Welcome to the Open Source corner of
Centriq Blogspace. I'm Robert Ritter, and I'll be your localhost.
I've had the opportunity to work with and train in open
source technologies for 13 years, including FreeBSD, Linux,
Samba, Apache, Python and a host of others, and I look forward
to discussing some of these things with the Centriq community.
We'll use this space to explore some of the open source
solutions that we use and teach at Centriq, and how you
can take advantage of them in your own daily work and play.
As this blog evolves, I hope to make it a place where you
can share your own expertise as well: the open source landscape
is a pretty big place, and no one of us can keep up with
it all. Together we'll share knowledge, ideas, and maybe
even a few laughs, and come to a better understanding of
what the Open Source Software movement means to the world
of computing.
Jun02
Summertime is a great time to catch up on some reading.
While this article is a little departure from the standard open source
fare, in the spirit of free (as in "freedom") software I
thought I wo ...
[Read More]May19
If you write code, or if you write administrative shell scripts or
batch files, you know how crucial a good text editor can be.
Personally, I like plain text. Whether I'm writing a large,
multi-part ...
[Read More]May12
With the recent severe weather, a few of the folks in my neighborhood
experienced issues with their computers after power failures.
One neighbor suffered a corrupted hard disk and was left with an
unb ...
[Read More]May05
That was my daughter's exclamation when the stylized heron faded onto
the screen as I installed Ubuntu Linux
8.04. This latest version, named
"Hardy Heron," was released on April 24th and qu ...
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