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Trying out the new, integrated into GNOME and uses GStreamer -- Media Sharing daemon, Rygel . First thoughts, it's a _lot_ easier to con...

So, Dad decided to mess with his Ubuntu installation over the weekend -- he upgraded from Hardy to Jaunty as a one-step upgrade, which, some...

After requiring a fresh install of Ubuntu on my media-serving laptop due to disc failure -- I restored all the configuration settings from a...

Recently, I had need to install a newer Banshee from the Ubuntu PPA on a friend's Ubuntu LTS machine (I only ever recommend LTSes to fr...

My default /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ has around 10-12 PPA listings in it all the time and with the release of 9.04, there doesn't seem t...

Now that Fedora 11 has come out, I decided to give it a spin in a VMWare box -- i'm not entirely satisfied with the drive read speed of ...

I've been playing with recordmydesktop lately in order to put some suitable screencasts together for demonstrating various Linux-relate...