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Just ten minutes before I was supposed to leave for work yesterday,  I had this remote urge to get back Hardy running on my desktop. I had it installed but because of a windows re-install, the GRUB boot menu was overwritten. So all that I had to do was to re-install Grub!  Powered the CPU , inserted Gutsy’s…

The Heron’s up there in the Servers!

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The Ubuntu family has now doled out their latest OS – Ubuntu 8.04 code named – Hardy Heron. This release is more than different when compared to it’s previous releases. Majorly because it’s got a Wubi installer which facilitates installation directly from a Windows platform. The OS gets installed on the same partition just like…

OpenSolaris Installation

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I’d ordered the Solaris 10 DVD from a third party agent a few days back. It did avoid the hassle of downloading the code from the website and burning it on to a ROM and the service by Rainbow Computech was pretty good. I got the DVD delivered to my home in three days with…

Who says Wine ain’t smooth!!!

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Just installed WIne on Ubuntu a few minutes back. Installed a couple of other windows based softwares too! Now they really work 🙂 . Haggard installations are now things of the past. Probably it’s time I move over to something more challenging.

Gutsy Gibbon 7.1O – Ubuntu

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Finally, Installed Gutsy on my system today! :-)After failed attempts to install it last weekend, I was a bit apprehensive this time. But today, two minutes into the install I realized where I was faltering. I’d created four partitions on my Hard disk of 30 Gigs each for Windows. Fiesty was running on the remaining…