Maybe this one is a bit more accurate than the statistics on search terms in Google, since you don’t get the issue where mint is more than the name of a distribution. Ok, here comes the numbers:
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Here are some numbers from 7th september 2008 These number are made using google trends worldwide 2004 until present. It’s important to remember that Gentoo is also a penguin, and both arch and mint can have a lot of other meanings other than the linux distributions. Some people might search using other combinations than those mentioned above, like OpenSuse instead of just Suse. Read the rest of this entry » There are a lot of questions out there about how to play movies in mplayer with subtitles. When searching with google I get links to forums, mailinglists and so on, but noone seems to have a solution that works, but a lot of stupid attempts like having the movie in the same directory as the movie, or add the subtitle file to the playlist. It seems like nobody has a clue what they are talking about, but rather guess a lot and really don’t know what they are talking about. No offense, but I guess this is one of the consequences with we get with the popularity of Ubuntu. What is important to know, is to know if the subtitle format is text based or image based, and if it’s supported by mplayer. You can find info about the different subtitle formats here. The supported mplayer formats are VOBsub, OGM, CC (closed caption), MicroDVD, SubRip, SubViewer, Sami, VPlayer, RT, SSA, PJS (Phoenix Japanimation Society), MPsub, AQTitle and JACOsub. You might have heard of tagfiles in Slackware? They are actually used to quickly install Slackware without having to pick each package you want to install. The tagfiles are text files which contain information about which packages you want to install, and those files can be used again under your next Slackware installation, which will save you a big amount of time - whether the next time will be a reinstallation or you want to install Slackware on several other computers. Here we will go through the steps on how to make tagfiles, using the powerful command line. So I’ve been doing some researching on the net to find similar jail functionality as FreeBSD, Solaris and OpenBSD have. To be honest with you: none exists - at least none which officially supports Slackware. Read the rest of this entry » Well it seems like my hard drive problems have been temporarily resolved, so I decided to install FreeBSD again. I will go through the install procedure a little bit more detailed this time. First of all, you have to download the FreeBSD iso from FreeBSDs website. Burn it as a disc image, and boot your computer with the new CD. The installation is menu based, and fdisk for the partitioning. If you can’t use these tools you are excused if you are blind and the installation limits you somehow, or else you are just acting stupid. Anyone can read the text on the screen, use the arrow keys and press the enter button. Some days ago, LinuxQuestions.org closed the polls and presented their results from the 2007 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards . There were some surprises and of course, some results were quite obvious. Well here are the top three results from the distribution polls: Unfortunately I had some problems with one of my hard drives, and I lost my entire FreeBSD installation. I was setting up a fileserver, and must have written to one bad block on the drive. This was an old computer, so I shouldn’t be surprised. Well that’s where my journey anded so far. Well, I will give you a little update on my experience of the system since my last post. Well, since I converted to GNU/Linux back in 2003, a lot of things has happened in the GNU/Linux world. The trend seems to be that as much as possible should be automated, and the user shouldn’t have to know what’s going on in the background. A lot of messages on the Desktop which tells you that some updates are available for your system, or you plugged in some kind of a device. People with a little bit of knowledge, knows that they inserted “some kind of device” and some actions should be taken, or that they need to install updates for their system regularly. The problem when everything happens automatically, is that it can be annoying, you looses some of the control of your computer, and it might choose some settings or methods you don’t like. You also loose some of the understanding of what’s going on, and it might be very difficult for you to solve a problem when it occurs. LinuxQuestions.org has opened their 2007 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards which is a collection of several polls, where you can vote for your favorite desktop distribution, server distribution, office suite, mail client and lots more. This is a unique chance to promote your favorite software. I’ve already voted, and are looking forward to the results. Maybe I’ll find some new software worth trying? |
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