A New Linux Distro

This is my interesting new project. I’m sure I will be heckled for adding yet another distro into the mix, but I think this could provide something a little different to existing distros. Applications The first major overhaul for me is package management. It’s the bane of the Linux world, and is often heckled for [...]

The Choice is Yours!

The first thing to consider: What is an operating system? An operating system is something you never see, but does the important job of listening to what you want to do then telling that to your hardware. The ‘kernel’ is like the system core that makes everything happen. Windows is what you actually see and [...]

Attack of the Macs

I’m sure you’ve seen the numerous blog-posts dotted around the net about the fact most university students these days seem to have a Macbook of some description (I can testify for instance in my flat that 3 out of the 7 students own one), and in that respect this is no different. What this article [...]

Damned Linux Drivers

I’ve recently has a few driver issues I’d like to share with you. Printers I experienced a whole new world yesterday when I attempted to connect a Lexmark Z235 to a laptop running 64-bit Ubuntu (and another PC running 32-bit PCLinuxOS) – no drivers currently exist for it in the Linux world. I tried using [...]

A Tribute to Personal Computer World

It is strange to think that just last year this great magazine celebrated its 30th year. Founded in 1978 it was the first recorded coining of the phrase ‘personal computer’ (which was not used until the founding of PC World (computer superstore) and the IBM PC). You can view the cover of the first issue [...]

Triple-Booting Fun

My Sony Vaio was working perfectly well. I had the pre-installed version of Vista Home Premium (Sony remove a lot of crapware and install some genuinely useful stuff such as Microsoft Office 2007 (non-commercial edition) and Adobe Studio. Not so sure about VAIO media guide though…!) and Ubuntu Intrepid (toggling between KDE and Gnome depending [...]

The Latest Setup

I’ve finally found a Linux setup I’m wholly happy with (or at least mostly…) On my Sony VAIO it now dual-boots Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid” and Windows Vista SP1. Though using Vista is not particularly ideal, it does run all the latest and greatest apps which most of the world want me to run. On Ubuntu [...]

Gnome Do Doesn’t

Yes, as the title suggests, the very latest Gnome Do (Version 0.8) is a complete pain in the neck to set up. Fedora 10 is a great distro and is a real competitor to Ubuntu, but this week it has shown just how far from cutting-edge the Fedora team really is. In attempting to install [...]

Fedora v Ubuntu

Let’s Get Ready to Rumble! The competitors? In the red corner: Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex”! In the blue corner: Fedora 10 “Cambridge”! Ubuntu 8.10 This is possibly the most bizarre distro Canonical has sponsored (and this is not withstanding Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, which felt that Firefox 3 Beta 5 was stable enough for 5 year [...]

A Trivially Hardy Upgrade

Ubuntu never started out very high in my estimations. Here’s what I had to say about Breezy Badger: “Why the hell have they named a distro after a field-animal with wind? There’s a lot of hot air surrounfing Ubuntu if you ask me – all this hype around a ‘farting agricultural pest Linux’! Why go [...]