Last night, Christer and I were playing with the Ubuntu 8.04 installer, trying to break it, and get any last bugs reported before final is released tomorrow.
What I noticed last night, during the install really surprised me. ReiserFS is a screaming filesystem compared to XFS. After doing the install 3 times on 2 [...]
In my last post, I gave you a glimpse to runlevels, their purpose, and how they affect the overall operation of your box. Today, in this post, I am going to dig deeper into runlevels, as well as manipulating services in specific runlevels. I’m going to show you why you want to do [...]
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Disclaimer: I don’t know enough about Upstart to hold a low-level conversation about it. What I do know of Upstart is what I have read on the Ubuntu wiki, the Upstart FAQ and a few docs scattered here and there around the web. If I have misrepresented Upstart, its goals or intentions, or [...]
I was spending some time today on Wikipedia, reading the entry on Ubuntu, and something hit me- something which I’ve known for a long while. I decided to sit down and blog it for those who haven’t really thought about it. Maybe this post will catch you unaware, and maybe not.
Ubuntu is ONE [...]
There is a very obvious bug when attempting to set SGID on a directory when you are not a member of the group that has ownership on that directory. For example, follow along with me in the following example on your box:
[Wed 08/01/30 06:55 MST][pts/1][x86_64/linux-gnu/2.6.22-14-generic][4.3.4]
<aaron@kratos:~>
zsh 162 % mkdir ~/tmp
[Wed 08/01/30 06:56 MST][pts/1][x86_64/linux-gnu/2.6.22-14-generic][4.3.4]
<aaron@kratos:~>
zsh 163 % [...]
When creating logical volumes, you may want to backup your data before you run ‘pvcreate’. Take it from me, who is sitting at his computer at 1 in the morning pulling his hair out, as he lost a *lot* of data, and is currently reinstalling Ubuntu 7.10. Yeah, I know all about version [...]
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Per John [...]
This is just a quick post to say that I am really impressed with Ubuntu 7.10. I’ve been running Debian Sid on my laptop for the past 4 months. Although I’m running 7.10 on my old bed-ridden laptop and on my dual-boot desktop, I haven’t really spent the time to play with it. [...]
Well, I made the plunge. I wiped my hard drive clean last night, and installed Foresight to bare metal. Why not a VM like originally planned? I don’t know what the issues were, but KVM was sloooooooooow. Reading up on all the support questions, docs, wiki’s and sites I could find, [...]
This may or may not be interesting to any of you, but I’m writing about it at any event. Earlier today, I was browsing around Distrowatch.com, and I came across the FAQ. The 2nd to last question in the FAQ is as follows:
You list so many distributions. Which one do you use:
In [...]
Lately, I’ve had on my mind the desire to run different operating systems, other than Debian and Ubuntu. I’ve always had this weird interest in operating systems, so when I discovered Unix and Linux, it intrigued me to run them on my own system. Unix never went far, as the only “distro” I [...]
One of the big advantages of typing in the Dvorak layout is the comfort that comes with it. It is estimated that you spend nearly 70% of your time typing on the home row, with only 30% of your time stretching for letters off of the home row. If that’s the case, then [...]
Yesterday, I acquired a Sun Microsystems UltraSparc 10. What was the first thing I did? Put Linux on it of course. Debian Etch was the ultimate decision. Why not Ubuntu? I already have Dapper Drake powering my main server, so I thought I’d give Etch a try as a [...]
