Tag: Linux

Ubuntu Desktop Linux and Acer TravelMate 7513WSMi

My youngest sister has retired her big-ass (17") Acer TravelMate (model 7513WSMi 7510) with a more modern offering from Sony. That was last year. Now, she thought it'd be a good idea to donate it to our oldest sister. But since the thing has always “run” like a pig with Windows Vista, her girl-geek instincts thought it better if I'd equip the old monster with Ubuntu Linux instead. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 year ago, on February 03, 2011, at 00:02 | No comments

Ubuntu and SiS 671 VGA chipset driver

The video on my mom's laptop, A Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo Mobile V5535, had recently gone awry. At the time, the laptop was running Ubuntu 9.04 (I think). Reconfiguring the driver didn't do much good, so I upgraded the machine to 10.04, hoping that that would fix it. It didn't. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 year ago, on January 18, 2011, at 23:01 | No comments

Effective CLI habits

Just an example of some effective CLI magic that I copy/pasted into a draft aboutexactly a year ago. Can you see what's happening? I'm moving some selected files into a subdirectory. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 year ago, on December 24, 2010, at 01:12 | No comments

Posting to WordPress via the command-line

In February I was interested in posting to WordPress from the command-line, a possibility that I enjoyed when I wanted to apply some CLI-magic to some of my MediaWiki installations in the past. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 year ago, on December 24, 2010, at 01:12 | 2 comments

grml

grml seems like an interesting Debian-based Linux Live CD. It seems interesting because “[it] includes a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for system administrators and users of texttools.”

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By Rowan Rodrik, 1 year ago, on December 08, 2010, at 22:12 | No comments

Finnix Linux Live CD

Finnix is another Linux Live CD. Like SystemRescueCD, it's not intended for the average desktop user, and does not include any desktops, productivity tools, or sound support, in order to keep distribution size low. But Finnix is based on Debian, not Gentoo.

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By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on June 29, 2010, at 12:06 | No comments

Damn Small Linux

Damn Small Linux (or DSL) is another Linux distribution that deserves a closer look someday. It's light enough that it should even run on a 486DX with 16MB of RAM and it can run fully in RAM with only 128MB of RAM.

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By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on June 29, 2010, at 12:06 | No comments

SystemRescueCd

SystemRescueCd is my favorite Linux live CD's for system recovery and related tasks. It is based on Gentoo and comes with all the right toys to make me happy. :-)

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By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on June 29, 2010, at 12:06 | No comments

Sabayon Linux

Sabayon Linux seems like an interesting distribution to try some day. Maybe.

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By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on June 29, 2010, at 11:06 | No comments

Command line mistakes

Here's a nice post by Vivek Gite about ten of his biggest command line mistakes. The comments are good too.

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By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on March 13, 2010, at 21:03 | No comments