardware resources under Linux. This post would focus on understanding the CPU. The central processing unit ( CPU, sometimes called the processor) is the “brain” of a computer system – it does most of the computer’s actual computing. If you have a working Linux system, it is very important to learn a great deal about your CPU.
I am writing this post to refute an argument I’ve heard some people give why they’ve decided not to use Linux. The argument is that Linux does not come with many things (most times applications) that an average computer might need. But on a closer inspection this kind of thinking is unfounded and misplaced… Read More »
The main feature that distinguishes free from non-free software is not price, but freedom. So even if you are not paying for a particular software it doesn’t mean that it is free software. To clarify this issue let get some definitions going… Proprietary (Non-Free) Software A proprietary software is… Read More »
Linux games rising For the first time in a long time, Linux gamers have a reason to smile. Gaming on the open-source operating system has long meant dabbling in Wine and arcane workarounds , but ever since Valve launched Steam for Linux a year-and-a-half ago the number of native Linux games has positively exploded .… Read More »
FILTERS A filters is a program that takes its input from the standard input file, processes (or filters) it, and sends its output to the standard output file. Linux has a rich set of filters that can be use to work on data in an effective way. Some examples of filters are cat, grep, wc,… Read More »
Xender is a very common file sharing app on android devices, especially because it is considered as being easy to use. The wonderful thing is that the recent version of the app has the ability to share files between an android device (phones and tablets) and Linux though the web browser. Though I’ve written earlier… Read More »
It is no longer news that Linux is not a popular operating system (OS) in Nigeria – at least to me – especially going by the data provided by the Statcounter website on computer OS usage in the country as at June. There wasn’t even a tab for Linux on the graph! Damn. I have… Read More »
The ability to know where your stuffs (that is files) are stored in your hard drive is necessity for any PC user. This is because majority of everyday interaction with the computer system exclusively involves manipulating files – and by extension directories. Such manipulation include copying, moving edit and the likes. And in the Linux… Read More »
