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 …

Taking a look at ArchBSD

[UPDATE 06/2016: The project has changed its name and is now known as PacBSD. I'll leave the rest of the post as-is.] Today's post will deal with ArchBSD, a rather young project which brings the familiar Arch way to the FreeBSD world. Edit: Sorry for the delay in making this post public. Just like with …

DDD #3: Advanced Live-CD/DVD creation

In post 19 (Creating an Arch Live-CD) I blogged about building a simple Live-CD on Arch Linux. It was the summary of my first attempts relating to that topic. In the meantime I created another ISO and published it as a first preview of my "Desktop Demo DVD" project in post 21 (The Desktop Demo …

DDD #2: The “Desktop Demo DVD”!

In the last entry I discussed the situation of Linux desktop environments in general and how it encourages taking various less-known DEs into account for your system, too. Now it's time to talk about the first alpha version of the actual DDD! If you just want to download it, have a look here. The idea …

Linux desktop comparison summary – 20 solutions for your desktop!

Our first Linux desktop comparison is over. I took a look at quite some projects during the last weeks. 20 of those (including modes that are behaving differently) proved to be full DEs which should be covered by a broadscale test. Some others, like UDE for example, had to be skipped. While it does have …

Linux desktop comparison (pt. 2): Traditional GTK+ DEs

This is part 2 of our desktop testing series. We'll deal with 4 traditional gtk+-based desktop environments in this entry. These are: GNOME 3 Classic MATE Xfce LXDE For test criteria and the basic Arch system, please refer to the first part of this test. GNOME 3 Classic GNOME 3 Classic - also called "fallback …