Hugh's Worthless Blog

Well, my most noteworthy news since my last post is that my lovely mymirrors site died an untimely death since I was hosting it on a dedicated server a friend had purchased for his business. But after one specific mailing from the server someone complained about, the hosting company took it off line, reformatted the drive and sold the IP address to someone else! So I had to move my mirror site elsewhere. So I ended up moving it to my mighty Dell Optiplex GX1 in my office running Xubuntu 6.06. Yes, a Pentium-III with 192MB of RAM and a 12GB hard drive! But it serves out the files just fine. I have put the latest Puppy, DSL and SLAX versions there and nobody has complained! The Cards are in a mighty big rut right now, having lost six straight games to the White Sox and Tigers. The most amazing part is they are still 2 games in first place in the NL Central just because the Reds have not been able to take advantage of the Card's slide. Luckily now they will come home and play some ...

Wow, I knew Ubuntu 6.06 was coming out June 1, but everyone else wanted to get into the summer releases it seems. This past week has shown new releases from many of my favorite distributions, including DSLinux with a release candidate of their 3.0 release, Puppy with a brand new 2.0 release, and from the grandfather of Live CD's KNOPPIX with their first new official release in months, 5.0.1DVD. But the big news was Ubuntu (along with Kubuntu, edubuntu and Xubuntu) who came out with the "Dapper Drake" 6.06 with "LTS" (long term support of three whole years!). I tried loading Xubuntu 6.06 on an old Dell GX1 Pentium III w/ 128MB of RAM and it installed flawlessly and runs like a champ. However, when I tried to install Xubuntu on my 256MB Gateway P-II box it still hung on boot. Bummer! So instead I tried the new Puppy 2.0 on there which booted up beautifully and quickly. I must admit I prefer Synaptic and apt-get to the Puppy installers, but when it comes to a f...