Chromium OS on HP Mini: xf86-video-modesetting
When I was choosing my netbook, I knew that I will install Linux on it, so, I put attention on its hardware. Having noticed that it has an Intel videocard, […]
Get Rid of ConsoleKit in Gentoo
Today, I have updated my Gentoo box. The only problem I faced was broken Network Manager applet (nm-applet): no connections are shown at all; often, nm-applet is not present in […]
/usr Merge in Gentoo
The Linux world is changing! Traditional split between /usr and / directories is given up by several distros, including Fedora and Arch. There is a comprehensive article that explains the […]
Setup Windows XP virtio
Get a floppy with drivers: $ wget http://www.linux-kvm.com/sites/default/files/viostor-31-03-2010-floppy.img I will describe two alternative methods for setting virtio in WinXP. Setup during WinXP installation Instruction is based on http://www.linux-kvm.com/content/block-driver-updates-install-drivers-during-windows-installation. Create an […]
Prepare Clean GNU/Linux Images
Retrieve an installation disk, e.g. Centos 6.4: $ wget http://mirror.corbina.net/pub/Linux/centos/6.4/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.4-x86_64-minimal.iso Create an empty image: $ IMG_NAME=centos-6.4-i386 $ qemu-img create -f qcow2 ${IMG_NAME}.qcow2 12G Boot with kvm. Note that you should […]
Chromium OS on HP Mini
As it was before, the latest weekend was very hard for my netbook. I told in my previous article that I have installed three Linuxes: Fedora, Ubuntu, and Gentoo, while the […]
Fedora Says: “no shell: permission denied”
This weekend was very hard for my netbook. I installed three Linuxes on it: Gentoo because I love it; Ubuntu because it has good support for hardware out of the […]
How Many C++ Keywords Can Be Used in Succession?
Once I was listening to a boring lecture about sorting algorithms. The lecture was boring not only for me but also for all my neighbors. We were pupils who take […]
Area of a Polygon: the Most Comic Code I’ve Ever Seen
When I was a freshman, I took part in a programming contest for students. One task was quite typical: a text file contains vertices of a polygon; the program must […]
Bug#707076: [less] Debian Jessie loss “less”
On May 4 2013, Debian Wheezy was released. I run root@alessio-hp:~# aptitude dist-upgrade and saw that less is removed! I tried unsuccessfully: root@alessio-hp:~# aptitude install less The following NEW packages will […]
