When the display dies and talk about screen burning.

In the old days it used to be a common standard that you would use a screensaver to protect your display from image burning. Image burning is a phenomenon where your screen would stay still too long and the image in it would get burned to the screen permanently. Nowadays, image burning can certainly still happen but it is rare since the technology behind our screen has developed so much since the 1990’s. Continue reading →

PostX Gnu/Linux release status

Latest is: 0.4.1 release Older, but still supported upgrades: 0.4 release

Current release notes.

Release notes January 3rd 2017 edit: I had written echi=off to the 0.4 original release notes, which is wrong. It should be edd=off. Edd stands for Enhanced disk drive. Apologies for the mistake. Use edd=off in the case that the boot to live-environment hangs and does not continue. Now, the entry should also be correct within the original release notes.

Package repositories:

Apt-get repository is online (0.4.1 version)

Sources are online (0.4.1 version)

 

PostX Gnu/Linux 0.4.1 is released

Year begins with a new release of PostX Gnu/Linux.

The 0.4 release notes still mostly apply. So, if in any doubt go here.

January 3rd 2017 edit: I had written echi=off to the 0.4 original release notes, which is wrong. It should be edd=off. Edd stands for Enhanced disk drive. Apologies for the mistake. Use edd=off in the case that the boot to live-environment hangs and does not continue. Now, the entry should also be correct within the original release notes.

Download PostX Gnu/Linux 0.4.1 from the release folder. Continue reading →