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• Wine your own business

  The things that drive you crazy… There’s one (and only one) legacy Windows application that we have. We used to run it in VMware, which worked, but that was a pain, looked terrible, and of course was required us to have our copy of Windows Read More... Posted Monday, September 29, 2008 5:24 AM from Andrew Cowie | (Comments Off) Filed under: /andrew/software/gentoo-linux

• Desktop beautification: fix your fonts

  One of the nice things about Gentoo Linux is that they tend to leave the upstream defaults alone. This applies to file system locations, build configurations, but also things like preferences across the GNOME Desktop. This is good, in that Gentoo users Read More... Posted Thursday, September 11, 2008 10:01 AM from Andrew Cowie | (Comments Off) Filed under: /andrew/software/gentoo-linux

• Upgraded!

  #gnome-hackers #gentoo-desktop The upgrade to GNOME 2.22 went really smoothly. Well done to the Gentoo Linux desktop team for their heroic efforts bumping so many .ebuilds , and congratulations to all the GNOME hackers, testers and translators around Read More... Posted Friday, April 04, 2008 11:12 AM from Andrew Cowie | (Comments Off) Filed under: /andrew/software/gentoo-linux

• Bootstrapping Gentoo Linux on a new laptop with a LiveUSB key … with an ext2 filesystem!

  Been looking for a new laptop for a while now, and I found what appears to be a good one from ASUS (an “A8S”; Core 2 Duo T7100 chip with nice new 800MHz front side bus, an NVidia 8400M G as the graphics chip, 802.11a,b,g,n (what the hell is Read More... Posted Monday, July 16, 2007 9:44 AM from Andrew Cowie | (Comments Off) Filed under: /andrew/software/gentoo-linux