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Opera Beta for Debian on SL 7

Posted on November 6, 2014 by ehurst

It works fine on Scientific Linux 7. Instead of holding your hand, I’ll tell you how I worked it out. Get the package from here. It’s for 64-bit only right now. Since all the current 7.x series for RHEL/CentOS/SL is … Continue reading →

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Linux on a Toshiba Satellite C855D-S5104 (Updated)

Posted on December 7, 2013 by ehurst

This thing is pretty low spec, starting with a dual-core 1.3Ghz processor. It comes with Win8 and I would personally never tolerate that on any of my computers. While I am capable of helping my clients set theirs up and … Continue reading →

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Scientific Linux 6.0 Released Today

Posted on March 3, 2011 by ehurst

In case you weren’t watching for this anywhere else, you can now download the full release ISOs for SL 6.0: Go here for 32-bit ISO and here for 64-bit If, like me, you installed any of the betas and RCs, … Continue reading →

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Xiphos on SL 6

Posted on March 2, 2011 by ehurst

Just a few quick notes here. There is as yet no repository offering Xiphos and Sword for SL. You can easily Yum the Clucene and development package from SL repositories. I decided to grab Sword and Xiphos SRPMs from the … Continue reading →

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Scientific Linux 6-RC2 on Inspiron 1525

Posted on March 1, 2011 by ehurst

It’s not that I didn’t like running Debian Squeeze on my laptop, it’s that there was no reason to ever use the laptop since my desktop was identical. I noticed Scientific Linux (SL) was close to releasing their 6.0 and … Continue reading →

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