Building your own kernel isn’t easy, and for the most part what you want is just to tweak driver settings. So it seems strange that, after all this time, nobody has made a “kernel this” too...
Just thought I’d document this for web-posterity… Some of our systems rely on a large number of environment variables that get loaded via .profile or .bashrc, but most importantly the PATH va...
Why do so many Linux operating systems have cups and other printing services as a high level dependency? It may be trivial, but it’s one more attack vector and one more set of running tasks…
https://kfsone.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/but-i-dont-have-a-printer/
Ubuntu 10.4 (Lucid Lynx) the “Long Term Stable” release (LTS) went gold today. And I’m really taken with it. Ever been curious about Linux but figured it as too much hassle? Or got as far a...
https://kfsone.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/lucid-lynx-ubuntu-10-4-is-here/
In my quest to get a decent dual-OS box (without dual booting), I gave the free VMware server a spin instead of Workstation. The experiment was short lived and lead me back to Workstation with a ...
https://kfsone.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/a-decent-virtual-linux/
My Linux workstation runs like a slug. I get stutters when editing source code in VI. So, it’s that “find a Linux to work with time” again… (Watch for certain fanboi comments, those of yo...
Just got done adding a Login Queue system to the auth host (I have to add it to Playgate too, but it’s the weekend and it’s late and I’m gonna do that later). The nice thing about working o...
Thanks for the votes :) I’ve just burned an Ubuntu 8.10 DVD. I’ve got NeoSmart’s EasyBCD installed, I’m going to try installing Ubuntu and seeing if it gives me the option of installing o...
https://kfsone.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/giving-ubuntu-a-whorl/
So I’m curious… If you had to work with a Linux desktop OS – regardless of what your general OS preference is – which of the Linuxes would you choose? Our game servers currently run on ...
So, apparently, Code::Blocks has no version control support at all. That explains a lot about how disappointing the development has been since the first shock and awe of its arrival on the scen...
A couple of nights ago, (or as it last night, such a long week) I found myself with the mouse hovering over “Buy Now” for a customized 24in iMac for home… $2,500. After a long hard think, I...