time to consider linux

Sunday, 11 May 2008 1:23 am by noel
posted in tech

with windows xp on the way out and vista on its way … somewhere (or nowhere-my opinion) maybe it time for people or businesses to seriously consider linux as a real and viable replacement, if not an alternative. i stumbled on to this interesting comparison by infomationweek between seven linux distributions. there are literally hundreds [...]

ubuntu 8.04 lts

Saturday, 26 April 2008 9:36 am by noel
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hardy heron — officially known as ubuntu 8.04 lts — was released april 24. “lts” versions of ubuntu enjoy long term support — 3 years for the desktop version and 5 years for the server version.

i tried upgrading online on the 24th but i guess the servers were pretty busy.

persistence leads to downloading of new [...]

azureus on ubuntu

Tuesday, 4 March 2008 11:40 am by noel
posted in tech

problem: when starting up azureus, it pauses for a few seconds and then disappears
cause: i don’t know the real cause but i have observed that it happens when azureus doesn’t make a clean exit. this happens sometimes when i double-click on a torrent and az suddenly disappears and the next time i start up the [...]

four months on linux

Wednesday, 16 January 2008 6:17 pm by noel
posted in tech

it has been four months since i’ve started using ubuntu linux almost exclusively and a little over two since i last opened my windows machine.
i have been able do and finish the same work that i did with the windows machine. i can open microsoft’s document formats, edit html and image files, play my music [...]