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After installing Ubuntu and completely removing Unity in favor of the standard Gnome3 desktop, I found Gnome to be not so much to my liking. But there is a great resource available to those who have installed one of the flavors of Ubuntu (Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu). With one big honkin’ command, you can switch… — read more

One funny thing happened yesterday evening. Typically when I switch distros, I keep my desktop and laptop machines in sync and switch them both. That has proven to be valuable. As I was configuring my laptop last night… I was changing ownership of the /var/www directory and I messed up big time and changed the… — read more

So, I got a brain-storm in the middle of the night (night before last). First… Ubuntu being the most popular distro, there are advantages to running it in spite of the fact that the Linux geeks who think they are all that look down on it. I don’t mind getting my hands dirty to get… — read more

Well, after hanging out in the Debian IRC channels for a few days, I grew rather tired of the major attitude I was observing. Ok… Debian has been around a long time and it’s not as easy to run as say Ubuntu. But that doesn’t mean you have the right to be rude to people… — read more

So, after installing CrunchBang… I started hanging out in the Debian chat channels. I figured that CrunchBang was based directly on Debian… so for all practical purposes, any advice or support for Debian would also pertain to CrunchBang. But, when I mentioned CrunchBang in the #debian channel, I was told in no uncertain terms that… — read more

Well, I installed CrunchBang Linux about nine days ago on both my machines and I am still absolutely loving it. Totally awesome. I had some trouble getting identd (auth) working. Turns out my router was blocking ident requests. It’s not that uncommon I guess. I wanted to run an identd so that IRC would not… — read more

Several days ago I had recently installed Fedora 19 on my machines. There was really nothing wrong with Fedora that prompted me to make another change. But I was really considering giving Debian a try. I’ve run Debian before, many moons ago. It’s one of the oldest surviving Linux distributions and very well-respected for it’s… — read more

Ok, part of the thing running Linux… is finding out what the cool kids run, and going with that. Right? And when you’re doing it for fun, easier is not always best. I mean you want a bit of a challenge right? Then you think you’re really solving problems and such. While it’s true what… — read more

I think the “save session” option on the logout screen in Xfce is dorky. So I found a way to remove it. Here are the steps: sudo mkdir /etc/xdg/xfce4/kiosk sudo vim /etc/xdg/xfce4/kiosk/kioskrc Add these lines: [xfce4-session] SaveSession=NONE Done. You can also do this to clear out any previously-saved sessions: rm -r ~/.cache/sessions/* — read more

Just ran across this article on ZDNet about 20 years of Linux and what it’s done for super computing. It seems the impact of Linux has been very consequential. Even in the scope of what it’s done for society as a whole. Perhaps it doesn’t own the desktop. But hey… it can own yours if you want. — read more