tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51560409636251322582011-11-27T18:30:13.613-06:00Reaching out to the Linux community, sharing the views on Linux with the world.coastiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14618914114358289267noreply@blogger.comBlogger941100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-896222665454717482011-07-28T12:43:00.000-06:002011-07-28T12:43:01.208-06:00

I have been an enthusiastic user and supporter of the antiX distribution since it became available in 2006. The antiX distribution is a lightweight, flexible alternative to its parent distribution, SimplyMEPIS, which is based on the rock solid Debian Stable technology. As configured when installed, antiX uses the Debian Testing repositories instead of the Debian Stable repositories, and it also

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When you work every day during the week as I am doing now, it is not as easy to find moments to collect thoughts that are worthy to share on a technical blog, and so that is why it has been a week or two between my writings and musings. But I have a break today, so I will take some time to collect a few thoughts about systems that I have been investigating and testing. I have three of them to

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Google frequently tests out new ideas, and quite a few of their ideas have long Beta test cycles. Common wisdom is that these products either aren't ready for market or Google is trying to get others to test them. There is definitely some truth in both of those statements, but these comments need to be explored in more detail. As a case in point, I believe it was approximately 2006 when Google

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Anyone who follows and reads my journal, blogs, for forum posts anywhere on the Internet, including this blog, knows that I have been a big Debian software enthusiast for many years, and that in recent years, I have developed a particular enthusiasm and attachment to two of the MEPIS projects, SimplyMEPIS (for an easy, stable desktop system) and antiX (for a light, extremely flexible,

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LMDE stands for Linux Mint Debian Edition. Xfce, at one time, stood for the XForms Common Environment because the early editions of Xfce used XForms to create a common desktop environment. The Xfce project originally began around the same time as another desktop environment project, KDE, around 1996. Xfce, in its early implementation, was similar to CDE, the Common Desktop Environment that was

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Xfce and KDE are the two desktop environments that I most commonly use, so it is nice when I see distributions that update these environments and keep them close to the most currently available software. In the case of Xfce, Version 4.8 was released near the end of January, so any distribution that offers Xfce really ought to have Version 4.8 available, and the good news is that most of the

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I got my "Linux start" with Slackware way back in 1995. I even bought my first home computer in order to do it. Before that time, I figured any computer use at home was probably going to be for work, so I figured that my employer should - and did - provide something, usually a terminal and a modem. In the Fall of 1995, I started researching Linux distributions, found Slackware to be - at least

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Android and Chrome OS are moving forward!

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Chrome 10.0 and Seamonkey 2.1b2 lead this set of tests, with Firefox 4.0 very close behind. Everything except Seamonkey 2.0.12, which still uses an older generation of page rendering libraries is really good at something, including Opera 11.01, which manages to "win" one or two tests. Chrome has a very slight edge over Firefox 4.0 and Seamonkey 2.1b2, but not by much at all. Chrome 10.0 =======

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The Sabayon 5.5 experiment was a success!

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Testing SimplyMEPIS 11.0 Beta 2 again, then antiX core and aptosid

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http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Prayer-Needs-for-Monday-February-28--2011.html?soid=1101607963580&aid=oXJxyAp5o1o

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Tonight I have a couple of things going on. I downloaded a couple of distributions today: PC-BSD 8.2, a 3.3 GB DVD ISO image, which I copied to my external USB drive, then the debian-testing-kfreebsd-i386-netinst.iso, which is an interesting twist: it is a daily build of Debian Testing, except it does not have the usual Debian GNU/Linux kernel; it uses a FreeBSD kernel, which is why it is

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I have been experimenting quite a bit with a variety of computing technologies over the past six or seven months. Beginning with Peppermint OS One and antiX core, I started to look a fast, lightweight technologies that could be used on the desktop, but definitely had a higher than usual ratio of Internet-based applications. Not long after using Peppermint OS One and antiX core, I set up Easy

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On a couple of my favorite Beehive based web forums, we have a topic entitled simply, "What Are You Here With... and Whatever?" The purpose of the topic is to discuss whatever software and systems we are using, but the title of the topic deliberately gives us plenty of latitude to run off on tangents, discussing nearly anything... whatever, as the title clearly states. This weekend, I have gone

