Tag Archive for 'kde'

My favourite Linux wallpapers (so far).

I maintain that computers are the hot rods of the 21st century, and changing up your desktop background is the first and easiest step to pimping your ride.

Today I thought I’d share my favourite Linux wallpapers so far — if you see one you like you can download the full version from my Flickr account, but it’s probably better to get it from the official source, which I’ve also linked to where available…

Back to the ‘buntus.

Over the past week I’ve been giving the latest and greatest KDE desktop a play on my desktop machine, and the lightweight PCLinuxOS ZenMini a trial on my netbook. As of this morning, I have nuked both drives and put Ubuntu proper on the desktop and Xubuntu on my Eee PC…

Amarok – KDE’s killer app?

Say what you want about KDE, but I don’t think the merits of its default music player, Amarok, would be argued by those who have tried it. I’ve got version 2.3.1 on my installation of openSUSE; let’s see what all the fuss about!

A kwick tour of Kubuntu Netbook Edition.

Just for kicks I installed Kubuntu Netbook Edition on my Eee PC. What follows is a brief visual overview of what you can expect should you do the same.

Note that this isn’t the latest and greatest KDE but rather the latest and greatest Kubuntu (10.04.1), with version 4.42 of KDE. I tried to invoke the netbook workspace from an installation from the KDE 4.5 Live CD but it repeatedly crashed my machine so I installed Kubuntu for netbooks instead…

OpenSUSE 11.3 – my first impressions.

As it turns out, I couldn’t stand the wait.

Over the weekend I replaced my trusty installation of Linux Mint with the latest and greatest OpenSUSE. What follows are some first impressions — the best I can do right now as I’m still trying to figure everything out…