sudo sed -e ‘s/\sfeisty/ gutsy/g’ -i /etc/apt/sources.list sudo aptitude update sudo aptitude dist-upgrade Notably, the first time I’ve actually dared use sed for anything remotely system-critical – and I did have a little help from teh internets. Practicing with sed and grep (essentially, practicing arbitrary regexp usage) is my early New Year’s Resolution on the [...]
Having returned home to Devon earlier today, the logical thing to do tonight was, of course, stay up late watching movies (Napoleon Dynamite, Independence Day) on Film4 with beer and crisps, then stay up later hacking my Linux-based laptop onto our home wifi. That done, the laptop was due a rather large number of updates, [...]
I got around to downloading the ISO of gOS the other day, and had a look. It started up AOK, and reasonably quickly for a liveCD (especially given I’m still running on just 512kB 512MB RAM), which is reassuring given that it’s basically just Ubuntu under the hood. I wasn’t massively enamoured of the look-n-feel, [...]
If you’ve not heard, gOS is an Ubuntu-based linux distro tailored to integrate the Google web applications we all know and love into a desktop experience – the nearest thing to a Google OS so far (though, despite the similarity of names, gOS is not affliated with Google to the best of my knowledge). They’ve [...]