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As some of you may already know, Google created quite a stir more than a year ago now when they spoke of creating their own operating system which would boot in seconds and connect directly to the Internet. We were supposed to have it available in time for Christmas, but that did not happen. What did happen, perhaps to test out the concept a bit, iron out the rough edges, get a bit of press out

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Last night I downloaded the first Alpha Build, Version 10.9.70 for the upcoming SimplyMEPIS Version 11.0 release. I did encounter one issue: the GRUB Legacy Boot Manager was set up incorrectly, so the device number in the root line, for example: root ,5) would appear instead of root (hd0,5) in each of the entries - in other words, the partition number was included but not the device number. It

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Evaluating desktop Linux systems mini review, Part One In this mini review, I am doing a survey of a variety of distributions in various categories, sharing my observations, and making a few recommendations of the distributions that fit a few categories best in my opinion, based on criteria that I have established. I will explain my criteria in this mini review. Every day systems that are easy

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I installed Absolute Linux 13.1.42 this evening on my Virtualbox setup and I am experimenting with it now. It looks like a pretty solid release as usual.

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This week I have been exploring Debian based systems that offer strong, flexible networking. All of them are specialized, to some degree; some are definitely special purpose systems; others are highly customizable systems that you can tailor to best meet your specific needs.I've looked at Easy Peasy, Jolicloud, Debian Live, and I've come back to antiX core today.Easy Peasy is what its name

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The last time I took a Debian Live Snapshot, I selected the XFCE desktop environment. This time, to compare, I selected the LXDE desktop environment, and I also added the Chromium-browser. It will be interesting to review how well the two environments compare to one another.

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Now that I have an external USB drive once again, I have started to pick up the volume of testing of Linux ISO images, because I have a place to store them, and I also have linked the location of the Virtualbox hidden directories to the USB drive, which means I have space for the test virtual images as well, plus I can run them on both of my systems - which I've already tried (and it works).

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I created a live CD snapshot of the Debian Sid distribution with the Xfce desktop environment yesterday by making a request at Debian Live. Within twenty minutes, I was sent a link where I could download the Live image. I then created a bootable CD image of this system and tried it out today and it worked very well. The only quirk I noticed was that no Web browser was included in the build, so I

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I was happy to notice that the Debian Sid project included another KDE monthly update in their Sid repositories. During the 4.2 and 4.3 releases, the monthly updates were not being closely tracked at all, so I am thankful and grateful that the more of the maintenance updates in the Version 4.4 release have been included in Debian Sid.It is possible that KDE SC 4.4.5 could become the KDE desktop

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Google raised quite a stir when they claimed to have the fastest Web browser, and Apple did the same when they claimed that Safari is the fastest Web browser. Clearly we can't have TWO "fastest Web Browsers". Where do things stand today?Well, what is good about all of this stuff is that browser developers are taking a closer look at resource utilization of their browsers. For many years, as Web

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I have been a long time user of the Internet. Way back in the eighties, I used the Internet to read and send electronic mail, and also to research information, using what was then called the Usenet, which we now know as news groups.When the World Wide Web became popular, it became easier to use a Web browser to do research. Over time, the Web also became a useful way to exchange Email, either

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The sidux project has reached the Preview 1 release of its next version, sidux 2010-01. I've been using the rolling release for quite some time now and I have Google Chrome 5.0.375.70, where I am writing this note, but I am "Using KDE Development Platform 4.4.4 (KDE 4.4.4)", as identified by Konsole.

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Check out DistroWatch for the details. The fast, cutting edge, Debian based sidux distribution, one of the fastest installing systems around because of the extremely dense image compression, has just been announced. The first release of 2010, this one is a preview release, with the final release to follow in a few weeks.

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I have been following the KDE 4 release with interest for quite some time now. When KDE 4.0 was first released, it was quite clear that it was a development-only snapshot. When KDE 4.1 was released, it was somewhat improved, but until KDE 4.1.4, it was still really only a development snapshot at best.KDE 4.2 marked a significant improvement over KDE 4.0 and 4.1, but again, until KDE 4.2.4, I'd

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Two of my favorite Debian based distributions, and one RPM based distribution that uses Debian-like packaging tools are in their testing cycles right now.SimplyMEPIS and antiX, two of the products in the MEPIS family, have been through several iterations of their Beta testing cycle, and now each of them has also released three release candidates (RC), and they are very cloe to release. Each of

