fleshyorgans

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Why I love working under Linux

May 22nd, 2007 · 1 Comment

Just a short list in no particular order (everyone’s got ‘em, figured I should as well). Simply trying to share my joy:

No reboots
So far, every peripheral I’ve installed has been a driverless installation
Multitasking actually works
Integrated FTP/SSH/Samba/whathaveyou within the file browser
Wide variety of applications to choose from. All free.
Development tools under an OS for which they […]

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GVim and editing over SSH connections

April 3rd, 2007 · 2 Comments

(Update 04/08/2007: apparently I’m number one for most searches about editing with Vim over SSH, so I’ll note for other searchers that this method isn’t perfect, but it gets the job done. The downside to this method is that it keeps asking for a password for every file operation.
Also note that the reason it’s problematic […]

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