Gnome has the great advantage of being a Chameleon with its Theme options. Making your Gnome based distro looking like a Mac OSX is very easy:
Download Mac4Lin; Click on the file Mac4Lin_Install_v1.0_RC.sh for an automatic installation; Install AWNand setup it up with the applets you need. Since I installed AWN, I removed the bottom panel of my desktop.
Final result?
On my computer (unfortunately) I’ve always had a dual boot setup. For my email, calendar, and contact management Thunderbird was my favorite pick. Was until I had a closer look at Evolution.
Why have I now switched?
1) Thunderbird is email and contacts only, so there is the need to install Lightning or Sunbird to get calendar and tasks functionality. With Evolution, everything is already packaged, more convenient for me.
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Quite a long break, apologies, but since the last post I’ve changed countries (continents actually) and got a promotion at work. Even somedays that I wanted to post here, couldn’t because I didn’t have internet connection at home.
But, now we’re back. I’m not sure if as often as before but surely a couple times a week. Back to our wonderful world of open source. 🙂
Last year I needed some new business cards. Although I’m pretty computer savvy I could never get the right size of business cards while doing them at home, they always end up too big or even in different sizes. 😀 So, I just went to a store to get them done.
But, for Linux (Gnome specifically speaking) there is a program that’ll help in a great way getting my next cards ready.
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The super power Google last week released Chrome, its entry to the segment of web browsers. But, as you might have noticed we didn’t write a thing about it. Why?
I was super busy with other projects; Chrome wasn’t released for Linux (my main OS); When I tested on my Windows install, it was fast but not thaaaat fast (at least for me); It actually completely froze on me a couple of times when testing; No extensions (yet).
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One of the reasons why I don’t like iPods is the entire philosophy of having everything closed and according to the likes of Apple. But, fortunately the open source community is too awesome and have developed a firmware that we can install on several different audio devices.
Rockbox is a bit like an operating system for portable media players. You can install it on several different devicesfrom the following manufactures: Apple, Archos, SanDisk, Toshiba, iriver, and more.
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I’m glad to report back saying the attempt to install the Ubuntu Eee 8.04 was a success. Now my Eee 4G is quite a sexy machine. I’ll detail for you the steps involved in the whole installation and tweaks.
1) Install
Head over to the Ubuntu Eee Download and Installpage to get the first part done. The steps listed there are pretty easy to do: download the ISO, place it on a USB drive, boot your Eee, and install.
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I’ve been using the eee PC for about 4 months now with the default Xandros OS. I’ve done a couple of tweaks to install some programs like Gimp and KeePass. But, I’m still not completely satisfied.
The default eee PC OS still doesn’t have the latest versions of Firefox, OpenOffice, and the hassle to update these are a bit time consuming. So, I’ve just decided to make a switch.
As I type this, my little eee PC is installing the Ubuntu EEE(an Ubuntu distro specially made for the eee PC).
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Bookmarking social web service Ma.gnoliahas announcedthat they’re building a v2.0 of their platform, aka M 2, that will be completely open sourced. We already love Ma.gnolia from the fact that it uses OpenID, eliminating the need to create yet another username and password to use the service.
M 2 will be a rewrite of the entire Ma.gnolia platform so all of the current features should be kept for the open source community.
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[Linux – Gnome Only] Listed on the roadmap to Gnome 2.24is the integration with Empathy, a multi-protocol IM client. This integration could be a sign of a replacement for Pidgin and Ekiga with one single SIP and multi-protocol IM application.
For this article I tested Empathy to see how it works and if it is better or worse then Pidgin(currently my favorite IM client).
Installation:
I searched through Synaptic and was able to find Empathy and Telepathy so I installed from there.
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