Taken from the gPodder Mailing list:
Hello there!
I’m glad to announce that the 0.12.0 release cycle was just 9 days, and we didn’t even include all the new changes from trunk in the 0.12.1 release, because we wanted it to be stable and went for a bugfix release instead (there are the German and French translations updated, but that’s about it).
So, here it is: gPodder 0.12.1 “The Little People” for your bug-fix-loving podcast needs. The release announcement follows below. Read more…
I have been meaning to write about NASLite for sometime now but for some reason I have never got around to it. NASLite is a Network Attached Storage (NAS) Operating System that is designed to make it simple to turn a computer into a dedicated file server running SMB/CIFS, NFS, AFP, FTP, HTTP and RSYNC protocols.
This was my very first encounter with a Linux based operating system and what a pleasant one it was. Server Elements have done a fine job in creating a NAS application that simply works. They come in various flavours depending on the hardware and protocols you wish to run on. I personal use NASLite-2 USB which boots from a 8MB USB memory stick!
Although NASLite is not free it is reasonably priced and is a easy way to convert an old computer and lots of hard disks into the NAS storage device of your dreams!
Over the years I have upgraded my hardware and am now the proud owner of a 1.5TB RAID5 NAS server. The hardware is as follows:
- ASUS A7v266-E Motherboard
- 1.4Ghz Athlon Processor
- LSI Megaraid 150-4 SATA RAID Card
- 4 x 500GB HDD
- 768MB RAM
- Netgear GA311 Gigabit Ethernet Card
This is relatively high spec compared to what I have run before, so if you have an old computer in your loft then dust it off and give it a try!
Well in a previous post I said that my scanner didn’t work, which was true. However recently I had to use it so I booted into Windows XP and all was well. I decided to see if I could get it to work under Ubuntu 7.10 and low and behold it worked first time….what a mystery?
The bad news is that I went to use it today and it isn’t working again! So this needs further investigation. If anybody can point me in the right direction then please drop me a line!
If you would have asked me about Linux a few years ago I would have claimed that it was miles away from reaching mainstream users and it didn’t include half the features that Microsoft provides with Windows XP. Now these thoughts and comments had no grounding as I had never seen or tried Linux!
Earlier on this year I was toying with the idea of upgrading to Windows Vista, it was for no reason other than the fact that I wanted to have the so called latest and greatest. I was soon put off by the negative press and most of all the unattractive price tag! On discussing this with a friend, he suggested that I tried Linux, and in particular Ubuntu. That was back in March and now I rarely run Windows, and if I do it’s usually under a virtual machine in Linux.
The journey has not been smooth all the way, and in fact I am still having issues with certain pieces of hardware and finding the best software for each task, but I what I intend to do with this blog is share my experience and hopefully encourage those who are skeptical about a move to Linux to simply give it a try. Where possible I will give step by step guides on how I achieved different things so that hopefully other people can benefit from the late nights I have spent trying to get something to work!