And I am using gOS’ version of Gparted to partition the hard drive on which I will eventually install gOS. I haven’t yet used the Gparted from a Ubuntu-derived live CD, since I have Puppy for that purpose. But since the version of Gparted on the last few versions of Puppy Linux have taken up [...]
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After my less-than-successful forays into BSD, I’ve come to the conclusion that before installing, configuring and working with a BSD distro — whether it be FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and even DesktopBSD and PC-BSD — it pays to read up on in.
With Linux, you can fake it easier. Most Linux distros ship with everything you need, [...]
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I’ve had trouble with Slackware 12 and the $0 Laptop (Gateway Solo 1450). Something happens when services load that prevent it from running. I’ll have to take a much closer look, but I’m ready to try Slackware 11 just to see if that makes a difference.
I see in the Slackware security page that patches are [...]
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After not being in love with Debian Etch under KDE, I wanted to boot into Slackware to see if it was just me.
It’s not just me.
Since I never ran Debian with KDE before (nor had I run Slackware 12 in GNOME, with such an install being way beyond my capability at this time), I was [...]
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I’m a sucker for a Linux or BSD distro with a live CD. Even if you can’t do an install directly from the disc, at least you can figure out whether the damn thing will boot and how your hardware will react when it does.
One of my favorites, ZenWalk, just released Zenwalk 4.8 Live. [...]
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I know … Debian Etch is old news, but I wasn’t about to let my first Debian KDE install go quietly into the night:
I thought it was time to add KDE to my Debian Etch install. So I went to Debian’s KDE maintainer page and found the easy instructions. What they didn’t tell me [...]
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Now that I’m religiously checking CPU temperature on the $0 Laptop (the Gateway Solo 1450) and found out that Knoppix 5.1.1 runs cooler (about 50 to 55 C) than Ubuntu (55-65 C) in preliminary tests, I thought I’d test Debian Etch. Temps for Etch are the same as Knoppix, which follows, since Knoppix is based [...]
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I don’t know the first thing about making a WordPress blog look as good as All About Ubuntu, but I’d sure like to learn.
The RSS feeds and tag cloud on the side I could probably do. The theme Digg 3 looks good enough that I just might use it here. I don’t know how he [...]
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The ability to import posts and comments from other blogs is what sets WordPress apart from Blogger
But does it get images, too?
The ability to bring in all my old Blogger posts … and maybe my Movable Type ones, too, would be huge.
I’ll check into the images situation.
You can also export a WordPress blog as XML. [...]
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I finally did get my fan under control in Puppy Linux. It involved modprobe commands for both the fan and thermal modules (I configured them to start on boot) and getting a cron job running to check CPU temperature at 5-minute intervals and turn the fan on or off depending on temperature.
I’m working on writing [...]
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