theWeeklyRant.com

Sadly, theWeeklyrant.com will be closing up shop in the next 6 months. It's been a great ride while it lasted but my interests have moved elsewhere. (another website no less ;) )

I truly hope the information hosted on this site was useful to you in one way or another.

A special thanks to everyone who has emailed in, commented, and given feedback in any way. You guys rocked! :D

I will continue to host the content this site contains for the next 6 months from this date. Then the site will be taken down, the content archived to another website, and the domain put up for sale. (please feel free to contact me before hand if you are interested in the domain. jonathon AT theweeklyrant DOT com)

That is all,
Jonathon

The last time I reviewed Fedora (Core 5, here) I was left a bit annoyed overall. Frustrated, as idealism had gotten the best of what I was hoping to be a solid distribution. This time around I'm hoping Fedora will be on the right path.

Outstanding NEWS!

The OpenSUSE project has re-released and remastered SUSE Linux 10.1!

My name is Jonathon and I've been using Linux for well over 4 years now as my primary OS. I started way back with Slackware, and to this day I can't stop slackin.

With the newly released Slackware 11, let's see how much has changed since I first fell head over heals for the distro so many years ago.

Every day the web is transitioning farther away from traditional content and toward interactive content creation... Web users and web junkies are becoming authors, bloggers, and content creators at what seems to be an ever increasing ratio of 'passive readers' to 'active contributors'.

If there's anything I've come to understand over the past year of creating and running multiple websites (aside form the technical portions that is) it's what I'm about to share with you....and I hope, if you're going to join this growing force of free flowing information creation, you might enjoy a word or two from a armature webmaster who had to figure a few things out the hard way.

Microsoft just opened up Vista beta2 to the public (or to dotNet passport members that is, but anyone can get access). This is good, but the rather large DVD ISO they provide does not come with a way to varify a clean download. So here's the (unofficial) md5sum for the 32-bit and 64-bit beta2 ISOs.

This is the last bit of SUSE related stuff you guys will see for a while. I was planning a large technical overview of SUSE...But quite honestly, everything I wanted to cover and say has been said and covered in many places around the net.

Don't get me wrong, it's not that I can't "out do" them with my own "flare" of armature tech authoring... I just would rather devote the time to something more productive.

That said, after spending a few weeks with SUSE 10.1, here's a list of the most useful resources I've come across that a new Linux convert or just someone new to SUSE would greatly benefit from.

Beagle is a great search tool for the desktop, and an excellent reason to include mono in any modern distribution by default. However, I hardly use it and find its indexing daemon taxing on my systems.

So let's remove it!

So it looks like SUSE 10.1 shipped with a known bug that makes the newly rewritten YaST package manager not only dog slow, but unstable.

Fear not fellow SUSE users! There is hope, and it's bloody cool too!

Ok, so I've recently got a few 'questions' emailed to me and I'll start by answering a few.

Check out our new FAQ section here!