Category: Linux
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Ubuntu to abandon X11 – The H Open Source: News and Features
Ubuntu to abandon X11 – The H Open Source: News and Features
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Linus Torvalds awarded 2010 C&C Prize – The H Open Source: News and Features
Linus Torvalds awarded 2010 C&C Prize – The H Open Source: News and Features
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The Linux migration project in the Swiss Canton of Solothurn – The H Open Source: News and Features
A crash landing for Linux? – The H Open Source: News and Features
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had a problem executing “ssh -X” into my new Linux box
Googled for the obvious messages, found myself in an Ubuntu forum, and I must tell you this: Never look for help in any such forum! More incompetence than competence, you only find yourself fooled by school kids. This solved my problem. It had to do with IPv6, which was set up for the kernel, but…
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Plan 9 from Bell Labs (THE website)
Plan 9 from Bell Labs (the link to THE website) The last time I gave Plan 9 a try was, when I worked with Derwent in London. That was pretty much in vain then, I just couldn’t really get it running on a PC. But nowadays they provide you with images for virtual machines. I still…
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what’s the right Unix-ish software and hardware in 2010?
In 1994 I had no doubt: it’s a PC with some Linux distro on it. And changing my mind was out of the question until not so long ago. Now in 2010 I am doing things on a Samsung 17″ notebook running some openSUSE Linux, and I am doing things on a MacBook Pro with…
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set an ACL on /var/run and locked myself out a little
I wanted to run a script of mine with output in /var/log and its PID captured in a file in /var/run. I must have gotten something wrong with the ACL I set on them, as GDM did not succeed starting my next session afterwords. Took me a little to find out, how that came, but…
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no more worries with winmail.dat
How often did I receive e-mail with a single weird winmail.dat attached, actually incorporating quite a few more real attachments … How often did this drive me nuts … During the last few years I was in the lucky position, that my webmail software actually supported me there by showing me the contents and allowing…