[Hut] under the [Sky].[Net]

It’s been a while since Debian 6 got released. Now I found some spare time to check it out. Before I get to installing it on my home server, I decided to have a peek using Virtualbox. At first I encountered a problem while while loading the system after the installation. The startup process would stop, saying:

BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [modprobe :90]

Luckily, I wasn’t the only one to come across this issue so after lowering the amount of memory allocated to the virtual machine, the system managed to start smoothly.

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One of the few things I really do miss in Linux environment is a proper accounting software.

About a year ago, I managed to convince a friend of mine who owns this local store to try Linux on his office computer. He took to the idea gladly because the computer in his office was used by many various users, his father, part-time workers etc. Every one of them installed an icq toolbar here, a small application there and as a result, we had to re-install Windows quite often since the computer was constantly overloaded with unnecessary applications, spyware and viruses. Yes, we could have set up a Windows account with more restrictive rules, but Linux simply seemed a safer choice. At first I was worried about how people who don’t know much about computers, people who use computers just for browsing, e-mails or editing excel documents would react to a completely different operating system.

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I got a liveCD with Opensolaris from my brother today. I know he has been toying with it for some time now, but all I know about Opensolaris is that it’s based on Solaris by Sun, it is UNIX-like, supposedly very stable and famous for its file system. My brother had asked me if I wanted to try it out several times, but unlike him, who earns his bread maintaining OS, I never really got to it with that little time I have.

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Sometimes, it happens that when I want to connect to one of my Debian machines over the vncviewer tool, I just can’t type in the password to unlock the screen. (more…)