Just updated the blog to WordPress 1.5 from 1.2 and I quite like the default theme I might be sticking with it for a while yet. Anyway time to go upgrade Warty to Hoary (Ubuntu Linux)
Posts tagged Linux
Marked Up Code?
Wow look at that I haven’t posted in almost one whole month :mrgreen:. O yeah I have been on holidays from work for 3 weeks…. That would be it…. Nothing like camping in the middle of no where (Cumberland River) for a week to ween you off the Internet and blogging….. Anyway on to the [...]
How long can an install take?
After my success with installing Ubuntu on my Desktop system last week I installed it on my old Laptop as well this weekend. Bad idea The laptop 400 Celeron with 192mb ram was running Fedora RC 2 so not too old and running at an acceptable rate :). So upgrading shouldn’t hurt it too much [...]
I do Ubuntu
Not long back(July 2004) I told a story of my love for Gentoo Linux. However I must confess this is now over my wondering has continued and last Monday night (18 Oct) I installed yet another distribution over Gentoo. I went out and installed Ubuntu Linux in it’s pre-release 4.10. Yesterday however (21/10/2004) “Warty Warthog” [...]
Open Source Challenge
I challenge all my fellow Linux geeks and other computer users out there to take up the *[Open Source] Challenge*. That is that each one of you try to use Open Source for all your computing. Now I hear you say “I spend most of my computing time at work and I can only use [...]
Longhorn faces another delay
Yet another delay has been announced for the next versoin of windows codenamed Longhorn. Will this give futher chance for Linux to gain a foothold in the Desktop market only time will tell. But by the time it is released in late 2006 we on the current 6 month release schedule we should see Gnome [...]
Why I choose Gentoo
At the start of the year I was a happy Fedora RC1 user… But now I am a very happy Gentoo user. Here I just hope to document the features that made me change distros. Previous Distrobutions Corel Linux 1.0 – My Linux journey started back in 1999 with the release or Corel Linux which [...]
Gaim 0.79
Gaim 0.79 was released today and there is one new feature that all of us MSN users will love. User Icons! The icons come up everywhere: They show up in your buddy list They appear in the chat window And most importantly you can set your own Screenshots For those of you who don’t know [...]
A tale of emerge world
Last night I set out to update my Gentoo system1 using emerge with the simple commands: $ emerge sync $ emerge world This was to be a fairly major upgrade as I was going from Gnome 2.4 to 2.6 which wasn’t anything to be laughed at but onto of this I would be upgrading gcc [...]
