Ronnie on April 26th, 2008

I toyed with upgrading my Kubuntu Gutsy (7.10) to Hardy (8.04) but came to the conclusion that a fresh install would do me the world of good. My Gutsy had KDE4 bolted on to it with some KDE4 apps and various other junk installed so, yeah, time to start afresh.
This is my current desktop:

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Ronnie on January 12th, 2008

KDE4 released - Check
KDE4 installed fast as humanly possible - CHECK!
Just got back from work and my KDE4 install is up and running

 
 

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First impressions are that it is really nice. I am, of course, taking in to consideration that this is 4.0 and will have some rough edges. It has a [...]

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Ronnie on December 21st, 2007

After much tinkering with my Eee I’ve finally settled on an OS I like.
The Eee comes with a highly modified Xandros Linux which, on boot, makes your Eee look like a kindergarten toy. Not cool. But you can enable the IceWM menu (IceWM is the default window manager) but you can take it further by [...]

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