Comcast cable television boxes run Redhat Linux 9.0 as an OS. Interesting.

So that is what Comcast are running on their cable television boxes. Of course they would run a stable and reliable operating system like Linux to make sure that the boxes work as expected, but kernel 2.4.24 in 2013? Still, the 2.4 kernels are still being maintained so they are still a worthy kernel to … Read more

Setting up a simple network with Linux Mint was very easy indeed.

I recently wanted to connect my laptop running Linux Mint 12 Debian edition with my desktop machine running Linux Mint 13 Maya with a crossover cable, the desktop machine has two network cards, one connected to the Ethernet modem and one that I connected my crossover cable to. Then I clicked the Network icon on … Read more