@cwrinn
You're right, Wubi is cool.

@ChuckWest
You should blow away Vista in favor of anything...even DOS 2.2.

Hey Windows fans, would you like to take Linux for a spin to see what everyone's buzzing about? It's easy to do in just five easy steps. You can test Linux for yourself without having to setup...

All good alternatives but you have to admit that DSL is very cool and was easy for non-Linux types to use. I'll check out some of the others and perhaps drop Rob S. a note to see what's going on with...

It's a fact of life that Linux distributions go extinct and it happens more often than our Linux fan base would like to admit. At last count, there are approximately 50...

I recently upgraded a friend of mine to Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com) 9.04 Desktop for his five-year-old Acer (http://www.acer.com) laptop with 512 MB of RAM. I removed Windows 2000 after backing up...

You have a valid point.

Stallman? A paragon of credibility? I don't know, maybe he is but he's also a certifiable whacko.
As we might say in the Great State of Texas, "He's crazier'n a peach orchard boar."

Linus has spoken so get back to work and stop burning up the Internet with your hate speeches and endless ramblings about Microsoft and how this is so wrong. Linus accepted the code and gives his...

Well, for the masses, Linux is an OS. When people say "I use Linux," they are referring to an OS. It doesn't make sense to separate the two for easy communications. Linux refers generically to a...

Just like the international gang summits in Los Angeles, Linux needs a collective, "sit-down" to discuss the future of this now formidable operating system. I'm not talking about a nice little get...

@lazlong

Now, you're getting it! The foreign language one was kidding...I said that Red Hat should have kept redneck...and there is no Eskimo Linux...at least I don't think there is.

The...

@lazlong, et al.

I think some of you are missing the point here.

I was an early adopter of Linux (1995), started the local Linux Users Group, and have done much work within the Linux...

@cmccullough
The thing is...that you said that I'm way, way off...and that is your opinion, is it not?

It's funny how EVERYONE assumes that they are correct and that their opinion is the standard...

I mentioned the worst of the lot for each type plus some generic types that are just terrible.

@necrolin: Thanks for that, it is funny.

@matthewb

You'd be surprised to know that I'm not a WASP as you suggest. I found LFS to be difficult but it's been 3 years since I've tried it...maybe I'll give it another go on Dan's advice. As...

Any list of best or worst will have its opponents and proponents and I foresee that this list of worst Linux distributions will be no different. There were, at last count, almost 300 Linux...

Back in October '08, I wrote "5 Things I Wish Linux Had (http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3288.html)" but never realized that it would inspire the heated debate (Read the comments) that it did. I...

Perhaps it's my role as the family computer guy that's leading me in this direction today but it seems to me that there should be Linux distributions that are age-oriented and age appropriate. Seldom...

I agree that Windows 7 isn't impressive. I just expect more from my buds at Canonical, I guess. As I said, not disappointed, just unshocked. I expected more.

I downloaded and installed Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com) 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) and am happy to say it's an overall success. Of course, I would say that because I love Ubuntu; it's my favorite...

I like that--spiritual monkey wrench--that's good.

@Rashakil

No, I'm just awaiting yours and you never disappoint.

Someone commented on one of my posts the other day, stating that Linux is a tool and not a religion. Can this be true? I would hate to think that for the past 15 years that I've invested in Linux, it...

@michinobu--

What do they have at your school? If you are using Linux workstations and they are slow, it could be something they are trying to do or the person who built them did it wrong.

I'd...

If you've always wanted to create your own Linux distribution (distro), like I have, now you can by using a tool that was originally developed to create Virtual Appliances. SUSE Studio...

The ominous 13th entry in my ongoing Crystal Ball Sunday series highlights a somewhat controversial and oft misunderstood computing space known as Cloud Computing. As I explained in my I'm Smarter...

Yesterday, NetGear released the long-awaited open source wireless router WGR614L--a high-performance, full-featured, wireless router with 4-port switch running, you guessed it, Linux. The router...

It's true that some people can be that way but forums and IRC things are sometimes pretty harsh on those who ask questions that seem simple to them. There does seem to be a bit of that Linux elitist...

FYI - Mac OS X is FreeBSD - another free open source OS like Linux with Mach64 (NeXT) pretties added in. Linux does have a chance and it will take over a large number of desktops, both professional...

Welcome to another edition of Crystal Ball Sunday! This week my predictions center around system builders and integrators and their use of Linux to lower costs, standardize hardware offerings, and...

If you run sendmail, you're running an open source technology--same with DNS (BIND), same with TCP/IP.
Bugs and fixes are found because it is open source and that's a good thing...the software keeps...

A really good starter Linux OS is gOS (http://www.thinkgos.com). Their site is experiencing difficulties, or so it seems to me. It's based on Debian and is the OS for the gPC - the ultra cheap PC...

I don't usually respond to responses but here I have to make an exception. No, I am not behind the times, I am, in fact, with the times. The time is now right for all good people to come to the aid...

This is the first post in my new series called Crystal Ball Sunday. These Sunday posts are where I take out my Linux, and related technology, crystal ball and give you my predictions for the coming...