Using the serial port is still necessary to manage some devices, when it is reseted to factory defaults. It could be also a security choice… Nowadays many computers – and especially laptops don’t have anymore a built-in serial port. Not a problem, there are many cheap serial-usb converters like this. As an alternative to the [...]
This bug report, created by a Debian developper, reproaches that the Ubuntu website is not refering enough to Debian. I am both using Debian and Ubuntu and loves each other. However, on this point, I am defending the Debian side. Ubuntu should definitely refers more to the Debian community on their website and, in general, [...]
I had several issues with gnome-power-manager and acpi-support. Both are base on the acpid daemon for power management. Acpi-support is a convenient package of scripts to configure the power management. It is bundled in many distributions, including Ubuntu and Debian. The problem is that it does not cooperate very well with gnome-power-manager. As a result, [...]
Russel Coker, a famous Debian developper, took a really interesting initiative. He used the Google Custom search to create 2 Google search engines : one to search on Planet Debian one to search on Planet Ubuntu These blogs beeing a big source of information, these engines will be extremely convenient. The links are available on [...]
If you have a laptop, Network-Manager running and use ACPI to hibernate, look at this bug report and its nice tip : Editing /etc/default/acpi-support with this line : STOP_SERVICES=”networking” solved an old issue I used to have (and for which I wrote a dirty script with modprobe, dhclient, etc.
You may want to save your selection of packages, in order to reinstall all your softs later without having to look for and manually install them one after another. It is a convenient way to move a server to a new machine. On Debian / Ubuntu, this is quite easy. A while ago the solution [...]
Edit your source.list file with the following repositories : Add the corresponding key with : Compiz Fusion is really great and – so far – stable enough !
Yes, I just switched my desktop computer from Ubuntu to OpenSuse.
I am sure that some people won’t believe it or think that I am stupid or that I work for Microsoft, but here are the reasons of this choice.
