Gentoo
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]