Podcast #25: Webranger Nostalgia Broadcasting, Two Reviews and Picking a Linux Distribution

Where your host introduces you to his brother’s venture Webranger Nostalgia Broadcasting, reviews the Iogear MiniView 2-port KVM switch, gives his brief thoughts on the movie The Grudge starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, and tries installing three different Linux distributions in a weekend, only to end up back where he began.

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3 thoughts on “Podcast #25: Webranger Nostalgia Broadcasting, Two Reviews and Picking a Linux Distribution

  1. redfusion

    Hey, i throughly enjoy your show and listen often, but when i go to the main page – brainwagon.org im getting something that says Please note that your IP address has been logged in a referrer-spamming blacklist database, and I can’t continue. Also I was wondering if maybe you could title your podcasts with more then just the date? As in maybe 2004-10-24.mp3 you could do brainwagon2004-10-24.mp3. It gets really confusing when you have a bunch of different podcasts and you have no idea who they are..

  2. Gordon Smith

    I too have a major dislike of “modern” linux distributions that dictate how many gigabytes of disk they’ll consume. I still remember when FreeBSD (2.something?) could be installed over a dial-up PPP connection when it was 40 Mbytes.

    My current preference is to use the linux “Crux” distribution (http://crux.nu/). I install the “Base” system which comes to about 200Mb, then I manually add those applications I want (bind, apache, php, mysql, samba, postfix, etc) and play with kernel configs all I want. I’m in control.

    If you want to use Crux packages (similar to FreeBSD ports) then that’s an option too.

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