Tag Archives: debian

Squeeze on Inspiron 1525

Posted on February 3, 2011 by ehurst

This installation was the most recent Squeeze RC2 release, downloaded just two days before this blog post. If you’ve never installed Debian, please see this detailed guide for installing Squeeze. I used the graphical installation offered on the welcome screen. … Continue reading →

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No Debian for the Clueless

Posted on February 1, 2011 by ehurst

It crossed my mind I could start a new project. Given Debian was about to release their newest — “Squeeze” 6.0 — and I wanted to install it on my laptop, it seemed I might write a few articles here … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu Karmic and Your fonts.conf

Posted on May 22, 2010 by ehurst

I find it worthwhile to fight with fonts. Over the years I’ve learned a lot about how Linux handles fonts, and the only constant is change. Within Ubuntu, the developers keep making all these wonderful decisions, sometimes to counter to … Continue reading →

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Spidermonkey on Ubuntu Karmic

Posted on May 21, 2010 by ehurst

There is a noteworthy conflict on Karmic if you try to install libmozjs-dev because it conflicts with anything based on xulrunner 1.9. I can’t begin to explain why the Mozilla developers hold Spidermonkey to 1.8, but because of how the … Continue reading →

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RHEL 6.0 Beta Catastrophic X-server Crash

Posted on May 6, 2010 by ehurst

I’m giving it a rest. When I tried to open my PySolFC game — compiled on the system — it took down the X server and the system froze. I’ve seen this behavior before in Ubuntu a couple of releases … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu’s Broken Defaults on Fonts

Posted on April 13, 2010 by ehurst

Running Karmic Koala 32-bit, it’s not the first time I’ve been unhappy with the way Debian and friends do fonts. It’s the one part my Debian experience which has always dissatisfied. So this time I decided to check into the … Continue reading →

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Computers: What Happens After You Catch Your Own Tail?

Posted on February 1, 2010 by ehurst

I’ve been chasing my own tail for some time over computer issues. Sure, there’s a part of me that likes trying new things. I’m still planning to put NetBSD on my old laptop, and spend some time learning to use … Continue reading →

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Linux Failed Me

Posted on January 27, 2010 by ehurst

First off, you need to realize this is not an angry rant. I have loved Linux from the first experience, when I installed RedHat 5.0 on an old 486. Once I understood it, and some of the philosophy behind it, … Continue reading →

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openSUSE 11.2 on Dell Inspiron 545 MT

Posted on November 14, 2009 by ehurst

It appears the kinks have been mostly worked out of the RC I tried previously. About the only reason I even considered turning away from Ubuntu/Xubuntu was because it could not properly communicate with my DVD-RW. I couldn’t play music … Continue reading →

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XFCE: Less Is More

Posted on November 5, 2009 by ehurst

GTK is a very nice GUI toolkit. GNOME is rickety and parts, if not the whole thing, tend to crash way too much. You may have gotten a stable implementation on your Linux system, as CentOS does, but that’s only … Continue reading →

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