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Articles Written by: AARON NEWCOMB
OLF 2009 was another great success this year as we celebrated 40 years of UNIX. Kudos to the all the organizers and volunteers who made the event happen! Although it seemed a bit scaled back this year, there was actually more content than previous ...
From AARON NEWCOMB,
LXer,
29 Sep 2009
Highlights from FISL10 in Porto Alegre, Brazil including interviews with Chris DiBona and Michael Tiemann, using Open Source to make things out of computer junk, and President Lula da Silva speaks out on free software.
Now in true 720p HD on Vimeo. The ...
From AARON NEWCOMB,
LXer,
15 Sep 2009
I am on my way back from FISL 10 in Porto Alegre, Brazil and what a great conference it was. The president of Brazil stopped in on Friday and addressed the crowd saying how important free software was and that "Free software prevailed [in Brazil] and ...
From AARON NEWCOMB,
LXer,
30 Jun 2009
Submitted by anewcomb on Tue, 2009-03-17 15:22.
Another interview from OLF. This time I talk with Jon "Maddog" Hall about his nickname, sustainable computing, and the Open Moko phone. You can download/watch the episode here. I think I will stop ...
From AARON NEWCOMB,
LXer,
18 Mar 2009
Submitted by anewcomb on Fri, 2009-01-16 10:50.
On this special edition of the_source I interview Jono Bacon (Ubuntu Community Manager) about the demise of Lugradio, Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex and his musical pursuits. You can watch the episode ...
From AARON NEWCOMB,
LXer,
16 Jan 2009
No it's not Sizzlean (see below). It's Ubuntu Server. I have been running Fedora on the web server in my basement (which runs this site, BTW) for years and years. The last time I upgraded was when Fedora Core 5 was released and it has run that way ever ...
From AARON NEWCOMB,
LXer,
20 Nov 2008
Sun is launching a new series of Open Storage products today. The new product line is called Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems and was formerly referred to as "Amber Road".
What is different about this storage system?? Everything!
It is built ...
From AARON NEWCOMB,
LXer,
11 Nov 2008
Submitted by anewcomb on Sat, 2008-11-08 20:40.
For this episode I interviewed Oren Tiech from Sun Microsystems about xVM Ops Center. This one is a bit overdue. I actually taped it about 6 months ago and thought I lost the audio only to find it ...
From AARON NEWCOMB,
LXer,
9 Nov 2008
Submitted by anewcomb on Wed, 2008-07-09 00:00.
Check out the all new episode with a tutorial on Virtualbox and a special remake of a famous commercial that those of us that are 30+ will remember. Also, in honor of Dave Yates I did the intro for ...
From AARON NEWCOMB,
LXer,
9 Jul 2008
Submitted by anewcomb on Sun, 2008-04-13 20:11.
A new episode is out! (Resisting the urge to say "Finally!") The show is now in HD format although not full HD quality since I doubt any of you would want to download a file that big. I finished up ...
From AARON NEWCOMB,
LXer,
13 Apr 2008