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(linux & !debian = bad news), Sun, Solaris is a very nice take at Windows/Linux?Solaris and how Sun should play that game. I wholeheartedly agree with his point about RH and derivatives RPM hell — I remember trying (or facing? or suffering?) it once in the past — that was one of the reason I … Read more

Ther e is an article at PopSci’s site Is This What War Will Come To?, and a related thread on Slashdot. One thing that bothered me while I was reading this article is that while (theoretically) trying to make me (or an abstract reader) feel more secure (sure, with weapons like these, who’d ever consider … Read more

Darwinports have passed 1500 ports mark! I only wish port command could get a bit more sophisticated — more like FreeBSD‘s portupgrade(1)…

Field notes How easy is it to convert one GNU/Linux distribution to the other? Is it at all possible on a live system? Well, it is possible. It has been done. There are ways. It is tricky. It maybe dangerous. No I do not guarantee it will work for you. It may actually not work big time, causing your system to … Read more

This page details my experience of installing, configuring and running GNU/Linux system (Debian 2.2 `Potato’) on a Toshiba Portégé 7200CT laptop. Latest news Hardware Installation Game plan Base system Adding more meat Configuration Kernel modules Sound Modem X-Windows Impression Latest news Wednesday, January 3, 2001 5:28 PM Even better news than before! Thanks to Chris, I’ve … Read more