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apt-get moo vs emerge moo

Posted by: Shyam Sundar on: July 17, 2008

Interestingly, this was filed in launchpad as bug.

the animal produced by “apt-get moo” doesnt really look like a cow:

gentoos cow looks much better:

perhaps we could adopt mouth:

I think this does not give up much of Debians identity, while looking much better.

Being a fan of Gentoo and its derivatives, this adds to proof that [...]

(debian) forcing DNS to resolve by hostname

Posted by: Shyam Sundar on: December 5, 2007

I often encounter the following situation whenever I setup a Debian based system:
you can ping the linux (debian/ubuntu) box, but you can’t do the same using a hostname., however you set using hostname and other tools …
This is the small life-saver code that does the magic!  Assume that you want to set hostname as `dapperbox’ [...]

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