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On Thursday, January 28, 2010, I had cataract surgery on my left eye. Both eyes need surgery; my right eye is tentatively scheduled now to be operated on February 18.So far, the left eye, in the white of the eye, is red, the eye is swollen, but there is already some improvement in sight. By Monday I hope to have the left eye in the best shape it has been in years. A correction of -2 is the

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Well, on December 31, 2009, I finally got news that sidux 2009-04 was being released, so that took care of one of the three distributions that I frequently use, but over the past two or three months, the other two distributions that I use have been actively undergoing testing.The antiX and SimplyMEPIS distributions are each at the Beta 4 stage of their 8.5 releases. I happen to be using antiX

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I enjoy testing software. When I have the time, I use all kinds of different operating systems and all kinds of variations of software. However, when testing time is limited, I cut it down considerably. I tend to use primarily GNU/Linux software at home that uses Debian packaging. Today, I’ve used sidux, SimplyMEPIS, Kubuntu, and Debian Squeeze.Debian Squeeze will be the next stable release of

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When I do more testing on the job, I do less testing in my free time. I have been working since November 2; I moved from a home I had owned to an apartment on November 7, and the next thing I need to do is schedule a Cataract Surgery appointment; I have a consultation in January unless I can get it moved up sooner.During the course of gradually moving things from my home to my apartment,

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Last Friday I downloaded a daily build of Debian Squeeze and I have been using it since that time. I was not very happy with the default graphical installer; it got into a loop when I attempted to start it in the default settings. I did not attempt to figure out what was happening; I used the text based installation instead. I was not very happy with it either. When I tried to reuse an existing

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I am working hard at reading and studying about technology, while at the same time, spending time each day researching companies and looking for a job.I most recently worked in project management, so that is my first preference, but in most of the project management work, there were still close ties with quality assurance, and I rolled up my sleeves a number of times to help testing efforts, so

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My son Karsten loves computers and he is an avid SimplyMEPIS Linux fan. He is using it right now on a Dell Latitude D600 laptop while I use sidux on a Gateway PA6A 17" portable.Karsten desperately wants to get his blog working. I will be helping him out so he learns how to do it appropriately.

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Yesterday I downloaded the new Slackware 13.0 32 bit DVD (there is also a 64 bit implementation). I have not installed it yet, but I plan to do that some time during the next week.Slackware was the very first distribution of GNU/Linux software that I ever used. It was quite familiar to me because I was an active UNIX system user prior to that, and I would frequently download and use various GNU

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I previously downloaded a copy of BSDAnywhere, but this time I wanted to save the ISO image on my removable USB disk drive, where there is plenty of free space, so that I can reference the ISO image directly in Virtualbox OSE and run a virtual instance of BSDAnywhere 4.5.I plan to do that today.

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I recently found out about a new Linux distro that has not yet been released: Canabix. Like UNIX, this name seems to be a play on words, like “What have you been smoking”?The people involved in the early activities for this upcoming distribution mostly come from the sidux community. Not long ago there were serious sparks flying between the existing developers and a developer who left the

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The speed at which I can evaluate and test out distributions has been greatly improved since I started using Virtualbox OSE. On one hand, you do not get quite the performance you get with a native implementation, but you do not have to either burn a CD, DVD, or USB stick to install, or go through the additional steps to boot an ISO image directly from the disk, so you can very quickly get at

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The announcement for the release of antiX M8.2 can be found here on the antiX forum site, and as usual, I recommend it.Those of you who like to pretty much concoct your own system might want to give antiX BASE a try. It is very close to the size of SLAX in image size, does not come with much pre-installed, so you can pretty much rip it apart and put in what you want, whether that's something

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I happen to choose a trilogy of distributions because I am looking for three different styles of systems:1. Cutting edge2. Lean and fast3. Stable and relatively non volatileFor those, I personally picked:1. sidux2. antiX3. SimplyMEPISOthers may want to pick:1. Arch Linux2. SLAX3. Debian LinuxStill others may choose:1. Gentoo Linux2. Tiny Me3. SlackwareWhat's nice is that there are choices. Notice

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I was going to wait for both sidux 2009.02 and antiX M8.2 to come out, since there were test versions of both out earlier this month. antiX has been in public testing longer, but anticapitalista wants to get a few things just right before releasing. Meanwhile, the public test versions, including the Pre Final 1 for antiX M8.2 look very good.There was some sad news on the sidux front, because

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I used Virtualbox today to test out antiX-M8.2-PT1, the Public Test 1 implementation of antiX for the soon-released Version 8.2 - consider this a release candidate.I have Sun Microsystems' Virtualbox installed, which I got from their site in Deb form rather than using the one in Debian Lenny. So far it seems to work pretty well.

