Fort Wayne LUG Blogs

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 […]

One of the nice things aobut linux is that it can go into anything and the results are pretty amazing.
One day not too long ago, my wife’s computer died. The only thing she was using it for was as a windows share so that she could access her files from anywhere in the house, […]

I went to the West Coast for a couple of weeks.
First, I wanted to say, it is absolutely amazing at the number of hotels with free wi-fi access for their guests. There was only one place we were that didn’t have free access (Yosemite Valley) but even there it was pay. For […]

In the last seven days I’ve spent over 20 hours in cars, planes, or airports in illinois, Indiana, and eventually during a stretch of 5 days in Texas. I’ve come to realize that it doesn’t matter who you are because Texas doesn’t care. It’s a big state and gets bigger by the day and it […]

One of the most interesting things about the new MythTV release is the DVD player and a plugin to access your NetFlix selections.
Knoppmyth in an attempt at creating a Debian distro with that installs MythTV to the hard drive. Unfortunately, I see things like this in the Knoppmyth docs:
“Note: You’ll still need to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 […]

I’ve enjoyed the RHL and FC distros quite a bit. They’re popular, they put a lot of effort into the Desktop experience, and they’ve been fairly easy to install and maintain. Now a lot of users have complained about the dreaded “RPM Hell” where one package depends upon another which depends upon a third. That’s […]