Archives for Gnome

The coolness of a 3D desktop

Well it’s happened I have been working full time for over a year now and I am just getting more and more slack at writing valuable stuff on my blog, he he he. But something most wonderful has happened over the Christmas break the alsa bug report tracking the problem with my soundcard has heated [...]

I do Ubuntu

Not long back(July 2004) I told a story of my love for Gentoo Linux. However I must confess this is now over my wondering has continued and last Monday night (18 Oct) I installed yet another distribution over Gentoo. I went out and installed Ubuntu Linux in it’s pre-release 4.10. Yesterday however (21/10/2004) “Warty Warthog” [...]

Gaim 0.79

Gaim 0.79 was released today and there is one new feature that all of us MSN users will love. User Icons! The icons come up everywhere: They show up in your buddy list They appear in the chat window And most importantly you can set your own Screenshots For those of you who don’t know [...]

A tale of emerge world

Last night I set out to update my Gentoo system1 using emerge with the simple commands: $ emerge sync $ emerge world This was to be a fairly major upgrade as I was going from Gnome 2.4 to 2.6 which wasn’t anything to be laughed at but onto of this I would be upgrading gcc [...]