Revolution OS is a 2001 documentary which traces the history of GNU, Linux, and the open source and free software movements. It features several interviews with prominent hackers and entrepreneurs (and hackers-cum-entrepreneurs), including Richard Stallman, Michael Tiemann, Linus Torvalds, Larry Augustin, Eric S. Raymond, Bruce Perens, Frank Hecker and Brian Behlendorf. The film begins in medias res with an IPO, and then sets the historical stage by showing the beginnings of software development back in the day when software was shared on paper tape for the price of the paper itself. It then segues to Bill Gates’s Open Letter to Hobbyists in which he asks Computer Hobbyists to not share, but to buy software. (This letter was written by Gates when Microsoft was still based in Arizona and spelled “Micro-Soft”.) Richard Stallman then explains how and why he left the MIT Lab for Artificial Intelligence in order to devote his life to the development of free software, as well as how he started with the GNU project. Linus Torvalds is interviewed on his development of the Linux kernel as well as on the GNU/Linux naming controversy and Linux’s further evolution, including its commercialization. Richard Stallman remarks on some of the ideological aspects of open source vis-รก-vis Communism and capitalism and well as on several aspects of the development of GNU/Linux. Michael Tiemann (interviewed in a desert) tells how he met Stallman and got an early version of Stallman’s GCC and founded Cygnus Solutions. Larry Augustin tells how he combined the resulting GNU software and a normal PC to create a UNIX-like Workstation which cost one third the price of a workstation by Sun Microsystems even though it was three times as powerful. His narrative includes his early dealings with venture capitalists, the eventual capitalization and commodification of Linux for his own company, VA Linux, and ends with its IPO. Frank Hecker of Netscape tells how Netscape executives released the source code for Netscape’s browser, one of the signal events which made Open Source a force to be reckoned with by business executives, the mainstream media, and the public at large.
A (few) very nice HOWTO on installing GFX Grub In Ubuntu.
GNU Graphics Grub is the new Grub boot screen which adds to Visual appeal of Boot Screen. Unlike older grub GFX Grub has now much better themes and customization options..
Your bootscreen can look like this;
For the howto’s click one of the following links ( they seem identical to me )
and be carefull !
if you don’t know what your doing this could end up in a non bootable computer……..
A few tip & tricks to speed up your ubuntu
1. Disable IPv6
Edit /etc/modprobe.d/aliases and change the line:
alias net-pf-10 ipv6
to
alias net-pf-10 off #ipv6
2. Run boot processes in parallel
Edit /etc/init.d/rc and change:
CONCURRENCY=none
to
CONCURRENCY=shell
3. Aliasing hostname to localhost
Modify /etc/hosts’s first two line as follows:
127.0.0.1 localhost yourhost127.0.1.1 yourhost
where yourhost, is your chosen hostname. This will fasten up applications load.
4. Preload
Preload is an adaptive readahead daemon. It monitors applications that users run, and by analyzing this data, predicts what applications users might run, and fetches those binaries and their dependencies into memory for faster startup times.
sudo apt-get install preload
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How I installed ubuntu on my ASUS A6000 laptop ( dual boot with XP ).
.sudo apt-get install xserver-xgl
thats about it