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Over the past few weeks, since there are not that many new distributions coming out right now - at least not the ones that I care to test and review - I have instead been testing Web browsers, pretty much on a constant basis, because I have been using the nightly trunk builds for both Firefox and Seamonkey - the Seamonkey nightly builds are what I use primarily for both Email and Web browsing,

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-89878201844960434112009-06-14T23:42:00.002-06:002009-06-14T23:48:15.970-06:00

I am here using sidux, my number one favorite Linux distribution, and I have been experimenting with Webkit based Web browsers over the past few weeks. I am getting to the point where I have some preferences, and this is it: Midori seems like it has the potential to evolve into one really fast, handy browser, especially if you want to create a light, fast desktop or window manager based system.I

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-18875474470651367802009-06-13T14:04:00.001-06:002009-06-13T14:07:55.692-06:00

Anticapitalista announces that antiX-M8.2 Test 3 is now available for testing.

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-21349029417992478942009-06-08T12:08:00.000-06:002009-06-08T12:09:41.732-06:00

I have been using antiX M8.2 Test 2 for a week or two, on and off, and it has performed perfectly for me throughout that period of time. Being very intent on producing the very best effort, improving and extending as many features as possible, while keeping the core small, flexible, and tight, there are still a number of improvements the team is working on, especially in the areas of localization

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-23571790387772650862009-06-08T11:56:00.003-06:002009-06-08T12:00:32.927-06:00

Right now, sidux is coasting along in a very good 2009.01 release. Since the release, they have helped to smooth the transition in the Debian Sid repositories from KDE 3.5.10 to KDE 4.2.2 on the desktop, and have since moved from KDE 4.2.2 to 4.2.4, all before releasing a Version 2009.02. In addition, the 2009 release streams have supported clean migrations to a new version of X.org in the 1.6

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-46936781255244201562009-05-29T23:43:00.000-06:002009-05-29T23:44:17.775-06:00

Here with antiX M8.2 Test 1, running live. Let me tell you why I like antiX so much as a Live CD.1. Loads, even to RAM, in under two minutes, faster than that to run straight from CD.2. Recognizes, even on CD, just about any wireless network card you can throw at it.3. Has a good selection of software, and given that you can run it live, from USB, or install it to disk from the CD, it is easy to

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-80991685487834390072009-05-20T11:18:00.002-06:002009-05-20T11:28:15.655-06:00

Recently I have been checking out the memory usage of various window managers and desktop environments, concluding with a study of KDE. That led me to wonder how well KDE would work on my oldest working system, the Dell Dimension 4100 desktop. I often used KDE 3.5 on that system, and I had a KDE 3.5.9 and 3.5.10 system already installed, so last night I updated my PCLinuxOS partition on the

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-72047911291213644202009-05-16T06:50:00.001-06:002009-05-16T06:50:26.945-06:00

Revisiting antiX and SimplyMEPIS The sidux, SimplyMEPIS, and antiX distributions are the trilogy of systems that I prefer to use the most, though I have, test, and use many more systems. Recently I have updated the most current software updates across each of my systems, but other than that, I have not been using much beside sidux. With sidux, I've spent several days using different desktop

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-76794809479484816692009-05-15T22:29:00.001-06:002009-05-15T22:29:18.207-06:00

Updating systems I did a lot of software updating this past week, updating most of the distributions on three distinct systems I have at home, a Compaq/HP D530 desktop and two laptops, first a Lenovo 3000 Y410, then what I call a portable, a Gateway PA6A 17" system, which is what I typically use as my desktop.All updates went well, and we seem to be going through a time of relative

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-8661591195004396742009-05-06T14:47:00.001-06:002009-05-06T14:47:40.060-06:00

Updating software on Linux systems I spent a few hours today updating software packages on several of my Linux systems, including sidux, xubuntu, kubuntu, Debian Lenny, and gOS. All of the updates went well. The other day I also updated my SimplyMEPIS and PCLinuxOS systems, and those updates also went well.I am going to double check antiX and make sure I update anti to the latest and

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-41657790305348054392009-05-02T20:44:00.002-06:002009-05-02T20:52:13.676-06:00

I went through the first week or so without encountering any major issues with KDE 4.2.2 at all, but once I started using more than just Email and a Web browser, I started running into issues. I used Dolphin, the new file manager, to locate a Word 2007 document that someone had sent me and I opened it. Open Office 3.0.1 got about halfway through initialization, then froze the entire desktop.

