What Have You Done with Linux Lately?

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set up fetchmail, fetchyahoo and courier imap so i can have the same email regardless of which OS i'm using, was a pain to keep copying the thunderbird profile over.
 
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Gave up on Mythtv and getting my TV card working, damned databases. I might return to it at later date with MythBuntu.

Just changed my login window to a pretty cool one:

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Avio-GDM?content=37395

Most downloaded one on there so you may have seen it already.

Also, just made a little script that turns on anti aliasing for compiz on boot up. Saves me doing it each time.
 
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i've just been through and stripped out masses of services from hardy, and turned off a selection of hardware in my eee 900 to get better battery life. I also changed the boot process to be significantly less power hungry, it was eating 15-20% of my battery on each restart before I got stuck in, now its more like 0-5%, normally less than 2 :D.
 
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Got just about everything I need up and running now, just need to work out why php server isn't working. The plan after that is to get torrentflux working. Sorted my samba problem, was a silly spelling mistake. Then finally I may just have to set up a CSS server :)
 
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Managed to delete old kernals, saved a few hundred MB. Also installed startup manager and cleaned up the text boot selector (Ubuntu 8.04 and XP)
 
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Did a custom stage one install of Gentoo using the Conrad guide.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-696386-highlight-conrad.html

Must admit over the years I have always stuck with a supported stage 3 install so this was a little bit of departure for me. Did experience a few issues, mainly down to my own incompetence but glad to say the performance difference is very noticeable.:)

OSS-v4 seems really impressive too.
 
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Re-flashed my NSLU2 with custom firmware, shoved TwonkyMedia Server on it, then built djmount in Ubuntu so that I can mount it within Linux as if it was a filesystem.

NSLU is without question the cheapest media server money can buy :)

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Richard
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