Monday, January 7, 2008

UTF-8 on debian, SSH on Opensuse

Why doesn't UTF-8 work decently on debian Sarge? Well, you can do something about it:

Just follow this worked-out step-by-step tutorial...

Or upgrade to Etch.

To be honest, both ways look pretty painful to me!



A wonder has happened for the even more crippled OpenSuse! It is actually possible to ssh to a machine, independent of how you installed it, the firewall will always block any of the services you are running, unless you manually deactivate them via the "firewall" option in Yast. Thank you for your wonderful system, OpenSuse people!

2 comments:

tombert said...

Well, opening the ssh port on a computer sounds like a reasonable thing to do, even though it might take some time to come to that realization. The font inconsistency thing went so far as prompting a friend of mine to switch from linux (where it's a big mess, according to him [he's usually a quite sensible character]), to mac OS that he runs on... a Dell. When i think that some people make fun of me for running linux on a macbook...

pimbert said...

It will all be well in debian etch! They promise! But then you still need to get your multimedia stuff going :(

ok, maybe osx is not so bad at all.