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-68457056478212240932009-04-16T10:59:00.002-06:002009-04-16T11:03:00.605-06:00

I have successfully install KDE 4.2.2 on two existing sidux systems, upgrading, using the smxi tool to the current system packages, removing select KDE 3.5 packages, and then upgrading to the latest KDE software, all under complete control of smxi. It all worked flawlessly, once more a great testimony of what sidux and smxi are capable of doing, providing the very latest in cutting edge software

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-48125163942984518662009-03-26T22:22:00.001-06:002009-03-26T22:22:28.313-06:00

Last time I was here I said that I would try to remember to comment on PCLinuxOS after I get a chance to install the final version. I have also previously tested at least two of the earlier test versions. The first test version would not load for me; I was disappointed; ALL previous PCLinuxOS versions, whether test or not, worked great. The second test version I tried, test 3, was better.

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-91659438384069947222009-03-12T19:59:00.000-06:002009-03-12T20:00:26.773-06:00

PCLinuxOS 2009.1 has been released this week Another version of PCLinuxOS has been released. I have downloaded it but not yet installed it. The last FULL KDE based version was released in May 2007. A GNOME version was released in 2008, and an implementation called "MiniME" was also released in 2008, plus a number of community offshoots of the main project, mainly in the "Tiny"

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-88409432689520269492009-02-15T22:14:00.002-06:002009-02-15T22:18:23.423-06:00

The first quarterly release of sidux has been released, right on the heels of the stable Debian Lenny release. This was probably a good idea, since the Debian Sid repositories are likely to be wild and crazy with new packages updated now that the log jam has been released.I downloaded this software in case I want to install it somewhere else, and as a backup in case I ever run into problems. I

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-20806730585484522912009-02-13T11:48:00.000-06:002009-02-13T11:49:07.979-06:00

Fast and Light AntiX 8.0 is Released! The excellent family of easy to use desktop systems from MEPIS has a new product announcement today, and it is an exciting one. The Fast, Light, Flexible AntiX M8.0 has been released today. I wrote about it at http://usalug.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=14090There is an announcement about it at http://antix.freeforums.org/antix-m8-goes-final-t1411.

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-77324946807441157762009-02-09T10:48:00.003-06:002009-02-09T11:06:21.614-06:00

I have not changed my view of the top desktop systems for my own personal use as the landscape of distros changed at the end of 2008, nor have I changed my view as we are two months into the 2009 year. I have elevated my view of one system - Fedora. I really like the Alpha release of their Fedora 11. It shows that even at an early testing stage, they are one of the few projects that has

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-47397448924764222882008-12-29T14:24:00.004-06:002008-12-29T14:41:28.253-06:00

Two of the primary MEPIS projects, the well known SimplyMEPIS and the smaller, faster, less commonly known antiX project, are nearing release of their Version 8.0 efforts. The SimplyMEPIS 7.9-94 release, otherwise known as SimplyMEPIS 8.0 Release Candidate 1, was released just before Christmas, with a hint from the developer, Warren Woodford, that if possible, he would like to release the

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-61361010235251328812008-12-29T14:05:00.003-06:002008-12-29T14:23:25.924-06:00

I have been promoting sidux for a while now, and sidux 2008-04 is one of their best yet. Decked out in Yuletide green, with a white ground cover, sidux 2008-04 is one cool desktop system for the Yuletide season.Why do I like sidux so much? Nothing else gives me such current software with so little effort. I can use Arch and get pretty new stuff, but I find that Debian based systems have a

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-17523469746930174182008-07-07T12:19:00.002-06:002008-07-07T12:53:13.491-06:00

It is difficult for me to say that these are my four favorite distributions, period, without any qualifications. On the Ubuntu project alone, I am always torn between the XFCE based Xubuntu derivative and the KDE based Kubuntu derivative, and the 8.04 release is no exception. I like the boot screen and the default wallpaper on XFCE better, but those are only window dressings, so they do not

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-69904643454333200532008-06-20T10:33:00.002-06:002008-06-20T11:05:36.439-06:00

