Posted in Desktop Linux, Installation, Release Notes, xfce on Feb 26th, 2009
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 settings manager,
a brand new session [...]
Posted in Bugs, Hardware, Installation, Testing, Xubuntu on Jun 4th, 2007
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 in [...]
Posted in Desktop Linux, Installation on May 12th, 2007
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, rather than having [...]
Posted in Desktop Linux, Installation on May 11th, 2007
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 [...]
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