Experimenting with the MATE desktop
Some bug bite me and, as a result, I did the unthinkable. 😉 In fact, you might know that I have been a GNU/Linux user since 2000 (fully migrated since 2002). ...
Tag: linux
Report: Windows 10 Anniversary Update
One of my boxes has Windows 10 installed in a drive where it coexists with Slackware 64-current, which is installed in a different partition. Over the last we...
LaTeX, KDE 4-5 Transition and TeXstudio
When I’m at the computer, a great deal of my writing activity happens not precisely in a word processor (such as MS Word, or LibreOffice Writer), but on a...
Wireless? Yeah!
There’s a story with sombragris, the trusty laptop that my brother, friend and namesake Ed Hurst graciously gave me. Sombragris is a Dell Latitude D505, a...
KDE 4.2: Oh. My. Goodness…
Yep. That darned thing left me breathless. After roughly 14-15 h of compiling (that is excluding dependencies, such as Qt which alone took > 4h, and KOffice ...
KDE 4.2 released!
That’s right. You can read all the gory details at the announcement. This new version promises a host of improvements over previous versions. The fact is,...
Slackware 12.1 on phoenix
I upgraded “phoenix”, my PIII-450 desktop workstation, to Slackware 12.1 over the last weekend. My workstation had Slackware 12.0 running smoothly, ...
KDE 4.1 released
Reading several Internet news media, it is apparent that KDE has gotten a lot of heat recently from several quarters. The main issue seems to be the KDE 4 relea...