Entries from January 2012 ↓

I wasn’t really planning on writing this article, but I found this cool phython script at xfce.org for testing minimum memory requirements. I couldn’t resist running it on all the Linux distros that I just installed. Some of the results are predictable, but their are a few surprises.

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Maximizing the use of screen space on netbook computers is critical, and it really helps when the desktop environment correctly size window to fit the screen. While writing about the KDE, Unity, and Gnome 3 desktops for my Basic Linux course, I made some interesting discoveries.

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