Author Archives: Chris

Open a virtual terminal on a Mac laptop (ibook, powerbook, etc) running Ubuntu

Posted on 2010/09/28 by Chris

Today I’m posting a little tidbit that, while extremely basic, I haven’t seen posted anywhere. I’ve seen plenty of forum posts by PPC linux users on mac laptops needing help and being told to open a virtual terminal with the … Continue reading →

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More app changes being considered

Posted on 2010/09/21 by Chris

I’m currently reviewing two more apps for use in AwaOS, namely the most lightweight standards compliant web browser available, Midori, and yet another music player called “Eina”. Midori has always been on my list of apps to consider for inclusion, … Continue reading →

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Interesting open source online backup project: iFolder

Posted on 2010/09/18 by Chris

One of the goals of AwaOS is to make data backup automatic so that beginner PC users don’t have to go through all trouble that those of us with more experience have had to over the years. This requires tying … Continue reading →

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Another PowerBook G3 donated.

Posted on 2010/09/18 by Chris

Today was a great day for the PC self sustainability project. We received another donated laptop in the mail in perfect working condition: another PowerBook G3, this one with 256MB RAM and a 60GB hard drive (an upgrade by the … Continue reading →

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Music player for AwaOS changed to Guayadeque

Posted on 2010/09/13 by Chris

Today as I was digging around the net looking for something entirely unrelated, I came across an interesting music player under development called Guayadeque. At the moment, AwaOS uses Lxmusic as the default player because, quite simply, there were no … Continue reading →

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Setting up a USB printer on a headless Ubuntu server with CUPS for Ubuntu and Windows clients

Posted on 2010/09/11 by Chris

One of the biggest challenges for AwaOS will be printing. In Ubuntu, the main underlying infrastructure for printing is of course CUPS, but on the standard Gnome desktop, setting this up relies on GUI tools with Gnome dependencies. A Google … Continue reading →

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PowerBook G3 and eMac donated

Posted on 2010/08/26 by Chris

Earlier this month, Ms. Okada, a member of the Awa Money community, sent out an email looking for someone to take an old eMac off her hands. After verifying that the machine might possibly capable of running the PPC version … Continue reading →

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Finally have a functioning PPA on Launchpad

Posted on 2010/08/19 by Chris

After much trial and error, I finally have a functioning PPA on lauchpad for AwaOS. It turns out that in the final step, using the command dput to upload the source to the PPA, I had been trying to upload … Continue reading →

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AwaOS alpha now running on iBook G4

Posted on 2010/08/19 by Chris

Last night I managed to get a hand installed alpha version of AwaOS up and running on the iBook G4 donated by Dave from Tokyo Hackerspace. This is very much a proof of concept prototype, but this machine will now … Continue reading →

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iBook G4 Donated!

Posted on 2010/08/16 by Chris

This weekend, six members of Tokyo Hackerspace visited Kamogawa. According to their web site, Hacker spaces are community-operated physical places, where people can meet and work on their projects. Tokyo HackerSpace is an open community lab, studio, workbench, sewing circle, … Continue reading →

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