Tag Archives: Linux

Haircut Showing Support To Linux :)

Last week I made a special haircut to show my support to Linux and Gentoo in particular. Isn’t it beautiful?

Coremoid – Simple CPU Usage Plasmoid For KDE4

Update: There is a nice replacement for coremoid plasmoid in KDE 4.3.x. It shows kernel and user space usage in different colors, shows swap usage, etc. I find it more useful than coremoid. You may want to try it instead of coremoid plasmoid.

I’ve been using Coremoid plasmoid since KDE 4 was available only in SVN [...]

“No” to genkdesvn

As many of you already know the KDE team has released a stable version of KDE 4.2. I’ve been running KDE compiled from trunk (genkdesvn) with the latest features and bugs for a half year but now I feel tired of fighting with the bugs and since I don’t report them to KDE team anyway [...]

Caveats About Restoring Linux Root Partition From TAR Archive

Recently I had to create a new partition on my laptop’s hdd to install OS X (I wanted to have a dual boot of Gentoo and OS X). I had no free space on the disk so the only way to create a new partition was to shrink the existing root partition with Gentoo. Since [...]

JFS – My Choice as FS for Gentoo Root Partition

I would like to share my experience with JFS – Journaling File System developer by IBM. While searching for a fast and robust file system for the root partition of my Gentoo installation I noticed that most pick either ext3 or ReiserFS. Both are good FS and I have dealed with both of them. However [...]