I still use PCLinuxOS on one computer. Version 11.06 I believe it is called. It is very polished and I like it a lot. However, it is 32 bit and the lack of a 64 bit version caused me to go looking for another distro.

My other computer, the one I'm on now, has simply Mepis 64 bit on it and it runs nicely. There are some minor issues such as a volume slider that doesn't change the volume. I have to open the mixer and use the slider in it which works well enough. Also, M11, as...

Just how many binary blobs are there in the kernel...!? I finally enabled "deblob" for my gentoo kernel sources, and it took the build five minutes to remove all the kernel blobs! Must have been hundreds of them. I think I saw my Ethernet driver scroll by... hopefully I have networking in my next boot. (*gulp*)

Ingredients:

• 1 table spoon small yellow Mustard seeds (Aka Sarson in Hindi)
• 4 small Green chillies (Aka Hari mirch in Hindi) thinly chopped.
• 1 and 1/2 table spoon fresh Ginger (Aka Adrak in Hindi) finely grated.
• 1/2 table spoon Salt.
• 2 medium Onions thinly chopped.
• 1/4 table spoon Turmeric powder (Aka Haldi in Hindi).
• 4 cups Flattened rice.
• Juice of half lemon.
• Oil for frying.

Directions:

• Wash the Flattened Rice. Keep it wide spread in a holed dish. Drain the water,

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Finally broke down and bought my first printer, a Brother HL-2270DW. It has only been a few days, but I'm pretty happy with my purchase. It's everything I wanted: an inexpensive, Ethernet capable, Linux-compatible laser printer (I hate inkjet). It provides LPD/LPR service over the network, so you don't even have to download the proprietary drivers to use it: just use the CUPS Web interface to add an LPD printer (Generic PCL) and point it to the correct IP address.

If it is plugged...

I noticed that rpmerizor doesn't include so symlinks in the package. (You have to add them to the spec as "%dir" types if you need them.)

As a result the current rpmerizor is pretty SAFE for retro development packages because it can't overwrite the default libs (*.so with no numeric extension).

However, I've asked eric to consider adding a switch so that we can include the symlinks as per "normal" development packages which usually only contain...