Tag: KDE
KDE 4.8.2 Maintenance Release Out — Grab it!
First week of the month is typically when the KDE team releases its maintenance updates. These releases are nothing to get excited about --...
Sabayon 8 Serves a Multitasking-optimised GNOME 3
Last time I tried Sabayon was when version 5 came out. It's been a few years since, and I don't exactly remember what it...
Tiling Window Managers, and Getting Started with dwm
A window manager is perhaps the most ubiquitous yet invisible aspect of any modern desktop operating system. This software manages the placement of windows...
Exploring Software: KDE’s Semantic Desktop
In this article, you will get an idea of the current state of the ambitious Nepomuk project. As part of KDE's semantic desktop, it...
Locking Horns: Fedora 15 ‘Lovelock’ v/s Ubuntu 11.04 ‘Natty Narwhal’
The two titans of the free software operating system arena, Fedora and Ubuntu, usually time their distribution releases a few days apart. This makes...
Exploring Software: Unity, GNOME Shell and the Notification Area
Do the new desktops succeed in creating intuitive, simple-to-use and distraction-free desktop environments?
It is hard to be passionate about something that everyone does! I...
Exploring Software: openSUSE Tumbleweed Rolling Distribution Goes Mainstream
Here is a record of my initial explorations and findings about the recently released openSUSE rolling distribution repository, Tumbleweed, as experienced on a netbook.
I...
Debian 6.0 ‘Squeeze’: What’s New?
With its extremely long release cycle (this one took two years), Debian 6.0 Squeeze was rolled out on February 6th, amidst jokes like, "See...
Gitolite: Administer a Central Git Repository without Going Insane
Over the past few years, centralised version control systems like SVN have steadily given way to distributed systems like Git or Mercurial -- the...
Exploring Software: What Makes Netbook Hotkeys Tick!
This article explores the often confusing issues around ACPI handling in Linux, with the particular perspective of getting hotkeys working on netbooks.
One weakness of...
