Venturing into the unknown
Saturdays are made for totally rebuilding your system! This time it is time to try out PCBSD, never used a bsd system before, and this one seemed simple enough to start with.
The install took a whopping 16 minutes on desktop machine, which is a few years old, I have all the drivers installed, no effort from my part on that one. Flash support is here, same for the win32-codecs, installed by default. Right now I’m getting myself familiar with the ports system, next up is trying to find out about updates and stuff. No emerge -pvuDN world or glsa-check found yet … keeps looking. 
the zsh shell
First off, the basics: I expect most of you to be familiar with what a shell is. A command-line shell is a user interface to the operating system. For all practical purposes, you know it as “the thing that you type commands into”. There are many, many shells to choose from, and most *nix’es come with different default shells too. Arguably, the most popular shell in use today is the GNU Bourne Again Shell, better known as bash. The other main family of shells is known as the C shells (csh, tcsh) — named after their C-like scripting syntax.
So what’s zsh and why would I want it over my current shell?
Interesting… :p
Fedora 10 Preview
Yesterday I installed the preview release of Fedora 10. I am disapointed; the most needed things, for me anyway, would be to have multimedia support of some kind. My mp3s are a no go, mplayerplug-in doesn’t exist, same with mozilla-plugin-vlc. No quicktime either? What is this?
All of this did work with snapshot 3 earlier, so my guess is that the guys at Rpmfusion are rebuilding their stuff or something. Other than that it feels pretty solid, stable and it is fast. Windows open instantly, there is no lag, haven’t tested 3d yet, other than glxinfo | grep direct gives me a positive answer, but enabling the desktop effects shows nothing but grayed out windows. This is with and Nvidia 7600GT graphics card. I am going back to Ubuntu until this release matures a little bit more, and I will check back later.
wordpress 2.7
Just upgraded my blog to wordpress 2.7 beta1, just for the ease of upgrading and plugin installation. I guess I’ll find out about how stable it is down the line…
what is your favorite feauture?
Win key in Gnome
Stumbled upon this interesting blog here:
http://alinuxblog.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/how-to-use-the-window-keys-in-linux-gnome/