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An article over at Linux.com on Debian 4 (Etch) got me interested to try it out. Since then, I’ve installed it a hand-full of times and have converted a few friends, too. I have read many articles by impressed bloggers about Debian Etch’s impressive features, and I have been impressed by my first hand impressions. [...]

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It’s just how i roll.
Update:
So I thought this would just be a lighthearted post but it is actually quite popular; now i feel like an ass for not explaining and just sticking out my tongue saying: i got it you don’t shut up.
What it is is a x window tunneled over ssh using putty and [...]

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I like gmail and I like Konqueror but the latter is not “supported” by the former. And let’s face it, the plain html version of gmail is worthless. To get the full functioning gmail in an unsupported browser like Konqueror, use this url:
http://mail.google.com/mail/?nocheckbrowser
yeah, it’s buggy, but it’s fun to play with.
Also try out gmail in [...]

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On my set up, Kubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft works. All it took was a: sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop (i chose to use gdm).
Still no luck with bluetooth. Codecs are still a bit of problem (big surprise, right?) since there are no win32codecs in the repos. As Edgy Eft becomes less and less beta, I have [...]

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Success is so sweet when followed by anxiety. Linux is up and running on the iMac making my lan completely linux. Here’s what I did:
First I tried an install of Suse 10.1 (open). I was a little disapointed to see it was 5 disks — I admire a distro that gets it done in [...]

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I own an original iMac G5 17″ that I have designated as my production/desktop machine. I’ve been running panther on it for the last two years…until today that is. Since I began using Linux seriously, I have become more and more frustrated by the limitations of OS X. I made attempts at using Fink (package [...]

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The development continues. I have the virtual servers set up on Apache2. I’m not sure what problems I was having with them. One thing to look out for when doing this set up while using ZoneEdit is that even when you reload apache after making configuration changes, it may change instantly or it may take [...]

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A lot of progress has been made since the last update almost a month ago.

The iMac (Ayn) hasn’t had any changes. When I’m at home it is my main interface with the PII server via SSH and a Browser
I broke XGL/Compiz on the, Celeron (Cate). The packages updated and I decided to experiment with different [...]

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I live in a studio appartment with a plant and 3 computers:

iMac G5 first generation, 1Gb ram , 80Gb disk, 17″ display, OSX 10.3 Panther

I use this box as my desktop workstation, which is silly consider the display is gorgeous
Plans for this box? possibly dual boot kubuntu with xgl/compiz…delishious

Celeron D 2.96GHz, 1Gb Ram, GeForce 5200, [...]

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I use a Rio600 to listen to podcasts on my commute. I’ve been having trouble connecting to it on my new dapper system, so I’m going to Kio-Slave this weekend and see how it goes. i’m pretty sure rioutil was complaining about an updated libusb and needs the older version. i’d like to soft link [...]

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