As we are just about ready to head into summer beginning this weekend, I want to report that it has been a great spring for Linux distributions. According to the DistroWatch Roadmap, which is a collection of anticipated release dates, based on distributors that report on their plans, not too many major distributions have releases planned for this summer, though some of the smaller ones do. As

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-9070709910929111232008-05-17T07:50:00.002-06:002008-05-17T07:57:26.033-06:00

In 2003 I started to look at lightweight Live CDs. I tried KNOPPIX and it was OK, but it really was like lugging around a heavy toolchest. Therefore I looked for other tools and found Morphix. Based on KNOPPIX but with a modular set of components, it was really interesting. However, as far as a distro build, 0.41 is as far as it went to the best of my knowledge.I liked the behavior of Morphix

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-11431477038521806372008-05-17T06:43:00.002-06:002008-05-17T06:59:31.635-06:00

The Debian Sid repositories have not exactly been behaving this year, so it has affected the release schedule, but isn't that what sidux is all about? Debian, hot and spicy!sidux 2008-01 was released on April 12, about a month later than planned because of issues. 2008-02 is due in May. We are halfway through May so this may change.

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-30428515524565387862008-05-09T22:35:00.002-06:002008-05-09T22:41:29.390-06:00

I have been testing the Hardy Heron release for quite some time, and now it has been released. I quickly grabbed two versions of it, the Kubuntu 8.04 KDE 4 remix Live CD and more recently the Xubuntu 8.04 release. I still have an instance of the test release on my HP desktop. I had upgraded it when it began Beta testing and there had not been very many changes. Some day soon I will try

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-52484290341460717102008-05-09T22:20:00.002-06:002008-05-09T22:34:00.612-06:00

I have yet another laptop, a brand new Lenovo 3000 Y410, which is a 1.6 GHz Duo Core model with 2 GB memory, so for me at home it is a fast platform, though not quite as fast as my work Lenovo Thinkpad T60 - but the T60 has 1 GB memory and this laptop has double that.I have cleaned up Vista on the Lenovo laptop and I installed Xubuntu 8.04 within the NTFS disk structure using Wubi, a new

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-19099170152486097552007-09-25T22:16:00.000-06:002007-09-25T22:24:54.897-06:00

I have really enjoyed testing the upcoming release of Ubuntu, Gutsy Gibbon, which will become the 7.10 release on October 18. I have been testing primarily the Kubuntu variation, but I have tried Ubuntu as well. Both are doing extremely well. The differences depend on whether you prefer using GNOME, the desktop that comes with Ubuntu, or KDE, the desktop that comes with Kubuntu. There is a

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-76079227435737355922007-09-01T17:20:00.000-06:002007-09-01T17:26:15.265-06:00

USALUG - A great community for Linux enthusiasts everywhere.Well I haven't made a blog post in forever, and since we need some new and different kind of posts, and Crouse was nice enough to send me the OpenSuse book from Oreilly, so here we go.The books title is Suse Linux written by Chris Brown. You can find it here. I read through the book and learned quite a few things about OpenSuse Linux,

coastiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14618914114358289267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-12787124158875751112007-08-01T21:10:00.000-06:002007-08-01T21:20:49.711-06:00

There have been a lot of positive things going on in the Ubuntu space, but there has been at least one change where a Ubuntu consumer has returned to good old Debian - one of the first adopters, SimplyMEPIS. Warren Woodford found that the LTS version, 6.06 of Ubuntu, upon which SimplyMEPIS has been based since V6.0, receives security updates but otherwise few, if any, new packages.Therefore, he

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-60892782124430690162007-07-19T22:27:00.000-06:002007-07-19T22:33:17.283-06:00

Ubuntu has been one of the most popular Linux distributions since the project got off the ground in 2004. Huge improvements have been made to the packages provided in the distribution, the installation packaging, the ease of use, device support, and graphics capabilities. For the upcoming release even more improvements are planned, with the eventual aim of surpassing Windows in properly setting

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-33990265193323365292007-06-06T05:43:00.000-06:002007-06-06T09:37:42.817-06:00

Navy CIO 'recognizes the importance of OSS to the warfighter'This is HUGE news. To me it shows that Linux and OSS is a force to be reckoned with. I mean, everyone knows that NSA has it's own Linux Kernel...but for a branch of the Armed Services to come out and say that OSS is important to them." Department of the Navy CIO Robert J. Carey signed a memorandum (pdf download) today entitled "

coastiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14618914114358289267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-77157684031377125952007-05-03T19:07:00.000-06:002007-05-03T21:20:32.215-06:00

