Category Archives: kde

KDE SC 4.4 – Steady, Incremental Improvements

I haven’t noticed any killer features in KDE SC 4.4 and I’ve been running it since Beta 1. I’ve noticed a lot of subtle improvements.  Things like app stacking and selection in the task bar seem much more responsive.  All … Continue reading

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Getting Beautiful Fonts in Gentoo Linux

Here’s my easy and modern guide to getting pleasant looking fonts on Gentoo with minimal effort. USE Flags Enable the following USE flags: euse –enable truetype type1 cleartype corefonts and make sure everything is built with them enabled: emerge -uDNa … Continue reading

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El Reg Humor and Java in free software

The Register has a good article on Sphinx search with some entertaining pop-shots at Java and “enterprise software” that got a rise out of me: Solr is popular with the enterprise crowd, who love its Java. Being a Java program, … Continue reading

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To users that miss xorg.conf and complain about it

I get requests from users and see questions all the time for “where did my xorg.conf go in the latest Ubuntu or Fedora?”, though it is usually a bit more of a flame. The quick answer… press Ctrl+Alt+F2 or similar … Continue reading

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Arora, a refreshing new Qt/WebKit browser

The Gentoo Qt maintainers have been doing a fantastic job of getting cutting edge Qt software into shape with the qting-edge overlay.  I’ve been running Qt 4.5 since beta1 and am pleased with the direction it is going.  Recently the … Continue reading

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KDE 4.2 on Gentoo

KDE 4.2 is out officially.  The ebuilds for Gentoo have been ready for a while.  This is a truly fantastic release.  If you’ve ever made an opinion about KDE in the past, I encourage you to give it another go. … Continue reading

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One Small Step for QT, One Giant Leap for Free Software

QT Software, under the graces of Nokia, has released the superb QT cross-platform toolkit under the LGPL. This. is. HUGE. For the libre software purist, this still benefits you, if indirectly.  Companies that make changes to the toolkit must still … Continue reading

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Political correctness in open source doesn’t matter

See: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22467/1090/.  To answer the sensationalist title, no. I can’t believe people are trying to make this an issue.  I guess it was only a matter of time before the crap that we deal with in the rest of the … Continue reading

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How to upgrade to ext4 in place

Here’s how you upgrade to ext4.  The process is pretty easy, but requires an fsck which means unmounting or rebooting if the file system is in use. Make sure you are using at least e2fstools 1.41.3 and kernel 2.6.28 (or … Continue reading

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KDE 4.2 beta 1 on Gentoo

KDE 4.2 is set for release on January 27th.  Eager to see what is new and improved, I installed beta 1 on my Gentoo box.  KDE 4.1.80 was tagged then released late last month after the feature freeze deadline. This … Continue reading

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