Xfce 4.6 is released!
Hot off of the presses comes a release announcement marking the final release of Xfce 4.6! from Stephan Arts <stephan@xfce.org> date Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:30 PM subject Xfce 4.6.0 Released!!! After more than two years of development, Xfce 4.6.0 has just been released. Xfce 4.6 features a new configuration backend, a new [...]
Installation pains – Free Geek Chicago
I volunteered at Free Geek Chicago again on Sunday, and spent much of my day trying to get Xubuntu Feisty Fawn to install on some rather unique hardware. It didn’t go so well. The machine in question was a PII with 256mb of RAM, and two SCSI hard drives – one 8gb and one 4gb [...]
Ok, instead of Apt on CD
How about replicating an installed package list this way: dpkg –get-selections | grep ‘[[:space:]]install$’ | awk ‘{print $1}’ > packagelist.txt on the old machine, then: sudo apt-get -u install `cat packagelist.txt` on new machine, That should work. Only disadvantage is that you’d have to download the installed packages from the ‘net onto the new machine, [...]
Apt on CD
Apt on CD looks pretty awesome for For x/k/ed/ubuntu and debian users . . . There’s got to be a way to back up all of your installed .debs without the gui, but this will be useful for most desktop users. And I like how it allows you to share the packages that you already [...]
