February 2011 ~ all things linux

Friday, 25 February 2011

Slax Community Remix Renamed to Porteus Portable Linux

Posted on 19:24 by clener

Last December I wrote about the Slax Community Remix on Distrowatch. At the time of writing the latest release of this dedicated community of Slax enthusiasts was v09. This now seems to have become the stepping stone on the way to the first official release 1.0 of the new Porteus Project and an updated v09 was released on 13th January. A website has been launched with documentation, FAQ's and download section as well as a forum.
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Posted in desktop, distributions, linux, live, porteus, slax | No comments

Sunday, 20 February 2011

ArchBang 2010.09 vs 2011.02 - What's Changed?

Posted on 12:35 by clener

ArchBang is a spin, or custom install media, based on Arch Linux and is inspired by CrunchBang, which is currently based on Debian stable. As such both are using the Openbox window manager, and ArchBang seems to follow closely looks wise and in choice of applications if you compare it with screenshots here. Even the Openbox menu is matched closely. Basically, it tries to be to Arch what CrunchBang is to Debian, but as it follows the Arch rolling release model it is a lot more up to date.

Sunday, 13 February 2011

Poll - Which Distributions to Review Next? Please Participate.

Posted on 09:34 by clener

You can assist in deciding which distributions to review next. This includes specialist live CD tools like Backtrack for computer forensics or network analysis, and I´ll work my way down the list.
Feel free to leave other suggestions in the comments box below, but please note I am not a fan of anything *buntu, because I feel they get enough coverage already. Thanks for taking part.

The poll is now closed, but feel free to leave a suggestion in the comments anyway.

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Friday, 11 February 2011

Adoption of Open Source across HM Government events

Posted on 11:12 by clener

Further to the 'UK government committed to open source' article linked to on Tuxmachines.org, I received an email invite a couple of days ago to an Open Source Specialist Group (OSSG) event of the British Computer Society. This group considers adoption of open source across HM government. Something seems to be moving. If you´re in the UK and the topic is interesting enough why not attend, I know I´m going. You can read more on http://ossg.bcs.org/. The two events are held at BCS offices in Central London.
Read more here >>

Posted in applications, events, open source | No comments

Tuesday, 8 February 2011

How to Change the Default Theme in SLiM (Login Manager)

Posted on 08:02 by clener

Archbang and a few others use SLiM, the Simple Login Manager, by default, which keeps things lean because SLiM does not have the dependency requirements of GDM or KDM. Actually the only dependencies are X11, libpng, libjpeg and freetype. It´s a great manager for desktop environment/window manager independent login, but does not support remote login functionalities. Themes however are supported and several are included from the start.
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Saturday, 5 February 2011

ArchBang 2011.02 Out

Posted on 11:17 by clener

Blimey, this Will guy is pumping them out. I suppose he subscribes to the old adage release early, release often. To stay in the news or just to find and fix things. So only a few days after 2011.1 we already have another version, and with new looks as well. A bit like Absolute Linux with its endless point releases. Looks are even more like Crunchbang now, which isn´t a bad thing. I´ve always liked his sci-fi theme in 2010.9 and the recent fantasy styling with the broad sword in 2011.1. Dark is ok unless it impairs legibility, so I generally don´t use it as an overall theming option, but for the background it´s fine.
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Wednesday, 2 February 2011

Scientific Linux: How To Upgrade To The Latest S.L. 5.x Release

Posted on 11:22 by clener

This one is straight out of the FAQ´s on the Scientific Linux website (under documentation) and is certainly not my doing, but I figured it is a bit buried and not everybody might have found it. And it´s a cheap way of adding content to this blog. As it goes simply updating your say 5.4 installation does not automatically bring you to 5.5. To get the full next point release a few additional steps are required. And with Redhat having recently released RHEL 5.6 the corresponding SL release will soon be upon us, although for the moment it looks like they are busy enough getting SL6 ready.

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