{"id":1892,"date":"2008-07-20T21:09:46","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T00:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2008-07-20T21:12:26","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T00:12:26","slug":"alterlinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1892","title":{"rendered":"Alterlinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span> found out that VirtualBox 1.6 (finally) supports Solaris: Earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1578\">attempts were an exercise in futilism<\/a> (that&#8217;s not a word, but I like the sound of it). I did install it on the Windows PC (that&#8217;s the one I haven&#8217;t touched for ages) and, hurrah (or huzzah). Thank Sun for that (after all, they bought up VirtualBox, in March or something. I was a kind of disappointed after I saw the &#8216;Java Desktop&#8217; pop-up: Gnome. It&#8217;s fairly well organized though.\n<\/p>\n<p>Via Metafilter, I was redirected to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensourcefood.com\/\">&#8216;OpenSourceFood&#8217;<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/73460\/Food-Glorious-Food\">original Metafilter thread<\/a>), which is a site where people share recipes under the Creative Commons license. I find it silly to have recipes &#8216;open sourced&#8217;: many generations of people already shared recipes for free. Probably related is this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1574\">entry at xsamplex<\/a> (the videosite &#8216;I&#8217;mCooked&#8217;, which has everything about cooking too, or something).\n<\/p>\n<p>Last week, I briefly checked out <a href=\"http:\/\/custom.nimblex.net\/\">Nimblex<\/a>, which is a site that allows you to make custom Linux distributions, via a (nifty) Javascript interface. If I&#8217;m correct, it&#8217;s all based on Fedora and it might fit what you&#8217;re looking for. For more finegrained (and complex) custom distributions, you&#8217;ll probably want to look at Linux from Scratch, or even better, <a href=\"http:\/\/linux.suramya.com\/tutorials\/Install_DFS\/\">Debian from Scratch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found out that VirtualBox 1.6 (finally) supports Solaris: Earlier attempts were an exercise in futilism (that&#8217;s not a word, but I like the sound of it). I did install it on the Windows PC (that&#8217;s the one I haven&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1892\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[323,170,104,118],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}