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Knoppix 6.2

Saturday, 26 December 2009 16:17 |

Written by chris_f |

It's lightweight, it's Debian-based, and it's a favorite of hackers. Its developers are so proud of its portability that most everywhere you go, they'll tell you not to install it on a hard drive. It's the basis for Morphix, MEPIS, Damn Small, Musix, network penetration-testing liveCDs like Phlak, and router/firewall distros. With this newest version (6.2) we decided to see what it was all about. First thing I did was install it on a hard drive.

Chakra Alpha 4

Friday, 25 December 2009 22:47 |

Written by chris_f |

Everyone around here knows I like me some ArchLinux. It does everything; it can be as huge or as minimal as you want, and you can use it for server deployments, standard desktop, or anything in between. It's everything you need and nothing you don't. It has one of the best package managers in the business. It's available as a pure 64-bit OS. The community support is outstanding. 3 of my virtual servers (as well as my workstation host) are Arch. The Linux From Scratch/Roll Your Own project is being done in an Arch host. Did I mention you can do anything with it?

So why hasn't someone taken this uber-awesome distro and made it more user-friendly?

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Okay, I'm back now...

Tuesday, 08 December 2009 23:12 |

Written by mike_k |

Okay, so I've been gone a while.

The home automation project is temporarily on hold, becuase yours truly got unemployed, and can't afford even the cheap hardware required for that project. As the weeks have dragged on with no income, I got bored...

So, I decided to start mucking about with Perl. Why? Well, 'cause I can! It's free (If you have Linux, it's probably already installed on your machine, just do a "whereis perl" at the command line, and you'll get the path to Perl. Then do a "perl -v" and you'll get the version you have installed.)