About two days ago I installed CrunchBang Linux and I am pretty much amazed. I haven’t really investigated why yet, but it runs SO fast. By that I mean considerably faster than anything else I’ve tried on this computer.
CrunchBang has conky running by default, which is a nice touch and also means that I can [...]
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So I’ve been using Slackware for about a week now… As I approach the end of week two I have to admit that I’m not all that satisfied with progress on this experiment.
Slackware is definately faster than Ubuntu was. Though the same could be said for Fedora 10. I now know that to make the [...]
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I have set myself the challenge of making my laptop work better. I’m off of work for 3 weeks and so that is my time limit… I figured that if it’s not completely usable in 3 weeks time then I’ll just put Fedora 10 back on it and wait for things to improve over time.
I [...]
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For someone who in the past has wasted a lot of time hopping between different GNU/Linux distributions in the past I now have to think of a number of reasons before changing again, just so that I know I’m not just slipping into old habits.
Buying a brand new laptop can be a fairly problematic process [...]
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This week my boredom has lead me to install Linux on a flash drive.
Generally speaking this should be a fairly straight forward process. I thought I’d try it out because I was playing with Puppy Linux on qemu and found that it is in an option on their installer. Unfortunately for a reason unknown to [...]
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I kinda neglected to mention on here that I’ve been using Slackware 12.1 recently. Actually…since it was released. At first my intention was to install it on a separate partition from Archlinux and dual boot; I even considered leaving one of them as a “free” distro and the other with “non-free” packages installed but the [...]
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This post is intended to outline a brief history of ny use of Linux Distributions so you know my experience in that field.
Jan 2003: Red Hat 9
It didn’t take me long to break this… I [...]
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