Archive for October, 2006

HOWTO Cross Compile Python 2.5

Friday, October 6th, 2006

Recently I needed to compile Python for an embedded target. I used version 2.5 though it looks like that choice may have made it harder for me. I used 2.5 because I didn’t want to have to figure out how to cross compile the cElementTree extension. Unfortunately I still ended up having […]

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Why I Switched to Ubuntu

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

In a comment to my last post, Installing Ubuntu on a drive with an existing RAID and LVM, Jay Parlar asks, “Why the switch to Ubuntu?” Well Jay, I’m glad you asked.
To answer that, I have to go back to the beginning, back to my first experiences with Linux. If you just want […]

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