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Testing Linux I: OpenSuse and Fedora

January 7, 2010ambsLeave a Comment on Testing Linux I: OpenSuse and Fedora

I got a PC laptop for work with… Windows. Decided to install a Linux on it, and decided to give a look at current distributions. At the moment I was looking for a non-newbie system but with some basic configuration issues automated. For example, I desesperate when I need to configure a wireless manually. I […]

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Moblin 2.1 – First Impressions

October 18, 2009ambsLeave a Comment on Moblin 2.1 – First Impressions

After some disasters with Ubuntu on my Acer Aspire One (it just stopped working, X crashing and other problems) I tried moblin again. Installed version 2.1 beta and my first impression is that it is more stable than 2.0 at the moment. The browser seems more stable, loading pages faster. Unfortunately the flash plugin is […]

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tar guessing compression method

September 19, 2009September 19, 2009ambs1 Comment on tar guessing compression method

Finally (not sure how long ago, but I just found out about it three days ago) the tar unix utility (gnu version) can guess what the compression method to use. Now I can forget that -j is used for bzip2, -z is used for gzip, and some other for xz. Just use ‘tar axf’ for […]

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