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The Open Sourcerer
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The Open Sourcerer is a personal blog at theopensourcerer.com about programming and politics. Since 2008, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-04-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for practical Ubuntu how-to posts, such as running Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) in VirtualBox. The only comment gives a tip for enabling Unity in a VirtualBox guest and links the post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
If you can enable 3D acceleration in virtual box, installing virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 enables Unity [1]. [1]: http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2011/04/21/ubuntu-natty-in-v...
Comment linking /2011/04/21/ubuntu-natty-in-virtualbox-with-unity/
on “Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal)”Submitted Getting your Microsoft Tax Refunded as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted OOXML (DIS29500) Result: Approved as a story · 1 points
HN discussion