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

Debian Migration

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

Debian GNU/Linux on a Toshiba Portégé 7200CT

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

Linux praise

Originally created on 9/14/2000 The roots I don’t think I’d deserve to be called a “Linux-head,” even though I am fascinated by this OS. Frankly, I like FreeBSD as well, and very much so. It’s just that at this point of time I know the Tux world better than that of the [name of BSD … Read more