Posts tagged linux
A Blip on My Posts
Hello everyone!
You may have seen a blip swing by in posting on the site with the default WordPress posting “Hello World” displaying as a new post. This was due to my recent migration from Site5 shared hosting to a Linode VPS. During the switchover, the database had not been uploaded yet as I was tweaking the webserver…fee [...]
Installing Openbox on Foresight Linux
My friend Og Maciel originally introduced me to Openbox a while back and I’ve been using it ever since. I love the lightweight feel, the ability to customize and the center around having NO icons on my desktop. I don’t feel cluttered when I work! Today, we’re going to go over installing Openbox with some added tools. Thi [...]
Boxee is Changing the World
Television and Movies shape reality.
Just look at this medium over the past few decades and you’ll always find a TV series or movie that is a glass reflection of what is happening in the real world. Movies and TV have the power to elicit strong emotional responses (i.e. The Notebook_or_insert_another_chick_flick_here) , invoke the ire [...]
Do Package Managers Spoil Us?
I thought of this interesting question the other day while messing around with Slackware 9.0 which was one of the last versions of Slackware to come on a single disk. The goal was to try to take a Slackware 9.0 install to the most recent stable and it was almost accomplished. Glibc was the largest hassle…and I made it to Slackware 11. [...]
Ubuntu Names Their Desktop After Us?
I was quite surprised this morning whilst reading my RSS feeds to discover that Ubuntu has named their most recent ‘lite desktop‘ Unity. Surprised because we have our project, Unity Linux. Strange that both our ‘lightweight distribution and desktop’ and Ubuntu’s ‘lite desktop’ should share a name to [...]
Rethinking Home Servers
Since my first home-built server (a PI 75Mhz behemoth) I’ve used Red Hat based distributions as my home server. This lasted until around 2002-3 when I moved into a 4 bedroom house with 3 of my Air Force buddies and one of them wanted to learn Linux.
I knew from experience in the mid-nineties that Slackware was probably the most Unix-li [...]