Fedora 15: Back in the game!

Apr-14th-2011

Tweet I have previously blogged about the future direction of the Fedora project here But what is all of this skepticism around Gnome 3? Yesterday, I pushed through into Rawhide, so I could get my hands on the first major release of Gnome in many years. And may I just say: Congratulations to everyone involved in the [...]

Gnome 3.0 backlash

Mar-8th-2011

Tweet Yikes !! I read Planet Fedora each day, and the disgruntled voice of early Gnome 3.0 adopters is getting louder by the day. The feelings are epitomized by this graphic (source here): I dabble between fluxbox and KDE 4.5 on my main PC, depending on my intention to be productive against my desire to have [...]

Epic Gwenview plugins

Mar-11th-2010

Tweet I love the new array of KDE apps that were introduced with the birth of KDE4. My favourite is the awesome Dolphin File Browser. I also really liked Gwenview – it was quite reminiscent of a typical MacOSX look and feel. Anway… I’ve been checking out the Fedora 13 artwork, by the amazing Mairin Duffy, [...]

KDE 4.4 is the Epitome of Why We Love Fedora…

Feb-12th-2010

The fact that this rebase to KDE 4.4 is being pushed to the Fedora-Updates repo is, for me, a symbolic representation of why we love using Fedora

Nvidia GForce, not KForce.

Dec-28th-2008

Tweet I often scratch my head when running into troubles with my Linux system. Thankfully, I’m quite comfortable sat at the command line, hacking away at /etc/[system]/*.conf or with$HOME/.[system]/*.conf. Unfortunately this isn’t much good for newcomers to the Linux world, but that’s for another blog posting. One thing that is becoming increasingly clear to me [...]