Last night, I had to scramble for my portable harddrive to salvage what I could from my old laptop. The harddrive was making some absolutely horrible grinding and scraping noises, I’d never heard anything like it! I copied a bit of music I had downloaded, some wallpapers, and a couple of scripts. They are all [...]
Filed in Computing, under Computing, Distro Hopping, Laptop, Linux on July 4, 2008
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Later this week I’ll be installing CRUX, by which Arch was inspired, on my old Toshiba Equium EA60-181 laptop. I’ve got the ISO downloaded, will be burning it to disk today, and then I just have to wait for Folding@home on the laptop to finish and submit its current WU. I’ll be completely formatting the [...]
Filed in Linux, under CRUX, Distro Hopping, Linux on July 1, 2008
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I have just compiled another list of distributions and operating systems I want to try. I shall post it here in case you’re curious. Key: - = Tried, and finished with. + = Tried, and want to try again. > = Permament favourite. * = Not yet tried.
Linux (8/13)
- Ubuntu
- Xubuntu
- Kubuntu
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Filed in Computing, under BSD, Computing, Distribution, Distro Hopping, Linux, UNIX on June 26, 2008
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I have just finished compiling the list of OS’s I want to try at some point. When I get a new laptop I’ll try a few of these and stick with each for a few days at least - however I don’t expect to stick to any of them because I just really like Arch.
I’m [...]
Filed in Linux, under Distribution, Distro Hopping, Linux on May 16, 2008
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