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The explanations you’ll find here have been tested with Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) and Kubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft), they should work without any problem in other members of the Ubuntu family and with minimal changes in other Debian-based distributions like Debian itself or Mepis. In other distributions it might require even […]

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I’ve recently switched from Gentoo to Ubuntu. The main reasons is that in Ubuntu I have less things to take care about that I don’t really care about (like compiling Linux1). In the switch I also lost some interesting features.
The most interesting feature is to be able to easily tell the […]

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There’s an excellent article by Don “dons” Stewart called The lambda revolution which explains how to build a Haskell library in way that it is easy to download, compile, install, test, distribute, etc. I believe all those qualities are essential for successfully software. The next logicall step is to make […]

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My little article Cleaning up a Debian GNU/Linux was published at Debian Administration where lot’s of people replied with other ways to achieve the same goals. It was very nice to see all the different approaches with all the different pros and cons.
In the end I ended up changing my own […]

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You arrive at a Debian GNU/Linux server which has some history of neglect. Let’s suppose someone else neglected it but if your new-year resolution is to stop neglecting your beloved server, this applies as well.
One form of neglect is to install, install, install and never un-install any package. The common utility […]

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I am sick and tired of pieces of code arbitrary put together when they do very different things, so I shout:
Coders, please, make libraries!
I see this happening in every language with the worst cases when they are related to web. If you think you haven’t suffered from this, think again: The […]