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The KDE Experiment
Our friend Nick has put together this cool playlist of his experiences trying out KDE and its applications. Definitely worth a watch! Check out what […]
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Blast from the Past: Getting KDE on openSUSE is like playing Jenga
This post was originally published on October 16, 2009. The original can be found here. As part of our experiment, everyone is required to try a […]
Blast from the Past: Going Linux, Once and for All
This post was originally published on December 23, 2009. The original can be found here. With the linux experiment coming to an end, and my […]
Fix: trying to overwrite ‘/usr/share/accounts/services/google-im.service’ installing kubuntu-desktop
I have an Ubuntu 16.04 desktop installation with Unity and wanted to try KDE, so I ran sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop. apt failed with the […]
Listen up, Kubuntu: the enraging tale of sound over HDMI
Full disclosure: I live with Kayla, and had to jump in to help resolve an enraging problem we ran into on the Kubuntu installation with […]
My Initial Thoughts/Experiences with ArchLinux
Hello again everyone! By this point, I have successfully installed ArchLinux, as well as KDE, and various other everyday applications necessary for my desktop. Aside […]
The apps of KDE 4.10 Part VII: Dragon Player
Rounding out this little series I took a look at KDE’s video player of choice: Dragon Player. Dragon Player For those of you familiar with […]
The apps of KDE 4.10 Part VI: Calligra Suite
LibreOffice? Pfft. OpenOffice? Blah. KOffice? Dead for a while now. Calligra Suite? Now we’re talking! Calligra Suite You may be a bit confused as to […]
The apps of KDE 4.10 Part V: Kopete
What does KDE offer for instant communication with your co-workers and friends? Kopete steps up to be your all-in-one IM solution. Kopete Kopete provides a […]
The apps of KDE 4.10 Part IV: Amarok
Ready to rock out with KDE’s premier music management application? Let’s rediscover our music with Amarok. Amarok I have to start by first admitting that I’ve actually […]
The apps of KDE 4.10 Part III: KTorrent
Welcome to another edition of The apps of KDE 4.10. This time around I’m going to be touching on the KDE BitTorrent client KTorrent. KTorrent […]
The apps of KDE 4.10 Part II: Kontact
Continuing on where I left off last time I decided my next order of business would be to set up my e-mail accounts and calendar. […]
The apps of KDE 4.10 Part I: Rekonq
It’s been a while since I’ve used KDE, however with the recent rapid (and not always welcome) changes going on in the other two main […]
Fixing build issues with phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.5.1
I’ve decided to try and upgrade my LFS system to the latest version of KDE (4.7.3 as of the time of this writing) and correspondingly […]
Linux From Scratch: We Have Lift-off…
Hi Everyone, Now that I have a relatively stable environment, I just wanted to write an update of how things went, and some issues that […]
Closed source AMD/ATI drivers, wireless networking and Flash in Gentoo
Graphics Drivers Continuing where I left off in my previous posts I now had a somewhat working desktop but a few things still had to […]
KDE4, LFS: Make GTK Applications Look Like QT4 Applications
Do your GTK applications (i.e. Firefox) look like something designed in the 90’s in KDE? I think I can help you. I installed the latest […]
LFS, pre-KDE: kdebindings and kdebase-runtime
kdebindings Are you running into the following problem when compiling kdebindings? Well, you’re probably not, because you picked a saner distribution than LFS, but here […]
LFS, pre-KDE: Errors Compiling qca-2.0.3
If you’re going through the Beyond Linux From Scratch guide, and run into this error while compiling qca-2.0.3 (and I assume many other versions of […]
How to enable reboot/shutdown in KDE on Gentoo
Yeah… apparently the ability to restart or shutdown your system using a normal user account from within KDE SC is not something that is installed […]