Something to do with Jake B
This post was originally published on October 29, 2010. The original can be found here. Overview and Introduction I’ve been dabbling with managing a VOIP server […]
I have an Ubuntu 16.04 desktop installation with Unity and wanted to try KDE, so I ran sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop. apt failed with the […]
In my last post, I discussed several Docker containers that I’m using for my home media streaming solution. Since then, Plex Media Server has updated to 0.9.11.4 for […]
I recently took it upon myself to rebuild a general-purpose home server – installing a new Intel 530 240GB solid-state drive to replace a “spinning rust” […]
[Please note: this is a historical post – I’m no longer running *BSD in 2014, and this is a collection of thoughts on its setup […]
I’ll have to admit that during the previous week or so, I haven’t been able to exclusively use FreeBSD at home or Linux as a […]
Full disclosure: I live with Kayla, and had to jump in to help resolve an enraging problem we ran into on the Kubuntu installation with […]
The Experiment has officially begun, and with that I’ve gone through the FreeBSD installation process. The actual install was fairly uneventful: apart from the fact […]
In the ramp-up to the 2013 Linux Experiment, I got ambitious and decided to try not only FreeBSD as my official entry, but to install […]
I’ve had a few nasty experiences this week with Linux and figured I’d vent here. Unlike my previous efforts with Linux From Scratch and Gentoo, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]