Welcome
Hello, I would like to welcome you all to my blog. This is a place where all things open source will be discussed. The primary focus of this blog will be to introduce readers to open source software....
View ArticleLinux on a MacBook Pro
In the ultimate and glorious wisdom of his holiness, Steve Jobs, Apple has decided to make using Macs with anything other than OSX and Windows a complete pain in the ass. Following are my general...
View ArticleTutorial: Installing 64Studio On a MacBook Pro
These instructions are for people with an early 2008 MacBook Pro. It is more than likely that these instructions will work for most other intel Macs. You cannot install linux on PPC based Macs as far...
View ArticleGreat Resources for linux newbies
Hello, Getting into the Open Source World™ has a fairly steep learning curve associated with it. Luckily the participatory nature of open source software leads to some great online resources for...
View ArticlePicking A linux Distribution – 64Studio
If you are “going open source” for the first time the sheer volume of information to sift through can seem unmanageable. One of the first decisions you will have to make is which distribution to use....
View ArticleA close look at ALSA
Usually in my posts I try to take what I’ve learned from various sources and synthesize something useful for readers of my blog. Occasionally I come across a resource so perfect that I feel like it...
View ArticleJACK
JACK is grand central stations for the linux audio world. In a nutshell Jack is a sound server daemon that provides low latency connections between software applications. Jack is similar to ReWire. It...
View ArticleHow to get the kbuild package for 2.6.29
In linux when you want to install a program most of the time you can download it with your distributions package manager. Sometimes, however, a pre-built version is not available and you have to...
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