I decided to post a little introduction to myself here: Ask me who I was last March, and I would have had WinBloze 7 Beta on my main computer and would have been part of Micro$uck's test project for WinBloze 7 and would have been excited about it. However, that changed as soon as my network adapter changed and the new one worked with Linux. As soon as I tested the new adapter with Mint (I'd say about a year ago, in July 2009) I began to really value Linux for what it is.

However, I knew about Linux long before that. I started with gOS 2, which was my first distro. I had tried it back in about February 2008. I first learned about Linux back in mid-2007, from an article in PCMag that spanned several pages. I had quite a hard time back then, and Ubuntu Hardy was no different than gOS.

So then what took me so long from knowing about Linux to finally becoming an active user? My house was nothing but Wi-Fi. My mother set a secure wireless network up back then, and I couldn't connect to it because my adapter (Linksys WUSB54GSC) wasn't recognized by Linux. I had the patience to continue.

Then, in June 2008, my family got hit by the economic collapse here in the USA: The mortgage on my old house doubled and my family had to leave because of the rate increase. So, we were stuck in a hotel room until my family and I could end up in a new house. That Christmas, I wanted a netbook, and got my wish (the one I'm typing on, an Acer Aspire One AOA110-1545). It came with Linux preinstalled, and I liked it all around.

From then to June 2009, I still had WinBloze on my desktop, as Linux still didn't work with my wireless network adapter. Then, in June 2009 as I said, I got a new wireless network adapter, and in July decided to test it with Linux Mint 7. It worked, even from the Live CD! Now,

1. 	Linux Kernel build script Updated the build prerequisites step to include btrfs-tools in case someone wants to support BTRFS in their kernel (or for that matter boot from a BTRFS hard drive).
   	Posted 07-04-2010 at 06:44 PM by Kenny_Strawn

2. 	Linux Kernel build script Edited the script so that the source directory and archive are deleted right after they are extracted/built. Hopefully that will save disk space and just barely be able to make it through on my SSD.
   	Posted 07-04-2010 at 12:11 PM by Kenny_Strawn

3. Linux Kernel build script Before I went to bed last night, I was testing the script and got the dreaded "No space left on device" error. Luckily, I was able to delete the source folder and archive to save space. On a side note, I could edit the script to delete the archive right after it is extracted. However, I still don't think it will save that much space, as the archive is highly compressed and once it is extracted and built hogs over 4 GB of precious SSD space. That's half the SSD's size! I am going to have to take a 500GB HDD that I have in storage out of there and try to run the script again if the auto-deletion of the archive doesn't work. I will have to really edit the script to save space for my running of it.

   Posted 07-04-2010 at 11:43 AM by Kenny_Strawn

4. 	Linux Kernel build script Had to update the script a few times in order to debug it a bit, as I encountered an error when building the modules. That being because I did not have all of the build prerequisites installed. So, I added a line to the script that installs them (but depends on apt-get).
   	Posted 07-03-2010 at 09:03 PM by Kenny_Strawn

5. 	Linux Kernel build script Testing this script right now, and have to say that so far it's working perfectly. I'm up to the modules build stage, and so far, no errors.
   	Posted 07-03-2010 at 06:18 PM by Kenny_Strawn

6. 	CLI v. GUI: What works better for what Quote: Originally Posted by Mr-Bisquit I'm not into games but most people wouldn't play if they were text or ascii. I don't know why I am so intrigued by the idea of a platform game like SuperTux that plays in a terminal with all the objects drawn from ASCII characters.
   	Posted 06-13-2010 at 07:23 PM by MTK358

7. 	On killing Apophis... The human race has its pants down.
   	Posted 06-12-2010 at 10:24 PM by Mr-Bisquit

8. CLI v. GUI: What works better for what I think it depends on the individual, the setup, and the task set at the time. I use CLI for wireless, maintenance, package building, file browsing, format conversion, etc. Text browsing isn't a common task for most users. I use it for testing connections. I'm not into games but most people wouldn't play if they were text or ascii. Anything graphic requires a gui of some sort.

