Linux from Scratch: I’ve had it up to here!
As you may be able to tell from my recent, snooze-worthy technical posts about compilers and makefiles and other assorted garbage, my experience with Linux […]
Month: November 2011
Building glibc for LFS from Ubuntu by replacing awk
If you run into the following error trying to build LFS from a Ubuntu installation: make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-build/Versions.all’, needed by […]
Staying in shape with open source software
On a good week, I consider myself an avid runner. Right now I’m training to run a 5k in the spring. Ideally, I’ll be able […]
Reinstalling LFS soon: it’s not my fault, I swear!
I went to play around with my Linux from Scratch installation after getting a working version of KDE 4.7.3 up and running. For a few […]
Notifications with Irssi in Screen
One of the biggest problems about running irssi in a terminal in screen is that there aren’t any notifications by default if you are mentioned, […]
Wireless Networking: Using a Cisco/Linksys WUSB54GC on Gentoo
We live in an old house, which has the unfortunate side-effect of lacking a wired network of any kind. All of our machines connect to […]
Can you install Gnome3 on Gentoo?
So my base Gentoo installation came with Gnome 2.3, which while solid, lacks a lot of the prettiness of Gnome’s latest 3.2 release. I thought […]
Fixing build issues with phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.5.1
I’ve decided to try and upgrade my LFS system to the latest version of KDE (4.7.3 as of the time of this writing) and correspondingly […]
Why do so many open source programs throw C/C++ warnings?
Seriously, I’d like to know, because this is a bit ridiculous. For all the heavily encouraged coding styles out there, nearly all the open source […]
LFS so far – why you should build i686 and x86_64 binaries
I’ve now been actively using my (Beyond) Linux from Scratch installation for about a week now, and it’s actually pretty neat to have something working […]
LFS: Installing VLC
Since the install of Linux From Scratch, one of the main issues I’ve been having is the playback of audio and video files. VLC does […]
Dropbox Meets Gentoo
So I’m a big Dropbox user. I primarily use it to keep my personal info synchronized between my machines (don’t worry, I encrypt my stuff […]
Representing kubuntu
I’ve decided to roll Kubuntu 11.10 for this round of The Linux Experiment. Why Kubuntu? Well, a while back one of my teachers used xubuntu […]
How to update your (whole) Gentoo system
I wrote a simple script that you can download here that makes it easy to update your Gentoo system. It first re-syncs your portage tree […]
Linux From Scratch: We Have Lift-off…
Hi Everyone, Now that I have a relatively stable environment, I just wanted to write an update of how things went, and some issues that […]
Getting Firefox 3.6.23 to compile under LFS
Using the instructions from the BLFS book with the latest available 3.6 build of Firefox, I was able to achieve success. I figured I’d try […]
Closed source AMD/ATI drivers, wireless networking and Flash in Gentoo
Graphics Drivers Continuing where I left off in my previous posts I now had a somewhat working desktop but a few things still had to […]
KDE4, LFS: Make GTK Applications Look Like QT4 Applications
Do your GTK applications (i.e. Firefox) look like something designed in the 90’s in KDE? I think I can help you. I installed the latest […]
Installing glib-1.2.10 in LFS to get XMMS working
So I wanted to install XMMS in Linux From Scratch, as it’s one of the more reliable MP3 players and one of the first multimedia […]