Okay, so this is a long-awaited follow-up to my first post on the topic of Debian Perl Packaging. Some of you might note I was pretty extreme in the first post, which is partially because people only really ever respond to extremes when they’re new to things. When you first begin programming, the advice you [...]
Posts Tagged ‘System Administration’
Debian Perl Packaging: Where I Lied
Posted in Computer Science, Software Engineering, tagged Best Practices, Computer Science, CPAN, Debian, Debian Packaging, Perl, Standards, Support, System Administration, User Experience on 15 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Debian and A Graphical Environment
Posted in Computer Science, Software Engineering, User Friendliness, tagged Debian, GNOME, Google Summer of Code, KDE, System Administration, User Experience on 9 July 2009 | 6 Comments »
It’s been some time since I re-installed Debian over my Kubuntu install, so I thought I’d discuss some reasons why I changed back to Debian, what my experience was like, and some learning opportunities.
One reason I made the switch was because there was a utility newly packaged for Debian, Frama-C, which was not available in [...]
Dual Booting Debian and VMware
Posted in Computer Science, User Friendliness, tagged Computer Science, Debian, System Administration on 18 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, so allow me to explain my personal development platform. I use Windows XP Professional as my primary operating system for various reasons, but I develop software for Linux (mostly because I like Linux, but also because I intend for a lot of my software to be used on my own servers, all of which [...]
