I don’t know what is going on behind the scenes with my new install of Ubuntu Linux. I don’t have any benchmarks to run a test but computer response appears to be a bit snappier or quicker than I was experiencing with Fedora. It is basically the same software with a little different packaging so I don’t quite understand why. I did change the way the partitions are created. In Fedora I had variable size...
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Fedora’s Out To Pasture
I had to let the Fedora 18 spherical cow out to pasture. She just wouldn’t give me any milk. Nothing is more wasteful in a sandbox than a dry cow, except maybe a cat with well, you know, ha! Now I am running Ubuntu 12.10 in the sandbox. That’s what the sandbox is, a place to try things you wouldn’t do to a critical computer. I also took out the dual boot I had into...
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It’s obvious I get a lot of enjoyment about playing around in Linux. I see I can use it in many ways that were not possible when I first got interested in what Linux could do. In those early days I just wanted something to run packet radio BBS for my ham station. A friend of mine Fred Sole WB8LVP got me into early Slackware distro’s (Slackware is still alive and kicking) as he was...
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This is for you Linux users… The Spherical Cow, AKA Fedora 18 wasn’t running too good today. It became constipated trying to do a normal software update from the X-Window GUI. It said there were 96 updates waiting and then would just hang. I tried several remedies and reboots but the cure was at the command line. It’s nice to not forget your “roots” so to speak. (That’s a deliberate pun…) I opened a terminal...
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