Well, reality finally took hold on me this week. Yeah, I am a ardent fan of Arch, Gentoo, and FreeBSD. I really like Linux Mint. Unfortunately for me, the Linux distribution of choice in Vietnam is Ubuntu. Roughly 90 percent of Linux users I meet in Vietnam are now Ubuntu users. The other 10 percent are people like me seem to be the old school Linux propents who feel that … [Read more...] about Compromising to Ubuntu
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Your ‘OLD’ iPhones could increase in value inside Vietnam, thanks to Apple
Thank you Apple!!! :-) Because of your new requirements that buyers must unlock their iPhones at the ATT Store or your Apple Stores, it will be more difficult to bring the new iPhones to Vietnam. Furthermore, rumors suggest that each new iPhone could cost up to $1000 US due to supply and demand bringing the cost out of reach for many average mobile users. That's how business … [Read more...] about Your ‘OLD’ iPhones could increase in value inside Vietnam, thanks to Apple
Amazing Thursday Morning Bandwidth
I was using pacman to update my Arch Linux Desktop this morning. As it was downloading OpenOffice, I was shocked to see how fast the downloads were. The average was roughly in the low 200s KB/s but I would see short spikes to 600 KB/S and then to 700 KB/s. It went has high as 1100 KB/s which was something I had not seen for a couple years. I headed to Speakeasy which … [Read more...] about Amazing Thursday Morning Bandwidth
Gentoo Linux 2008.0 Released Today!
This is big news if you are a fan of Gentoo Linux such as I am. Though I have used Unix and Linux for about a year before trying Gentoo back in September, 2003, Gentoo was the one Linux distro that got me to switch fully to a Linux environment. Gentoo forced you to learn how to do things in the command line. Completing a Gentoo installation itself was considered a major feat … [Read more...] about Gentoo Linux 2008.0 Released Today!
Arch Linux added to Vietnam BSD/Linux Mirror
Arch Linux has been added to the Vietnam BSD/Linux Mirror at the following URI's: 1. ftp://ftp.indochinalinux.com/archlinux/ 2. ftp://202.78.230.5/archlinux From Distrowatch: Arch Linux is an independently developed, i686-optimised Linux distribution targeted at competent Linux users. It uses 'pacman', its home-grown package manager, to provide updates to the latest … [Read more...] about Arch Linux added to Vietnam BSD/Linux Mirror