Plan of attack – part 1
I think the structure of my essay will be along these lines: Introduction – briefly talk about gifts, the gift economy and open source development and distribution. Outline the structure of the rest of...
View ArticleUbuntu it is
I’ve had a really positive response back about my choice of base distro for the project and the latest version Ubuntu is a clear winner although openSUSE got a mention so might be worth a look at least.
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Quick update
Had a bit of a mini success and have managed to get a bootable version of Ubuntu onto a USB stick. I had a bit of a problem getting my laptop to boot from it but after a quick experiment with the boot...
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Test version unleased
So I’ve managed to make an image copy and have sent it to a small group of fellow geeks who have offered to help. I’ve asked them to be brutally honest……hopefully they won’t be too brutal
View ArticleSize does matter
I’ve had some feedback and it’s not good although not completely bad. My distro won’t fit on a 4GB pen drive which is the smallest I was aiming for. Admittedly I haven’t really gone thru all of the...
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Hmmmm
Trimming down the base distro is proving to be a bit of a pig coz everytime I remove something I need I have to do the full install. I don’t really want to have to suggest that users have to have a...
View ArticleScarey times
Had a rough coupla days recently. Grub went bad on me and wouldn’t let me boot into ubuntu or windoze but i’ve managed to eventually sort that out and am now able to make isos again. And then overnight...
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Bad sectors
Bloody brilliant, now I’ve got bad sectors in the middle of ubuntu – why couldn’t it have been XP
View ArticleAll finished
I’ve just submitted my thesis so after 2 years, my masters is all done and dusted. Thesis: Free Lunch? Project: free:dyne
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Oh yes!!!!
Found out today that I passed and am now an MSc. So to celebrate a quick trip to Mr Bun was called for.
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