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When Italian Design rhymes with kitsch

August 6, 2020 When Italian Design rhymes with kitsch2020-08-06T11:57:32+01:00 Projects

“Italian Design” is synonymous with good taste when used as a qualifier for clothing or cars. How about Linux distros? I'm afraid the things can be very, very…

Don’t trust the magazines on choosing an OCR

August 6, 2020 Don’t trust the magazines on choosing an OCR2020-08-06T08:44:21+01:00 Technical

This covidiocy is so alienating that I wasn't in the mood of writing anything. Better late than never, a few notes on the free OCR software, simply because…

Marius T on Le Twitter des consStop using that garbage, Twitter used to be fun, these days I don't even know how the site works, it's
Béranger on Internet Radio, Mon AmourAdded the German public stations belonging to hr (Hessischer Rundfunk), WDR and MDR: stations_2020-08-29.xml and RadioMaximus_2020-08-29.xml. I'm not going to
Béranger on When Italian Design rhymes with kitschOK, I tried the current openmamba. It reads 4.95, so I suppose there is an intention to release a version
Béranger on When Italian Design rhymes with kitschFrom their site: ● October 25, 2015: openmamba milestone3 available for download with release 3.0.1. ● January 5, 2017: ***
David on When Italian Design rhymes with kitschFrom Distrowatch: openmamba GNU/Linux (Italy) is a distribution for personal computers (Intel i686-compatible) that can be used on notebooks, desktops
Béranger on When Italian Design rhymes with kitschNan. Pas toutes. Not all the crap. Not to mention that there might be some "undiscovered gems" in the Waiting
HAL on When Italian Design rhymes with kitsch> Which Linux distro “Designed in Italy” should I try next? The list is here.
Béranger on KDE and Debian aren’t exactly my cup of tea; or should they?I just got an idea wrt the initial empty search results for Muon Package Manager. It might be something similar
Marius T on 73 Minutes That Define Linux on the Desktop Today—Rather DepressinglyYast is the best and the worst of openSUSE, for me it's the best, I configure everything trough Yast point
Béranger on 73 Minutes That Define Linux on the Desktop Today—Rather DepressinglyOh my, GeckoLinux came back to life! (Sort of.) They only had a new Static (Leap 15.2) release, issued on
HAL on KDE and Debian aren’t exactly my cup of tea; or should they?Heu, yes. Thanks :)
Béranger on KDE and Debian aren’t exactly my cup of tea; or should they?> Never Life ! You mean "Not in a million years." (Jamais de la vie !)
HAL on KDE and Debian aren’t exactly my cup of tea; or should they?> paying for LibreOffice would be a reasonable option What ??? Never Life !
HAL on KDE and Debian aren’t exactly my cup of tea; or should they?Hum, semble assez joli.
Béranger on 73 Minutes That Define Linux on the Desktop Today—Rather DepressinglyThe Linux market share more than doubled this year (possibly because of the demise of Win7):
Béranger on KDE and Debian aren’t exactly my cup of tea; or should they?Some poor souls are debating on Distrowatch whether paying for LibreOffice would be a reasonable option. Opinions range from "Paying
Béranger on KDE and Debian aren’t exactly my cup of tea; or should they?Indeed. But I believe Faenza was originally meant for GNOME3. It looks great anyway.
John on KDE and Debian aren’t exactly my cup of tea; or should they?NeptuneOS's icons looks like it came from an XFCE distro. Faenza?
Béranger on KDE and Debian aren’t exactly my cup of tea; or should they?Neptune 6.5-related: I just noticed in their changelog, among a few customizations (e.g. Backports repository activated by default; KWin set
Marius T on 73 Minutes That Define Linux on the Desktop Today—Rather DepressinglyWell rolling distros have this "fame" of being unstable, it depends on how you mix those non-standard repositories, sometimes Packman