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Heron’s penguin

May 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

There are a lot of reviews of the latest Ubuntu release (codenamed Hardy Heron) so I decided to write something different, from a developer and system administrator perspective.
As a desktop system, it definitely has some flaws, just like if they were rushing to release this version: it has firefox 3 beta 5 by default (known […]

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Tags: Development · Linux · OS

“When you see me again, it won’t be me”

February 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Ever removed a SCSI disk from a Linux box? No? Well, you could. After all SCSI is designed with hotplug in mind. There’s even a handy function in the Linux kernel to remove a device which powers it down and then removes from the list.Today we hardly have SCSI disks at home but we have […]

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Tags: Linux