Open Source

Saturday, June 15, 2002

Just a Whole Bunch of Links I've been working pretty much since 2 am Saturday morning so I'm in no way coherent enough to write a decent sentence in an essay but I thought that I could still point to some cool stuff.  Why was I up so early?  Time zone conflicts and waiting for DNS resolution.  When all that failed, I blogged a bit, wrote a Drupal 4 press release and then worked on getting my house ready for sale. Anyway, some links and some random thoughts: http://www.lindows.com/ -- It looks like Lindows may be shipping since you can now order it from Walmart.  Too cool -- Walmart now sells Linux.  I suspect that soon you'll be able to get Sun workstations from K-Mart. http://www.iaslash.org/ -- Really cool site focused on Information Architecture.  Great content. http://www.lycoris.com/ -- Very nice looking Linux distribution (that's also called "distro").  And they had a just really nice order form if you click on Store.  I opted to download it and it was even fast!  Hopefully tomorrow I can do the Linux install dance, find out it fails on my hardware, scratch my head, look confused and then try www.freebsd.org/ Looking for what's hot or new so you can get a job in it?  Try this Slash discussion.  There is actually a pretty high signal to noise ratio. Review of a Great Book: The Tipping Point.  Eszter has the qualifications to actually comment on it (she's a sociologist and that's really what the book is about). I can't remember if I linked to this once before but it's too funny.  I guess the moral is never, ever get really good grades. Free BSD Stuff.  In the continual quest for stability in hosting platforms, I'm starting to looking closely at FreeBSD: FreeBSD and OS X Ported Software for Free BSD: http://www.freshports.org/ There's now a print magazine for FreeBSD!: http://magazine.daemonnews.org/ .  Go figure. A good source of FreeBSD info: http://www.daemonnews.org/ I have no idea if these guys are good or not but they offer colocation of FreeBSD boxes cheap: http://www.johncompanies.com/collocation/ And, of course, it all starts here: http://www.freebsd.org/ WHY YOU NEVER WANT TO USE WINDOWS IN A COMMERCIAL DATA CENTER: Even if you own your own copy of Windows 2000 Server, a commercial data center provider like www.rackspace.com makes you buy it AGAIN!  I went over this at length with RackSpace on Friday so I know this is true.  And, even better, you pay for it monthly FOREVER (i.e. it's an addition to your monthly bill every month, every year).  That just sucks.  Since I'm looking heavily at Frontier and the very, very cool IdeaTools, that bothers the smack out of me.  When I asked if RackSpace offered the new OS X servers, he said "Well we have a new Microsoft focus at www.intensive.com".  Sigh.  Apple would you please call RackSpace and get them to offer the new OS X server?  RackSpace is a great company (pricey but great) but it would be nice if they had something besides Intel hardware for Frontier users. Hard drives just keep getting bigger: IBM Millipede Very, very cool search approach: http://boolistic.com/index.html 9:12:01 PM