In my previous post I outlined my thinking about moving from Fedora to OpenSuse. I installed OpenSuse 12.3 onto mylaptop and had a play about. The installer was clean and easy to use and everything was setup with the minimum of effort. Two issues with Fedora prompting a move were the control over the firewall [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Software’
12 Mar 2013
Going Gecko
Posted by Quantum at 12:13 pm
Using Linux has always presented me with a lot of choice as to how I want to use it and how it can work for me. I started my Linux journey with Gentoo and stayed with it for many years. But over time I found it didn’t fit with my workflow, it was fun to [...]
04 Jan 2013
Git Hub – Codecolorer
Posted by Quantum at 2:22 pm
I have been using Git for version control on my own machine for a little while now. I’ve barely scratched the surface of what it can do but it is still useful to me. I have had an account on Git Hub for a while and have been meaning to either start or contribute to [...]
30 Nov 2011
Fixed: Fedora 16 Printing
Posted by Quantum at 9:04 pm
During my upgrade from Fedora 15 to 16 several things broke, this is nothing new there were alot of major graphical components updated. Those issues were resolved in the week following the F16 release. What I had not expected to break was my network printing setup. In all the years I used Gentoo and upgraded [...]
31 May 2011
Fedora 15 – Initial Thoughts
Posted by Quantum at 11:28 pm
I took the plunge a few days ago and updated my machines to Fedora 15. The results have been mixed. My netbook and laptop were the first to be upgrades with Intel and Nvidia graphics respectively. Both upgraded fine and the Gnome 3 experience was ok, if a little strange. The problems started with my [...]
25 Feb 2011
Refactoring Email
Posted by Quantum at 7:46 pm
I have been using email for many years now. Over that time I have changed between mail clients, addresses, operating systems and spam filters. Whilst I have been able to keep on top of filtering mail into folders it finally reached the point today where the the mess of filtering and folders needed a clean [...]
08 May 2010
The Rodent Confusion
Posted by Quantum at 4:25 pm
For the past few weeks I have been having some performance glitches with the way my mouse interacts with my Linux machine. The mouse would move and the buttons operate normally except for when trying to press and hold the left button for example. The action would appear to terminate after a few seconds and [...]
18 Dec 2009
Thunderbird 3 Bug: A Workaround
Posted by Quantum at 11:15 pm
I recently upgraded from Mozilla Thunderbird 2 to the new Thunderbird 3 release. For a few days everything was working fine with the new default settings. I have a few email accounts which Thunderbird fetches mail for and I didn’t want to use the new Smart Folder mode. So I changed back to not using [...]
31 Oct 2009
Mailserver Project – October Update
Posted by Quantum at 10:28 pm
The mailserver project which I have been working on for many months now is getting to the point where it will soon be taking over the role of hosting all my email. No problems have been discovered over the past month and my upgrade script to regenerate the security certificates worked perfectly. A recent update [...]
