Posts Tagged “debian”

• 2015-06-29 Debian Jessie on an iMac

  One year after my initial installation of a native Debian GNU/Linux on my iMac, I returned to tie up a few loose ends: backlight brightness control, fixing the sound quality and coping with some keybinding quirks.

  • apple
  • debian
  • gnu
  • linux
  • imac
  • backlight
  • howto

• 2014-03-13 Debian Wheezy on an iMac

  Despising OS X on Apple hardware is a sacrileg to some. For me, having a FOSS operating system on my desktop machine is an important first step to go Apple-less at some point. This article is both a documentation of my experiences and a Howto.

  • apple
  • debian
  • gnu
  • linux
  • imac
  • efi
  • howto

• 2013-05-02 MySQL 5.5 on GNU/kFreeBSD Debian Squeeze (IPv6 only)

  There is no IPv6 support in MySQL 5.1. Upgrading to v5.5 involves building packages from source on the kfreebsd-amd64 architecture. This article guides through the hazzle of doing so for a non-standard setup (ie. kfreebsd w/o IPv4)

  • mysql
  • kfreebsd
  • debian
  • ipv6-only