Last night, I spent a few hours migrating this production server from Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” to Debian 5.0 “Lenny”. Many have asked me online and in person why I would make the switch, especially being a heavy Ubuntu advocate. I hope I can explain that in a clear manner in this post. But first, [...]
Debian released 5.0 codenamed “Lenny” last night, after just 1 month shy of two years since 4.0 “Etch” was released. I’ve been running it on my messaging server for nearly a year now, and it’s great. I had one hiccup with the kernel not wanting to communicate with my HappyMeal ethernet cards, but a fix [...]
With the release of Ubuntu 9.04 about 2 months out, Mark Shuttleworth will be announcing the codename of Ubuntu 9.10 fairly soon. This gets the community excited, as historically, Ubuntu releases have had entertaining codenames with interesting patterns. For example, the first three releases were after badgers: Ubuntu 4.10 “Warty Warthog”, Ubuntu 5.04 “Hoary Hedgehog” [...]
I’ve had this discussion a couple of times with some friends about which looks better: Ubuntu or Fedora. So, I decided to take a poll from my readers, and see what you think. Which vendor does a better job at artwork? I’ve provided screenshots of the default wallpaper for each release on both distributions. Now, [...]
I hate Facebook Application requests, and I think more and more of my family and friends are coming to agreeance. To put it bluntly, I’m not interested in taking the “What kind of [insert random noun here] are you?” quiz. I’m not interested in playing YoVille (although my wife seems to enjoy it). I’m not [...]
