OpenOffice 3.2.0 in aLinux

One of those very short postings. I created a metapackage rpm for the Open Office 3.2.0 suite in aLinux and passed it through the contribs section of aLinux.
Should have Open Office in aLinux soon enough.

Update: Ok, it’s now in the contribs directory in the aLinux site (ibiblio): http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/peanut/contribs/RPMS/COMMUNITY/Clint/
Funny, I see my last rpm contributions [...]

From a comment in one of my blog articles, WINE 1.1.40 is now available on the official aLinux rpm repository. Please update your aLinux 12.9 through synaptic now!

aLinux 12.9 - A Blast From the Past

I’ve been experimenting with linux since mid to late 1990s and started with single 3.5 linux disks. I remember fondly downloading for over an hour using dialup trilinux and monkeylinux and experimenting with the command line on such curiousities for hours on end.

Unreleased aLinux Screenshot

If you’re wondering what aLinux was, it was a linux distribution derived from looplinux and was basically a hybrid of sorts (in it’s early days, it was very slackware linux inspired, but sporting rpms as it’s package format) and was featured in distrowatch years ago.

Hello World!

This would be my first blog post about Open Source and Tech stuff. This would also be my personal blog site as well (I’ll try to be figuring out how to categorize these writeups in this blogging site, so please be patient with me :) )