AMD/ATI graphics work great on newer kernels. Only exception is libre distributions that don't include the necessary firmware; on those you can't use KMS, and may have stability problems. Re graphics, I would also point out that the VESA driver works reasonably well for standard VGA (i.e. not widesc...

No, this is not normal at all. I would suggest taking a look at /var/log/messages; there will probably be error messages.

Edit: I'd also suggest doing the above before resorting to measures like recompiling the kernel. Wasting time = not fun.

$ mimeopen .nanorc bash: /usr/bin/mimeopen: /usr/bin/perl5.16.0: bad interpreter: No such file or directory According to slapt-get, the installed version of perl is 5.16.3. In any case, perl-File-MimeInfo probably shouldn't be specifying the Perl version like that (or so I'd think). I'm not sure if...

For that you probably want to use perl-File-MimeInfo via the mimeopen command.

Edit: perl-File-MimeInfo is bugged ATM, just a second...

Thanks. I didn't realize that you could bind the escape key to a single key; thought it had to be a combo...

I actually happen to like C-t for ergonomic reasons (read: puny netbook keyboard). But Winkey works well enough for now.

Hitting C-t t in Ratpoison passes a real C-t keypress to whatever application is selected. Obviously this is really useful for e.g. Firefox. However, after hitting said key combo in Firefox (which does generate a new tab as expected), context menus no longer appear on right-click. There are other pr...

... is IMO by far the most annoying thing about the UNIX command line. Fortunately for those of us still using bash, there is an easy solution. set completion-ignore-case on Put that in ~/.inputrc for per-user configuration, or /etc/inputrc to apply it system-wide. Next time you open a bash prompt, ...

New mirrors, yay! Awesomeness! Here's to hoping this leads to more widespread Salix adoption.

Really? Interesting; if the performance degrades as they fill up, I would expect a smaller (and thus more quickly filled) journal partition to produce worse performance... Oh, I should mention that ext4 users should turn on journal_async_commit. This should help flash drive lifespan, and definitely ...

Interesting - when using an SD card for external journaling, a smaller journal size seems to produce better performance. I would expect the opposite, as is the case on HDDs. As for the boot delay, that can be done on most distros by using the rootdelay flag, e.g. 'rootdelay=3' for a 3 second delay b...