Regular readers of this Journal know that I’ve enjoyed the freedom, power and security of using Linux full-time instead of Windows since July of 2006.

And that I’ve been happily using Debian Linux since December of 2007.

Specifically, I use the Debian “Squeeze” (Testing) branch with the [more...]

Regular readers of this Journal know that I’ve been happily using LInux instead of Windows since July of 2006. Linux is fast, secure, stable, easy to use, and infinitely configurable. Like most Linux “distros,” the Debian Linux that I use is completely free and comes with hundreds of free applications, tools, utilities, libraries, etc., as well as free access to [more...]

If you’re not a Linux geek, you probably won’t understand or care about this particular Journal post, so just skip it and don’t feel guilty.

I’ve been using Debian Squeeze (the Debian Testing branch) for about 6 months; ever since a couple of weeks after it was first released. Back when [more...]

By now, most people know that Mozilla recently released Firefox 3.5, the latest version of their free and open source web browser. The new Firefox has many new features, and is reportedly noticeably faster than even the 3.0.x version that I have been using, as well as many times faster than earlier versions of that browser. [more...]

Regular readers of this Journal know that, in the past, I’ve shot short videos with my Canon PowerShot A75 digital camera, and then tried to find a way to display them on a web site.

Specifially, because the Canon shoots its videos in AVI format, I wanted to convert them to smaller Flash videos in Linux and then [more...]

If you’re a Debian Linux user, and if you recently upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze, and if you’ve wondered why your system still kept telling you that you were using “lenny/sid”, rest assured that today’s upgrade of “base-files” (from version 5 to version 5.0) fixes that extremely minor annoyance. [more...]

Regular readers of this Journal know that I began using free and open-source Linux operating systems full-time instead of Windows back in July, 2006. My desktop looked very much like a Windows desktop, but Linux was completely free — and came with hundreds of completely free software applications.

Then, after using Kubuntu Linux for a month, and Mepis Linux for over a year, I [more...]

If you’re not a Debian Linux user, this will probably mean absolutely nothing to you, but late last night, I upgraded my Debian PC to Debian Squeeze, the new Debian Testing branch that was released 8 days ago.

As I explained to a friend through email, I upgraded now because it was only several weeks ago that I had changed [more...]