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I've finally found the time to make the necessary fixes and improvements to the theme of my blog.
I decided to not name it a final release just because I could not test it with Internet Explorer 6. I believe that the differences with this beta release and the final one will just be some test with that browser and a better code cleanup
Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict.
Yes, this is the theme you're actually seeing in the blog.
You can go and download it!

It's a very long time since I abandoned Ubuntu, 1 year and 9 months being precise, although I continued to use Ubuntu derived distros.
I decided today to give Ubuntu 8.10 beta a try. Obviously, every time I decide to try a Gnu/Linux distribution it happens that a new release comes out: I downloaded Alpha 6 yesterday, I fell into problems with it and a apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade brought me Ubuntu 8.10 beta, correcting some of them
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BD-blog is currently at position 32755 in Netcraft Most visited web sites ranking. This means that I earned about 20k positions in just one month! This is thanks to the link of my review of GOS published on Distrowatch!

BD-blog site ranking, top 30000

I'm very happy with these results but now I want to begin a new race with a brand new domain name! I'm tired of bd-things.net, event if it brought me such great results and knowledge around the Net.
I will announce the new domain name very soon.

Time for a review. Thanks to the always useful DistroWatch.com service, I discovered a new Gnu/Linux distribution, called gOS. gOS stands for Good Os, born in 2007 in California. The version I'm reviewing is the so-called "gOS 3 'Gadgets'", their third release. gOS 3 Gadgets BETA is based on Ubuntu 8.04.1, and the final release is to be expected in the next 1-2 months.
This distribution is built around Goggle apps and services, comes with Google Gadgets for Linux pre-installed, as well other nice programs, like Google Picasa, Wine, Mozilla Prism for Google web applications and Wbar as launch bar. I've never heard about this bar, it's very quick and light. Good choice! The distro also includes proprietary codecs for multimedia content.
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I'm very proud to announce that the first beta version of the final release of BD-shell is ready and available for download.
As always you can find it on the project page.
Remember that this has to be considered as a bug hunting release, every requirements has been successfully covered but I cannot test it so often as I would like to..
Grab the code while it's hot!

Happy new year everybody!
I'm sure you found my site offline quite a lot of times in the last week. I decided to format the whole server and to move from the UML virtualisation system to the more convenient Xen system, which is still in beta testing at Linode but full working for my personal needing. The decision to switch to Xen was because of its support to multicore CPUs, needed by a couple of applications I'm using for personal studies.
The linux distribution I've chosen is Debian Etch again, stable, quite fast and easy to be maintained.
The software has been updated and some security tips have been adopted, and thanks to the free resources upgrade by Linode, Apache server has came back.
I'm really enjoying my VPS experience =)