Monthly Archives August 2008

Switch+dzen

Well Ubunut Intrepid may turn out to be great, but the recent ubuntu upgrade on my part proved to me how tired I was of dealing with apt and it’s pkg management system. How many debian users actually know what it’s really doing? So I switched. To Arch. Lately it seems like every useful tip [...]

Intrepid Development release upgrade

Went through the officially recommended upgrade process for Ubuntu last night. Overall extremely painless and reminded me why its worth using a distro with package management. A few notes though: One of the first things I like to do is blacklist pcspkr, I hate that beep and it is almost always useless for me. It [...]