I recently upgraded my boot-loader to GNU GRUB 2. It has several new interesting features which sets it apart it from the older version, now termed GRUB Legacy
Another reason for my upgrade to GNU GRUB 2 was that GRUB legacy it no longer being under active development – no new features will be added to [...]

I finally did it! Now my root partition is, instead of a boring old ext3 a shiny new JFS parition.
The very first thing I did was build a new kernel with JFS support compiled into it. While configuring the kernel I also selected the deadline IO scheduler as the default scheduler since it tends to [...]

I just discovered a new companion (no, not an iPod), but the MPD – Music Player Daemon. This is the probably the first time I am feeling truly satisfied about my music player.
The MPD runs as a service. It binds to a port on your computer (6600 by default). Once you have the MPD up [...]

I have been using GNU / Linux for about five years; regularly for a year and exclusively for about six months. Over these years I have used Mandriva, Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, SLAX and one or two distros whose names I do not remember. Yet I found each of these distros lacking in something or the [...]