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 [...]

Regularly drinking coffee may help prevent or reduce the symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7326839.stm And binge drinking can affect memory recall (at least in young drinkers): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7328863.stm Ubuntu Linux to be certifiied on some of Sun’s hardware: http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN0236534620080402 A lot of Linux enthusiasts have taken to Ubuntu, and all of its versions are freely available. [...]

Specifically for Debian, see here: http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/apt.html I’m not sure what software is in their repo besides Picasa, Google Earth might be there too, but I’ve been using the Debian package, googleearth-package, to install Google Earth. See http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/ for instructions for other supported versions of Linux.

Toshiba has a site dedicated to using Linux on their Laptops: http://linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp/linux/index.htm Toshiba supports the Linux community with the TOSHIBA Digital Media Engineering Corporation’s Linux support portal. This portal offers links to both Toshiba and 3rd-party sources for end-user and developer support for the Linux operating system on Toshiba portable PCs.

I just submitted this to Slashdot, as I think it’s interesting what the end result will be? Will the OLPC get squeezed out? Will US kids like ‘em (I think they will). bettlebrox writes “Birmingham, Albama, may be the first US city to purchase the OLPC, per the Boston Herald: ‘The City Council has approved [...]

So I wanted to install Eclipse at home, the version that comes with Debian is 3.2.2-5 and I wanted to try 3.3.x and install WTP and some other plugins that aren’t packaged with Debian (anyone know why?). After downloading and installing Eclipse the welcome screen would appear with an error message saying: Error creating the [...]

Boston Linux Installfest XXVIII When: Saturday, March 1, 2008 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Where: MIT Building E-51, Room 061, 2 Amherst St, Cambridge What you need to bring: Your computer, monitor, power strips and yourLinux distributions. We do have copies of some distributions. In general we have expertise with most distros, but if [...]

A friend forwarded the e-mail below to me. It looks like there is a beta or prerelease of the Linux version of Adobe Air available. However, poking around Adobe’s site I can’t any references to this release and Googling hasn’t turned up anything useful (except for doc from last year saying Air for Linux will [...]

Dell provides Ubuntu support for updating the BIOS of Dell systems: http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/12/05/37446.aspx … be sure the Universe section is enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list, then run as root: wget -q -O – http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/bootstrap.cgi | bash aptitude install firmware-addon-dell aptitude install $(bootstrap_firmware -a) update_firmware Thanks Dell!

Works great! Following the instructions here: http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html However, if you install the KDE4 kdeartwork package, any remaining kde3 packages, such as k3b & amarok, will uninstalled and aren’t available for KDE4 on Debian yet. See the screenshot that highlights transparency: However, this does seems buggier than on my laptop running Ubuntu. For instance, whenever I [...]