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Lightweight Linux

http://lightlinux.blogspot.com/

Blog about using Linux on old computers. Lightweight distributions and applications, reviews, tutorials and How-To's.

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  • New releases: openSUSE, TinyMe 2009 alpha, ZevenOS 2.0

    Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 10:14 in releases

    During the last weekend, I upgraded my main desktop to the latest and greatest 11.2 release of openSUSE. Finally, KDE4 is fully usable as an everyday desktop and I was able to come back from the GNOME world to the KDE. AMD2800 processor, 1 GB RAM and...

  • Play Tetris in Emacs!

    Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 12:57 in emacs

    One finds every now and then something surprising in any installed Linux system. For several years I have known that with Emacs one can do just about everything one really needs to do with a computer. Well, at least if you don't want to edit video cl...

  • Uncompress files using CLI

    Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2009 at 03:52 in hacks, cli

    I usually uncompress all kinds of packaged files from the command line. Unfortunately, I rarely remember which command line tool I should use for some specific packaging format. It is even more difficult to remember all the options needed for the app...

  • Less time spent hacking means more time for studies!

    Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 11:48

    It's been a while since my last blog posting. During the last two months I've spent most of my hours awake studying economics and finance with little time left for following the open source news or testing distributions and applications.At the moment...

  • Using a mixed environment - OS X and Debian

    Posted on Tuesday September 8th, 2009 at 14:22 in debian, os x

    Some time ago, I wrote about my first experiences with an old eMac I got from my parents. I've been pretty happy with the system, even if the OS X 10.3.9 is not as fancy as the latest incarnations of this extremely user friendly OS.I decided to keep ...

  • Lubuntu test release

    Posted on Saturday September 5th, 2009 at 12:26 in ubuntu, lxde

    Lubuntu (download) is Ubuntu 9.10 with LXDE desktop environment. FA quote from the LXDE blog:The lubuntu project is advancing. lynxis just published a lubuntu test iso based on the seeds by David Sugar and additional patches. It is just 381 MB and a...

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