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 :D

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.

  1. make some temporary folder
    # mkdir /tmp/mount1
    # mkdir /tmp/mount2
  2. 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
  3. edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file and add this line
    deb file:/tmp/mount1/ squeeze main contrib
    deb file:/tmp/mount2/ squeeze main contrib
  4. 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 :D

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 :D

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?

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