   Posted 06-10-2010 at 11:16 PM by Mr-Bisquit

9. CLI v. GUI: What works better for what I have always found it easier and faster to do file management in the CLI. I did public wireless and WPA from the CLI throughout the entire last semester. I prefer socializing through e-mail lists or IRC, which require no GUI. Certain text-based web browsers can also display images through the frame-buffer, such as links. And you don't actually need a GUI to print. I can print from the command-line with lpr, although you need to convert the document to PS first. Overall Winner: CLI

   Posted 06-09-2010 at 04:23 PM by CoderMan Updated 06-09-2010 at 04:25 PM by CoderMan

10. CLI v. GUI: What works better for what Yeah, MTK: IDEs, especially complex ones like Eclipse, are extremely difficult to use. However, I use Geany and it is much simpler and not bad at all. And yes, it depends on GCC/G++ to compile C/C++ code. I consider it much easier to use than, say, M$ Visual Studio. Edit: And I did say the CLI is easy to use, especially to use makefiles or other means to compile many source files in batch.

    Posted 06-06-2010 at 12:31 PM by Kenny_Strawn Updated 06-06-2010 at 12:33 PM by Kenny_Strawn

11. 	Ubuntu 10.10: The perfect Ubuntu version I also found wireless a pain. I just got a set of ethernet to co-ax adapters, so I can use the coaxial cables already in the walls for networking. No more wireless hassles and no more 50-foot CAT5 cable hanging from the router in the 1st floor to my computer on the 2nd!
    	Posted 06-06-2010 at 12:31 PM by MTK358 Updated 06-13-2010 at 10:57 PM by Kenny_Strawn (Removed deprecated sentence. It is deprecated because I had edited my comment and post to remove profanity)

12. 	GNOME Shell vs. the Terminal And I still wish xf86-video-ati could run it. I tried again yesterday, this time with JHBuild instead of AUR, and it was about the same. It was unbelievably slow and became unresponsive, I had to log in another terminal and "killall X".
    	Posted 06-06-2010 at 12:23 PM by MTK358

13. CLI v. GUI: What works better for what I agree with most of that. Just one thing is that you said that programming is better in a GUI because you can use IDEs. Maybe it's just me, but I tried using an IDE a few times and I just hated it. All these strange menus to go through many times instead of just typing a command. And the way it covers up the real compiling process and really makes it dumbed down. And another thing the CLI is better for: Doing complex, repetitive tasks with modular tools. Easy with a CLI, intrinsically impossible with a GUI.

    Posted 06-06-2010 at 12:17 PM by MTK358 Updated 06-06-2010 at 12:19 PM by MTK358

14. Ubuntu 10.10: The perfect Ubuntu version Mr. Bisquit: On learning other distributions, I know it's hard. I know how to use Ubuntu, Pendrive Linux (based on Mandriva and designed for live USB sticks), Linux Mint (based on Ubuntu and more stable), gOS (based on Ubuntu), Linpus, Google Chrome OS, Android-x86, and plenty of other distros, but not without learning first, and some distros were a pain in the buttocks as I had said. Especially DIY distros such as Gentoo, Slackware, and Debian, whose Wi-Fi security support, especially from the Live CD, is absolutely nil. I found absolutely no wireless networks from the Gentoo Live CD, whereas from the Ubuntu CD I found many on both of my computers. And even with Ubuntu I had trouble at first. I tried using a Linksys USB network adapter with it and found absolutely NO networks. I then switched to a PCI Wireless-N Dual-band and Ubuntu picked up all the networks in my neighborhood. Guess Linux likes internal network adapters better.

    Posted 06-04-2010 at 05:53 PM by Kenny_Strawn Updated 06-13-2010 at 10:54 PM by Kenny_Strawn (Removed obfuscated profanity as an example to other members)

15. 	Ubuntu 10.10: The perfect Ubuntu version How to learn other distributions and operating systems: make each a hobby/side project. On Ubuntu: I use older releases which have a PowerPC live CD as an emergency disk.
    	Posted 06-03-2010 at 09:03 PM by Mr-Bisquit

16. 	Openism: My idea of an ideal economy Utopean ideal indeed! Sign me up!
    	Posted 05-28-2010 at 03:06 AM by rich_c

17. 	GNOME Shell vs. the Terminal Nice Blog post Kenny. Majority of my Desktops are lightweight like Icewm, JWM, E17, Rox Pinboard and Fluxbox. I do have a box with 64bit Ubuntu 10.04 with Gnome. Will try this out later. Happy Trails, Rok
    	Posted 05-26-2010 at 11:40 PM by rokytnji