Caitlyn Martin
Caitlyn Martin is a Linux/Unix and information security consultant based near Raleigh, North Carolina. She has 30 years of professional experience in Information Technology. Caitlyn was introduced to Red Hat Linux in 1995 and has been using Linux professionally since 1998, during which time she has served as a systems administrator, security analyst, programmer/analyst, and network engineer. She also does freelance writing on Free and Open Source software, primarily Linux, and related technologies. She is currently heavily involved in the Linux Yarok project as a developer.
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- The Russians Are Coming: A First Look At Rosa 2012 Marathon, May 21 2012
- Linux Hardware Support Myths and Legends, May 10 2012
- The New Desktop Paradigm: Blame the Success of Linux on the Desktop, April 26 2012
- Solving Display Problems With Some NVIDIA Chipsets After Installing Slackware 13.37 or SalixOS 13.37, April 05 2012
- Helios Project Director Felled By Stroke; Linux Community Support Sought, June 14 2011
- Adobe: 64-bit Flash Player Later This Year, June 09 2011
- On Virtualization and The Cloud: The Most Ridiculous Article I've Read in a Very Long Time, June 08 2011
- One Year Later: Adobe Abandons 64-bit Linux Again, June 07 2011
- A Good Technical Recruiter Is Worth Their Weight In Gold, March 05 2011
- Getting Drupal and mod_security to Play Nicely Together on Red Hat 5.x Servers, November 03 2010
- Loss Leaders and Linux, September 28 2010
- Controlling Interest in Mandriva Sold To Russian Firm; Former Developers Fork Distribution, September 20 2010
- Debunking the 1% Myth, September 07 2010
- Are You Intimidated By Breakfast Cereal?, September 04 2010
- Gnash 0.8.8: A Huge Improvement Over Previous Versions, August 27 2010
- Mandriva Saved By New Investors, June 22 2010
- Running 64-bit Linux? No Flash For You!, June 18 2010
- Avoiding Linux Installation Problems on the HP Mini 110 and Mini 210 Netbooks, June 13 2010
- This Takes The Cake: Sam Varghese of IT Wire Goes On The Offensive Again, April 15 2010
- How Canonical Can Do Ubuntu Right: It Isn't a Technical Problem, April 11 2010
- Ubuntu Is A Poor Standard Bearer For Linux, April 10 2010
- Linux Regaining Netbook Market Share, December 05 2009
- The Problem With The Linux Community, November 20 2009
- Linux Netbooks: They're Still Out There, October 23 2009
- The Day The Netbook Died, October 07 2009
- Report: Facebook A Haven For Hate Groups, September 18 2009
- The Future of CentOS and Criteria For Choosing a Business Distribution, August 06 2009
- Low End Linux Netbook Prices Continue To Drop, June 29 2009
- High Netbook Return Rate? Windows Is the Problem, June 09 2009
- The MIPS Processor and the $150 Linux Netbook, May 29 2009
- Linux To Regain 50% Netbook Market Share, May 21 2009
- A Linux Netbook Done The Right Way: the Sylvania g Netbook Meso, April 01 2009
- Linux Performance: Different Distributions, Very Different Results, March 09 2009
- Improved Linux Screen Space Management With PekWM, March 07 2009
- VL-Hot: A Non-polling Alternative To HAL, February 21 2009
- Netbook Nightmare: My Experience With the Sylvania g Netbook, February 13 2009
- Making Slackware and Slackware Derivative Linux Distros Speak Your Language, January 29 2009
- MadTux Closes Its Doors, January 01 2009
- Vector Linux SOHO Is Free Again, September 28 2008
- Finding Linux Systems Where They Never Were Found Before, September 10 2008
- Vector Linux Partners With SQI To Provide Support Infrastructure, September 09 2008
- Vector Linux SOHO 5.9 Deluxe -- Not Just For The Office, September 04 2008
- Linus Torvalds on Linux Distributions, August 14 2008
- Slackware 12.1 - The Newest Version of the Oldest Surviving Linux Distribution, August 14 2008
- Linux vs. Windows Metrics -- Nothing Is Quite What It Seems To Be, May 01 2008
- Is Linux Really Outgrowing Its Stereotypes? Does It Matter?, April 22 2008
- Taking A Good Long Look At Vector Linux 5.9 Standard, March 25 2008
- Where Did the Courier and Helvetica Fonts Go?, February 10 2008
- Supporting The Latest and Greatest; Supporting the Oldest and Slowest, January 26 2008
- AliXe 0.11b -- Linux Bilingue Québecois, January 02 2008
- Is Freespire Really Free?, November 11 2007
- How Can Linux Market Share Be Accurately Measured?, October 26 2007
- A Death Threat From A Puppy Linux Supporter, October 08 2007
- Linux Journal's Offensive Sexist Content: The Whole Story, October 02 2007
- Why I Haven't Reviewed Puppy Linux, September 24 2007
- Vector Linux 5.9-Pseudo64-0.1 -- Finally, 64-bit Vector, September 11 2007
- "No, I Need Mr. Caitlyn", September 01 2007
- The End of a Gutsy Experiment, August 28 2007
- Wolvix 1.1.0 - A Very Flexible Animal, August 22 2007
- The Year Of The Small Distro, August 10 2007
- The 64-Bit Experience With Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, August 07 2007
- Vector Linux 5.8.6rc1 Released, August 03 2007
- The $139 Linux PC, August 02 2007
- Desktop Backgrounds For Minimalist Window Managers Revisited, August 01 2007
- Linux Kernel Performance Improvements, July 26 2007
- KDE Built For Speed -- Vector Linux 5.8 SOHO, June 25 2007
- Linus' Take On Sun, OpenSolaris, and GPL v3, June 13 2007
- GNOME 2.18 for Vector Linux 5.8, May 29 2007
- Xubuntu Gets Feisty, May 25 2007
- A PC Shortwave Radio and Linux, May 02 2007
- Where Fedora Went Wrong, March 22 2007
- Giving Back, March 14 2007
- Where Open Source Developers Shine, March 03 2007
- Performing Brain Surgery On Yourself, February 06 2007
- Adding a Background Image To a Basic Window Manager, February 02 2007
- Xfce 4.4.0 Released, January 23 2007
- So Many Distros, So Little Time, January 16 2007
- Atticware Updates: More Memory, Updated Instructions, January 05 2007
- New Release of a Cool Canadian Distro: Vector Linux 5.8, January 05 2007
- How To Crash and Break Xfce4 In Xubuntu Edgy, December 29 2006
- Xubuntu Gets Edgy, December 13 2006
- Hero Applications, December 09 2006
- Why the New Update of SIAG is Important, December 05 2006
- Ahmadenijad Blog Contains A Little Surprise For Israeli Readers Using Windows and Internet Explorer, August 14 2006
- Why Is Firefox For Linux So Terribly Broken?, August 05 2006
- A Fully Licensed, DMCA Compliant DVD Player For Linux, July 13 2006
- Atticware Revisited: Step-By-Step Instructions For Installing A Current Linux Distro On A Very Small, Very Old Laptop, July 03 2006
- Meet The Newest Member of the Ubuntu Family: Introducing Xubuntu, June 17 2006
- The New rpm Hell -or- Why yum and pup Seem To Be So Broken In Fedora, June 06 2006
- A Rebuttal To Mark Golden's Wall Street Journal Article, May 20 2006
- Taking a Linus-like Attitude Towards Gnome, May 15 2006
- Atticware: Reviving Ancient Little Laptops, May 02 2006
- First Impressions: Fedora Core 5, April 18 2006
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