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From SuSE to Debian

aba, if you happen to receive some feedback on this subject, please let me know. A comment in this post or even a blog post from you in Planet Debian would be great.

Bloggind as there’s no comment support available in your blog.

Sorry for the noise

Sorry Planet Debian. The last post was intended to appear on Planeta Debian Brasil only, not on Planet Debian. I tend to separate my posts written in english and in portuguese using different categories for each and have both Planet Debian and Planet Debian Brasil being feed from the relevant URL for each category.

It was just a mistake from my part giving the last post (written in portuguese) the wrong category. It’s already fixed and I hope not to make the same mistake again in the future.

Advogato is no more

Yes, it’s true. Advogato is going offline. It’s sad to see such a good project going offline. I started using Advogato and reading some diaries there a lot of years ago and also wrote some entries myself there.

Anyway, thanks Advogato for all the fish and good luck.

New blogger on Planet Debian

Nice to know that my friend Otávio Salvador started his English blog. As he noted, his toughts will be sindicated on Planet Debian soon. It’s always a pleasure to know which are the newer crazy ideas he’s working on. Go Otávio !

Update : I’m also blogging in Portuguese. My friends from Debian which can read Brazilian Portuguese can read my ramblings on my blog. With some luck, my ideas will soon also be available on Planeta Debian Brasil, a Brazilian planet for Debian lovers.

First post and already tired

Well, I have just finished setting up my virtual machine in a hosting provider which offers a very nice virtual machine plan called VPS.

It’s very nice because they give you full root access so you can install whatever you want to install. Also, it’s Debian based and even the control panel they provide is as I like things to be : minimalist and easy to use. Sure, it works like a charm also.

I’m tired because I was fighting the blog system I installed for a long time trying to convince it to get installed in a proper VirtualHost but it kept giving me trouble everytime I tried to access its root page. I gave up and installed it in a directory under my default page and then it worked as expected.

Someday I need to take a closer look at it and find out what really went wrong. Well, actually, I know what went wrong and I even knew how one could fix the issue as I already fixed issues like this one lots of time in the past, but this time my tricks didn’t helped.

Anyway, mail setup is already working, complete with SSL-based IMAP/POP, SMTP-AUTH through SASL and all the basic services I wanted to have are already working. Now I think I can have some sleep a it’s past 4:00AM.

Well, enough for a first post.