tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55576650862831259962024-02-18T18:50:03.677-08:00Linux Europe - reviews and useful tipsmy thoughts on Linux, technology and lifeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557665086283125996.post-2767487828058666772014-04-23T13:22:00.001-07:002014-04-23T13:24:29.557-07:00New blog... new old topic.For a long time I have not written anything here as well as on my Polish Linux blog. Some time ago I came to the conclusion that I do not need to write another Linux blog. Maybe that decision will be changed in the future, maybe not. Still <b>I am a satisfied Linux user</b>... I am able to find anything about my favourite Lunix distros on the net. I do need to discover it once again, I do need to write a blog on Linux anymore.<br />
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Still <b>I am a blogger and I like to write for you</b>. I have decided to choose one main topic of my writing and this is economics, "home economics" and saving money. For a while I have been a quite known Polish money-saving author.<br />
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I have decided to focus on my first and the most important topic, creating the English blog:<br />
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I'd like to invite you... please visit my new blog :-)<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557665086283125996.post-88214436788446964552013-01-27T15:44:00.000-08:002013-01-27T15:51:13.334-08:00P-Cubed - possible solution for AmigaOS 4.x and MorphOSLooking through the net I've noticed interesting hardware which could become an interesting solution for neo-amiga systems, namely AmigaOS 4.x and MorphOS.<br />
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Those systems lack new hardware - the PPC architecture is not so popular among desktop solutions - and that what we can get is quite expensive (I am not talking about old macs for MorphOS, of course).<br />
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The mainboard looks like Raspberriy Pi, and I can bet that this was inspired by Raspberry Pi. We can get some information clicking the link placed above, but we cannot get one thing - the information about the processor used?<br />
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There is some speculation on the net, that perhaps we can expect this:<br />
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<i>The P2 series is designed for a wide variety of applications in the networking, telecom, military and industrial markets. It is the mid-level platform, with devices ranging from 800 MHz up to 1.2 GHz. It is designed to replace the PowerQUICC II Pro and PowerQUICC III platforms. The chips include, among other integrated functionality, a 512 kB L2 cache, a security engine, three Gigabit Ethernet controllers, a USB 2.0 controller, a 64-bit DDR2 and DDR3 memory controller with ECC support, dual four-channel DMA controllers, a SD/MMC host controller and high speed SerDes lanes which can be configured as three PCIe interfaces, two RapidIO interfaces and two SGMII interfaces. The chips are packaged in 689-pin packages which are pin compatible with the P1 family processors.</i><br />
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What will be the price of P-Cubed? That's the most interesting question for enthusiasts of MorphOS or AmigaOS 4.x! We expect it to be less than $200... quite much comparing to Raspberry Pi? Definitely... but in the world of PPC and overpriced amiga solutions it seems to be quite tempting.<br />
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I'll definitely follow this issue on my blog.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557665086283125996.post-76397229008555374722012-11-24T03:28:00.000-08:002012-11-24T03:29:11.356-08:00OpenSUSE - updatesI've been using and extensively testing OpenSUSE 12.2 for over two weeks. It appears quite stable and well polished (However, I had two or three system freezes when starting Chromium browser).<br />
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I definitely like the artwork of OpenSUSE - the fact, in example, that when I start GIMP I see OpenSUSE specific starting window seems professional. The artwork is consistent as well as the system itself.<br />
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Talking about updates two things are worth mentioning. Updates are not so vast like in, let's say, Ubuntu 12.04 - that is important at spots with limited bandwidth i.e. when I use mobile internet connections. In the production environment this is also the positive feature as vast updates could mean instability. (Look at RedHat policy).<br />
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The second thing I definitely like are drpm packages. D stands for 'difference'. You do not have to download tones of megabytes as you download only 'update difference'. That means fast updates. Nice.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557665086283125996.post-49414285152166099332012-11-17T10:50:00.002-08:002013-03-23T15:11:00.491-07:00OpenSUSE vs Debian.... This blog is a little bit different from my previous blog. I'd like to add some personal features here, not only write about PCs and OSes...<br />
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Anyway, now I am using <a href="http://en.opensuse.org/Main_Page">OpenSUSE</a> but today I was talking with a computer engineer using OpenSUSE at home (in fact, he convinced me to try OpenSUSE again). He mentioned that at work a lot of people are switching to Debian stable. Why? Debian is more Linux-like, it is similar to what those guys learned in the past, during the studies and first steps in administrating Unix-like systems. OpenSUSE tries to implement some features which are unique to SUSE branches, including SLED, which are not liked by engineers...<br />
