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I tried to install Debian onto an old PPC iMac with 300MB RAM without success. Firstly, the testing network and business card installers would segfault when booting. A known problem […]
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FreeNAS 8.0 will be GNU/Linux, no longer FreeBSD
Looks like FreeNAS will switch from FreeBSD to Debian GNU/Linux for the next major release. In July this year Volker Theile registered a new project called CoreNAS, which is what […]
Read moreLinux on an Apple Xserve EFI only machine
We have a few of these Apple Xserve machines at work which weren’t doing much, so I thought I’d make better use of them. Naturally, this meant installing Linux on […]
Read moreYum still on the menu?
Update: I’ve tried to post my results back to Seth’s thread but it won’t work, so I’ve emailed him instead. In response to my article comparing Yum and Apt (at […]
Read moreHaving Yum for Breakfast
This week I decided to write a comparative article between Yum and Apt (the package managers). Using Fedora 11 and Ubuntu 9.04, I performed various tests and benchmarked both the […]
Read moreAuto login user with X environment under Debian
I am building a Digital Preservation Recorder live CD for work and have successfully done so using Arch Linux. Now I wanted to try Debian and see how it compares. […]
Read moreChanging priorities
I’m scripting some sys admin tasks in Debian which require the installation of packages like Postfix. I don’t want it to prompt me with questions, so I knew I had […]
Read moreThe long ARM of Debian
I bought a D-Link DNS-323 NAS box a while ago with the mind to put Debian on it (it already ships with Linux, but I wanted more control). Previously I […]
Read moreLet’s be firmware about this
I’m not an expert on this subject matter, nor a Debian developer, but I do love Debian. I couldn’t help but be disheartened by the results of the vote on […]
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