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Just a quick post to tell you that my Fedora 18 with Xfce installation on the HP Pavilion g6-2210us is doing very well indeed.

The first “project” on Master and Server is the installation of the WordPress.org blogging software in my account at devio.us. So what is devio.us? It’s an OpenBSD server run by a group of sysadmins who offer free shell accounts and web-server space to interested users of this security-minded BSD project.

Francesca Ciceri announces on her blog that the Debian Project now has its own blog at bits.debian.org.

Why do I need to delete in Xfce without first sending things to the trash? Because Thunar otherwise can’t delete directories/folders on a partition outside my main filesystem. Out of the box, the Thunar file manager in Xfce 4.8 doesn’t allow for a delete-only option. This is where Custom Actions come in.

So Canonical is chaining its desktop Ubuntu Linux distribution to a phone/tablet/TV future, and they want us, the community, to write apps for their in-the-works devices and not care so much about the core operating system itself. That’s OK. If you really care about free (as in freedom) desktop computing, upstream is where you should be. Not an upstream just for Ubuntu Phone/Tablet, but an upstream for every(damn)body.

Did you ever think that Canonical/Ubuntu’s massive ambitions and accelerated technical path toward them just might work? Ubuntu is always in the position of making its future users happy. Whether the same things bring present users happiness is another matter. Always has been.

I’m not a big advocate for one Linux distribution over another. Or maybe I’m fooling myself. I pretty much run Debian GNU/Linux (as it’s officially known) on just about anything. I say I’m not a “big advocate”/fanboy because I’m always open to something new. I flirt with Fedora. And Ubuntu/Xubuntu/Lubuntu. Also Crunchbang. I like what I see in Fuduntu. I think Stella fills a real need.

I had a GNOME Shell crash just now and had to Google myself to figure out how to kill X in the post-ctrl-alt-backspace era. (That means I've written about this before.)

Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical make a lot of noise about phones and tablets they’re not shipping and desktop interfaces that are liked by some and loathed by many. Not that my current favorite environment, GNOME 3, is the object of universal love (hint: it’s not). But on the server, Canonical is quietly making itself indispensable.

I’m testing Fedora 18 again. Yes, the live image. I didn’t do an install, though I’m certainly thinking about it. In this release’s GNOME 3.6 desktop, at least a few applications — all from GNOME proper — like Nautilus are putting more functionality into the “global” menu that pops down from the app’s icon in the upper panel. While not catastrophic, it is problematic.

I received this e-mail from the AP this morning -- Dear Users: Please be advised AP has been effected by the automated system patch released by Apple this morning, blocking java based applications on mac computers. This may slow down the publishing of some AP photos. AP Engineers are working on a solution.

Fedora 18 has finally appeared in its final form after many delays. Largely responsible: a new Anaconda installer that has seen much criticism, mostly from users who like complicated manual partitioning. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Some readers might have seen this post appear and disappear, appear and disappear again. That's because my first "fix" for this annonying Xfce problem didn't really work. Neither did my second attempt. Nor my third. Screw proverbs. The fourth time now seems to be "the charm."

While I continue to use Gmail for my “work” e-mail — a decision now enforced by my employer’s pending move to Google Apps for Business, I’ve been seeking solutions for my “personal” e-mail that include less work and more flexibility -- plus no spying/marketing -- for yours truly.

A peek at the Planet Python blog aggregator (I’m a big Planet blog fan, in case you didn’t know) clued me in to a project I’d never heard of before: Nikola, a static website/blog generator.

What’s the best way to partition your Unix or Linux system’s hard drive? Everybody has an opinion. Most desktop users don’t create separate partitions for things like /tmp, /usr, /var, etc., but some do. Depending on the system’s use, some admins create partitions for /boot, /var/www or /usr/bin.

I get on any other computer, any other OS (even Windows and Mac OS), or any other desktop environment, and I find myself mousing into the top-left (or “hot”) corner to get my application panel and search/launching dialog. That works in GNOME 3. I do it all the time. You know what happens when you mouse into the corner in these other OSes/DEs (excepting Ubuntu’s Unity, which shares more technology with GNOME 3 than you might care to admit)? Nothing.

Debian is boring. Releases happen every two years, give or take. Developers spend months and months chasing bugs while other Linux distributions crank out release after release. But Debian gets better as it inches toward release.

Using the Clock app in the upper panel of the Xfce 4.8 desktop in Debian Wheezy, I didn’t like the stock way date and time was displayed as just time only in the default: 08:23 AM. Luckily when you right-click on Xfce’s Clock in the panel, left-click on Properties and choose “Custom Format” under Xfce’s Clock options, you can use anything that the Unix/Linux date command switches offer.

Sure it's in England, but The Pi Hut offers all things Raspberry one in one place.