Monday, October 03, 2005

OpenSolaris what am I doing....

Again not sure... I installed it on my second workstation along side Windows 2K (its for school man... I will probably do my homework in wine anyway) OpenSolaris as a desktop is interesting to say the least. They basically hacked the crap out of Gnome called it Java Desktop System and ...Oh wait you thought I was going to use CDE. Come on... wtf is wrong with you. I install a bunch of stuff from Blastwave.org but I gotta tell you that this thing is a beast. I feel like Linux circa 1999 w/ RH7.2. Stable as all get-out but I have to config everything by hand. Open < Free and Sun meant no wheels, no steering wheels, and no gas. I know someone with a Sun Workstation that is do in so I will wait until I see what a PAY version is like before passing judgment. Is it me or is McNeally weasel-like?


"Steve stood up and said he was giving Mr. McNeally $700 million..." -- LJ





Gentoo ---> Fedora Core 4 what am I doing....

So I am moving my main workstation from beloved Gentoo to Fedora Core 4. Why? I am not sure. I have a need to get in touch with my Red Hat skills again and grok my RPM KungFoo to its fullness. RPM skill is something that is hard fought. Gentoo is still on the laptop though as it is too slow to run something as behemoth as FC4.
Yum and Apt are the only way to go in this sit...so here is the
"for i in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*;do cat $i;done"
rpm http://apt.sw.be/ fedora/4/en/i386 dag
rpm-src http://apt.sw.be/ fedora/4/en/i386 dag
rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net/ fedora/linux/4/i386 core extras updates freshrpms
rpm http://rpm.livna.org/ fedora/4/i386 lvn
rpm-src http://rpm.livna.org/ fedora/4/i386 lvn
rpm http://rpm.greysector.net/apt/ fc4 stable testing
rpm http://dr17.saaf.co.uk/ fedora/4/en/i386 e17
rpm http://apt.sw.be/ dries/fedora/fc4/i386 dries
rpm-src http://apt.sw.be/ dries/fedora/fc4/i386 dries

Sunday, October 02, 2005

This comes from gnome-blogger.... a great app

Thanks to Seth Nickell for a killer app ...