Category Archives: Fedora 8 and GNU

Lists, issues, tutorials

Visualization of the Linux Kernel

The Kernel is the part of an operating system that interfaces with the hardware, handling all of the most commonly used and tedious tasks such as writing to disks and actually sending signals on a network.
This is a video showing a 3-d print out of all of the pages of code in the linux kernel, [...]

The Nature of Microsoft Issues vs. Mac/Linux issues

Consider: A Windows PC is brought in to the shop where I work with the following message appearing after every boot, just as the desktop appears:
“Xprcedrtfsc.exe cannot be found.   The result of 000×21eag325 was returned from the session”
This message appears just above a big ‘Ok’ button every time you log on, which you must click [...]

Excellent Fedora 8 Gnome Desktop - Linux is Ready

For many, many years, we have wondered if linux is ready for the desktop.  I want to put a link here to the article, ok I will , but this discussion is such a huge fandango you could really waste a lot of time. In the opinion of AE, the question doesn’t boil [...]