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On Saturday I hosted a group for 30 people at IBM Hursley for a Hampshire Linux User Group meeting. We had a good set of talks, including Andy Stanford-Clark talking about his twittering house and mousetraps as well as the twittering Red Funnel Ferries [telegraph.co.uk] and his energy monitoring via Current Cost devices. I did . . . → Read More: Linux User Group @ Hursley I seem to recall Mark Shuttlework saying in an interview (possibly for Linux Format, possibly somewhere else) that he wanted to work with Debian to get fixed release cycles to help the Debian->Ubuntu porting efforts – It looks like he succeeded in planting the idea! I am looking forward to predictable Debian releases. The most . . . → Read More: Debian annouces fixed date release cycles A colleague from uni who now works for google wrote a brief post about google chrome, which has just been released for linux and he is working on it. I decided to grab a copy and try it out. I am very impressed with it so far. It is basic – lacking plugins, so no . . . → Read More: Google chrome on linux I have been using Debian for quite a long time, and it has been my primary OS on my work laptop for about the last 3 years. Recently software suspend (sleep) started having problems where it often did not come back from sleep. For a laptop, this is a big annoyance to me, so I . . . → Read More: Moving from debian+kde to ubuntu+gnome If you run a Debian or Ubuntu system and have more than one release in your apt-sources file (/etc/apt/sources.list) then you should probably learn the basics of apt-pinning. Apt-pinning allows you to have a specific package stay at a certain level or set a preference for it to be installed from a specific release. This . . . → Read More: Apt-Pinning I recently installed KDE 4.2 on my Debian laptop, and found the whole process surpisingly easy and now working very nicely. Following the instructions from The Debian KDE maintainers website, all that is required is enabling a sid repository and then installing the kde4 package which does the usual full-install of KDE. It is worth . . . → Read More: KDE 4.2 on Debian |
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