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LAMP refresh
The LAMP appliance has gone through a bit of an overhaul and is now better than ever. You can now install or boot one of the pre-built virtual appliances and get a site up without ever touching a command line. … Continue reading
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Snow at South Point
Tonight there was snow at South Point! Well, not the real stuff… but a nice sprinkling in a controlled area, none on the roads, you know what that does to NC roads. Tonight was the annual Tree lighting to kick … Continue reading
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The road to a better Xorg
Was just reading a bit about plans for Xorg 7.3. The short version is no xorg.conf, completely dynamic. And possibly even hotplug for monitors. This would be a great thing for Linux on the desktop. Good configuration tools are lacking … Continue reading
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Tomboy: Now even cooler!
Just packaged up the a snapshot of the current cvs HEAD of tomboy which includes the cool new note pinning feature. It seems plenty stable, and imho a very useful feature. I practically run my life through tomboy, and this … Continue reading
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Beryl and intel, what a great match
Laurie has a Dell Inspiron 6000 that has had an early Foresight release candidate on it for a good year now. She finally said she wanted all the latest cool stuff and wanted a reinstall. I grabbed the latest isos … Continue reading
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Beryl and AIGLX
Seems the latest open source ati driver works with AIGLX and beryl. It is quite impressive, and I am glad to see the performance is at least on par with if not better than Xgl/Compiz. Foresight comes with AIGLX by … Continue reading
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Now Xen friendly!
rBuilder Online now supports generating Xen images! There are a bunch of appliances available already as Xen images, check them out. Included are 3 of my projects, MySQL Appliance, PostgreSQL Appliance, and the LAMP Appliance. To use any of these … Continue reading
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Trick or Treat?
Had a good night of trick or treating… the kids had a blast. Drew was a Carolina Hurricane’s hockey player (I loved the shoulder pads) and Ashlyn was a Princess. She has been talking about being a princess all year.
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Announcing Foresight Linux 0.9.8.3
This release includes a bunch of version bumps and bug fixes. Most significant updates are Firefox 2.0 and Flash 9. Also sporting Conary 1.1.10 and rAA 1.0.7 which we have started to rebrand for Foresight. It still has the rPath … Continue reading
Firefox 2.0
There has been so much hype about Firefox 2.0, I figured I would blog to let folks know it is available in Foresight. To get it: sudo conary update firefox Last night was like a big “Web browser” night. I … Continue reading
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