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I finally got wireless working on my Dell laptop under Linux. It turned out my Linksys 802.11g PC card was v2 which uses a TI chipset rather than Broadcom. Installing the v2 Linksys driver with ndiswrapper got it working.
One annoying thing about Linksys and many other network hardware manufacturers is that they often use very [...]

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Wireless support in Linux just plain sucks. After trying to get WPA working on my Dell Inspiron for a few days, I finally gave up and switched my network back to WEP. I’m still having trouble to get it to connect to my network using my Linksys 802.11g PC card, even though it seems to [...]

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Via Slashdot: El Lobo writes “For the Linux desktop, 2002 was an important year. Since then, we have continuously been fed point releases which added bits of functionality and speed improvements, but no major revision has yet seen the light of day. What’s going on? A big problem with GNOME is that it lacks any [...]

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A brilliant comic from Everybody Loves Eric Raymond that perfectly captures the essence of OpenSUSE 10.2, one of the most bloated Linux distros I’ve seen (via Ubuntu Blogs)

SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Wading through 3 feet of s**t”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2006/12/22/wading-through-3-feet-of-st/” });

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I’m really looking forward to Linux kernel 2.6.20, which may be in the next Ubuntu release. A few days ago they announced PS3 support. Now they’ve added kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) support, which makes it a lot easier to implement virtualization software such as Xen.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Kernel 2.6.20 will have virtualization support”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2006/12/12/kernel-2620-will-have-virtualization-support/” });

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Matt Galvin got the upcoming release of Ubuntu running natively on his MacBook Pro. This isn’t a Boot Camp hack - GRUB now has EFI support.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Feisty working solo on a MacBook Pro”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2006/12/09/feisty-working-solo-on-a-macbook-pro/” });

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XPressLinux has pretty much taken over all of my free time. Today I finally released a feature complete beta with all known issues fixed.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “XPressLinux”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2006/12/08/xpresslinux/” });

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Scott gives an overview of some of the changes that we’ll see in Feisty here. One of the biggest changes will be an enhanced desktop with 3D effects and a more polished appearance. Networking is also improved and made easier, and it’ll be much easier to install third party packages without screwing up APT. It [...]

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Via SlashDot: Steve Ballmer claims Linux infringes on Microsoft’s intellectual property:

“In a question-and-answer session after his keynote speech at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) conference in Seattle, Ballmer said Microsoft was motivated to sign a deal with SUSE Linux distributor Novell earlier this month because Linux ‘uses our intellectual property’ and Microsoft wanted [...]

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My server is back up running Edgy Eft and it seems stable so far. I installed Edgy under Parallels and found it very reliable, although it looks like upgrading a Dapper system seems to cause problems for a lot of people.
The project I mentioned a few days ago is XPressLinux, which is just getting started. [...]

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Yesterday I attempted to upgrade my server from Ubuntu 6.06 (dapper) to 6.10 (edgy eft) with disastrous results. The upgrade was incomplete & after it finished X11 wouldn’t start. I booted up in recovery mode and completed the install and was able to start X11 and have most things working. Unfortunately it got worse from [...]

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I started a new project related to Linux, which I can’t say too much about. I’ll post more details as it progresses.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “New Project”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2006/10/27/new-project/” });

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Ubuntu Linux 6.10, known as Edgy Eft, was officially released today. I’ve been running the release candidate on several machines for a while. I find that Parallels Desktop is great for testing out a new release like this. I’m still running 6.06 (Dapper) on my server, though.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Edgy Eft is out”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2006/10/26/edgy-eft-is-out/” });

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Mac On Linux

Originally uploaded by mike3k.

I installed Ubuntu Linux on my G4 minitower, which I now have set up to boot OS X 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, as well as Mac OS 9. I also got MacOnLinux running and was able to boot Tiger while running [...]

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Here are some very nice enhancements for Linux desktops using an accelerated video driver. Unfortunately it won’t work with the old ATI Radeon card in my Linux box. I’ve been using Baghira with KDE for a nice Mac-like desktop.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Eye candy for Linux”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2006/10/16/eye-candy-for-linux/” });

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One of my big projects in the last week was setting up LDAP on my Linux server and configuring a Mac to use it for authentication. It took me a few days to get the server working, but once I understood the schema & naming conventions, I was able to figure it out easily.
I needed [...]

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The Ubuntu people are working on yet another init replacement: Upstart, which looks a lot like Launchd. They avoided launchd because it wasn’t free until recently, but now that it is, they should support launchd instead. We don’t need another incompatible init system.
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SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Reinventing the wheel”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2006/09/05/reinventing-the-wheel/” });

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Today I added an internal DVD burner to replace the CD writer in my server. I got a Toshiba 16x DVD+-R/RW with LightScribe support. It will make a good backup device for my server. I originally had an 8G Travan tape drive. The tapes were slow, expensive, hard to find, and limited capacity. DVD-R media [...]

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I added two 320G drives to my server, configured as RAID1. I previously had a RAID1 setup of two 120G drives. Unfortunately I don’t have enough drive bays & power connectors for more than 3 drives, so I had to remove one of the 120s. After some manual editing of the partition table and deleting [...]

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