Open Source Chicken and Egg
My wife’s aunt’s computer was always getting full of viruses. I’d spend a few hours every time I came to visit removing the viruses and get the computer back to a working state. Sounds like the...
View ArticleUbuntu 8.10 launches today!
Unless something went wrong between when I’m writing this post at 2324 on 29 Oct and tomorrow when it’s scheduled to launch, Congrats to the Canonical and the Ubuntu Release team on Ubuntu 8.10. The...
View ArticleInstalling and Running Warcraft III via Wine
First I updated Wine to 1.0.0 (It didn’t work properly on 0.94) on Ubuntu. In there I have D as the CDROM drive. So I typed wine d:\install.exe This installed just fine Here’s what happened with 0.94...
View ArticleUbuntu 8.10 does away with xorg.conf
One of the biggest Ubuntu stories on the net is the elimination of xorg.conf. They haven’t made it unnecessary, they’ve completely eliminated it. If you create one and edit it – it will have no...
View ArticleReview: Linux Mint 6
The latest LXF magazine arrived with Linux Mint 6, Slackware 12.2, and openSuse 11.1. I was originally going to review openSuse, but I have been unable to successfully boot either into VirtualBox or...
View ArticleReview: Ubuntu 9.04
This is going to be the first time I look at a fresh install of Ubuntu in a long while. I first installed Ubuntu quite a while ago and then I just kept distro upgrading from there on. Then I...
View ArticleReview: Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit
Ubuntu 9.10 liveCD boots up I last looked at Ubuntu 9.04 a little over six months ago. So I decided it was time to see what has changed. Since I’m now testing on a 64-bit machine, I decided to test...
View ArticleKDE: Strength in Abstraction
I have not yet tried out Gnome Shell or Ubuntu Unity, but the biggest complaint most people level against them is that our desktops are being tablet-ified. Sure, there need to be new, innovative...
View ArticleUbuntu to the Rescue: A Tale of Broadcom Wifi Drivers, Prerelease Software,...
note: I wrote this on 17 April, a full week before it is published on the blog Acer Aspire One - out of the box Nearly six years ago I bought my first laptop. I’d never seen the point of laptops over...
View ArticleWatching Netflix on Kubuntu
A little while ago I wrote about watching Netflix on Fedora 20. Also works on the latest Kubuntu with the latest updates installed. Also, at least with Kubuntu, I didn’t need to modify the user agent....
View ArticleUpdated to KDE 5
On the guest computer I updated to Kubuntu Vivid Alpha so I could check out KDE 5. Looks awesome – lots of polish over KDE 4. Sad that I’ll lose my current settings, but a chance to recreate with a new...
View ArticleChecking out k3s and Ubuntu Server 2020.04 Part 1
As I’ve been working on learning server tech, I’ve gone from virtualization to Docker containers and now Podman containers and Podman pods. The pod in Podman comes from a view towards Kubernetes. I...
View ArticleChecking out k3s and Ubuntu Server 2020.04 Part 2
Clearly there’s a lot I don’t get about Kubernetes and I didn’t install a GUI in that VM so I can’t use the dashboard (which can only be viewed at localhost – or so the instructions seem to indicate)...
View ArticleUbuntu 2020.04’s Server Install
As I mentioned in my k3s on Ubuntu 2020.04 post, I really thought that Ubuntu 2020.04’s server install was prety slick. I’m used to text-only server installs looking like this: Arch Linux Installation...
View ArticleChanging the Acer Aspire One OS again
As you know, I had CentOS 7 on the Acer Aspire and it was working fine. After CentOS 8 came out, I went ahead and installed it there. It worked fine, but there aren’t as many packages in EPEL for...
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