tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82297087032860897052011-08-04T00:38:50.944+08:00A PCLinuxOS user advocating the use of Linux, with PCLinuxOS in particular.Archie Arevalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782856129513199626noreply@blogger.comBlogger251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229708703286089705.post-81089036225192868412010-03-21T10:27:00.000+08:002010-03-21T10:44:06.392+08:00

For almost a year since my last post, I've been struggling to find a reliable proxy to get around China's block of various websites such as YouTube, Imageshack, Picasaweb and many more. I have tried several but wasn't really happy with them. Maybe this time...Well... updates. PCLinuxOS is releasing beta ISOs for community testing. And much to the delight of everyone, the betas (currently on its

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There's a lot of buzz at the forum with the recent addition of an Update Notifier. First, it is an excellent idea, and second, it is a valuable addition to PCLinuxOS but personally, I won't be using it. Fedora has something similar and so does Ubuntu (as far as I can remember), and they are irritably annoying. The taskbar balloon that states there are a number of updates available gets in the way

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It's a hard battle on all fronts, but most of all let's not discuss politics. It's a tough rule but must be followed if we are to maintain peace and order, or what little of it exist. The recent blog post by Clement Lefebvre, main developer of Linux Mint was a big talk in the Linux circle. One such article from ExtremeTech called it The Great Linux Mint Political Train Wreck. All I could say was

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It had been reported in Distrowatch.com that "numerous developers quitting the project" and a lot of pushing and shoving on the mailing list and forum.Whatever started the "internal issues" albeit avoidable had happened and we'll all have to get on with it.I would have nothing short of wishes of luck and successes to the result of this split, Unity Linux and wish that all this back-stabbing and

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First, I have to reiterate that installing packages outside the PCLinuxOS repositories isn't supported by the PCLinuxOS Community Forum, and I will not be held responsible if anyone follows my example and breaks their installation. This is merely a record of a simple task that I did to install the latest release of Google Earth.I downloaded the latest release (as of this posting is Google Earth

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Whew! Whatever did I do to deserve such a burden in life? Seriously, I am pleased that I will be able to give a bit more of my time and effort to the PCLinuxOS community.Today was my first day at the job and I learned to split and merge and move posts and topics. I didn't have to do any of those things when I was administering PCLinuxOS China. Then again I had a lot of help from the users.It'll

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In Linux, we learn different things all the time. Today, I learned the comand "last" and how to append a timestamp into the command "history"."history" is a common command for shell that lists all the executed commands until given the -c switch. It is very useful repeating commands that had already been executed, and investigating what commands were executed. "last" shows a listing of last logged

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Distrowatch.com finally announced the distribution release of PCLinuxOS.2009.1. The announcement states:The long-awaited PCLinuxOS 2009 has been released: "The Ripper Gang is pleased to announce the final public ISO image release of PCLinuxOS 2009.1. This release features Linux kernel 2.6.26.8, KDE 3.5.10, OpenOffice.org 3.0, Firefox 3.0.7, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14, KTorrent, Frostwire, Amarok, Flash

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Although for some reasons, there has been no announcement so far as I know, PCLinuxOS 2009 had been released. The timestamp of the ISO was March 9th, and after downloading it and making certain that the md5sum checks out, I ran it on VirtualBox. I guess it's time for first impressions. The release features the Linux kernel 2.6.26.8, KDE 3.5.10, OpenOffice.org 3.0, Firefox 3.0.7, Thunderbird

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There has been no official announcement that PCLinuxOS 2009 has been released, and I only saw a post on the PCLinuxOS forum from wamukota that prompted me to look at the download server, and indeed there is a pclinuxos-2009.iso available.Are the Ripper Gang waiting for all the mirrors to sync before making the release announcement? Or are they going to rename it to Test Release 7? What goes?

