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August 3, 2017 Finding happiness in simple gizmos2017-12-07T23:11:27+01:00 Technical

Every now and then I read reviews of Bluetooth speakers, and I'm baffled how a same device can have both eulogistic and vilifying reviews. I know that any other…

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
Béranger on 73 Minutes That Define Linux on the Desktop Today—Rather Depressingly1. They should have called it openSUSE Unstable, but yeah, maybe I should try it. 2. VirtualBox is never the
Marius T on 73 Minutes That Define Linux on the Desktop Today—Rather DepressinglyI'm actually impressed with openSUSE Tumbleweed Plasma 5.19 and Btrfs snapshots; that being said, the thing that bothers me is