Debian Etch on The Self-Reliant Thin Client
I’m running what I call The Self-Reliant Thin Client on Debian Etch, a GNU/Linux distribution I haven’t run intensively in quite some time. I also recently installed the PowerPC build of Etch on my...
View ArticleThree Debian Etch updates
I have my Self-Reliant Thin Client running Debian Etch turned on all of the time. I haven’t been able to find power-usage specs for the Maxspeed Maxterm (it could be a 5300, but there are no model...
View ArticleGNOME vs. Fluxbox in Debian Etch
I decided to start adding apps to the Self-Reliant Thin Client, which is running Debian Etch from an 8GB CF card as the boot drive with a 1 GHz VIA CPU that insists at running at 500 MHz, plus 256 MB...
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Debian Etch: Three updates today, and how to find out more about them in GNOME
Since I’m keeping my Self-Reliant Thin Client running all the time, every morning that there are new updates to Debian Etch, I seem them right away. We had three yesterday and three more today:...
View ArticleAdding Java to Debian Etch
I’ve already repeated myself enough about the Flashplugin-nonfree being taken out of Debian Etch and relegated to Debian Backports. and I’ve decided NOT to install it for the time being mostly because...
View ArticleWhat I’m running right now
As of today, here are all the machines I use and what they run: At the office: Work box: Dell Optiplex GX520 Pentium 4 (3 GHz) 512 MB RAM Windows XP SP2 The Debian Mac: Power Macintosh G4 466MHz single...
View ArticleSo how is The Self-Reliant Thin Client doing?
Maybe you’re curious about how The Self-Reliant Thin Client is doing. Here’s the uptime output: steven@maxterm:~$ uptime 13:08:07 up 24 days, 21:15, 2 users, load average: 1.70, 1.32, 1.31 Yep, the VIA...
View ArticleToday’s Debian Etch update: Iceweasel goes to 2.0.0.18 (mild rant follows)
The Self-Reliant Thin Client — my converted Maxspeed Maxterm thin client — which has been running Debian Etch now for: steven@maxterm:~$ uptime 11:47:52 up 35 days, 19:55, 2 users, load average: 2.79,...
View ArticlePower Mac G4/466 a pretty good Linux platform
I haven’t booted the Power Mac G4/466 running Debian Etch in a while, but I did so today because I’m about to move the box and its massive LaCie electron22blue monitor. So I wanted to power it up, do a...
View ArticleNo distro-hopping for me these days
I’ve been writing updates in my print column of the things I’ve bought/used/discarded/loved/hated over the past year, and that got me thinking: I got started with Linux in early 2007 and used many a...
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