Gentoo

Shane Hathaway on April 9th, 2009

Ubuntu 9.04 is now in beta and I’m tempted to upgrade. I want to help test it. I even started “update-manager-kde -d”, but it warned me that since the new version is not yet fully tested, it could make my computer unstable, release a new strain of computer virus, kill babies, and reinstate Bush Junior [...]

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Shane Hathaway on October 22nd, 2008

I never noticed before that if I open a Konqueror window, point it at an SFTP location, navigate to an image, and right click to open that image using GIMP, that GIMP retrieves from the SFTP URL directly.  When I save that image, GIMP saves it directly to the server.  Sweet!  That means I can [...]

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Shane Hathaway on October 5th, 2008

Ubuntu is what I install on nearly every server and everyone else’s personal computer, but for my own desktop and a few select servers, Gentoo is still the winner. Binary distributions release a set of packages that have been tested together, which is an excellent service to users.  In the open source world, every part [...]

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