John Alberts on January 27th, 2009

I saw a posting today on one of the Gentoo listservs about the recent lack of newsletters and website updates.  Unfortunately, the lack of updates isn’t unusual, but I did pickup an interesting bit of information.
It looks like there is a new index page coming soon to the Gentoo website.  It looks like it’s just [...]

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John Alberts on January 19th, 2009

As I was browsing the Gentoo forums today, I came across a very interesting post.
A user had 2 partitions on different hard drives that he wanted to combine the space on.  Ok, well the interesting part was one persons reply about a new fuse filesystem called mhddfs.  He pointed out an article on debian.net that [...]

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John Alberts on January 12th, 2009

So, I found myself tweaking my Conky rc file today.  I’ve been using mocp for playing music becuase it’s a really lightweight, versatile and can run detached from the console.  I really wanted to see my currently playing music info on my desktop in Conky, but Conky’s documentation shows no mention of any support for [...]

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John Alberts on January 3rd, 2009

This is really old news, but it’s new news to me because I just noticed this.
Daniel Robbins Funtoo site now has some articles on it that he recently created.  Right now, he has posted some of the articles that we’ve previously seen on the IBM Developer Works website, but there’s also now a quide for [...]

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John Alberts on December 18th, 2007

This is more or less a follow-up to my previous blog post Good ole Gentoo. Where art thou? Anyone can just complain about the status of things, so I thought I would provide a little help with finding out more about Gentoo and what’s going on with the distro.
So, you’re a long time [...]

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