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ExTiX 14.1.1 64 bit is based on Debian/Ubuntu 14.04. The original system includes the Desktop Environment Unity (Ubuntu). After removing Unity I have installed Gnome 3.10 and Gnome Classic 3.10 (in ExTiX 14.1.1, build 140629) respectively Razor-qt 0.5.2 (in ExTiX Light, build 140515). The system language is English in both versions of ExTiX.
NEWS ABOUT ExTiX 14.1.1 build 140629
All packages have been updated to the latest version by 140629. Vlc (installed from source to make...
Posted 06-28-2014 at 03:22 AM bythe dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 07-26-2017 at 05:22 PM bythe dsc("bugfix" - no need to echo the variable)
Sometimes you open an application that will in turn open some web page, and it will automatically open it with the default browser. The problem is that often you'd prefer that it had been opened in whatever other browser that may be already running, even if it's not the system's default. So I came up with this script in order to try to get this behavior:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
# This "software" (so to speak) is totally UNLICENSED and barely documented. What you see is
Posted 06-27-2014 at 12:06 AM byrocket357 (Musings on technology, philosophy, and life in the corporate world)
I'm nearly 75% through a bottle of Merlot, so this blog post may not be here tomorrow afternoon after I sober up a bit and get a chance to read it. Suffice it to say this won't be one of my typical technically-inclined posts.
I read something tonight that bothered me. I happened upon a brilliantly written blog about a young woman's struggle for finding her self worth and her identity. It brought tears to my eyes as I read through her setbacks, her victories, and eventual vindication....
DebEX NEWS 140626
I have made a new extra version of DebEX, wich I call DebEX KDE Live DVD. It’s a pure Debian system. I.e.: There are no Ubuntu or Kubuntu elements involved. DebEX KDE uses KDE 4.13.1 as Desktop environment. (The latest stable version of KDE). Study the full package list.
Zswap is basically like a "fake swap partition" inside the RAM itself, but instead of just "moving" things from one place to another in the RAM, these things are compacted, instead of being written to the actual swap partition, on the HDD. Or so I understand. It then squeezes more out of the RAM than with non-compressed use, at some cost of CPU due to the compression/uncompressions, and monitoring, but sparing access to the swap partition on the HDD.
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