何このLinuxっていうOS？

私を知っている人はほとんど皆は私がLinuxというパソコンのOSを使っているのを知っていると思うんですが、それより詳しくは知らないかもしれないので、ちょっと説明させていただきたい。

So you’re excited about Gnu/Linux/BSD…

 [By Vaughn R. Larson [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons]

So you’re excited about Gnu/Linux/BSD, you want to express your new found or continuing love to the world, but more than that you want everyone around you to share it!  It’s free, wonderful, and extensible in ways that those “other” OSes will never be, of course everyone would want to use it right?

なぜLinuxを使う？

久しぶりに日本語のポストだ。日本ではOSとかオペレーティングシステムってあまりよく話されていないと思うので、少しだけでも説明したりさせていただきたい。

Solus OS: The distro LMDE wasn’t?

I’m looking into a Linux distribution called Solus OS and created by Ikey Doherty who gained a bit of name recognition for doing the Linux Mint Debian Edition.

Comparing the two there’s one major difference:  Solus OS is based on Debian Stable with a custom repository of up-to-date user land packages like Firefox and LibreOffice.  It’s not rolling.  That’s a good thing, because LMDE had a problem with breaking.

What is a Linux Distribution?

TLDR: a Linux distribution is a collection of software including the Linux kernel that is provided to users via the Internet.

In this post I’m going to explain what the phrase “Linux Distribution” means.  I’m assuming a basic level of competence with technology, but not necessarily anything in depth.  I will make prolific use of links to Wikipedia and other websites where appropriate.  I am not attempting to advocate anything, just explain, but I have some personal bias as a Linux user.

Why Switch to Linux?

In short, Linux is largely free of corporate bullcrap that Windows and OS X suffer from.  It’s designed for YOU.

What I want out of an OS

Just feel like writing this to organize my own thoughts.  Since I have extensively used three of the 4 major OS’s in use today (Windows, Mac OS X, Gnu/Linux, but I have not used any true Unix systems without Cocoa on top like BSD) I feel fairly capable of thinking in a relatively unbiased way about this.  They all have pros and cons, and this article isn’t about which of those I want, but rather what I would want out of a perfect, dream OS.

More on LinuxMint

This post is for Austin and anyone else interested in trying out Mint.