These new fangled netbooks that run ubuntu such as the Dell Mini 9 are great. One problem, as mentioned in an earlier post on this blog (see Related Posts) is that when you download an application like skype or adobe flash player that isn’t in the repositories you get a .deb file for linux and [...]
The new atom chip has an lpia (low-power intel architecture), sounds great except in ubuntu/debian you get an architecture mismatch if you try and install anything compiled for x86. Take Skype for instance – go to the skype site, download the ubuntu version and the debian package installer just complains that you have the wrong [...]
Often when at the linux terminal I need a long command that I recently tapped out so naturally I use the up/down arrow keys to look through my recently typed in commands. But if I’m searching for a command I used days ago then I’ll be pressing the up/down arrow keys a lot just to [...]