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Today, I found a screenshot on my Temporary folder. It was a screenshot of my profile at PCLinuxOS Forum taken on March 5, 2009. The reason why I took the screenshot was the number of my posts - 1010. It may not be as much as others in the forum but it is a landmark number for me coupled with the fact that I have been with the PCLinuxOS forum for over three years now.There had been a lot of

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I am still a Linux novice so why should new users complain that it is hard to use? I knew of a command that I forgot was useful in a small project I did and have been receiving feedbacks from the PCLinuxOS community.The command:switch-themesA reason why I probably couldn't remember the command is I am always logon as a user and I have setup sudo. The command is only available to root. And in

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Okay, that may be a little bit extreme for a title but simply, it is what it is. It might also be seen as a repetition of my last post ... well more or less it is. It is a partial theme package that was not a request but more of my way of sharing with the PCLinuxOS community. It was something I have been working on for the last few days. Finally I was able to post the results on the PCLinuxOS

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During my more recent idleness, I had two thoughts: Simplicity and Original. In putting these thoughts together as an idea, PCLinuxOS often comes to mind. Ruel24's 2009 logo is inspirational; and I've always like Linuzoid's gears. Then it hit me ... PCLinuxOS is KDE and what better gears could there be than the KDE Gears themselves.I went and worked on Inkscape and GIMP and below is the result.I

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It was said that windows are one's eyes to the world. And for so many years in my computing growth, I was convinced that there was only one way to look at the world. When I discovered Linux, I never thought that I would have a completely different perspective of The Road Ahead. But it was not until 2004 that I started to get serious about Linux. And when I first installed PCLinuxOS, I knew for

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ms_meme is an active Hero Member of the PCLinuxOS Forum. She is a young 68-year-old from Texas, USA, and the first time I met her on the forum was when she was asking for help on a matter that she had long-time resolved. My apologies because I cannot really remember what it was now.She has the eagerness of a curious child; her gentle words reminds me so much of my mother; and she has a profound

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Earlier tonight, I thought of playing around with gtk-recordMyDesktop, without any audio,and the resulting OGV needed to be converted. FFMPEG to the rescue.Once I had a suitable video file, it was time to embed an audio track. I decided to use Apollo 440 over Bonobo. The video was a bit long so I needed to stitch together a couple of tracks. I used Audacity and I was done in a matter of minutes.

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I've always like the first release of PCe17OS although at first, I had a slight problem with changing to my user login. It was beautiful and it was beautiful. However, I can't truly say the same for the second even though much of the bells and whistles were still intact. I am not saying it is PCe17OS rather the Enlightenment 17 project seemed to be going nowhere, and I really like that DE along

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I have a group of friends who visited me in campus, and Marvin S. Tan brought his elegant ASUS laptop with him. Whatever for? To install PCLinuxOS, of course. Why would he do that? Well, the previous weeks when we were having a group study, he saw that I was using another operating system on my laptop and was viciously impressed with it. Marvin is not particularly computer-savvy and he was just

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I was on Inkscape and GIMPing, and really had no clue to where I was going nor what I was doing when I remembered the old days when waves were the preferred desktop wallpapers and blue was the color so I thought it’d be nice to make one myself because I never did one. The result:I hope to have more of this similar wallpapers and share them with other PCLinuxOS 2009 users.

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There is without a doubt that in terms of users base, KDE and GNOME are the two main desktop environments on the Linux platform. Hot debates arose such from statements made by the kernel creator, Linux Torvalds on December 13, 2005 and a recent ComputerWorld Australia interview. Other good reading materials I found are an untitled essay from Derek Glidden, circa 2002 and KDE vs. GNOME: Is One

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I wouldn't call myself an artist or even someone closely resembling one. I just like to fiddle around with applications in the mere hope of maybe coming up with something that I could like. In this case, I was playing around with Inkscape and GIMP.I was able to put together some stuff that I think were fairly acceptable, though I might consider them average. And as part of my contribution to the

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PCLinuxOS 2009 slow on the taking but it is definitely worth the wait. The sixth test release was closed by Sal, one of the forum's administrator and member of the Ripper Gang on February 12, 2009. There are several assumptions that the Final release will be soon. After all, countless PCLinuxOS users have been anxiously waiting for over a year. However, I have always believed in the Ripper Gang's

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It takes time and getting accustomed to doing things to be good at something. Even veteran Windows users are good at what they do. I know because I've been there.It is pretty much the same with using Linux; there are a lot to be learned. I've had my good share of frustrations and successes. And I am still on the upward of that learning curve.These days, OS developers tend to make things easier

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When a lot of people see a computer, they'd quickly assume Windows inside. Fair enough. It's only a tool to help us in our productivity and communication; it's even just an entertainment box.I started with Linux in the mid-1990s but it was still hard to use then, so I continued with Windows until 5 years ago to the month. I can remember, those were Fedora 3 and Ubuntu 4.x back then. The real

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