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Debian, hmm, my first non-MS system anyway :)<br />
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- seems quite faster than OpenSUSE (was it SUSE then?) around 10.2 or 10.3, YaST (the configuration centre) and package management is faster, my netbook's performance is similar to my PC's performance a few years ago<br />
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- XFCE is in its newest version as I am writing this, namely 4.10, that's a nice piece of software<br />
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- I cannot find Frogatto in the game repository (I know, not a serious problem.)<br />
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- Broadcom wifi does not work on my laptop (you need to get your hands dirty in a console, and OpenSUSE aims to be an easy distro, ok... they are also claiming to be Open... let it be like that)<br />
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- Gnome GUI in the Gnome edition is a complete disaster, but not because of OpenSUSE, Gnome3 itself is a disaster, as you see in the screenshot I've installed XFCE<br />
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As you see - all in all my opinion is positive, and what is yours?<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557665086283125996.post-16638584007474037732012-11-15T03:19:00.001-08:002012-11-18T09:22:33.870-08:00Chakra 2012.10 - reviewI have heard a lot about <b>Chakra GNU/Linux</b>, so finally I've decided to try it.<br />
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First, it was not so obvious when <b>installing it on my USB pendrive</b>. Finally I found the solution. You have to use the app called '<b>suse studio image writer</b>' start it, when looking for *.raw images by default, you have to change it for *.*, select your <b>Chakra</b> iso and go... (by the way - that worked well with ROSA Marathon I tested yesterday).<br />
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Nice surprise! When choosing the restricted drivers boot option <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakra_Linux" target="_blank">Chakra</a></b> detected my NVIDIA and Broadcom wifi drivers correctly! Great on my Lenovo laptop! <br />
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KDE desktop v. 4.9.2 installed by default is clean and nice, you feel nice aesthetics and a typical KDE/QT feeling - you even agree to the Chakra team's vision presenting pure QT environment, not a bad idea! I'm telling you! :)<br />
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However I found a few glitches. Flash plugin is not installed I tried three ways:<br />
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- Getting the flashplayer using pacman didn't help - flash plugin didn't appear available.<br />
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- Getting the QupZilla browser with flash plugin attached - finally - success! That enabled me to listen to some YT favourite songs.<br />
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Finally, I have not decided to install Chakra on my hdd, I will certainly look at it in the future, testing and trying out. The con is that I am a XFCE type of man, the pro is that Chakra is, or at least was, Arch based, which means the well known system structure and relative speed, at the same time making vicious Arch way of updating a little more peaceful (a semi-rolling model).<br />
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My recommendation? Give it a try, it's interesting and promising!<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557665086283125996.post-71421191074292527392012-11-14T03:58:00.001-08:002012-11-14T03:58:20.968-08:00GRUB configuration for Porteus 1.1 - menu.lst - hdd frugal installation<span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">This information may prove useful if you want to install Porteus on your hdd in the Puppy Linux manner (frugal):</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">I have downloaded the Porteus *.iso file and extracted it to /porteus/ on my hdd.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Note that it creates a double path for accessing some porteus data, which has to be included in the following grub configuration. (This is the main mistake of poeole wanting to perform frugal installation of Porteus!)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Here it goes:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><i style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">title porteus 1.1<br />kernel (hd0,0)/porteus/boot/vmlinuz from_dev=/dev/sda1 from_dir=porteus/porteus ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw toroot autoexec=xconf;telinit~4 max_loop=256 changes=/mnt/sda1/porteus/porteus/notebook18.dat<br />initrd=(hd0,0)/porteus/boot/initrd.xz<br />boot</i><br style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">This is the entry in my menu.lst - I've created the data file named notebook18.dat</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Of course I do not recommend using toroot cheatcode, however it is similar to Puppy Linux. (I'll delete or change it later).</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557665086283125996.post-49575639898661248452012-11-11T08:59:00.000-08:002012-11-15T03:25:59.080-08:00It's high time...I have decided to start the linux blog in English. What can I say?<br />
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Tombula, if you are reading this.... feel free to join me again :)<br />
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