OpenBox is a minimalist windows manager for Linux, it’s also my manager of choice. Due to its minimal memory footprint its faster than Gnome or KDE, but because its minimal a lot of what you may have come to know and move is no enabled by default. I will cover more about OpenBox and its […]
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In some situations a quick trip to get a drive is required but in many situations space can easily be reclaimed by removing the gunk that’s accumulated, but how do you determine what’s junk? Linux has the du command that will recursively search a director and list all files and there size but it still […]
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I do not format my desktop PC very often, I reinstall my laptop three or four times a month but not my primary machine. With almost every clean installation I have to lookup how to install Oracle’s Java instead of using the pre installed version OpenJDK. Since I search for it so often I thought […]
read more »Now that Steam is available for Linux (How to install article coming soon) I have once again made the switch to 100% Linux. How that I have Steam installed I wanted to start playing Egosoft’s X3 series again, but for best performance this really needs a joystick. This is how I went about installing and […]
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Having lived in a Windows environment for the past couple of years I’ve gotten somewhat used to my routines and short cuts, most of which are missing or changed now that I’m 95% Ubuntu. The most notable absentee are all the extra buttons on my Logitech MX Revolution mouse, which I have mapped to a […]
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