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Today has been a bad “IT maintenance” day at home. There were a few things I’ve been meaning to do for some time. But knowing there’s always the risk of something going wrong, I’ve been putting it ...
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From the get go, I was not impressed with the Ubuntu Edge, the new smartphone from Ubuntu that will dual boot Android and, no prizes for guessing, Ubuntu Linux. The smartphone pie is mostly made up of Android and iOS, with ...
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PC hardware virtualization is getting quite common place nowadays. There was a time when this was something done on server environments and by computer techies, but these days, end-users with desktops and notebooks are equally ...
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I’m almost surprised that I am still struggling to figure out the complexities of Linux. After all, I’ve been using Linux since the days of the Yggdrasil distribution, something that most Linux fans have probably not ...
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I’ve always been wary of upgrading any Linux box. Something usually breaks. So although it would be nice to have the latest software, in recent years I have never been too eager to be the first. I suppose I’ve lost ...
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From time to time, when I try to pretend to be a noob user, I find myself having to complain about Linux. The user experience, in my opinion, is just not there yet. Over a decade ago, when I was interviewed about whether Linux ...
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Then, after installing Gentoo Linux yesterday, today I had a go at Ubuntu. This time, instead of a spare PC, I installed it in a virtual machine in my MacBook Pro. I know, this is hardly a fair comparison, but let’s just ...
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So, the inevitable question came when I had to re-install Linux on my PC. The PC isn’t new, but I got a new hard disk, and my old Fedora 7 was too old that the current latest Fedora 12 wouldn’t detect as a ...
