I get requests from users and see questions all the time for "where did my xorg.conf go in the latest Ubuntu or Fedora?", though it is usually a bit more of a flame.
The quick answer... press Ctrl+Alt+F2 or similar to log into a TTY console, or …
more ...The Gentoo Qt maintainers have been doing a fantastic job of getting cutting edge Qt software into shape with the qting-edge overlay. I've been running Qt 4.5 since beta1 and am pleased with the direction it is going. Recently the devs bumped the Arora ebuild to version 0.5 …
more ...KDE 4.2 is out officially. The ebuilds for Gentoo have been ready for a while. This is a truly fantastic release. If you've ever made an opinion about KDE in the past, I encourage you to give it another go.
My beta1 review back in December sums up most …
more ...QT Software, under the graces of Nokia, has released the superb QT cross-platform toolkit under the LGPL.
This. is. HUGE.
For the libre software purist, this still benefits you, if indirectly. Companies that make changes to the toolkit must still submit patches. More influential, GPL incompatible software may now readily …
more ...Here's how you upgrade to ext4. The process is pretty easy, but requires an fsck which means unmounting or rebooting if the file system is in use.
Make sure you are using at least e2fstools 1.41.3 and kernel 2.6.28 (or a vendor kernel with latest ext4 …
more ...Here's a minor thought dump of the moment: no hard numbers, just some general observations over the past year or two.
I've heard the comparison between Linux and other UNIX like OSes a few times in the past. Of course it is a bit hard to compare "Linux" - which is …
more ...Phoronix has been cranking out a slew of benchmarks recently, pitting various different Linux distros against each other and even different operating systems with their own automated test suite.
KDE 4.2 is set for release on January 27th. Eager to see what is new and improved, I installed beta 1 on my Gentoo box. KDE 4.1.80 was tagged then released late last month after the feature freeze deadline. This is a snapshot of the current development …
more ...So I bit the bullet and installed KDE 4.0 on Gentoo. Version 4.0.4 recently hit the tree, and with some minor hackary to package.unmask and package.keywords I have a nice spartan KDE 4.0.4 desktop that I am typing this in.
My observations:
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more ..."The Gentoo project is pleased to announce the much-delayed release of Gentoo Linux 2007.0. This release met with several delays due to an abnormally high number of security vulnerabilities in large packages which had to be rebuilt using the newer, secure versions of the packages." A new installer, and …
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