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Pure EFI Linux Boot on Macbooks

By Arun | Published: February 21, 2010
My company was really kind to get me a Macbook Pro (the 13.3-inch “5.5″ variant). It is an awesome piece of hardware! (especially after my own PoS HP laptop I’ve been cussing at for a while now) That said, I still don’t like the idea of running a proprietary operating system on it (as beautiful as [...]
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It’s pronounced Gwahdec

By Arun | Published: July 12, 2009
I’ve been terrible about it, but here’s the big update — I just got back today after spending the last week at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, location of the first co-located GUADEC and aKademy. It’s been amazing, and I don’t know where to start. Let’s try the beginning. The GNOME Foundation has funded a [...]
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Nouveau … I lau eet

By Arun | Published: March 5, 2008
I’d tried the Nouveau drivers for my NVidia GeForce Go 7400 a long time ago, and they sucked as much as the nv drivers (I’d tried to help a dev fix a few things, but without much success). I decided to ditch my proprietary drivers today to give them another whirl. I have nothing much [...]
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New Gentoo Website

By Arun | Published: December 10, 2005
Gentoo’s website is definitely going to be looking better. I missed Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia yesterday. Wonder if I might’ve liked it. The price one pays for not reading the newspaper (gently poking guilt into at least one reader, I think grin). Bought “The Very Best of MTV Unplugged – Vol 3″ a while back. Generally decent, though [...]
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