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Linux Migration for the Home PC User, Part 3

Posted on April 15, 2009 by ehurst

Part 1 and Part 2 At this point, if you have experienced help on hand, or you are willing to study the issues for yourself, you really don’t need any more help from me. What follows are simply my personal … Continue reading →

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Linux Migration for the Home PC User, Part 2

Posted on April 14, 2009 by ehurst

You can view Part 1 here. For most people, “easy” in computers means “familiar.” When I tell them and show them Linux is different — unfamiliar — that’s usually the end of the discussion. If the price of change is … Continue reading →

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Linux Migration for the Home PC User, Part 1

Posted on April 13, 2009 by ehurst

Intended audience: (1) Those folks who use PCs, but don’t particularly love them. It’s just a basic convenience, on a par with telephones, washer & dryer, refrigerator, etc. This is easily the majority of Americans who own a PC, and … Continue reading →

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XP: Just Checking

Posted on April 6, 2009 by ehurst

When I gave my wife the big server machine, we set her old one aside as a guest machine. It also collects the stuff I do which simply requires something Win-DOS. It’s at least twice the machine as this laptop, … Continue reading →

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CentOS 5.3: This Works

Posted on April 2, 2009 by ehurst

All I can say is “WOW!” No, not the fan-boy stuff; it has to work the way I work. I can be quite merciless about discarding the most expensive, the best supported and wildest hyped, and I really could care … Continue reading →

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CentOS 5.3

Posted on April 1, 2009 by ehurst

Finally, CentOS 5.3 has been released. I’m getting a DVD ISO myself. Much as I love Debian Etch, there are some things broken which won’t be fixed anytime soon. Further, Etch will die in less than a year, whereas CentOS … Continue reading →

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Mozilla Craziness

Posted on January 11, 2009 by ehurst

The generic Seamonkey 64-bit download from Mozilla.org runs the new beta 64-bit Flashplayer from Adobe on CentOS. So here we are, CentOS 5.2 for x86_64. I installed the latest beta release of Flashplayer for 64-bit Linux. By “install” I mean … Continue reading →

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No Paradise

Posted on January 9, 2009 by ehurst

I don’t balk at eating crow. When you don’t take yourself too seriously, you can laugh with those who laugh at you. No sooner do I announce I’ve decided to go with openSUSE 11.0, as less broken than 11.1, and … Continue reading →

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Tinkering: Mail Servers on the Desktop

Posted on January 6, 2009 by ehurst

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 →

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CentOS: KDE Upgrade the Hard Way

Posted on January 5, 2009 by ehurst

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 →

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