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A full con Knoppix

Me da un poco pena abandonar por un rato mis recientes descubrimientos con RedHat, debido a la aparición de Knoppix. What the hell is Knoppix?, bueno, es una distribución de Linux que corre directamente desde CD (Live-CD's) , así como lo oyen. No es necesario instalar el Sistema Operativo porque ya viene listo para configurar un par de cosas y usarlo. Estuve revisando por ahí y Knoppix estaba bastante recomendado, así que lo descargué. Y no me decepcionó, más bien me entusiasmó lo suficiente como para hacerme de varias copias para los amigos que quisieran probar linux sin la necesidad de tocar su apreciado windows.
Tiene todo lo necesario. Lo único que tuve configurar fue la parte de red y porsupuesto el proxy (me canso). El entorno gráfico es KDE3, tiene OpenOffice, Mozilla 1.3 (Firebird se deja extrañar) y una gran cantidad de aplicaciones de escritorio para jugar. Y tiene una buena performance, va parejo en velocidad y estabilidad con mi RedHat. Permite almacenar la configuración que has hecho en cualquiera de las particiones en las que trabaja y si uno se quiere arriesgar un poquito se puede crear un archivo swap para mejorar la performance en máquinas con poca memoria. Lo recomiendo totalmente. Ideal para cuando estás en ambientes hostiles donde las máquinas solo tienen Windows. Se me nota la emoción. Pero ahora vuelvo al RedHat que todavía tengo mucho que hacer ahí.
By the way, I really like to write in spanish :)

Straw installation

Straw is a RSS reader for Linux. It needed some hard work to properly install on my linux box. Actually I still have the problem about the connection (yep, that proxy stuff) but there are no more problems with the installation thanks to this guy. And I've learnt to make rpm packages so the reading was worth although Straw still doesn't work.

The WinGate issue

At home I have a connection to the Internet via a Wingate proxy server from one neighbour (don't ask). Well, for applications like web browsers this connection works fine but for applications that use another ports to connect the internet is necessary a WinGate client on the PC. Well, this client only works on Windows ... so in Linux I can not connect ftp clients, can't read neither send mails, can't access my servers via ssh, can't connect to the irc, etc. The solution was easy: to install Linux on the machine with the wingate proxy, but I don't think my neighbour would like this method. So, i had to search the web for another solution.
Today I've found desproxy, a tiny application which connects to the internet any software that needs it. Well, not really "any software" but at least I could check my mail and do all the ssh stuff. Desproxy works like a tunnel between the applicaction, the wingate proxy and the Internet.
Forget to say, some linux apps, i.e. apt-get, works fine with http proxies like WinGate, but other apps just don't want to know anything with http proxies so desproxy is the only solution in such cases.

Table of equivalents

You know that I'm looking for some linux applications to replace the software I normally use on Windows. Suffice to say, this list is my best friend at this moment. I still have problems to find a P2P app that works fine on my system and i'm starting to hate that evil wingate proxy.

Testing

Mariano and Pedro, two of my favorites webloggers are testing typepad too, it feels good not to be alone :) . Is someone else there?

Update
Guillebe, edmz and Afrael are also on the typepad neighbourhood. Cool!

Update 2
Two more to the list: Vuarnet and Sebastian.

The last step

For months I've been using Red Hat Linux on my computer at work, it's perfect because I have to admin many servers on linux and when I need Windows I have the PC from one of my coworkers. But at home there is another situation, I have to keep windows in my PC because there are another members of the family who like it and use it. On the other hand, I need some applications on windows that I did not have in linux, until now. Quanta is a HTML editor that matchs some features from HTML-Kit, a really nice app for windows. After some tests I think Quanta is the last step to moving completely to Linux. There is another kind of applications that I don't have in linux (a P2P that really works) and still have a problem with the WinGate proxy I use to connect the internet, but is a matter of time to solve these issues, so now I'm a full time linux guy. And I'm proud of it.

Who is HD?

HD stands for Héctor Danniel, a 26 years old peruvian guy. You may remember me from weblogs like El Refugio and Lambenyáre, but today i'm here to talking about weblogs, linux, weblogs about linux, and a good amount of geek stuff. I don't know if i can keep posting in english, but I'll try for now, so wish me luck!

HD on typepad

Well, i'm here posting (?) from TypePad. Yep, HD is a betatester for this new blogging service so i'll try to do my best to help the people from SixApart to improve the service. Let's begin.