Category: computers

I’m in for some serious fun of the best kind. I just learned that Patrick Volkerding released Slackware 12.0 yesterday. The changes from 11.0 are deep and...

Last week I was busy downloading and installing a fairly comprehensive round of upgrades: WordPress 2.2: I upgraded all of my WordPress sites to version 2.2. Ve...

I was asked by my church to set up a GNU/Linux box to be used as a Samba file server. The hardware is a rather nice Dell PowerEdge SC440 server with a Xeon proc...

I am growing more and more fond of Slax. Slax is a “live” (as in “live CD”) GNU/Linux distribution based on Slackware that is simple, fa...

This is big news. Sun put Java under the GNU General Public License (GPL), thus making it officially Free Software. Moreover, it is also considering to put Open...

I saw it on Slashdot. Slackware 11 has been released! Yikes! You can read the announcement, and then you can grab your copy at one of the mirrors . Right now, I...

I got this interesting meme from Tim. 1. What was the first language that you learned/used? Commodore Basic V2 (the one included with the Commodore 64). 2. What...

After a long download that spanned several days, I finally managed to upgrade my workstations to KDE 3.5.4 (information, compilation requirements). In keeping w...

Dugan Chen wrote this great article about setting up Slackware. Like my (still ongoing and not dead) Stealth Desktop series, this is also a post-install guide. ...

This is a short note to tell you that I managed to download and install KDE 3.5.3 (a whopping 231 MB of Slackware packages!). I do not perceive any functionalit...

Learning computer programming has been one of my secret longings for so many years. I go back to the eighties, doing a stone age BASIC littered with POKEs and P...

I just sent my tiny part of Spanish translation for the upcoming 3.5 release of the KDE desktop environment for Unix-like operating systems. It wasn’t a l...

Great news! Patrick Volkerding, the man responsible for the Slackware distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system announced the release of Slackware 10.2. Th...

Many of you might know that I am a huge fan of the IBM Model M keyboard, that old “clicky” keyboard that used to come with the IBM PS/2. I searched ...

You might know already that the Mozilla Foundation decided to stop further development of the Mozilla Suite, concentrating the resources on the more successful ...

You might remember that I used to run KDE 3.4-beta 1. That was under Slackware 10.0. When I upgraded to Slack 10.1, I was forced to revert to KDE 3.3.2. There w...

I installed Slackware 10.1 on elrohir over the last week. As I said before, it was mostly a normal ride, and Patrick Volkerding is to be commended for making su...