Since Go2linux was born some years ago, has been hosted in four or five different places, it started in my office in a VMWare virtual machine with Debian Edge, then I moved it to shared web servers, but more or less six months ago, I have moved it to Linode.com, and what is Linode? well it stand from Linux node.

There are a lot of wireless manager software available for Linux, some of the most common ones are:

NetworkManager, which is the default for Ubuntu
KwifiManager, which is the KDE's default one

I used to use wifi-radar, but now I am using wicd.

That title, makes all of you fellow Linux users want to know why would someone may want to go back to Windows, right? It is because we (Linux users) have discovered freedom, and not only freedom to change it, or freedom to use it, but also the "living free of system halting", the "living free of viruses", the "living free of having to format the hard drive and reinstall from time to time", so, it is hard for us to believe that someone may want to forget about this, and go back to Windows.

Few days ago, Blair Mathis has written a post about eight rocking Linux Distros, I think is a great post, and covers almost all categories (If we can use that word) of Linux Distros.

The post has:

Full Desktops, like:

Ubuntu, based on Debian
Sabayon, based on Gentoo
PCLinuxOS, based on Mandriva

First a small introduction about wicd for those who are not familiar with it, it is a deamon/client application that manage your networks connections, more or less like Networkmanager which is the default in Ubuntu, I was using wifi-radar untill I discovered wicd reading the ArchLinux wiki, well now lets go to the problem I got while running it on Debian and how I solve it.

I was making a backup today and this message appeared, after .tar.gz the directory

File shrank by 2014298112 bytes; padding with zeros

Bootchart is a tool that collects data from the PC at boot time, basically it shows a graph where you can see what was happening with CPU and Disk during the boot process of the PC.

It is more a tool to find where to optimize the GNU / Linux operating system boot process, as it shows when the disk or the CPU is idle, and thus wasting time, that can be gained in order to have a faster boot.

It also shows the process that run in that time and the resources them use.

From its homepage, we get this info about bootchart

I have found a good picture that ilustrate the main components of the Linux Operating System. (GNU Linux)

The source of the image is here

And it is licenced under Creative Commons