Doesn’t perform badly, I’ve been using it recently with Ruby code, and I like how it colourises the code to make editing code easier, and performs it auto-completion and method lookup (basically all the features you’d expect with a modern IDE). It’s does’t startup as fast as using Emacs, or vi, but I find the [...]

I’d heard that Dell were offering Ubuntu Linux on some of their laptops and I hadn’t really looked into it. But I came across this page the other day and it’s pretty neat to get Ubuntu (or any Linux) preloaded on a laptop from a major vendor: http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/linux_3x?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=d It’s good to support coming from a [...]

I figured it’s time for me to try and install kde4 again! Previously I had to remove KDE4 due to package conflicts. There are installation instructions at: http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html So following the instructions there on what changes to make to your sources.list, and then run: aptitude update I’ve had some dependency issues, and installing the kde4 [...]

I thought I’d start looking at using Debian’s experimental E17 packages. I commented out all other E17 repo’s from my source.list and installed the debian e17 package. It installs a minimal amount of related packages, and there doesn’t seem to be lot of e17 packages available in the experimental repo sudo aptitude install e17 Reading [...]

I’m thinking of getting a new laptop either the Lenova ThinkPad T400 (which is a replacement for the T61), or the IdeaPad U330 to replace my aging Dell 700m The big thing for me is do they work with Linux (for me specifically Debian or Ubuntu). For anyone interested in either laptop, looks like the [...]

If you get this error message: W: GPG error: http://people.debian.org unstable Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 212253A4F641D1A6 W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems This is because you don’t have the public key for Randall’s Nvidia Debian packages! The following [...]

An interview with Rasterman on OSnews, founder of Enlightenment, on E17: http://www.osnews.com/story/19679 When will E17 be released? … does Rasterman have any timeframe in mind for the release of the final version of E17? His reply was to be expected – “No comment.” Smiley face included. The big blocker right now is a lack of [...]

Quickie install instructions: Add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list: # repo from Falko Schmidt: deb http://debian.alphagemini.org/ unstable main This will also require you to have Debian’s unstable branch listed in your sources.list . If your have Enlightenment DR16 installed or any other versions of E17 installed you’ll need to uninstall them: sudo aptitude remove [...]

Update: I’ve decided to use Falko’s packages, see my posting here: http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/04/24/e17-on-debian/ If you want to run E17 on Debian you have 4 choices (as of April 2008): Wait for E17 packages to make it into Debian’s experimental repository: http://sicherheitsschwankung.de/post/jan/2008-03-31/going-debconf-08 The Debian E17 team are in the process of loading packages into Debian experimental branch [...]

Ever since my original post on installing Enlightenment E17 on Debian and Ubuntu things have changed, such as the server that hosted the package repositories for both Debian & Ubuntu going off-line (supposedly temporarily but it’s been offline for almost 6 months). Also, I’ve been having issues with E17 working correctly on my laptop running [...]