by Dave | Feb 10, 2004 | Tinker Blog
Part of me is very pained. Ever since I got it, I’ve been running linux on my pocketpc. But that ended Saturday night. Things went horribly wrong, and the frustration level induced me to restore PocketPC 2002. I abhor Microsoft products and their use, but when...
by Dave | Jan 7, 2004 | Tinker Blog
I installed it at work and it is flawless! It’s great having Ximian back on my desktop. The stock SuSE GNOME implementation is OK- but it lacks finesse. Everything in the install was smooth. Smoother actually than my Red Hat installs have been. When I would go...
by Dave | Jan 6, 2004 | Tinker Blog
Well, it’s an eternal debate. For Linux there are two desktops that I consider full-featured. Yes, there are others, but I don’t consider them contenders at this time. Both KDE and GNOME are mature enough to go head to head against the MacOS or Windows....
by Dave | Dec 18, 2003 | Improving Apps
If you haven’t heard of GnuCash, you’re probably not using GNOME. It is the financial program for GNOME. In that lies the whole problem. There is literally no other real program to do finances. There is a lot of functionality in GnuCash, but it’s a...
by Dave | Dec 12, 2003 | Tinker Blog
I just migrated all my systems (3) at home from Red Hat 9 to SuSE 9.0. It wasn’t a religious thing. I mostly wanted consistency (although you can definitely mix distros) as well as the fact that I’ve been impressed and pleased with SuSE on my desktops at...