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Where Fedora Innovates
Back when I was actively reviewing Linux distros and still learning all about Linux, it was in vogue to say that any distro was as good as the next. They all had the same GUIs and programs. The only difference was which package manager you preferred. Distributions started off, in fact, as a way to…
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Watching Netflix on Fedora 20
These instructions are from this site, but I don’t trust sites to stick around. Make sure Netflix is setup to prefer HTML5. This is in Your Account-> Playback settings. I have the latest nss (has to be equal to or better than 3.17.1) Need Google Chrome (you can PROBABLY do this on Firefox with a…
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April – August 2014 Video Games Report
April: Civilization V (7 hrs): Met Dan in Mesa Bros; Waiting in Lefties Game May: Civilization V (11 hrs): More of the multiplayer games. June: Civ V (3 hrs): More multiplayer games. Super Meat Boy (30 min): I played a few levels until it began to get too hard for me. It is a very…
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What WordPress 3.6 Developers Could have Done Better
I first blogged about WordPress 3.6 in April. I was extremely excited about the new Post Formats UI and the new theme Twenty Thirteen. At the time there was a month left before the release. Then, things got pushed back a bit which messed with my image formatting. Then, at some point, they decided they…
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Review: Chakra Linux
I originally got interested in checking out the Chakra project because it was based on Arch Linux. As I mentioned before, the super customizability doesn’t appeal to me. I don’t have time for that – perhaps if Arch had existed when I was in high school or college I might have enjoyed it. What I…
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Review: Installation and first Look: Fuduntu 2012.1
Fuduntu started off as a customized Fedora install, but recently forked Fedora to create their own special distro that borrowed a bit from Ubuntu and a bit from Fedora. It has a very nice look when it first starts up and I almost forget that it’s Gnome 2.x: I decide to jump right…
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Review: Aptosid (Install and First Impressions)
I’ve installed Debian here and there on different computers in the last seven or so years that I’ve been using Linux. I almost ended up being a Debian person, but the Fedora book at the bookstore was more comprehensive, so I was set along the Red Hat path. On the one hand, I’ve often envied…
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Preupgrade from Fedora 15 (Lovelock) to Fedora 16 (Verne)
As usual, every time I upgrade Fedora I write a blog post to preserve this knowledge for others who might run across the same problem or in case it happens to me again next year. This time around the situation was a little less smooth than previous upgrades. After the preupgrade was done, when I…
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Review: Windows 8 Developer Preview
I decided to check out the latest Windows release to see how much it differs from my Windows 7 install (on my video game/photography computer). So I installed it into Virtualbox. At first it wouldn’t install and I couldn’t understand what was going wrong. Turns out that in the settings under the…
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Gnome 2009 and Earlier
Desktop – Mario/Super Mario: 2009: 2008: 2006: 2005: Laptop – Koopa Troopa Ubuntu – Gnome 2.x 2009:
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KDE 2010-2015 (KDE 4.x)
Desktop – Super Mario: Fedora – KDE 4: 2015 Programming Activity: Video Editing Activity: Video Games Activity: Photography Activity: 11 Dec: Multimedia Activity: School Activity: Main Activity: 2014 Programming Activity: 11 Dec: Video Editing Activity: 11 Dec: Video Games Activity: 11 Dec: Photography Activity: 11 Dec: Multimedia Activity: 11 Dec: School Activity: 11 Dec: Main…
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KDE: Strength in Abstraction
I have not yet tried out Gnome Shell or Ubuntu Unity, but the biggest complaint most people level against them is that our desktops are being tablet-ified. Sure, there need to be new, innovative interfaces for tablets and phones, but that’s no reason to abandon the desktop. Sure, perhaps the average Joe (or Jane) will…
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Replacing the File/Print Server
A few years ago I heard about the Fit-PC. It was a computer that was the size of a stack of two or three CD jewel cases running Ubuntu. This was pretty cool, but, most importantly, it only used 15 watts of electricity when under highest load. At first I entertained using it to replace…
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Testing Email Clients
Ever since late Fedora 12 or, for sure, Fedora 13, Evolution has been annoying me. I don’t know if it’s linked or coincidental, but it appears to have started getting buggy after I noticed it was using couchdb, a database that a lot of database people in the Linux world are getting all excited about.…