20111204 Distro/desktop (s)hopping, part 4: GNOME 3 (+ extensions)

I finally succumbed to temptation and installed GNOME 3 on my machine.

20111103 “gnome-shell is a requirement”

[root@courgette ~]# pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases…  core is up to date  extra                   975.5K  744.1K/s 00:00:01 [######################] 100%  community               582.4K  608.1K/s 00:00:01 [######################] 100%  multilib is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade… resolving dependencies… looking for [...]

20111102 Breaking news: there’s an alternative to Google Reader

Tiny Tiny RSS. Here’s a demo. If you like it, you can install it in any server with PHP + (MySQL|PostgreSQL). If you like it a lot, you can enable the multiuser support and share your own online reader service with some friends. Then stop moaning worrying about Google datamining your interests or profiling your [...]

Distro/desktop (s)hopping, part 3: Lubuntu

As I’m now fully embarked on my experimental setup, today I tried to kill two birds with one stone and set up a virtualised Android development environment try out yet another distribution I did something similar a couple of days ago: I created a virtual machine, installed Arch Linux on it and assembled an “on [...]

20111023 Distro/desktop (s)hopping, part 2: XFCE

So since my Ubuntu installation was behaving idiotically I decided to stop delaying the unavoidable, and made a fresh install of Arch Linux on an spare disk. I completed the installation of the basic system in a couple of hours, but I could have finished way earlier if the neighbours didn’t create so much interference [...]