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If you’re playing with the idea of getting into embedded Linux, you might start with the most basic question: what does embedded Linux mean? In the not so distant past that was a little easier to define. An embedded board was typically physically smaller or at least used a very […]

What makes it embedded Linux?

Thu January 17, 2013 in BeagleBoard / BeagleBox / PiBox / XBMC / XBMC (updated 4135 days ago)

Once again, a new year means new toys. This holiday season, my wife got me an Acer C7 Chromebook, a pair of PowerLine ethernet adapters and a new printer. We also got new phones. On the non-techy side, she got me some classic Big Little books. The techy stuff has […]

A new beginning

Thu January 10, 2013 in Acer C7 Chromebook / BeagleBoard / ChrUbuntu / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / Ubuntu / XBMC (updated 4141 days ago)

So I've upgraded three machines to F16 (from F14) so far, two at work and a laptop at home. The latter I spent a lot of time tweaking to work as much like my old GNOME 2 setup. XFce comes close but there are some tweaks an I have a […]

F16 an XFce: minor bits migrating from GNOME 2

Sun December 11, 2011 in Fedora / General / Linux / XFce tagged compositor / firefox / gnome / intel 915gm / laptop / WebKit / xfapplet / xfce / xscreensaver (updated 4469 days ago)

I’ve been waiting nearly 30 years for my alma mater to do something noteworthy, well other than something intellectual because lets face it, it’s not MIT. They managed a national championship in women’s basketball once and for that I’m eternally grateful. But the guys teams, well, they lack a certain […]

Alma matters

Sat December 18, 2010 in General / Personal / sports tagged alma mater / bcs bowl / eastern washington university / espn / Mike Leach / national championship game / national polls / pirate booty / Texas Tech

Fedora 11 was released this past week and I’ve already downloaded the various netinst and DVD ISO images for both 32bit and 64bit systems at home. I’ve got 5 computers to upgrade: 1 development server, 1 MythTV server, my desktop, 1 Myth client and my laptop. Since I’ve now […]

Preparing for Fedora 11: Installation on the Acer laptop

Sat June 13, 2009 in Fedora / Linux tagged acer / anaconda / dual monitors / Fedora / gnome / intel / intel driver / java / java native interface / jni / mingw / MythTV / nvidia / nvidia geforce / PulseAudio / Wordpress / xorg (updated 5443 days ago)

Someone asked on the Boulder Linux User Group mailing list today for recommendations for video cards. He wanted to avoid NVidia. One of the responses pointed out this very handy web site: 3D Graphics hardware performance using Free Software drivers (X.Org DRI). I noticed just recently that my NVidia GeForce […]

3D graphics hardware for Linux

Wed April 29, 2009 in GIMP / Linux / NVidia / Wacom / X11 tagged Fedora / GIMP / nvidia / nvidia geforce / Wacom / X11

For the past 4 years I’ve worked happily at home with my Acer laptop. I’ve discussed many of the issues I’ve had with running this laptop with Fedora. For the most part, despite how those posts may sound, I’ve actually been pretty happy with both the laptop and with running […]

Dawning of a new age: A Quad-Core system finds ...

Sun March 01, 2009 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Fedora / Hardware / Linux / MythTV / NVidia / Video / x86-64 tagged 64bit cpu / acer / dual monitors / f10 / gdm / gnome / intel / java / laptop / multimedia / MythTV / nvidia / rpm / suse / ubuntu / Video / xine

I’ve been working with the various incarnations of Red Hat Linux, including Fedora, since before the company went public. In that time I’ve done more than just a few upgrades from one release to another. With each upgrade I learn just a little more about administering my own Linux system. […]

The Everyday Guide to Fedora Upgrades

Wed February 18, 2009 in Fedora / Linux / Personal tagged f10 / Fedora / GIMP / gnome / intel / intel driver / Linux / mysql / MythTV / nfs / nvidia / partition / red hat / sane / ssmtp / X11 / xorg / yum

I’ve noticed a lot of searches on xrandr in my blog stats and have been wondering what the problem is. Xrandr is a command line tool for enabling or disabling multiple display ports on your system as well as setting display resolution and even rotation. You would use it, for […]

Using xrandr with external display ports

Mon February 09, 2009 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Fedora / General / Hardware / Intel Driver / Linux / X11 tagged acer / aspire / f10 / Fedora / gdm / gnome / intel / intel driver / Linux / MythTV / vga port / Video / xorg / xrandr

Finding off the shelf supported hardware is a tough task for Linux. The problem with such lists is that they often include hardware that you can no longer purchase from retails outlets. So it’s easier to get a list of what the outlets have available and then search the list […]

Linux Hardware Compatibility – getting started with off the shelf ...

Thu December 18, 2008 in Fedora / Hardware / Linux / MythTV / Open Source / Video / X11 tagged epson / Fedora / games / GIMP / gnome / graphics / hauppauge / intel / ivtv / kde / Linux / multimedia / MythTV / nvidia / Open Source / printing / Video / wifi / xrandr (updated 5619 days ago)

I made notes on my upgrade from 0.20 to 0.21. The software upgrade is clean but the runtime is somewhat broken on two of my three frontends. These are my (raw) notes. Upgrading to MythTV 0.21 All upgrading was done via the ATrpms repository which provided the previous release (0.20) […]

MythTV 0.21: problems with playback profiles

Wed March 12, 2008 in Linux / MythTV tagged acer / atrpms / epia / Fedora / intel / MythTV / rpm / Video / yum

I’ve upgraded pretty much all my systems, both at home and at work, to F7 now. I’m not completely pleased with it – the issues with the intel driver on my laptop are still a problem. But something that is more prevalent across all machines is general, perceived performance. I […]

Fedora 7 performance issues

Wed October 17, 2007 in General / Linux tagged Fedora / gnome / intel / java / kde (updated 6055 days ago)

Michael J. Hammel

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