February 2012
14 posts
KDE is Not Dying!
There are some posts floating around the Internet at the moment about KDE dying. Most of it is just FUD, and some of it is really outlandish, but I have a higher chance of licking Redmond’s shoes than KDE dying.
KDE is my favourite looking desktop environment. Regular readers will know that I love to use Openbox on my laptop and on smaller screens, but for larger monitors and...
Top 3 Distributions for Beginners
[Jack Todaro]
You may be a total Linux nut and want to get all of your non 31337 friendz onto Linux too, but if you’re a Gentoo user like myself, for some strange reason they don’t totally understand the awesomeness of being able to spend days in your office building an operating system almost from scratch, learning a CLI package management frontend’s syntax, and working out why...
Why I Still Choose Arch - a Counter-Argument
Yesterday I did a post on why I would still choose the Gentoo operating system over any other GNU/Linux system. Today, I want to talk about why I would choose another favourite operating system of mine: Arch.
The Arch installation is brilliant; everything is simple, streamlined and fully installed in about 20 minutes. I think even a beginner - with documentation - could get through the install...
Why I Still Choose Gentoo
After a ten day trial of Arch, I found myself still craving the superior flexibility and control of Gentoo. Despite being more intensive to set up, I was relieved to have that speedy distribution back on my system, and now, I’ve found that when it comes to installing Linux, my only choice is Gentoo. Here are some of my reasons why I use Larry the Cow’s favourite operating system:
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Add 'Shutdown' and 'Reboot' to your root menu -...
It’s not hard to open a terminal, type ‘sudo halt’ and confirm the action with your password to shutdown; it takes all but 10 seconds, at most. However, if you want a dedicated Shutdown option in your root menu (and options such as Reboot, for that matter) it’s actually quite simple.
The prerequisites are that you have sudo installed; Obmenu is optional, but it will be the...
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Openbox Themes
Let’s face it: the default GTK+ theme, ‘Raleigh’, isn’t exactly eye-candy. Here are two themes which I love; one is for the lovers of light appearance, and the other is for the lovers of the dark theme. Orta
Orta is a simple, clean gtk theme which makes Openbox look even more impressive. It is a lighter theme featuring rounded buttons (thankfully) which is very sleek;...
Operating System Wars [Rant]
[Solpeth]
Initially, I found it gratifying to put down any sort of distribution or operating system that I didn’t use, and give reasons that were only valid to me
“Windows sucks because it gets viruses. Mac OS X sucks because you can hardly customise it. Ubuntu sucks because of Unity and Mark Shuttleworth(less).”
It’s both easy and fun to bring down any systems you...
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Openbox Guide
[0.1.25]
Welcome to the emerge LINUX Openbox guide! This is an ever-expanding, modular guide to Openbox. If you have any objections, comments or suggestions, hit the Message button at the top of this page.
N.B: The following links should automatically open in a new window or tab, depending on your browser. Useful Openbox Applications [Linux Tips]
This part of the guide outlines some fantastic...
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Openbox Necessities [Linux Tips]
[INITIAL POST - 06 Feb 2012 UTC]
This is one part of an ever-expanding, modular guide to Openbox. To view other parts of the Openbox guide, click here. Just because you use a window manager, it doesn’t mean you have to miss out on all the expected goodness of other, much larger and heavier desktop environments. This guide which outline a few tweaks and programs which will make your...
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Useful Openbox Applications [Linux Tips]
[INITIAL POST - 06 Feb 2012 UTC]
This is one part of an ever-expanding, modular guide to Openbox. To view other parts of the Openbox guide, click here. I love using Openbox; of all the desktop environments and their fancy effects, I’ve never been in more awe than I have with Openbox. Its simplicity - and a good compositing manager - makes everything perfect. Here’s a list of...
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Left-handed Openbox user? [Linux Tips]
I’m left handed, and I don’t want to be stuck using my mouse like a right-hander in Openbox - that’s the point of Linux, to configure things to your liking :)
It’s really simple: open a shell and open your autostart file with your favourite editor (we’ll use nano in this example):
$ nano -w ~/.config/openbox/autostart
At the top of your autostart...
Arch Linux vs Gentoo Linux: A Brief Comparison...
While I love to experiment with different desktop environments, distributions and even operating systems, I always get drawn back to Openbox on Gentoo Linux and Arch Linux. I guess my preferred desktop environment is not, erm, a desktop environment per se, but a window manager that is lightning fast and highly configurable. It gives me what I absolutely need - a window manager - and then I can...
