Documentation status report, part 2
Been meaning to provide a follow-up to the last documentation report for a few days now, as well as a couple other news items. Gentoo in the press LWN ran an article on Linux distributions for PowerPC...
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August Xfce desktop
This month’s Xfce desktop: icons: awoken gtk+: axiomd xfwm4: axiomd background: The Crown of the Sun cursor: Obsidian xcursors The uncluttered version that shows off the wallpaper and conky...
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I was looking around for desktop search frameworks today, specifically something with a gtk frontend and that required the fewest resources to run. I discovered Pinot, a dbus-based file...
View ArticleExperiments, adventures, and consequences
I’ve been doing a fair amount of experimentation on my machines. Been playing with XBMC, Boxee, Ubuntu, and bleeding-edge Xfce and Freedesktop software stacks on Gentoo. HTPC First, I tinkered with the...
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Scale 9x: Day 3
Sunday The final day of SCALE 9x arrived far too early, since the Gentoo developers were still recovering from the merriment the previous evening/morning. We congregated in the hotel room Mike & I...
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fonts
i think i’ve sorted out some of my desktop font issues, and created a few more in the process. for a long time, i’ve had to deal with occasionally jagged, hard-to-read fonts when viewing webpages,...
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i pulled the slow magnetic hdd running gentoo from my thinkpad r61i; swapped it with a 2009-era 32GB ssd running archbang, a variant of arch linux. it’s been several years since i last tried arch, and...
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