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Switching from KDE to WinXP #3 : Other Apps

Monday, August 24, 2009

Oops I just found this post in the drafts section and realized that even though I wrote it well over a year ago, I never posted it. Rather than leave it again, I am going to post it now and complete it with screenshots in the near future. This post is a bit out of [...]

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QtConfig & Skype

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Quick note: PCLinuxOS and tiny fonts in Skype. You may already know that you have to use qtconfig to set the font size for QT apps, including Skype. But the problem is that with the current PCLinuxOS, there are actually 2 qtconfig apps — one for QT3 and one for QT4. The one you want [...]

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PCLinuxOS

Friday, April 10, 2009

I switched from Gentoo to Kubuntu a month or two ago and while it was generally OK, there were several things I didn’t like about Kubuntu. I was a hardcore Gentoo user for many years and a KDE user even longer, so there are some features I just have to have. Like all of the [...]

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A fair review

Saturday, May 5, 2007

Wow. Linux is really moving up in the world. I just read a fair review of a Linux distro in the mainstream press. Think on that for a moment. A fair review. Not a FUD-fest. Where lots of non-techie people are going to read it. This is very good. I believe most Linux distros are [...]

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