Propritory software… such a pain
I recently got my 1.5 TB external storage(usb) unit, which i had planed to use as a shared datastore, between:
my laptop(Dell D630)(usually runs Gentoo, sometimes Debian-Lenny)
Sweta(my wife)’s laptop(MacBook Black running OS X Snow Leopard)
our desktop at home (runs Ubuntu(as of now), which im planning to move to Lenny too, as Ubuntu is [...]
Posted at 7:03 am on October 19, 2009 | 1 comment | Filed Under: GNU/Linux, Operating Systems, customiation, hacking, installation, mac, tools | Tagged: data sharing, Gentoo, GNU, GNU/Linux, interoperatability, Linux, mac, OS X, shared media, Snow Leopard | read on
Headless X setup with Debian(Lenny)
I recently did X on a headless Debian blade. This post is about the setup that worked for me. I used Xvfb to setup the virtual X frame-buffer. The usual choice for accessing virtual display is vnc, so i decided to go with x11vnc. Used blackbox as window manager for the setup(because it is believed [...]
Posted at 7:24 am on August 23, 2009 | 3 comments | Filed Under: GNU/Linux, Operating Systems, hacking, installation, problems, tools | Tagged: Debian, debian lenny, headless X, virtual X, vnc, X | read on
