Posts tagged as: Debian


DIY: Linux Media Center Computer or Digital Photo Frame Viewer using old laptop

Recently I got an old laptop.. sorry, pretty old - 10 years old - DELL C400. But it has some decent hardware like 1.2GHz / 1GB RAM / 40GB HDD with Windows XP preinstalled. It's Wi-Fi doesn't support WPA authentication, so obviously I can't plug into my home network without compromising security of other systems. ...

Built and ran Chromium OS on VirtualBox

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Google's intention to store the world's data in its own server results in another linux variant which is called Chrome OS. It is based on Chromium Open Source OS actively developed by Google. Yesterday it was open sourced at very very premature level for communities contribution. Today I have successfully downloaded, built and installed Google Chromium ...

Debian – The King of Linux Distros

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My current Home PC (PIII/192MB) is installed with Debian sid. I have this setup for last one month and found stable. Actually I installed Debian Sarge through DVD. It was just base install. After first phase of installation, the installation wizard prompted for which tree of debian I wish to install. It offered Stable (Sarge), ...

Ubuntu, SuSE, Fedora and Debian Comparison

I have installed the following OS on my PC of following configuration. Hardware: PIII-800MHz/192MB/20GB/Intel 82815 Video OS: Ubuntu 6.06 / Suse 10.1 / Fedora 5 / Debian 3.1 I have installed all these OS, with mostly same configuration (2.6 kernel/ GNOME interface, services...). I have not done any tweak. Here is my observation with ranking. This ranking is ...