Lyz Krumbach

Biography

Elizabeth Krumbach is a self-taught, self-proclaimed Linux geek. She has experience with several distributions of Linux, including Gentoo, Red Hat, and Fedora, but currently uses Debian on her desktop machine and servers, and Ubuntu on her laptop. She is involved in several Linux User Groups in the Philadelphia area, including coordinating meetings for both the Montgomery County PA Linux Users Group and the Philadelphia Chapter of LinuxChix. She has done contract development work for a few firms in the Philadelphia area, and regularly writes Linux How-Tos on her personal website. She has also made contributions to open source projects in the form of documentation writing and software packaging.

Blog

Desktop Debian Etch (and Ubuntu)

June 26 2007

I started using Debian in late 2002, today I am a Debian package maintainer and use it full time every day at my job as a Debian Sysadmin. On the flip side I’m also an Ubuntu enthusiast and now an official Member of the project, I use Xubuntu (XFCE version… read more

Google Internals Talk

August 06 2006

I recently attend a Philadelphia Area Linux Users Group (PLUG) meeting presented by Toby DiPasquale titled “Google Internals” Slides here: Google Internals talk for PLUG by Toby DiPasquale. Why is this of interest on a Linux blog? As many of you may already know, Google uses a version of Red Hat to… read more

Google Earth for Linux

June 14 2006

On the 12th of this month Google released version 4 of the Google Earth software with support for Linux. It can now be downloaded from here: http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html The minimum requirements to get it running are pretty reasonable: * Kernel: 2.4 or later * glibc: 2.3.2 w/ NPTL or later * XFree86-4.0 or… read more

ubuntu-women.org launched

April 29 2006

In the growing tradition of -women groups, Ubuntu-Women now joins the ranks with the annoucement of the launch of their official website this week. Officially founded by Vid Ayer, the group has similar aims to other F/OSS -women projects, with perhaps a greater weight put on getting more women using linux… read more

Text-based Communication in Linux

April 14 2006

I enjoy x-windows as much as the next person, but I’ve found that text-based applications are the best way to work with information that is essentially text-based. Most direct communication, including E-Mail, Instant Messaging(IM) and Internet Relay Chat(IRC), fall into this category. I will touch upon these three communication methods… read more