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By Rich Johnson on Published: May 9, 2007 at 5:49 pm

I was messing with Distrowatch today before class and decided to see how everyone was doing at different time frames. Then something hit me, within the last 7 days there has been a very close call be Ubuntu (#1) and PCLinuxOS (#2). What I thought was Kool was the fact that there is a KDE distribution up there kicking stones with Ubuntu.

KDE at number 2 on distrowatch for the past 7 days

I think the reason for PCLinuxOS’s popularity lies within all of the non-free multimedia codes install by default. It may look like Windows 95 out of the box, but people are downloading it and using it like mad. I have noticed a few people using it at our LUG events. They all said the same thing, they didn’t have to worry about !Restricted Formats, it had Beryl out of the box, and of course it is a combination of KDE and Debian 🙂 I may not agree with the entire PCLinuxOS gig, but I have to give it to them for drawing in many new KDE users. Now maybe these new KDE users will decide that they want to live FREE, enjoy the color purple, and love being chased around by someone from the down-undah with a long pointy stick 🙂

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Groovy Terminal

By Rich Johnson on Published: May 6, 2007 at 2:08 am

I have been a Yakuake user and fan for as long as I can remember. Seeing as I use the terminal roughly 75% of the time while using my computer, tabbing back and forth between either Yakuake tabs or Konsole tabs gets to be tedious after a while. Well, Sho_ and gang over at KDE have totally kicked arse with a new 2.8 Beta release. The new one still has all of the tabs, however each tab can have as many split windows as your eyes can handle. For an idea of what this looks like, take a look at the image below (click for larger image).

Yakuake split windows

If you are using Kubuntu, building this package is a breeze. Save the package into a separate directory (~/downloads is what I use) and issue the following commands in the terminal (Konsole):
cd ~/downloads #change to the directory you downloaded it to
tar -xvjf yakuake-2.8-beta1.tar.bz2
cd yakuake-2.8-beta1
./configure && make && sudo make install
NOTE: If the package does not configure properly, then you may need to install kdelibs-dev from the repositories.

To run it, simply go to KMenu->System->Yakuake.

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Seeking Video Card for G4

By Rich Johnson on Published: May 5, 2007 at 12:02 am

Anyone in the USA with a spare video card that will work in an Apple G4, please email me if you would like to sell or give it away. I am willing to pay of course, however I don’t want to pay a lot, as I only really need it to load Ubuntu onto it and run it as a server. Thanks in advance.

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