March 17, 2010

First encounters of the SimplyMepis kind

First encounters of the SimplyMepis kind

March 10, 2009 by LD Jackson · 15 Comments 

It’s funny that my first encounter with SimplyMepis came as sort of an accident. I have been reading Preacherpen’s articles about Mepis, which is Debian based, for quite some time and had actually downloaded the new SimplyMepis 8 and burned my own CD. I hadn’t gotten around to trying it out until recently when I [...]

The ease of sidux

February 26, 2008 by LD Jackson · 14 Comments 

First, let me clear up a mistake I made in my previous article about sidux. I used a “S” instead of a “s”. sidux is spelled with a small s. I am still trying to get around Mrs. Gibson’s High School English class.
Okay, now that we have gotten the English lesson out [...]

First impressions of Sidux, the Debian based Linux distro

February 21, 2008 by LD Jackson · 37 Comments 

Several years ago, when I acquired my first computer and began to learn more and more about them, I did not dream that I would be using one as much as I do today.  Even though I have worked in the automotive service industry for over ten years, (the first part of it was actually [...]