I was so impressed with the latest iteration of my oldest favorite mini distro, especially its KDE implementation, that I immediately wanted to make Granular’s next release look like and as fast as Slax. Slax 7 comes loaded with all the bare essentials that actually make sense. Plus its ability to run from a USB […]
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Raspberry Pi looks delicious
Posted on under Coding & Tech, Open-Source — 4 CommentsA geeky thing for the geeks, but generally touted as an educational device – that’s what Raspberry Pi (wiki) is in simplest words. It has pretty much the same hardware configuration as did my first PC. And now that it’s finally out in the wild, it’s perhaps every geek’s dream to extract the hell of […]
Mint 13 Screenies
Posted on under Coding & Tech, Open-Source — 6 CommentsHere’s the fast, beautiful thing on my Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop. 🙂
A new init system in Linux
Posted on under Coding & Tech, Open-Source — Leave a commentIt was bound to happen some day. The existing init system in use by most of the present Linux distros is really not leveraging the performance capabilities of modern hardware to the fullest. Spawning processes one-by-one to get the system up and running costs a lot of precious time, when it is possible to do […]
TweetDeck — Installing in Ubuntu 64-bit
Posted on under Tutorials — 3 CommentsWith Adobe AIR‘s (the runtime required by TweetDeck) official support for Linux ended, and no Linux 64-bit edition already in place, installing TweetDeck it in Ubuntu 64-bit is one hell of a task. You can get it installed in your 64-bit Linux system by following one of these tutorials, but chances are you’ll end up […]