Author: fmneto
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Understanding Debian Releases
The cycle of Debian‘s releases is not an usual one. Most Linux distributions follow two paths. Some of them follow a strict periodicity, and we see a new version being released according to that periodicity. For example, Ubuntu releases a new version every six months. Other distributions, however, choose their release dates according to other…
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A quick update
It has been a long while since I’ve posted anything here. After coming back from Germany things went completely crazy, so I ended up neglecting the blog a bit. It happens every once in a while; looking back through the history of this blog one quickly realizes that, among about a gazillion random notes, there…
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Headbanging: GNU versus Linux
One of the oldest flamewars in the non-Windows world is the one between people who call the operating system based on the kernel developed by Linus Torvalds “Linux” or “GNU/Linux”. A bit of history All the way back in 1983, a certain Richard Stallman started a project he called “GNU” (Gnu is Not Unix). It’s…
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Wikis and other annoyances
Wikis are cool! I had installed MediaWiki on my server some time ago, but it remained 99% of the time idle because to be honest I had no idea what to do with it. Recently I’ve installed Debian on my desktop and I kept thinking it would be cool to have a written “to-do list”…
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Why I closed down my Facebook
This week I closed down my Facebook account. It was not an easy decision to make. I’d been thinking about it for the last few months, after realizing that the site has become a very different creature than what it was when it all began, over ten years ago. Back then, around 2005, social networks…
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Graphics!
I have a confession to make: I bought a new graphics card. I know it doesn’t sound like a big deal. Especially when you check prices for these things on international stores. But with the dolar rampant the prices in Brazil have taken a turn for the worse (as if they weren’t bad enough). I…