The Perambulator

Kubuntu – Hoary Hedgehog to Intrepid Ibex
I discovered Ubuntu In 2006 with the Hoary Hedgehog release. It was an interesting alternative to Microsoft, free, and a great project to help me learn about partitioning. I tried several different configurations; with XFCE, with Gnome, and finally with KDE. This was before I knew about seperate versions [...]

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Welcome to my Weekly Stumble Report! Below are about thirty links from the past week all of which were interesting enough in one way or another to earn recommendation. This week I cover music and discography, CMS and OS, food and agriculture, disabilities, health and environment, politics and rights, and arts and science.

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Situation
I have 4 operating systems on my main drive: One unused, one for everyday use, and two for testing.

Windows XP
Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn
Kubuntu latest release, testing
Mepis

The Feisty Fawn is my preferred OS. I want it to control GRUB. A problem arises when I install a new Linux distribution in one of my testing partitions. If [...]

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There are only so many hours in a day that a person can build websites and stumble without it becoming monotonous. Hours of code research, revisions, and review… dozens of stumbled pages with random and insistent information… It can become overwhelming. The intelligent computer user avoids this peril by breaking from their labors to [...]

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Drivel
With a name like drivel, I didn’t expect much. Prior to installation I was impressed by the screenshots and documentation and this tutorial in particular was very well done and inspired me to install. Although I don’t much care for the gnome interface, I went for it.
Sudo apt-get install drivel
Complaints

Program designers need to consider the [...]

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