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Well it seems my good friend eracc has decided to upgrade from Mandriva to Mageia.  And he decided to do it while the system was running doing it all via CLI(command line).  He has posted the outcome on his site and he has given me permission to post any of his writings so I thought I’d share it with you. I find it amazing that you can switch from one distro to a different distro via command line with little to no problems.  I’ve been using Linux for 11 years, and just 5 years ago that wasn’t possible.  Now with the way things have changed, it seems it’s very possible to do.  His writing about is below. (more…)
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A good friend of mine posted this on his blog today, and I had to ask him permission to be able to share it.  Quite interesting story indeed.  Please read it and comment below and let me know what you think about it.   Hi children! I know it is a bit early for scary tales. We usually get to those in October. But I have one for you that you just might want to hear now. So. Get your hot cocoa, your S’mores and your sleeping bag and come over here by the fire. I have a tale of chills and thrills to tell you young’uns. There now. Are you all snuggled in and ready for a scary tale? Good. Here goes … (more…)
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For those that use Mandriva and wish to use Xtart and have E17 show up in the menu of window managers, here is a short how-to to enable that. This how-to assumes you have installed and compiled E17 from CVS into it’s default directory which is /usr/local/bin/enlightenment First thing you need to do is to install the Xtart app.  You can do this by making sure you have online sources from EasyUrpmi for Main, Contrib and Updates.  If you meet those requirements, then perform the following command: urpmi xtart    or   urpmi Xtart Now we need to make a file in our /etc/X11/wmsession.d directory that can be read by Xtart.  You will need to be root user to do this. touch /etc/X11/wmsession.d/23Enlightenment-17 Now you need to open that file in your favorite editor, as root user, and add the following
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