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Blast from the Past: Getting KDE on openSUSE is like playing Jenga

February 2, 2017 Phil D 0

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 […]

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Blast from the Past: Going Linux, Once and for All

December 28, 2016 Jon F 0

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 […]

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Fix: trying to overwrite ‘/usr/share/accounts/services/google-im.service’ installing kubuntu-desktop

June 5, 2016 Jake B 2

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 […]

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Listen up, Kubuntu: the enraging tale of sound over HDMI

August 4, 2013 Jake B 5

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 […]

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My Initial Thoughts/Experiences with ArchLinux

July 29, 2013 Dave L 4

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 […]

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The apps of KDE 4.10 Part VII: Dragon Player

May 27, 2013 Tyler B 3

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 […]

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The apps of KDE 4.10 Part VI: Calligra Suite

May 24, 2013 Tyler B 2

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 […]

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The apps of KDE 4.10 Part V: Kopete

May 15, 2013 Tyler B 3

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 […]

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The apps of KDE 4.10 Part IV: Amarok

April 25, 2013 Tyler B 1

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 […]

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The apps of KDE 4.10 Part III: KTorrent

April 11, 2013 Tyler B 4

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 […]

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The apps of KDE 4.10 Part II: Kontact

April 9, 2013 Tyler B 7

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. […]

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The apps of KDE 4.10 Part I: Rekonq

April 6, 2013 Tyler B 6

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 […]

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Fixing build issues with phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.5.1

November 9, 2011 Jake B 0

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 […]

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Linux From Scratch: We Have Lift-off…

November 4, 2011 Dave L 0

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 […]

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Closed source AMD/ATI drivers, wireless networking and Flash in Gentoo

November 3, 2011 Tyler B 0

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 […]

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KDE4, LFS: Make GTK Applications Look Like QT4 Applications

November 3, 2011 Dave L 3

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 […]

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LFS, pre-KDE: kdebindings and kdebase-runtime

November 2, 2011 Jake B 0

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 […]

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LFS, pre-KDE: Errors Compiling qca-2.0.3

November 2, 2011 Dave L 0

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 […]

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How to enable reboot/shutdown in KDE on Gentoo

October 30, 2011 Tyler B 0

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 […]

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Gentoo (A.K.A. “Compiling!”)

October 30, 2011 Tyler B 3

For this version of the experiment I have chosen to try my hand at installing Gentoo. Gentoo, for those who don’t know, or who weren’t […]

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