I am right now working on an interesting requirement. We need to netboot a few diskless clients from a server that is running on GNU/Linux. A few clients would run GNU/Linux on then and a few will run Solaris on them. I am exploring about the possibility of ...

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I have installed Ubuntu 6.10 beta today. After installing emacs21 and emacs-snapshot-gtk, I saw that the font faces are totally messed up. After some search on the Internet, I have found that they have changed the font path in edgy from /usr/share/X11/fonts to /usr/share/fonts ...

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<praveen@aphrodite> (Fri Sep 29 21:11:28) [/store/ubuntu]
$ axel -a -n 64 http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/6.10/ubuntu-6.10-beta-desktop-i386.iso
Initializing download: http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/6.10/ubuntu-6.10-beta-desktop-i386.iso
File size: 716517376 bytes
Opening output file ubuntu-6.10-beta-desktop-i386.iso
Starting download

[ 73%] [0123456789 ...

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As we all know Gnome 2.16 is out. I always have a question after each Gnome release. When will it be available in Debian SID? This page helps you to track the status of Gnome 2.16 in Debian.

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There is an official confirmation about the release date of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 a.k.a. "etch" in the Debian announcement list. It is going to be released in December 2006. That is going to be pretty quick compared with the previous release cycles. Take a look at ...

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Gnome is my all-time favourite desktop. I use Gnome 2.14 on my Debian SID. Yesterday night I did an upgrade and I think due to some of the packages that were pulled in yesterday, my Gnome won't start today morning. When I logged in from the GDM console ...

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Normally when people have more than one network interface on their PC or laptop and using linux, they may face a problem of network interface names eth0 and eth1 getting swapped betweeen the the interfaces on every reboot. The fact that which interface is getting what name is not predictable ...

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My debian laptop is connected to Internet directly at home and through a HTTP proxy at office. For handling apt-get, I was having a shell script which sets the HTTP_PROXY, http_proxy, FTP_PROXY, ftp_proxy environment variables to the approrpriate proxy server on demand and then I do sudo apt-get <whatever>. All ...

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I am literally breaking my head for the last two days on installing Debian on my new Toshiba A80-P4321 laptop. I hope I will make some progress tonight. I will write a a new post on the installation.

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My freaking harddisk which had Linux crashed again. Yesterday, I got a replacement for that one. I had to install Linux back again. After a long thought of choice between Debian and Ubuntu, I have decided to go for Ubuntu. I installed Hoary from CD and upgraded to Breezy. I ...

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