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Archive for April, 2009

April 18th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , |

In a previous post I wrote something about our little friend Tux, the symbol of Linux.
On most computers running Linux he'll show up while the kernel is starting up the main services, once for every processor in your system. This little picture in compiled into the kernel and, if you have the sources on your [...]

April 18th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , |

It's been a week since Easter, but here is a little article I found about a sculpture of Jesus, build in a church in Vasteras, Sweden. It was made using 30.000 pieces:
The article can be found here.

April 18th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , |

As a big fan of Slackware, I try to follow the -current branch of this distribution on two of my machines at home.Doing this is not a good idea on a production machine, as things might stop working. The -current branch is mainly for testing newer versions of packages. The developers of Slackware are usually [...]