Welcome to the Home of Linux Basix

This will be the home for the Linux Basix Podcast. Our goal here is to bring together information that will make your introduction to Linux and Open Source Software more enjoyable and productive. As we go along we will be constantly updating this site with our shows and show notes. If you have any questions please post comments to the shows and blog. Feel free to let us know what you think of the show and we will do our best to make it make as much sense as possible.

Sniff That New OS Smell

Hello everyone I took the non-buntu plunge last night, I tried to install Mandriva.... and I must lead a cursed life, the very first thing I tried to install led me straight into RPM hell, it was kupfer, a great cross desktop solution to launch apps, tools and even automate some task, with the clear taste of fail in my mouth I decided to take a bigger jump.

Friday the 13th - Episode 018 That Never Happened

Friday the 13th as you are aware is well known to be a very unlucky day. They even made a couple of movies about it. Up until last week I have never believed in that bunch of junk. To help you understand what I am talking about let me give you a little recap.

017 - No Door

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Josh (knuckleheadTech)http://twitter.com/knuckleheadtech

Bruce Patterson - Distrowatch weekly podcast, Juiced Penguin, the Bruin Report podcast   brucen3t.blogspot.com

Droid Second Opinions

Hmmm, i just have to say wow I can do anything from youtube, ustream and vimeo to irc, cool virtual hid with data overlay and even stream video with a ustream streaming app

DroidX First Impressions

I like it.

Quicker charge then old feature phone

Love the huge screen And oh am i loving AppBrain www.appbrain.com/user/doortodoorgeek

Oh yea, and making this post from a Drupal app on it

BIND - DNS

BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Daemon)
the tried and true DNS (Domain Name Server).

Recently, I visited a number of very SLOW loading websites
and after some investigation, determined that the advertisments
were causing the delay, so today I decided to "resolve" (Ha! Ha!)
the slow loading advertisements problem.

After reading a few tutorials, I decided to install a local
caching DNS internally on my network, that way I could BLOCK those
pesky ads.

First I installed BIND

016 - FrostBite, InfoLookup, xkill

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