History I’ve been running Xen since something like 2008, originally on an AMD Athlon X2 dual-core, when Paravirtual installs were the only option as hardware virtualisation wasn’t a thing yet. Obviously I’m bloody-minded 🙂 These days, virtual machines are much easier to do, but I still like to push boundaries, and for the last 3…
I’m experimenting with making a switch to Linux for my main desktop, mainly driven by wanting Linux as a development environment for python, rather than Windows. After installing Fedora 21 Workstation version, its become annoying that the login manager, gdm, isn’t remembering the display configuration for my multiple-monitor setup. I run Portrait Landscape Portrait setup…
Warning! This is a publish of a draft post I found from September 2014 (11 years ago!).. its waaay out of date, but I’ve lately been contemplating trying to get Mythbackend up and running, so tidied it up and will hit publish. If I can’t publish it in the past, it’ll show up in 2026..…
In my previous blog post about choosing the right dom0, I came to the conclusion that in the face of an upcoming RHEL7 which is based on Fedora 19/20, it made sense to set up my dom0 for using Fedora 20. Given the similarity between Fedora 20 and RHEL7, it should be the same process…