At every release upgrade of Ubuntu, I seem to get into more and more issues, even with the most basic ones. Once upon a time, Ubuntu was the smoothest of all Linux distros. But in the last two years, that was not the case anymore. After every upgrade, I always need to sit down for [...]
I’ve been working for some times on a distributed storage project, with Erlang as the main programming language. We use the RADOS API to access the storage, which is based on Ceph. As librados does not have an Erlang binding yet, so I did some binding for some of the APIs that we really needed. [...]
Last time, we have installed VNC server in Linux, along with a window manager, and connect to the server via a VNC client. What we got was a TWM. In this post, we are going to install a more modern WM, OpenBox. In the Distribution Management of Linux Installer, in none of the categories can [...]
Now that we have Debian Linux on the Android phone, since we only have the console environment, let’s install more software and have some fun. In the Linux Installer, press the Menu button, then Distribution Management. You will now see the following screen: This screen shows you a list software categories that you can choose [...]
In the last post, I’ve installed Lil’Debi to have a chroot Debian on my HTC Desire Z. Today, I’m going to use another Linux installer which is called, well, Linux Installer. You can install it from the Android Market. Linux Installer, like Lil’Debi, is an app that will download Debian packages from a repository and [...]
I always wanted to have a full Linux on my phone, not just a half-baked one such as Android. Then I saw Lil’ Debi, the Debian installer app for Android. I decided to give it a try to see how it works. You can grab the pre-built apk file here, or grab the source codes [...]
With all these new phones and tablets coming out, a lot of Android devices are now equipped with more than one SD cards. On these new devices, there is usually an internal (built-in) storage device, and an external storage device. The built-in storage device might not be an SD card, but the external storage device [...]
Ok, back from an exhausting Chinese New Year holiday, year of the Dragon. I finally got some times today, and in the next few days, to work on Renzhi Safe again. I’ll work on adding some new features, those that I always wanted, and follow up with some fixes for problems that users had run [...]
The default GDM theme in Debian doesn’t look right to my taste so decided to create one for myself. This is my first time creating a GDM theme, so it is mostly copied from other themes. Here’s how it looks like: And that’s for the year of Dragon. You can grab the package here. How [...]
During the new year holiday, although I’ve read about bad reviews about Unity, I decided to upgrade my laptop to Ubuntu 11.10 anyway, thinking that as long as I don’t use it, I should be ok. Wrong, this upgrade was the worst of all Ubuntu. I have been using Ubuntu full-time almost exclusively (except on [...]