I’ve often wonderd how companies that “certify” Red Hat for their hardware or for their application feel about projects like CentOS and Oracle Linux. I know from experience that HP won’t support CentOS on servers that certify Red Hat, and IBM won’t support DB2 installed on CentOS, even though it’s certified for Red Hat.
Well, hopefully [...]
Call me clueless, but I’ll have to be honest here - I did not know that I could use a 64-bit OS on my homebrew system. But I found out yesterday that I could, so I decided to give the 64-bit version of openSUSE a test dance and it seemed to work just fine. [...]
Yay for Brother! My cheap Samsung laser printer finally gave up the ghost, or rather I finally gave up on trying to get it to feed paper, which would only happen about every 10 tries or so. Best Buy had the Brother 2170W networked (both wired & wireless) printer on sale for US$99, so I [...]
This was one of the easiest Fedora installs I’ve ever done. Everything except sound was usable out of the box, and the sound issue was resolved in a matter of minutes. To fix the sound, go to System –> Preferences –> Personal –> Volume Control. In the Volume Control window, click on Edit, then Preferences. [...]