From Openbox to JWM

Openbox is the hotrod of stacking window managers.  It’s as powerful as the engine you put in it and can look like whatever you want it to, it depends entirely on your configuration and customization.  It doesn’t look like much of anything without your effort.

Fuduntu to FuSE: Providing interesting alternatives

It seems to me that the folks that brought us Fuduntu and will soon be bringing us FuSE (assuming openSUSE has no issues with it) are primarily interested in presenting interesting alternatives for the desktop linux community.

何このLinuxっていうOS？

私を知っている人はほとんど皆は私がLinuxというパソコンのOSを使っているのを知っていると思うんですが、それより詳しくは知らないかもしれないので、ちょっと説明させていただきたい。

Running Openbox on Fedora 18

About Openbox

Openbox is a window manager.  It is the default window manager of several distributions the most prominent of which is probably Crunchbang. It is also the most common window manager used with LXDE and RazorQT.

I’m looking again… for a Linux Distro that is.

I have 4 computers at present, 1 tablet running Android, 1 Mac Mini dual-booting OSX and Crunchbang Statler, 1 Thinkpad T42 running Archbang 2012-12, and 1 Inspiron 2200 running Crunchbang Statler.

The post-Gnome fall out

Gnome is dying.  It might be brought back, we have yet to see.  But it is definitely a dying project.  It’s dying because somewhere, for some reason, someone turned it into an ideal instead of a project.  Ideals never really die, but they fade and are twisted and interpreted, whereas projects serve a purpose.

Now, we have a ridiculous picture: Gnome, Gnome-shell, The Gnome3 forks Cinnamon and Consortium, the Gnome2 fork Mate, and of course Unity.

All of those are originally derived from Gnome 2.  What the hell happened?  It doesn’t matter.  My advice to you is to get out of dodge.  The gnome project is destined to fractured hopeless wasteland, move on to other projects.  XFCE, LXDE, Enlightenment, KDE, Openbox, a Tiler, IceWM, JWM, hell, anything.  Do it.  The reason is, if you don’t the future of your desktop is in question.

Gnome got emotional.  People are outraged now by stupid things, go look at Ikey and Joss’s latest argument Ikey’s posted on Google+.  And its because Gnome is an ideal instead of a project.  I’m done.  Have been done. You should be too.

Nexus 7 – First Impressions

I may represent a small portion of the technologically aware population, but I just recently purchased my first touch screen device, a Nexus 7 32GB tablet.

So you’re excited about Gnu/Linux/BSD…

 [By Vaughn R. Larson [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons]

So you’re excited about Gnu/Linux/BSD, you want to express your new found or continuing love to the world, but more than that you want everyone around you to share it!  It’s free, wonderful, and extensible in ways that those “other” OSes will never be, of course everyone would want to use it right?

Why you should use KDE

Full disclosure:  I don’t use KDE on a daily basis.

So, if I don’t, why then am I recommending it to you?

Because I like it, it has a great number of great things going for it, and if you found this article, it probably means you’re interested.

Linux Desktops (2012 2nd Quarter Comparison)

Relatively little has changed in the Linux Desktop world since my last post in March.  As such this will be a relatively quick post.

I’d say the biggest news would be the targeting of Gnome 3 Fallback mode for primary use by a couple distributions.  Trisquel, one of the FSF’s approved distributions as well as Solus OS have decided to go this way, disregarding the Gnome team’s UI redesign, and instead opting to enable the “fallback mode” to be a more usable, less crippled environment.