The Canterbury Project
What happen when big Linux distribution combine each of their strength into one distribution? The answer: The Canterbury Project.
Canterbury is the future!
Canterbury will be as technologically simple as Arch, as stable as Debian, malleable as Gentoo, have a solid Live framework as Grml, and be as open minded as openSUSE.
Then again, this sort of thing usually is too good to be true 
Related links: The Canterbury Tales
How to use Debian iso for repository
A neat (old) trick I learn while trying to make wifi work on Axioo Pico running a fresh install Debian Squeeze.
Few days ago, I was trying to install Debian Squeeze to my netbook. Since the netbook didn’t have CD drive, I use Unetbootin to create Debian installer from 1st Debian CD iso. To cut long story short, the installation went succesful, I got GNOME running, yadda yadda yadda. The only problem left is how I add more applications.
At that time, I didn’t have wired Internet connection. There’s a Huawei USB modem, but my Debian installation is yet to have wvdial. But I do have 2nd & 3rd CD ISO. I could use it for local repository, but again, since my netbook didn’t have CD drive, I need to do some improvisations.
- make some temporary folder
# mkdir /tmp/mount1
# mkdir /tmp/mount2 - mount the iso files
# mount -o loop /path/to/iso/debian-6.0.0-i386-CD-1.iso /tmp/mount1/
# mount -o loop /path/to/iso/debian-6.0.0-i386-CD-2.iso /tmp/mount2 - edit the
/etc/apt/sources.listfile and add this line
deb file:/tmp/mount1/ squeeze main contrib
deb file:/tmp/mount2/ squeeze main contrib - update the repository
# apt-get update
All done. Now I can install applications from local repository. And the first application I installed? Synaptic, of course
Fluxbox on Ombilin
gnome-shell sure makes a beautiful desktop, but at the price of resource hogging. It’s too heavy for my low-end netbook, so I’m more than willing to have a lightweight desktop. Moreover, I think the resources gnome-shell (or any eye-candy effect) uses should be better spent at other application (browser, mail client, text editor, etc)
This is where Fluxbox, a lightweight window manager, win my choice.
Fluxbox on Blankon 6.0 Ombilin
I still keep gnome-shell, in case where it’s necessary to show off a jaw-dropping Linux desktop
Great desktop with gnome-shell
Oooh, shiny
It’s still in active development, needs improvement here & there, but I think it’s already good enough for everyday use 
ipconfig on Linux?
Yesterday, I happened to notice something really weird on my Ombilin machine. Each time I logged in, there’s this “ipconfig” process that consumes one of CPU cores usage up to 99%.
IIRC, ipconfig is a Windows program. So what’s it doing on a Linux box?
