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Monthly Archives: October 2005

i know what i said cause i said it

25 October 2005

So after my little rant against VMware the other day, Philip helped me out with the 5.5 beta, which, as he says, works swimmingly on SUSE 10.0. The installation process still sucks: I have to run the same perl script as before, but it knows where to find my kernel build tree and how [...]

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rebirth of the lucky cave

25 October 2005

Uh oh, someone just moved into the Lucky Cave and blogged about it. Can anyone say, Gay Sex Party 2?

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gnu patch is to blame for all this

20 October 2005

Federico: Yeah, the state of ISV support in Linux is pretty sad, but your first point, “One-size-fits-all RPMs that don’t work? That’s because distros install stuff wherever they damn well please.” isn’t really the crux of the issue. It’s way worse than that. The location on the filesystem isn’t really a problem. By [...]

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oops

20 October 2005

I tried to install VMware Workstation 5 on my SUSE Linux 10.0 desktop today. Boy, that did not go well. VMware is a great piece of software if you can get it running, but its installation on Linux is a real mess.
I installed the RPM from the web site. I was a [...]

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