Archive for October, 2006



Upgrading to Ubuntu Edgy Eft

How bad can it be? That was my thought as I started my upgrade to the latest version of Ubuntu on Friday.
The answer is, “not that bad, but not that good, either.” If your not familiar with the Debian way of upgrading from one version to the next, let me explain. First, you change the […]

October Meeting notes

Our October meeting main talk was Christer Watson talking about FOSS in science, particulary astronomy. It was a good talk, covering both practical and philosophical reasons open source and science go together, as well as featuring cool graphics and the entertaining story of APES++ (did I get that right?), a software project gone horribly wrong.
Charlie […]

Ubuntu Server

One of the problems of the Fedora world is that you get a box installed and a few months later you have to immediately upgade it. And upgrading can be a pain especially with yum and non standard repo configurations.
So I was more than exuberant when Ubuntu came with Long Term Support. I […]






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