I was laughing at the thought of a disgruntled Satan/Lucifer complaining that he shouldn’t be compared to Bill Gates. After all, he is the Prince of Darkness and whatever evil he can do is infinitely greater than the one of Bill Gates. Hahaha. I think that a lot of Linux users have thought about the evils of Microsoft with the blue screen of death, the need to reinstall Windows every once in a while, etc. But of course, that doesn’t mean that Bill Gates is evil… at least not in the same way that Satan is. Heh.

And who says naming applications is easy? Take it from Humorix who puts up GIMP as an example. Marketing applications is never easy and there has to be a way to make them easier for people to remember. Some might complain that the apps have such geeky names so why not have something that could easily be related with, right? Right. Absolutely. Especially for Pointy-haired bosses. I laughed at the part where it talked about desktop environments and how painfully obvious things should be. Like internet browsers for example. There shouldn’t be a box icon there with a monster (Mozilla) in it. It should have the text “Use This To Browse The Internet” instead. Good luck with and see how much space it will take up on the screen : P

Ever heard of Curtains – an anti-Windows tool? Because your computers need protection from viruses! Get Curtains! It will detect Windows and make sure that it will never get installed.

I saw that there were a lot of anti-Windows fake articles on it that might be offensive to others but there are really amusing ones that are worth passing on to others. Too bad it’s not updated often anymore.

Post from: New Linux User

My favorite suggestion from the list:

Network file transfers are like plastering bacon grease to your arteries. Using the good old-fashioned Sneakernet protocol adds more tens of feet of healthy walking to your day.

My co-workers and I often tell each other just use your USB drive to transfer files. Why bother with trying to set up Samba when transferring using a USB external hard drive or flashdrive is way quicker and it’s exercise. This is especially if you’re talking about sharing files with someone several feet away or in the floor below yours. If you get to take the stairs, then all the more exercise for you.

In addition, I guess that one could give help to someone personally by going to his/her respective area and teach him/her whatever commands is needed. Some users might ping you for some Linux help and you could type the help right away on the IM window. But going to his/her desk and showing the person how to figure out things might help both of you in the long run. Aside from having some face to face conversations, you transfer knowledge and get some exercise.

Got some exercise tips you might want to share? We still have to keep fit, right?

Post from: New Linux User

Looking at the Linux From Scratch website, these are the benefits of installing it from scratch:

• You understand Linux better because you learn about the ins and outs of the system.
• You get a more compact system.
• It is a more flexible system because you can do anything with it.
• You could make your system more secure.

I am personally overwhelmed by what’s in the LFS wiki but it looks like that the wiki is very detailed so you should be able to follow what’s written there. But still, I suppose that Linux from scratch is more for the experienced Linux users who want to dig deeper into operating system or if they really want a very customized Linux for their personal use.

One day if you have this itch to start on this project, you might want to start reading about it now and prepare really well. Also you might want to check it out too so that you could decide if it’s what you want to do or if you’d stick with one of the distros.

Edit: The url was wrong so I changed it so that it will point to linuxfromscratch.org

Post from: New Linux User