LFS, pre-KDE: kdebindings and kdebase-runtime
kdebindings Are you running into the following problem when compiling kdebindings? Well, you’re probably not, because you picked a saner distribution than LFS, but here […]
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LFS, pre-KDE: Fixing libmng with -fPIC and xine with a header
Fixing libmng with -fPIC In preparation for getting KDE4 (and Qt4, and all the other dependencies) working with my Linux from Scratch install, I noticed […]
Linux from Scratch: A Cautionary Tale, Part 2
What Next? Chroot Once you get into the chroot environment, you will get the incredibly annoying PC speaker beep every time you foul up a […]
Linux from Scratch: A Cautionary Tale, Part 1
And I’m started with Linux from Scratch! Here are some helpful pointers for anyone considering running LFS on their own. Caution: this is highly nerdy […]
Preparing for a new experiment
We’re currently in discussions to begin a new Linux Experiment for 2011. Stay tuned to the website as we should have new posts, a new […]
Fix for mount error(12): Cannot allocate memory
Do you have the following situation: You’ve got a share on Windows (XP, Vista, 7) that you’re trying to access from a Linux system, in […]
VOIP with Linode, Ubuntu, Asterisk and FreePBX
Overview and Introduction I’ve been dabbling with managing a VOIP server for the past year or so, using CentOS, Asterisk and FreePBX on a co-located […]
10 reasons why Mint might not fail in India
Last evening while reading the SA forums, I encountered a thread about Linux and what was required to bring it to the general public. One […]
Setting up a RocketRaid 2320 controller on Linux Mint 9
After the most recently recorded podcast, I decided to take a stab at running Linux on my primary media server. The machine sports a Highpoint […]
Restore the default Linux Mint 8 theme and colours
After playing with the GNOME Appearance preferences on my new Mint 8 installation, I managed to completely lose the color scheme, window decorators and other […]
Eclipse in Ubuntu-based distributions missing update site list
If any of you are using a Ubuntu-based distribution (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Linux Mint) and do any sort of Eclipse development, the current 3.5.1 package […]
Trying Mint – I likes what I sees.
While my initial plan for January was to stick with Windows 7 and perhaps try out Fedora 12, a bad DVD interrupted the Fedora install […]
End of the road with Gentoo – new year, new experiences
Since my admittedly outdated last post, I’ve been keeping busy in real life – most recently, I was out of the country for seven days, […]
Back to relative stability with Funtoo
In my last post, I’d mentioned that I planned on reinstalling Gentoo to fix several dependency issues that had made upgrading packages an impossibility. I […]
Once again, portage perplexes and enrages me
I haven’t needed to reinstall my system nearly as many times as Jon or Tyler, which is a good thing – Linux is supposed to […]
Quick fix: Compiz on Gentoo, resolving text corruption in terminal
This will be a brief reference post mostly for my own benefit, but a good fix for an issue where Compiz shows black boxes or […]
KDE on Gentoo: slightly less inflammatory but still difficult
After the shitstorm that was Dana’s post about KDE, I figured I’d go into more details about how my day to day use is going. […]
Portage drops the canoe, crushing my Gentoo installation
In the process of migrating to KDE as my desktop environment (selected as I have no experience with the newest versions, and I want an […]
The problem with Gentoo: my reactions
One of the articles Tyler passed me this morning was a brief post on three problems with Gentoo by Dion Moult. There are a few […]
TrueCrypt, kernel compilation and where’d /boot go?
Since I’ve installed Gentoo, I haven’t had access to my other drives. One of them is an NTFS-formatted WD Raptor, and the other is a […]