Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Explaining Linux to the layman computer user
LinuxHaxor.net poses this challenge to skilled Linuxers:
You have five minutes and ten sentences to explain Linux to a complete newbie, without the geekery mumbo jumbo. What would you say?
Now, I’m not a skilled Linux “haxor” by any means, but I’ve had enough good and bad experience with Linux since I started using it a couple [...]
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Boodler, the open-source soundscape tool
Boodler is a free, open-source tool programmed in Python. It runs natively on Linux, with third party binary ports to Windows. Mac users will have to be content with iTunes and how “pretty” MacOS X is.
Essentially, Boodler generates complex (and not so complex) soundscapes made of many small, individual sounds like crickets chirping, frogs croaking, [...]
