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GNOME 3 in Fedora 15: A Case of Acclimatisation and Configuration

GNOME 3 in Fedora 15: A Case of Acclimatisation and Configuration

May 29, 2011 8 Responses Shortlink

When I gave the beta version of the now finally released Fedora 15 a try, GNOME 3 left me thinking that it was even more dramatic and less desirable a change than Ubuntu’s Unity desktop interface. In fact, I was [...]

Consolidation

November 19, 2009 Leave a response Shortlink

For a while, the Windows computing side of my life has been spread across far too many versions of the pervasive operating systems with the list including 2000 (desktop and server), XP, 2003 Server, Vista and 7; 9x hasn’t been [...]

Never undercutting the reseller…

October 23, 2009 Leave a response Shortlink

Quite possibly, THE big technology news of the week has been the launch of Windows 7. Regular readers may be aware that I have been having a play with the beta and release candidate versions of the thing since the [...]

Seeing how things develop

October 7, 2009 Leave a response Shortlink

One of the things that I do out of curiosity and self-interest is to keep tabs on what is happening with development versions of software that I use. It is for this reason that I always have a development version [...]

Some things don’t mix…

May 10, 2009 Leave a response Shortlink

Now that the Release Candidate for Windows 7 is out, I have been giving it a whirl in a VirtualBox session and it, like the Beta that I had been trying too, feels a sold enough affair. I went for [...]

Running Windows 7 within VirtualBox

January 12, 2009 Leave a response Shortlink

With all the fanfare that surrounded the public beta release of Windows 7, I suppose that the opportunity to give it a whirl was too good to miss. Admittedly, Microsoft bodged the roll-out by underestimating the level of interest and [...]