April 30, 2018 New Ubuntu release, old PC donated I scratched together a working desktop from old components lying around the house. With the release of Kubuntu 18.04 she’s as good as new….
April 30, 2017 Well done GNOME By now volumes have been written about why Canonical will replace its own Unity desktop with GNOME so I won’t bother to express any…
June 30, 2016 It’s good to be back on Chakra I installed Chakra Linux on an old notebook after a few years away from it. I now have Kubuntu, Korora (Fedora) and Chakra systems…
January 29, 2015 Notification to nowhere Most operation systems have notification services that attempt to notify, if not inform, the user when a significant even has occurred. Such as? Hmm……
May 31, 2011 So long OpenSUSE I finally found the time to decommission my last OpenSUSE installation. And believe me it wasn’t before trying to save it. It was a…
December 23, 2010 The wheel has turned Okay, so I get around to upgrading my SO’s (I wuv yu LouLou) desktop and take the opportunity to break free from the OpenSUSE-Kubuntu…
November 28, 2010 Distro hunting again Having used everything under the Sun at one stage, this summer I’ll probably migrate my two main systems from Kubuntu and OpenSUSE to another…
August 23, 2010 Fixing Flash I’m generally not on the lookout for flash content on the Web, but after upgrading to KDE SC 4.5 I was forced to take…
May 20, 2010 Regressions, regressions So I “upgrade” to Kubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and in addition to my plasma panel getting nuked my notebook no longer suspended to RAM….
February 17, 2010 Random desktop crashes stretch sanity My desktop decided to spontaneously restart again today in a repeat of what happened a few weeks ago. The short-term memory replacement (Twitter) tracked…
September 29, 2007 The simple things in Linux I picked up a copy of Sepultura’s Against earlier today and decided to play it on my Kubuntu Linux notebook. Come to think of…
February 25, 2007 The Epson AcuLaser CX11NF Colour Laser MFD with Linux Greetings Linux boffin. If you are reading this Web page you’ve probably been searching for a colour laser multi-function device that works with the…