Monthly Archives: August 2010

One Netbook + Gentoo + Xfce = Gnome

Posted on August 28, 2010 by Landor

I’ve had an old project finally look me straight in the brain and demand to be dealt with this week. The title says it all. Yes, putting Gentoo on my netbook, and using something light as an alternative to Gnome … Continue reading →

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Novell – Where’s The Happy Place

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Landor

I find myself in a bit of a quandary. Quite a few people, myself included, have voiced their concerns regarding Mono/Novell. I personally won’t use openSUSE on a day to day basis because of their support of Mono. That’s a personal choice, nothing I would ever expect of others.

Today I downloaded their ISO of KDE 4.5. I was going to install it on my netbook and thought, “No, I don’t want openSUSE installed because of Mono”. That led me to realise something though, don’t they also heavily support KDE, mainly the 4 series? The image I just downloaded is from openSUSE and the page is at kde.org. In essence, shouldn’t I be avoiding KDE altogether if that’s the case? Continue reading →

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