Arch Linux developer stepping down and a new installer for Arch Linux.

The Arch Linux distribution developer Bartłomiej Piotrowski has stepped down as a developer for the venerable Linux distribution. This is after 10 years of service maintaining this Linux distribution. But nothing lasts forever and he did very good work maintaining the distro. In other news, the Arch Linux distribution is getting a new installer, this … Read more

The OpenSUSE 12.3 installer still does not work very well for me.

I was just using an old iMac not long ago and I managed to get the kernel version and the output of the ps command. Here is the information below. The output of the uname -a command. Darwin users-Computer.local 7.9.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0: Wed Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpcDarwin users-Computer.local … Read more

The OpenSUSE installer will not work with ATI graphics cards in graphical mode.

The OpenSUSE 12.3 distribution I have downloaded does not seem to work with my ATI hardware very well at all. I used the nomodeset parameter on the boot screen and it still refuses to load the graphical interface. Even though the Linux Mint 14 and Ubuntu 13.04 Gnome distributions work perfectly well with this parameter … Read more

Problems installing Ubuntu 13.04 and how punched cards worked in the olden days of computing.

You might have heard of the trouble I have had with the Ubuntu 13.04 Linux distribution, but if you have not then I will tell you what is going on. The Live DVD of Ubuntu 13.04 Gnome Edition will not install. I run the installer and get up to the point where you are selecting … Read more