Eric Mesa | June 2, 2009
SimplyMepis is a Debian-based distro developed by Warren Woodford who believed that Mandrake Linux was too hard for new users. (Mandrake, now Mandriva, was the Ubuntu of its time). I’ve heard him interviewed a few times on The Linux Link Tech Show and he seems to be of the realist (as opposed to idealist) school [...]
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Eric Mesa | June 1, 2009
I recently finally moved over to my 64bit computer. I’ve been using Fedora 10 64-bit for at least two weeks now. I was having a lot of trouble with migrating my Tomboy data over from the 32-bit install. It wouldn’t start up and the error message was not as helpful as it [...]
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Tags: 64-bit, Fedora 10, Tomboy, WEP, Wifi, WPA
Eric Mesa | August 21, 2008
Many people know the mantra – if you are a gamer or office worker, you use the OS from Redmond. If you are a creative person such as a musician, video editor, etc you use a Mac. Geeks use Linux. But more and more people are moving away from Windows and seeking either Macs or [...]
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Eric Mesa | August 17, 2007
Happy Birthday to the Compact Disc – it’s 25 today.
2 Days Ago, Happy 10th Birthday to Gnome
and Yesterday happy 14th Birthday to Debian
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Eric Mesa | July 31, 2007
For a while it seemed as though Debian couldn’t stop the hemorrhage of distros decided to be based on Ubuntu instead of Debian. For months on end people talked about whether Debian was still relevant and whether its long release cycle was to blame. Well, now it seems that perhaps some of those [...]
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Eric Mesa | April 10, 2007
First of all, Debian has finally turned 4.0! It’s been YEARS in the making and they are 4 months late, but better late than never! Believe it or not, this is a huge improvement over the prior release cycle! With Ubuntu and Fedora releasing every sixth months now, it’s up to Debian [...]
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Eric Mesa | October 30, 2006
As you may have heard recently, Debian has a problem with Firefox due to the fact that the artwork is not released under a free license. This is an extension of problems they’ve had with GNU’s documentation and the clause that allows some parts to remain uneditable. So Debian has forked Firefox into [...]
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Eric Mesa | January 21, 2006
that’s it! Debian is now done installing! Much better!
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Eric Mesa | January 21, 2006
The Fedora install was going so well…it was on disc 3 with nary a problem. Then it had the same problem again. For some reason, in the middle of the install it rebooted the laptop again. Frankly, I’m not down with these 3 day installs. Sorry, but my laptop’s days with [...]
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Eric Mesa | December 5, 2005
What does DSL mean to you? If you’re a technological person, it might mean Digital Subscriber Line, a way to access the internet. If you’re not a technological person….well, just ask my sister-in-law what it means to her. But to Linux users, DSL has even a third meaning, Damn Small Linux. [...]
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