Archive for the ‘linux’ Category

New Lunar Linux Frontpage and my lunar blog posts moving

Hey, due to striker’s migration from Joomla to WordPress yesterday, all my lunar related posts will now belong to my devblog at lunar linux. Jean

renamed modules

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Netboot Installation

Hey, looking for useful documentation about netboot in Linux is quite difficult nowadays; of the various guides I found on the net only 1 was useful (1 of 30) … No wonder that I came to the conclusion to write my own one… The goal is, to have a central fileserver which does nfs+dhcp+tftp to [...]

Boot times

In my last blog I wrote about optimizing the boot-times using runit and a special kernel. As of today I switched to systemd in Lunar Linux and I’m using connman for networking; Let’s take a look at the boot-times again…

Lunar Linux: Systemd & Connman

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Lunar Linux: Cookbook – Or: How to install.

There are always some users unable to install Lunar Linux. Usually I’m telling them “you’re doing something wrong then” – I know, this isn’t very helpful, but on the contrary we’re mainly talking about users using unsupported optimizations. And as long as a user thinks he knows more or better than a developer, a developer [...]

Lunar Linux: Getting rid of hal

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Ubuntu my first experience

Recently I wrote an Article about my first experience with Kubuntu, which is, as i understood, Ubuntu + KDE. This time, I’m taking a look at Ubuntu.

Kubuntu my first experience

Well. My mom always had issues with her PC running Windows. So I thought it might be a good idea to just install her some nice Linux distribution. I remember that KDE was quite nice ago 12 years and Ubuntu comes with good out-of-the-box functionality. So I thought giving Kubuntu (which would combine that) a [...]

Building a Debian Kernel with OpenVZ

There was an entry about vswap in the OpenVZ blogs and i love that new feature. So i decided to build my own kernel in debian with those patches to get that functionality. Continue to read if you’re interested in VSWAP and how to setup your kernel to make use of it.