A couple things are of interest to me in this week's DistroWatch Weekly. The first is open source advocate Eric S. Raymond switching to Ubuntu after over a decade of using RedHat/Fedora. I know where ESR is coming from on at least part of things. Fedora is a pain to set up to use the media codecs that people actually use. Ogg Vorbis might be ( Read more... )

I put Wolvix on percheron and got things set up about how I think they ought to be. There wasn't much to move off of percheron as the only thing on it besides a fresh Ultima install was a set of mp3 files made from tape, those being the result of using the Musix LiveCD.

That was a practice run for the laptop and it went fairly well. So after ( Read more... )

The laptop I use currently has Ultima Linux on it. I am not providing a link to the Ultima site because it's not there anymore. I have been told by the maintainer that it will be back, eventually. I am at least one version behind, and now have no means of getting the more recent version. It's also been my experience with this sort of thing ( Read more... )

I tried Musix, a Knoppix-based LiveCD with audio in mind, from Argentina. After a couple false starts due to cables not being connected and controls being set low, things worked well enough for me to get audio out of percheron and then got audio from tape to record, and be saved as an mp3, and be transferred to belgian. That was fairly ( Read more... )

In looking around for linux image viewers that weren't overly window manager dependent, I kept coming back to one. The Mirage image viewer only wants PyGTK (which is already on caspian) and gcc to compile. I downloaded Mirage and extracted the source and found it had a nice Python install script.

Once installed, I started it from a terminal ( Read more... )

I've been going through the manual for Jay's oldest digital camera and while I'm not proficient with it, I can use it. Last night I tried to read a few images off of the memory card. After a bit of figuring out just where Ultima (Slackware) puts a memory card, I could copy the pictures to the laptop.

Now I have enough working so that I can use ( Read more... )

Ultima Linux has a tolerable terminal text editor, jed. Or so I'd thought. Maybe it was something I did (and by mistake, for I would never intentionally cause this breakage) as I recall I could use the backspace key and it did what I expected: deleted the previous character and moved the cursor back a character. Nice, sane, sensible. Today I went ( Read more... )

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( Compaq Armada 7800, Ultima Linux, and sound )

I've gone and installed Ultima Linux on the Compaq Armada 7800 which I've named caspian.

( Not quite 100% just yet. )