Daily Archives: July 6th, 2006

10 Things I Love About KDE

July 6, 2006 – 3:50 pm

Oh, man, a top ten list. Am I already scraping the bottom of the barrel? Don’t worry, friends. I have several articles on the back burner, but various endeavors are preventing me from completing them. So let’s just run through my favorite desktop environment ever. In no particular order, here are ten things I love [...]

By Sébastien | Posted in KDE, Linux | Comments (16)

Is XGL a step in the right direction?

July 6, 2006 – 10:30 am

I have XGL installed on both of my Linux systems – both Gentoo, my distribution par excellence. Since it is extremely beta and buggy software, take everything I’m saying here with a grain of salt. I’ve had the chance to try it out, see how it responds, reacts, and so on and so forth. I’ve [...]

By Sébastien | Posted in Linux, XGL | Comments (3)

Linux Boot Time

July 6, 2006 – 9:57 am

This is one of the few things that worries me about acceptance of Linux. 30 seconds. That’s the average boot time of Linux on my fastest machine – an HP Pavilion zv6000. This, mind you, is with InitNG, a brand new concurrent-threading system that excels at what it does – run several things in tandem [...]

By Sébastien | Posted in Linux | Leave a Comment