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 [...]

The i915 driver for the Intel GM965 is broken in kernel 2.6.30 – instead of getting 1280×800 framebuffer console you end up getting up getting 1024×768. Please note that the (overall) resolution is perfectly fine – only the text will appear to remain constrained in an imaginary 1024×768 box. This happens at least in Acer [...]

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 [...]