October 29, 2018
by Rodney Gedda
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I had a problem with X.org using way too much shared memory with the Nouveau driver. The shared memory was taking up all the physical memory and swap space making the system unusable. Switching … Continue reading
August 31, 2018
by Rodney Gedda
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The gift that keeps on… is now making it difficult for me to install Linux on it. Back in the good old days you used to be able to install a boot loader to the MBR of the first hard … Continue reading
August 12, 2018
by Rodney Gedda
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I noticed this display manager bug in KaOS. The default DM has the month number generated alongside the month name. Let’s see what happens.
May 31, 2018
by Rodney Gedda
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I have one system with the Fedora-based Korora installed on it. This month the maintainers decided to take a break from developing the distro. This leaves me in a bit of a pickle as I need to reinstall something else. … Continue reading
April 30, 2018
by Rodney Gedda
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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. Well, the USB Wi-Fi dongle and the keyboard and mouse are new, but everything else is … Continue reading
March 31, 2018
by Rodney Gedda
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Hot on the heels of my last post about USB key usability I have another one to share, this time about headsets. Nate Graham’s usability series is going full steam ahead and we have a lot to look forward to … Continue reading
April 30, 2017
by Rodney Gedda
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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 further opinion on the matter. The only thing I will say is well done GNOME! I … Continue reading
June 30, 2016
by Rodney Gedda
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I installed Chakra Linux on an old notebook after a few years away from it. I now have Kubuntu, Korora (Fedora) and Chakra systems on the go. Out of those it seems Kubuntu has the least direction. It seems to … Continue reading
October 31, 2015
by Rodney Gedda
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Last week I came across an interesting open source project in AsteriodOS. It’s a free and open-source smartwatch platform based on OpenEmbedded, libhybris and Qt5. I have a Samsung Tizen-based smartwatch so it’s great to see a community project in … Continue reading
February 28, 2015
by Rodney Gedda
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Being at one of the early release sites, it’s now been over a year since I moved to the NBN. In truth, I did have to keep my copper connection active in order to keep my POTS phone number, but … Continue reading