So Dell has FINALLY decided to start selling PC's with Linux already installed on them.From DesktopLinux.com:"Analysis -- Officially, Dell Inc. hasn't said a word yet about which Linux it will be preloading on its desktops and laptops. Several sources within Dell, however, have told DesktopLinux.com that Dell's desktop Linux pick is going to be Ubuntu.While unable to confirm this through official

coastiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14618914114358289267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-68379337340691714762007-05-03T17:48:00.000-06:002007-06-06T13:24:16.519-06:00

What more can be said about SimplyMEPIS 6.5.02 other than the fact that it simply works, and it's worked on any hardware combination that I've thrown at it. On an earlier install on my Dell Latitude D610, even WIFI worked upon first boot. Mepis doesn't have the latest kernel or the latest application versions. It's just a highly polished distribution that has been well thought out. The

Xeroidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091646069003198484noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-47035694328017893862007-04-28T20:45:00.000-06:002007-04-28T21:07:29.441-06:00

Well it looks like Nicholas Negroponte may have finally done it -- killed his own project (in spirit) I mean. Today it was announced that the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project will now cost $175 per laptop instead of the intended $100 per laptop. Why the increase? Because the RAM and the hard drive space were both doubled to 256MB and 1GB respectively.You may ask why the RAM and drive space

BrionShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11150273690247034435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-46633066293304705292007-04-18T09:00:00.000-06:002007-04-20T22:08:05.635-06:00

OpenSuse.US has turned one year old today!!! Boasting a userbase of over 2611 members posting over 11,000 articles.Here is how some of our members came to Linux, and OpenSuse.Posted by Knucklehead : "The thing that made me want to switch the most was Microsoft's treatment of us, the consumer. It seems to me that since Microsoft currently has so many customers they don't really care if one

coastiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14618914114358289267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-82069452022068185432007-04-13T21:29:00.000-06:002007-04-13T22:24:43.307-06:00

"Today at Palm Inc's Analyst Day, Palm CEO Ed Colligan officially announced that Palm will deliver a new Linux and open source based mobile computing platform combined with Palm OS Garnet technology on new products later this year. The new platform was just announced at the Palm Analyst meeting and details are light at this point and still coming in." Copied from Palm Info Center.This is just

coastiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14618914114358289267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-48465386951119800152007-04-11T21:23:00.000-06:002007-04-11T21:25:08.566-06:00

Opensuse.us is a forum for opensuse users. We have setup emailaddresses for opensuse users, and it's available for anyone that wantsto sign up. Space is limited ...... unless google smiles upon us andgives us more if we need them. I realize that these are not the opensuse.org email address's thatpeople would prefer, but it's not "too" far off. It's the best Icould do, and I hope it's well

coastiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14618914114358289267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-52757195487545482752007-02-22T14:41:00.000-06:002007-02-22T16:54:37.338-06:00

There have been several reasons people have given as to why the Microsoft / Novell deal is good, the following are not good reasons: OpenOffice.org will get a lot of MS-specific code and support Office formats betterMicrosoft codecs can now be included legally to play all WMA and WMV contentLinux will benefit from DirectX code so it can play Windows games in Wine betterIE7 for LinuxSupporting

BrionShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11150273690247034435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-12703578927281534232007-01-14T22:07:00.000-06:002007-01-14T22:17:25.051-06:00

Well, there hasn't been a post in a few days. I got sick. I'm working on a big post about Red Hat, and figured while I'm trying to finish that, I'd bang out a review on the the Palm Tungsten T|X that I just bought. Being in the Coast Guard, I sometimes need docs on the go. The geek side of me wanted a new toy. Something with expandable memory, and wifi. Something I can listen to music, surf the

coastiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14618914114358289267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-69561873053765420612007-01-08T19:29:00.000-06:002007-01-08T19:38:41.777-06:00

You know that I am one of the distro guys around here, and true to form, when I had a few minutes, I had to try out yet another distro, the recently released Dreamlinux 2.2.The description copied from Distrowatch says "Dreamlinux is a Brazilian distribution based on Debian, Knoppix and Morphix. A live CD with a graphical hard disk installation option, it boots directly into an XFce desktop which

