impressions

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. [...]

A few thoughts on Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 1

January 22, 2012 1 Response Shortlink

After an aborted installation in VirtualBox using the direct installation, I got a VM instance of Ubuntu 12.04 in place by installing from a loaded Live CD session. That proceeded without any trouble and downloaded the required updates too. First [...]

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 [...]

Another look at Drupal

January 20, 2010 1 Response Shortlink

Early on in the first year of this blog, I got to investigating the use of Drupal for creating an article-based subsite. In the end, the complexities of its HTML and CSS thwarted my attempts to harmonise the appearance of [...]

A multitude of operating systems

October 27, 2009 Leave a response Shortlink

Like buses, it seems that a whole hoard of operating systems is descending upon us at once. OS X 10.6 came first and it was the turn of Windows 7 last week with all of the excitement that it generated [...]

Vista at the BBC

February 2, 2007 Leave a response Shortlink

A BBC report logs his impressions of Vista over a 24 hour period. A frequent Mac user, he comes away impressed. Update: I have seen a post somewhere that slates the BBC for being pro-Microsoft; personally, I don’t think that [...]