Call it what you like. Open source, Free software, Communist code, whatever.  One of the principles of this software is that anyone can modify it.  It seems like alot of software is leaning towards the bazaar style of accepting user contributions to the code, allowing it to adapt and evolve to meet user needs. Today, [...]

After getting Gentoo installed on my VirtualBox, I realized that my 20 GB virtual HD wasn’t as big as I had thought.  I decided to double my storage. Figuring out what to do was relatively painless.  The Linux Documentation Project has a slightly outdated howto document on hard drive upgrades; the process was almost the [...]

My current laptop runs 64-bit Vista.  This computer is used by my family for gaming, so there’s not much chance that I’ll be converting it full-time to Linux.  Instead, I decided to use Sun’s VirtualBox to run a Linux development box under Vista. After much wavering between Ubuntu and Gentoo, I finally settled on the [...]