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-8018743381198109052007-01-07T13:19:00.000-06:002007-01-07T20:28:01.685-06:00

GNU Privacy Guard is the GNU Project's complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by RFC2440. GnuPG allows to encrypt and sign your data and communication, features a versatile key managment system as well as access modules for all kind of public key directories. GnuPG, also known as GPG, is a command line tool with features for easy

coastiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14618914114358289267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-11827530231246042282006-12-20T22:07:00.000-06:002006-12-20T22:08:51.847-06:00

This distro is most certainly not for everyone, but one of the very interesting things about it is the unique user interface design that attempts to carve out a new metaphor in the way the desktop is used. Interesting. Will have to work a whole lot better in practice if it is ever to become practical, but a very interesting idea nevertheless.

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-47049464371481080362006-12-20T21:04:00.000-06:002006-12-20T21:29:18.449-06:00

Guys, I will be traveling to Michigan for the holidays, so I won't be reviewing any distros until the New Year at the earliest. I probably won't even be online unless I get withdrawal and find a kiosk or a relative who lets me use a computer! ;-)

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-89531430865788340882006-12-07T11:58:00.000-06:002006-12-18T20:07:18.625-06:00

I'd like to take a little look at the DMCA. Firstly, what is the DMCA. The DMCA is The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a United States copyright law which criminalizes production and dissemination of technology whose primary purpose is to circumvent measures taken to protect copyright, not merely infringement of copyright itself, and heightens the penalties for copyright infringement

coastiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14618914114358289267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-36758318867840920292006-12-05T08:55:00.000-06:002007-02-22T16:58:00.882-06:00

Probably by now you've heard of Nicholas Negroponte's project called One Laptop Per Child or OLPC. The general purpose of the project is to devise a computer that costs not more than US$100 to manufacture including software and yet make it fully featured with useful applications so that these can be sold / donated to developing countries.The idea is noble to say the least - give poor children a

BrionShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11150273690247034435noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-11045079759410524972006-12-02T22:23:00.000-06:002006-12-02T22:55:41.596-06:00

Recently, a lot of the posts in the USALUG from me have been about distros I feel have at least a chance to make a mark if and when Linux is to move into territories previously ignored or lacking, in terms of market and use.We already know that Linux software constitutes good and useful stuff, and business has now realized that Linux is definitely a viable platform. From the looks of it, Linux

Brian Masinickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06328692313376102421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-38430081857531509512006-11-18T08:10:00.000-06:002006-11-19T13:07:17.894-06:00

Steve Ballmer has been saying that Linux is an illegal Operating System. How is it that companies can offer enterprise versions of Linux? How is it that Red Hat has been such a dominant player in the Linux World, and be offering an illegal operating system? Where are all these copyright infringements? And lastly, why do I owe Microsoft money for their intellectual property. I read a pretty good

coastiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14618914114358289267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-6193820723683735382006-11-13T04:27:00.000-06:002006-11-13T04:31:42.837-06:00

Here is a letter that the folks of the Samba Team have sent to Novell. They were nice enough to make it an open letter for all to view. So I have decided to post it here. I feel that Samba has put this deal with Microsoft into perspective, and what a good perspective it is. Samba has this letter posted here."Samba Team Asks Novell to Reconsider The Samba Team disapproves strongly of

coastiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14618914114358289267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-13301841743971377452006-11-11T11:49:00.000-06:002006-11-13T04:27:02.048-06:00

Firstly, thank you to all the Veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces, we wouldn't have what we have today without you, and your sacrifices. Now for my topic. What is the meaning of the new Microsoft/Novell deal. On Nov. 2, we learned that they were entering a deal, details were still a little "hush hush". The main sticking points were that now, only Novell's Suse Linux users would be protected from "

coastiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14618914114358289267noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5156040963625132258.post-40068113788877012062006-11-10T21:53:00.000-06:002006-11-10T22:32:32.600-06:00

Greetings, I figure that I'll introduce myself now. I'm Trey, though many at the forums I frequent know me as coastie. As my nick points out I am in the U.S. Coast Guard. I am currently stationed in New Orleans, LA, home of the Hurricane Katrina Blunders. Things here in the "Big Easy" are getting back to "normal" I guess.I've been using Linux exclusively (when I'm not at work) for about 3 yrs. I

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