Linux

I know it’s a bad thing to say, and I’ve talked about it before, but Debian Linux seems to be far to slow getting software to their users. Example… GNOME has a six month release cycle, and yesterday they released GNOME 2.8. That means that six months ago (about) they released GNOME 2.6. I saw […]

Very cool…. this is a bit old but someone wrote a system where you could use your GMail webmail accounts (still some available, email me or post a message if you want one of the 6 I still have) as a remote filesystem for Linux. GmailFS allows standard UNIX file operations (read, write, symlink, etc)

Thanks to some howtos and just doing it I am now running X.org‘s XFree86 replacement X Window system. It was pretty simple, even though I did post a howto link on Ufies.org. Basically just removed my old XFree install (“emerge -C xfree“) and installed the new X.org in it’s place (“emerge xorg-x11“), restarted and there

Finally won my fight with user mode linux from a while back. I got a reply to my query to the mailing list saying to check for NPTL support. Well, turns out one of the things in gentoo that I set up was a USE flag of “nptl”, which built it into libc. Edit /etc/make.conf,

Did a bit of remodeling desktop wise last night and figured I’d post a screenshot this morning. I thought about this a lot last night apparently because I even dreamt about it. I don’t remember the dream exactly, but I know it involved taking a screenshot. So anyway, here it is: [ 1024×384 (71k) |

Looks like Daniel Robbins of Gentoo fame accumulated quite a bit of debt in his role of chief architect of the Gentoo project. Gentoo users are helping out with donations by clicking the big donate button on the top right and buying things from the gentoo store. I’m going to pick myself up a couple

Havoc has some good thoughts on the Linux vs. Longhorn idea. The thing is, the platform needs developers. Right now there are a ton of excellent developers out there creating nifty GNOME apps, and (IMHO) they have an advantage because everything is open and there is a distinct attitude that if something needs to be

On Saturday, at the start of a very busy weekend, which ended with running 10km, I headed down to bellingham to the Linux Northwest linux show. Not horribly bad, a bit of driving that day though. to poco to pick up Yohimbe through the truck crossing down to the show back up, missed the truck

Since I installed GNOME 2.6 a few days back (the day it was released actually) I’ve been using it and playing with it. Most of it is good, fast, slick and sleek. Even the spatial browsing, which I wasn’t too keen on when I first tried it, is growing on me. It’s the biggest point

Yup, looks like Gentoo is one of the first with a release, kinda. You have to comment out the “big ass gnome 2.6 mask” in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask, but other than that, updating to the latest GNOME release is as easy as ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge gnome (the gnome 2.6_r5 package is actually the final release). That and through