3+ months on TrueOS – a critical write-up

My journey into the *nix world has not been a completely straight forward one. I've used Linux (various distributions) exclusively for quite some time before I felt that more and more things were heading in the wrong direction. Sure, it's all open source and I could do things my own way. In fact I did …

Back and forth: Linux and *BSD

This is kind of the post that I wanted to write much earlier this year. After running a Linux-only environment at home for years, I had become less and less happy with the general direction things seem to be heading. I had run FreeBSD and OpenBSD on real hardware (old laptops) and several versions of …

Top things that I missed in 2015

Another year of blogging comes to an end. It has been quite full of *BSD stuff so that I'd even say: Regarding this blog it has been a BSD year. This was not actually planned but isn't a real surprise, either. I've not given up on Linux (which I use on a daily basis as …

Tiny to the extreme: Nanolinux

It has been more than two years since I wrote about XFDOS, a graphical FreeDOS distribution with the FLTK toolkit and some applications for it (the project's home is here.) Mr. Potthast didn't stop after this achievement however. Soon afterwards he published Nanolinux. And now I finally found the time to re-visit the world of …

Arch:E5 update and more repos (x11, gtk, fltk)

Finally I found some time to update and expand E5 a bit. The biggest news is surely the release of the e5-x11, e5-gtk and e5-fltk repositories. On the top of that packages have been updated and more than 80 new ones added (mostly to extra). This update also fixes a few issues that E5 had …

GTK-based applications #1: Terminal emulators summary (3/3)

Here's the summary of the GTK terminal emulator test. It provides four tables for easier comparison of the results. Overall Ranking I'll begin with the overall rating here since that's the most important thing. I've compared all DEs in terms of 1. memory consumption (most important for me and thus weighted *3), 2. disk space …

GTK-based applications #1: Terminal emulators (2/3)

Here's the second part of the GTK terminal emulators test. It's N - Z today. Again we have 9 terminal emulators to take a look at. The candidates Here are the candidates: QuTerm / Homepage ROXTerm / Homepage Sakura / Homepage Stjerm / Homepage Termite / Homepage Tilda / Homepage Tinyterm / Homepage vTerminal / …

GTK-based applications #1: Terminal emulators (1/3)

Today we're in for taking a look at the various terminal emulators out there which are based on GTK+. This first part deals with the ones which start with A to M. The candidates Here's the list of available GTK+ terminals I got working on Arch: Dwt / Homepage Evilvte / Homepage Ftjerm / Homepage …

An interview with the EDE developer

It's summer solstice today and thus the longest day of the year. I promised something special and here it is: Sanel Zukan, the man behind the Equinox Desktop Environment (EDE) agreed to give me an interview (or to answer a few questions if you will). If you're not familiar with EDE, I tried to summarize …

Situation of the Linux Desktop #2: Habemus tumultum…

... qui nomen nominatur "pacem"! Wow, Latin! Oh er, welcome back! Wonder what that strange sentence does there - and what it may have to do with the Linux Desktop? Well, due to unforeseeable incidents when moving houses along with some family matters, I was more or less cut off from any news. I didn't …