Archive for the ‘OSS’ Category

Feb

28

Gentoo Linux 2006.0 Screenshot Walk-Through

By Jon Heizer

Hot on the heels of Gentoo’s announcement of their 2006.0 release, OSDir has published a Gentoo 2006.0 Screenshot Tour which give us a walk-through of installing Gentoo with the first ever Gentoo Linux LiveCD.
I am a huge Gentoo fan.  All of my linux boxes run it.  I have a computer sitting next to me that [...]

Jan

25

Gaim v2 Beta 2

By Jon Heizer

The next Beta of Gaim has been released.  You can get it from their sourceforge site.  There are a few changes that I noticed right away that were in Beta 1.

Here you can see the connection status and away message textbox are a lot smaller.  They also removed the status for each protocol.  A [...]

Dec

10

Gaim V2.0 Screen Shot

By Jon Heizer

“We’re really close, now, to releasing our first beta. Check back next next Friday, December 16th. It really should be out by then.”

I can’t wait to test out the beta!
Gaim News Page

Nov

20

KDE 3.5 RC1 Available

By Jon Heizer

“The KDE Project announced that KDE 3.5 is almost finished, so the group has prepared a first release candidate.”
Sounds like I need to do some compiling tonight…
via: digg

Oct

20

Gaim 2.0 on its way

By Jon Heizer

I have been a long time Gaim user and love their multi-platform, multi-protocol messenger. I recently was having a small bug appear and headed off to Gaim’s Site to check for any updates. There I found this:
“We’ve shifted all our efforts to finishing Gaim 2.0.0. Gaim 2.0.0 has a ton of great features, [...]

Oct

13

Back to Linux

By Jon Heizer

Over the past few days I have been installing Gentoo on my laptop. I have left a small partition for Windows XP and Visual Studio development, but I am running in Linux full time now. It is great to be back!! This afternoon I set the goal of getting my lcd light to turn off [...]

Oct

7

Mythtv Impressions

By Jon Heizer

My latest project has been converting my pvr/dvr/htpc/(what ever you want to call it) over to a mythtv box. For those of you that don’t already know, those acronyms above stand for presonal video recorder, digital video recorder, and home theater pc. Basically they act like a TiVo using a standard computer and a tv [...]