I didn’t have this much trouble burning FreeBSD 8.0. Its interesting it’s not afraid to burn a CD with a daemon logo, but slap a blue hat on a guy and suddenly it freaks out. I suppose though it’s an improvement that it’s not telling me to talk to myself!
Having dabbled in a ton of different languages lately, I felt the overwhelming urge this week just to get back to some good ol’ C, and what better and more productive way to do so that to mess around with ncurses!
I’ve used a lot of terminal emulators over the years trying to find the best one for my needs. Lately I became lazy and just started using the default Gnome and Xfce terminals but as of today I’ve started using LilyTerm and am kicking myself that I didn’t switch sooner.
Given I didn’t have any exams today, I took a break from studying for a couple of hours and installed the final release of Fedora 12 that was released yesterday. So far so good, I torrented the i386 DVD image and installed it on my ThinkPad with no problems at all.
Having installed Fedora 11 alongside FreeBSD on my ThinkPad X40 and deciding I liked it, I went ahead this evening and installed the current beta release of Fedora 12. So far I’m really impressed, but one thing is worrying.
After doing some more experimenting with the unstable release of Debian, I so royally messed up my ThinkPad I decided to wipe it clean and start again! For a change and given 12 is coming in 6 days, I thought I’d try out Fedora. So far I’m impressed. Now if only it could take screenshots and go on standby…!
As I’ve said before here many times, I like to think of the how-to guides I post here as guides to help myself remember how to do something, with the added benefit that if someone else finds what I’ve written useful I’ve been able to help someone else too. My how-to guides are probably far too verbose and contain superfluous images for their own good, but I figure the last thing the world needs is another dry, text-only technical blog right? ^_^
In this case I feel humbled that the Fedora Tunisia team of all folks are listing my guide to using OpenBox with KDE in amongst other recommended guides in their window manager wiki page. I’m afraid I can’t speak any Arabic and my limited grasp of the French language restricts me to just saying merci beaucoup!
Reading what I wrote in that post I wrote on the 19th of March 2008 reminded me of just how much attitudes and opinions can change in such a short amount of time. Back then I was primarily a KDE desktop user on FreeBSD who also dabbled in Xfce for his GTK+ (a graphical toolkit) application needs; now with the advent of KDE 4.x I’ve moved over to GNOME as well as Xfce and more generic vanilla window managers. That’s why I love blogs and journals in general; they’re a fascinating view into how you used to think… even if it was less than a year ago and even if I’m not Bill Kurtis.
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