Author Archives: Chris Jones

About Chris Jones

Chris Jones is a Staff Writer and the Editor of Unixmen.com. He is a long time Linux user, tracing all the way back to SUSE Linux 8.0 from the early 2000's. Chris has worked for many different FOSS Projects and has founded many of his own in recent times, including several Linux distributions, programming languages and FOSS Licenses. chrisjones@unixmen.com

XStreamOS: An Illumos Kernel based Operating System

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in interviews, Linux distributions, News, Releases, Software

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Being a Technical Writer involves a lot of reading and research of new and emerging technologies. And one project that recently came to my attention through my email inbox was an Illumos kernel based Unix operating system called XStreamOS.

Ubuntu 12.10 ‘Quantal Quetzal’: Beta 2 Sneak Peek

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in Linux distributions, News, Software, Ubuntu

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Ubuntu 12.10 ‘Quantal Quetzal’ is due for release in approximately one week. But before we start preparing a full review of the new version, we thought we’d give Unixmen readers a small preview of what we should all expect from … Continue reading

Ubuntu: Breaking the Industry Barriers

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in Linux distributions, News, opensource, Software, Ubuntu

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Canonical has come under some heavy criticism in the past couple of weeks with its controversial decision to include Amazon shopping results in the Ubuntu Dash search results. I have to admit, when I first read of the news I … Continue reading

How to Secure Your System

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in Software

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The world of computing and the internet is a very normal and accepted entity to most geeks. But to some unknown, unsuspecting and unfamiliar users, the whole concept can seem quite strange, almost alien!

Google Patents Object Tagging Software

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in News, Software

While I know it’s not Unix or Linux news, I thought this was pretty interesting. Google has applied for a patent on software that can identify and tag any object(s) in an image uploaded by any internet user.

Oracle Linux Pavilion at Oracle OpenWorld 2012

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in News, Software

There has been demand for Oracle to reinstate the Oracle Linux Pavilion at the Oracle OpenWorld 2012 convention. Oracle is stating that the booth will include Independent Software Vendors, Hardware Vendors and System Integrators. All of which will display their … Continue reading

SolusOS Eveline 1.2 Review

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in Linux distributions, Reviews

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After recently installing the Debian based edition of Linux Mint operating system on my home office desktop, I decided to take a look at another Debian based Linux distribution, SolusOS.

Open-Source Software Licenses

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in News, opensource, programming, Software

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To some people’s surprise, even open-source software has a license attached to it. And with that license comes a description and agreement for what can and can’t be done with the source code of any particular product or service. What … Continue reading

Exclusive Interview | Alasdair Lumsden

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in interviews, News

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At Unixmen, we were lucky enough to score an exclusive interview with former Project Leader of the OpenIndiana, Alasdair Lumsden. Since Alasdair’s resignation, it has not only sparked discussion on the reasons of Alasdair’s resignation from OpenIndiana, but also generated … Continue reading

OpenIndiana Project Leader Resigns

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in News, Software

On August 28, the Project Leader and Founder of OpenIndiana, Alasdair Lumsden, resigned from his position effective immediately. OpenIndiana was the fork of which was originally OpenSolaris. When Oracle announced to sudden death of OpenSolaris, post their acquisition of former … Continue reading