March 2012
6 posts
An Update on my Current Setup
I thought it would be appropriate to shout out (quietly) what’s happening with my computer systems these days, including my preferences in desktop environment, operating system, and so on. Operating Systems
When it comes to operating systems, obviously I’m a GNU/Linux guy. Yes, as much as I can’t stand how political GNU is - not to mention their god, Richard Stallman - they...
Remove an old Kernel (and its symlink) from Gentoo
[Jack Todaro]
I think every Gentoo user would have to admit to having a form of OCD to varying degrees, and I would have to be one of them; I go bonkers when I see a kernel symlink in eselect kernel list to a kernel I don’t even have installed anymore.
If you’re like me and you like to keep your computer clean - that is, every file is organised and categorised into appropriate...
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Language Wars: Shut up, Get a Life
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I apologise if the title offended you, but I’m just about fed up with wars between languages like C and C++ - that is what I feel to be the main focus of this article. Nevertheless, it applies to all language wars: Ruby vs Python vs Perl vs PHP, Java vs C++, C vs Go, etc.
Fighting even happens between widget toolkits, like GTK+ and Qt! It’s quite maddening. Let me begin briefly...
GNOME 3: A Positive Stance
[Jack Todaro]
GNOME 3 tends to cop a lot of flak from the Linux community, and it’s no surprise since GNOME 3 is perhaps the most ambitious desktop project to ever surface in the Linux realm. If you read on here from time to time, you’ll notice that I am not the happiest user of GNOME 3, but I do keep up with their latest innovations. The most important thing is, GNOME is getting...
Set Chromium as the Default Browser in Openbox
Setting Mozilla Firefox as the default browser in an Openbox environment is simple; you can do it from the Preferences pane.
But what if you’re a Webkit/V8 kind of person? Well, things are less obvious, because Chromium is unable to set itself as the default browser, because it needs to hook into a GNOME environment (if I were to be more specific, I think it needs GNOME Settings, but...
The Mess Unity and GNOME Shell Made
A couple of years ago, the Linux world was a nice, quiet place. Developers listened to their users and adapted their products based on their feedback. GNOME was the status quo desktop environment; it was sleek, simple, and fun to use.
But all that changed when the GNOME developers wanted something new; a change for the sake of change. What came out was GNOME Shell with GNOME 3.
It was received...
