Checking out some other distros
July 09, 2006
I had tried SUSE Linux, various BSDies and other exotic operating systems like Solaris and Inferno before, but as far as Linux is concerned, I mostly stayed with SUSE Linux where possible. Of course, I already used other distros before, like RHEL on the GWD HPC cluster, or debian-sparc and Aurora on SPARC. Now that I wanted to try something different than SUSE Linux for x86, here are my experiences with two new distros, Fedora Core (FC5 at the time) and Debian (3.1r2). (read more...)
The perfect Sun disklabel
March 30, 2006
This is how the ideal Sun disklabel could look like. (read more...)