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A place for GNOME?

September 21, 2012 2 Responses Shortlink

There has been a lot of doom and gloom spoken about the GNOME desktop environment and the project behind it. These days it seems to be the fashionable thing to go constantly criticising it, especially after what Linus Torvalds said. [...]

An in situ upgrade to Linux Mint 12

December 4, 2011 6 Responses Shortlink

Though it isn’t the recommended approach, I have ended up upgrading to Linux Mint 12 from Linux Mint 11 using an in situ route. Having attempted this before with a VirtualBox hosted installation, I am well aware of the possibility [...]

Sorting out MySQL on Arch Linux

November 5, 2011 Leave a response Shortlink

Seeing Arch Linux running so solidly in a VirtualBox virtual box has me contemplating whether I should have it installed on a real PC. Saying that, recent announcements regarding the implementation of GNOME 3 in Linux Mint have caught my [...]

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 [...]

A look at Slackware 13.0

June 5, 2010 2 Responses Shortlink

Some curiosity has come upon me and I have been giving a few Linux distros a spin in fVirtualBox virtual machines. One was Slackware and I recall a fellow university student using it in the mid/late 1990′s. Since then, my [...]

Command Line Software Management

December 2, 2009 1 Response Shortlink

One of the nice things about a Debian-based Linux distribution is that it is easy to pull a piece of software onto your system from a repository using either apt-get or aptitude. Some may prefer to have a GUI but [...]