Finally got around to rolling my own Linux distribution. Is there anything particularly noteworthy about it? It's Arch Linux based. Basically, it does not deviate from the base Arch Linux except to provide an Xserver and a couple of small utilities. The most important package is OpenJDK8 and the Eclipse IDE. The general premise is to use it...

This is what happens when you go overboard with stylistic code:


































And theme change:

The RasPi has no internal clock. Whenever it boots its internal clock is set to the Unix epoch. While this may not be a problem, I find it somewhat disconcerting. It did however cause an error in one particular application that I was trying to run that made use of system time.

The model B is the RasPi that has the ethernet port, and with the...

Did a quick search on the forum and much to my surprise there weren't any results for "raspberry pi." I just recently received mine (3 month wait) and figured I would document what I'd done to get it up and running. Less so to help others, moreso I might break the image and would like to easily recall the steps at a future...

So I've been using Arch Linux as my distro of choice. I'll tell you why with a screenshot:
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This is essentially a continuation of my experiences with the newly installed TinyCoreLinux system from the previous entry (which is now at 3.7.1 and markedly better).

So what have I done since last time? Well I purchased 1 Gig of RAM to upgrade the laptop, even though it wasn't absolutely necessary. However, the difference is...

I recently came into a laptop that was no longer to be used, a Dell Inspiron 1100. I figured, I could make use of it somehow, and I did. I installed a basic Debian Lenny on it. Now its not perfect or by any means easy to use. I had to figure out how to use aptitude from the command line and such, etc. Linux is markedly frustrating for new users,...