October 27, 2008
In this post I will document my playing arround with mapserver. I’ll do my best to update this as best I can, but consider this as on ‘under construction status’…
Debian Lenny comes with version 5 of mapserver, so in order to install it you just need to type in the terminal as root:
apt-get install cgi-mapserver mapserver-bin mapserver-doc php-mapscript python-mapscript.
If you don’t have apache2 running and configured than you should also install apache2.
In debian cgi-scripts are install by default to /usr/lib/cgi-bin but are linked to /cgi-bin in the default install of apache2 in debian.
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I sometimes wonder how come most of the computer users around the world live in democracy, yet when it comes to who governs their data and privacy they like living in dictatorship.
Most users cling to their silly microsoft computers. They will buy Vista even though they heard it’s bad. A few of my friends really despise Vista, but they won’t even consider an alternative. Why ? Because Microsoft is the king. For them a computer is Microsoft. And they wait for the king to release a better service pack or what ever. (more…)
October 13, 2008
Personally I don’t really favor the K Desktop Environment, but I do happen to use a lot of the application it provides. I actually did decide to give a try to the new KDE, in Debian, version 4.
So I added the repositories of the Debian KDE team, and install was a breeze. The first thing I wanted to check if rumors are true: that KDE4 is lighter. So I switch the default Log-in manager to KDM, and restarted the computer.
Here are my first observations regarding memory usage of KDE4: (more…)
October 9, 2008
In the previous part of this long inventory post, I’ve finished with Debian Etch. After a year and a half of distro hoping, I’ve decided that I’m experienced enough to try the new Debian Etch. I’ve already had an experience with the Ubuntu alternate installer, and I knew more or less what I was doing.
But back then, if you read something about Debian, the constant theme was that Debian is hard and only for advanced users. But hey, there’s Etch. It had a new shiny fancy graphical installer. So I downloaded the CD, burned it and started the install.
Being young and sometimes impatient I started the install with out reading the help options. (more…)
August 22, 2008
The marker Israel publishes a translated article from IDG were they mention that Microsoft has about 2000 people working on the next generation of Windows, 500 hundred people are in charge of the 2000 developers. And my guess is that Microsoft will have triple the amount of people selling (or trying to sell that operating system).
Debian has about 1000 developers, but much much more contributors, who test, integrated and propose improvements. And that’s just the number of people who actually work on the Debian project itself. Debian comes with about 18,000 software packages, which are developed by people outside of Debian project. The number of Kernel developers is about the same today (~1000), and let’s be humble about the number of people developing all the other programs used in Debian and say that only one person is writing each program. That brings us to about at least 15,000 people who contribute code, time ideas and effort to Debian.
No wonder Debian is so great. Eventually open source will win, you guys in Redmond have to understand: there is no future for propriety software…
July 4, 2008
The BBC publishes an important article by Richard Stallman. I felt this is so important and true it has to be copied an published here fully:
To pay so much attention to Bill Gates’ retirement is missing the point. What really matters is not Gates, nor Microsoft, but the unethical system of restrictions that Microsoft, like many other software companies, imposes on its customers.
That statement may surprise you, since most people interested in computers have strong feelings about Microsoft. Businessmen and their tame politicians admire its success in building an empire over so many computer users.
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