Last week I upgraded my motherboard and cpu, a yearly ritual for me now. Arch Linux is now the main system that I run on this desktop. Gentoo/Funtoo will be there for testing (Funtoo is really fun to play with). I will also test Pardus, a Turkish linux distribution. It may be a good distro to use in the educational setting. Below are some pictures of me adding the new … [Read more...] about New Motherboard and CPU (pictures)
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Funtoo Linux installed!!!
Finally, I got Funtoo Linux, a derivative of Gentoo Linux, installed on my desktop. Funtoo is a distribution created by the founder of Gentoo, Daniel Robbins. In his website, Daniel describes Funtoo Linux as a: Freshly-built Gentoo Linux variant, optimized for your processor, Funtoo Portage unstable branch, includes OpenRC, dhcpcd and git. He does not call Funtoo a fork … [Read more...] about Funtoo Linux installed!!!
Upgrading to Quad Core and new motherboard
Well, last week my P35 series Gigabyte motherboard had some problems. I thought it was battery related but turns out my motherboard may be faulty. I decied to replace it with a more power efficient P43 Gigabyte motherboard (P45 series seem still too buggy for Linux). With that, I decided to replace my dual core 2 CPU with a newer dual core 2 quad cpu. My old motherboard … [Read more...] about Upgrading to Quad Core and new motherboard
Linux runs my life :-)
So I use Linux for most aspects of my tech life. I only run Windows at school or work but nearly 99% of the time I am running Linux. Yes, I can listen to music, watch DVDs, and edit Word documents in Linux. Most of my colleagues and students do not even now that the documents I send them were edited with an open source word processor. The only thing I cannot do is play … [Read more...] about Linux runs my life :-)
Time to move to Funtoo Linux
I have been planning to move to Funtoo Linux, a derivative of Gentoo Linux, for over a month now. The install is basically the same as a Gentoo installation. The only difference is that instead of using Gentoo's Portage, you can choose to just use Daniel Robbin's Funtoo git-based Portage located at Github. Funtoo does give you the option to use the vanilla Portage maintained … [Read more...] about Time to move to Funtoo Linux