How I got my job in Linux: from Newbie to Pro
In this commentary article I go into the journey I took from 2001 when I started out using Linux properly and the present day. If you think that you too would like to get into […]
Category: Commentary
10 Open Source Skills That Can Lead to Higher Pay
Recently, The Linux Foundation and the online job board Dice released the results of a survey about open source hiring. It found that 67 percent of managers expected their hiring of open source professionals to increase […]
Moving to Linux? Bring your Google Drive with you
Welcome to the world of Linux, newbie! It may take some time getting used to the network of distros and repositories but if there’s one thing you shouldn’t be worried about when making the switch, […]
Updated: Red Hat to be acquired by IBM
Redhat, the open source business which began with Red Hat Linux, have agreed a $34 billion deal to be acquired by IBM. UPDATE: IBM Stock price has fallen since the acquisition announcement On 26th October, […]
Skype Comes to Linux in a Snap
Like some other Windows apps, their Linux equivalent say are either non existent, or run poorly due to lack of love from their authors. But that’s all slowly beginning to change, like our recent post […]
Portainer: An easy to use gui to run and get docker containers
I met up with the team from Portainer.io in my home town of Wellington, New Zealand when they paid a visit to a Linux user group there. Their product is an awesome graphical, browser based docker […]
Your next Linux computer? A Samsung mobile phone
Yep, you can soon use a Samsung Mobile phone as a fully fledged Linux PC running Ubuntu. Sit it on the Samsung Dock, which is attached to a monitor, keyboard and mouse and et voila! […]
Official: Ubuntu 17.10 release date
Ubuntu Artful Aardvark Release – 17.10 The Ubuntu team have released the final beta of Ubuntu 17.10 including the Desktop, Server, and Cloud versions, as announced by the Ubuntu team on Friday. Codenamed “Artful Aardvark”, […]
Debian 9 ( Stretch ) is here. Finally!
Debian Stable is Stretching out Debian was my gamechanger for Linux. It is and always has been the motherload of Linux (in my humble opinion). Everything good in the world of Linux came from its […]
Your Raspberry Pi as a Zombie Bitcoin Harvesting Beast
But mommy, I just wanted to play with my Pi… Straight from the bowels of all things unholy on the Interwebs, it now turns out that some ‘so called’ malware is infecting a plethora of […]
