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Debian 6 GNU/KFreeBSD Grub problems on VirtualBox

By matt

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February 10, 2011

Debian 6 was released the other day, with this release they not only released a Linux kernel version but they now support a FreeBSD version as well! So I decided to install it under VirtualBox and check it out… The install process went smoothly until I got to the end when it was installing and […]

Fedora + akmod = WIN!

By matt

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September 17, 2010

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Fedora is an awesome Linux distro. Chris just informed me of an awesome feature so I thought I’d blog for everyone else’s benefit and also my own 😉 When installing a kernel module through yum, instead of installing the kmod-<module> package install the akmod-<module> version e.g: sudo yum install kmod-nvidia Becomes sudo yum install akmod-nvidia […]

Fedora upgrade broke Xorg… SOLVED!

By matt

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May 11, 2010

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| Computers, IT, Linux

A few of us here at work are using Fedora 12, two of the guys upgraded Fedora to find X not starting, seemingly a broken nvidia driver. Because they had issues I was careful about updates. But the inevitable happened.. I updated killing my Xorg. I decided I’d do a bit of research into what […]