Let’s be honest. If you are a long time Ubuntu/Mint/YABU user you want a Debian package that fully installs. When it is a text editor you want to be able to select it as the default editor for various source files. You want to be able to add it to the “favorites” list so you can use it all of the time. Well, you can do pretty much all of that with the Debains I’ve … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt 12Read more
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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 11
If you have been following the saga you have a pretty good idea of the new features added to Diamond. These have not been turned over to the parent project and are not rolled into the code base! The exist only in my branch of my fork of Diamond. Next on my list of tasks was to build a Debian package for the editor. If you ever want some Debian based distro or Debian itself … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 11Read more
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A Ubuntu Compatible AC Wifi Card
In the land of Ubuntu and Linux in general one thing that has really sucked is Wifi support. Oh, it has it, just generally lags 2-8 years behind when it comes to chipset support. I remember first installing Ubuntu on my Acer Inspire One. Thank God it had a cable connection port to backup the built in Wifi because it was years before that chipset got support. Recently I re-arranged a few things in that … A Ubuntu Compatible AC Wifi CardRead more
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Fedora 32 – Black Screen After Login
I set the feature image for this piece to one of my holding my SystemRescueCD. When it comes to Fedora “you gonna need it a lot!“ While I will say Fedora has gotten oceans better since I last touched it, I must honestly say it is still horrible. Basically they put a desktop front end on a locked down server version of Linux and didn’t actually finish the “front end” part. It is still really … Fedora 32 – Black Screen After LoginRead more
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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 10
Introducing OpenSuSE into this process was a whim. Bad whim! Bad whim! Don’t listen to that whim! The real problem with not creating The Four Holy Documents up front is that you tend to get distracted by bright shiny objects. As you learned in my last post I decided to give Diamond a Debian build script/process. I’ve done a few of these over the years and firmly believe both CopperSpice and Diamond won’t be picked … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 10Read more