After flirting with tech from 1989 onwards, Sam Varghese began to experiment with Linux in 1998. A couple of years later, he began using the Debian distribution as a single-boot system for his personal use. From that point onwards his interest grew and he has since written widely about free and open source software, with a great deal of his writings based on his own experiences, rather than anecdotal evidence. Open Sauce will focus on a genre of software that is present everywhere but rarely acknowledged; a genre that has little eye-candy but does most of the heavy lifting; a genre that is designed and written by people whose accomplishments are only occasionally recognised. Above all this blog will follow the KISS principle - Keep It Simple, Stupid.

Automatix lands a Linux user in trouble by Sam Varghese    Tuesday, 20 November 2007 There are times, even at my age, when I feel like going out on the road and kicking the first dog that passes by. The last two days have been like that - I feel as though I've really lost something.

Ubuntu: first stop on the road to Damascus by Sam Varghese    Friday, 16 November 2007 In nearly 10 years of experimenting with, and, later, using Linux, I have never been presented with a situation where someone actually asked me to preside over their initial foray into the use of the open source operating system on a regular basis.   Fedora 8: out of range by Sam Varghese    Tuesday, 13 November 2007 One of the most curious things about Linux distributions is the markedly different way in which one or the other behaves when it comes to installation. This has been brought home to me over the past week as I've been trying to get a Fedora 8 installation sorted out.   linux.conf.au: Bid to bring distros together by Sam Varghese    Friday, 09 November 2007 Distribution wars are common among Linux users - the assertion by those who use one distribution that what they use is superior to another distribution. The old mine-is-better-than-yours-routine. Never mind that most distributions feature more or less the same applications, each group of users appears to think that their distribution is the one that actually makes the cut.   Are Linux users really a feral bunch? by Sam Varghese    Tuesday, 06 November 2007 It is not uncommon for those who write about Linux or other FOSS software to be inundated with feedback from users. At times that feedback is a bit unbalanced, a trifle raw and, occasionally, plain silly.   linux.conf.au: Getting the smalltalk on the road by Sam Varghese    Friday, 02 November 2007 Every year (bar one) since 1999, around 800 people have got together on an annual basis to discuss an operating system that was for a long time deemed to be on the fringes. These days that description does not apply, but the gathering is still as informal as that inaugural session during the tech boom.   Miguel's delusions of grandeur by Sam Varghese    Tuesday, 30 October 2007 What is Miguel de Icaza's latest game? His obsession with tailgating everything that Microsoft develops - and trying to impress the company by producing Linux equivalents - now seems to be spreading to others as well.   Red Hat: time to come into the 21st century by Sam Varghese    Friday, 26 October 2007 Just yesterday morning I was admiring the features of Fedora Core 5 on an iBook at the home of a man who is in many ways my Linux guru. He has the distribution running on various computers all made by Apple and I was quite impressed with what the developers have managed to achieve.   Ubuntu: where to from here? by Sam Varghese    Tuesday, 23 October 2007 In business, as in many other things in life, it is relatively easy to plan for failure. I guess we all do it in some small way, one of the most common being the way people back up their digital personal files to guard against hardware failure or file corruption. But how does one plan for success?   The patent wars have begun by Sam Varghese    Friday, 19 October 2007 When Steve Ballmer blurted out on October 9 that Linux was violating patents held by Microsoft and specifically named Red Hat, it was an indicator that the next phase in the campaign of harassment and extortion of companies dealing in free and open source software was about to begin.   Mandriva 2008: keeping the faith by Sam Varghese    Tuesday, 16 October 2007 Linux users - you've just got to love them. Utter anything close to an adverse comment about the Linux distributions they use and boy, do they hit you with a lot of verbal insults. Say a few nice things about the same distribution and you become number one on their list of "people who make this earth a worthwhile place in which to live."   openSUSE 10.3: why did Novell ever bother? by Sam Varghese    Friday, 12 October 2007 Linux users don't accept criticism of their chosen distribution easily - that's probably why a number of reactions to my last piece about openSUSE tended to be somewhat short of making a point.   openSUSE 10.3: one step forward, two steps back by Sam Varghese    Tuesday, 09 October 2007 These days when you download a Linux distribution and burn it to CD, you would expect that it would not take too much of an effort to have a look at it. Unless, of course, it's one of three distributions which are aimed at so-called geeks - Gentoo, Debian and Slackware.

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