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Tinkering: Mail Servers on the Desktop
In my early experience with Linux, I learned The Way for email was to run an MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) in the background, a fetching service, and did email from the commandline. My preferred setup was Postfix, Fetchmail and Pine. … Continue reading
CentOS: KDE Upgrade the Hard Way
There is one feature of CentOS I dislike very much: the tendency to drag in a lot of 32-bit packages as unnecessary dependencies on a 64-bit system. I found the bundled version of KDE 3.5.4 one of the more badly … Continue reading
I’m Not Alone on Rolling Release
I’ll be the first to admit I don’t understand all the technical details, but I find the Autopackage project is trying to overcome the problems I’ve tried to point out: What’s a desktop Linux platform? Why do we need one? … Continue reading
Talking Past Each Other
Why did I know it would happen? I got some of my views on rolling release published on a webzine. Immediately, comments began to appear, as I had hoped. That means people are reading it and thinking about it. Except, … Continue reading
Decreasing Returns: Put the Brakes on Rolling Release
In Economics, we speak of the principle of decreasing returns. At some point, putting more resources into something no longer produces as much profit. As the thing becomes more complex, it gets more difficult to move forward without making major … Continue reading
HTML Word Processing
The basic purpose of a word processor is to format text for printing. If you aren’t going to put it on paper, you really have no need for a word processor. However, I find a huge portion of the computer … Continue reading
Opera Reconsidered
CentOS isn’t all that friendly to standard desktop use, but it can be tamed. It has become my choice because once I get things working, I can pretty much expect it will continue working for the next couple of years, … Continue reading
More on Rolling Release
Let’s get one thing clear: I utterly despise the brand of morality and ethics displayed by Microsoft. Gates knew a thing or two about computers, just enough to steal everything he built; he never comprehended the difference between good and … Continue reading
Debian Lenny: 64-bit Pain
Debian has a different approach to 64-bit hardware. The entire system is 64-bit, and the only way you can run anything 32-bit is in a “jail” — a sort of security sandbox isolated from the system itself. I suppose this … Continue reading
Gnomesword from Source
If I can’t get Bible search software for my computer, it’s not a good computer. Neither CentOS, nor any of the other compatible RedHat clones, offer a Gnomesword package for 64-bit. There is one source RPM set, but they were … Continue reading