Archive for the ‘GNOME’ Category
Distro Comparison: openSUSE 10.3 first impressions
I don’t know if I can last an entire week with openSUSE 10.3. I can’t believe I even thought it possible. I am jonesing for Fedora right now, even though any other distro would probably do… What’s wrong with SUSE you ask? Just about EVERYTHING! I’m not comfortable at all in this rancid environment. It [...]
In: Bash, Fedora, GNOME, Guru, Install, Networking, Suse, Tech · Tagged with: , distro, features, Fedora, Suse, tehsuck, yast, zypper
Giver – Give Files
So tonight I met Calvin Gaisford of Giver fame. One of the things I was interested in getting going was Giver and couldn’t get it built until tonight during the Tomboy Hacking Night at Novell. Giver takes quite a bit of work to get running and its from source only right now. I hope to [...]
In: Fedora, GNOME, HackNights, Mono, Tomboy · Tagged with: Fedora, giver, Mono, novell, Tomboy
POW: Bluetooth Improvements in Fedora 8
The POW is going to be the improvements made in the Bluetooth functionality in Fedora 8. I’m actually quite impressed with it as its been a bit of a challenge to keep my little mouse connected in the past. Fedora 8 provides a new extended technology with its bluez-gnome package. In fact, the simplicity of [...]
In: Bluetooth, Fedora, GNOME, Guru, Install, POW, Releases, Tech, Tools · Tagged with: Bluetooth, f8, Fedora, gnome-bluetooth, hidd, mouse, POW
GNOME Question: How does one load https links into the preferred browser?
You’ve done it, you’ve gone to your email and clicked a link. The link will happily load into your preferred browser, in my case, Firefox. If you are using gnome-terminal, its a ctrl+click on the link and it works great. I use irssi with gnome-terminal and when someone pastes a link, I ctrl+click and up [...]
In: Fedora, GNOME, Rants, Tech · Tagged with: , ctrl+click, GNOME, https
Gnome’s Online Desktop – Fedora 8
One of the coolest new things coming out for Fedora 8, the Gnome Online Desktop! Its an amazing device, provides a simple interface for working with the new web world in which we live. It reminds me a bit of spotlight for Mac, but this thing has much more. With all of the web integration [...]
