About 3 or 4 months ago, I switched from Openbox to an XFCE desktop. Overall it's been a pretty good experience. Speed-wise it falls somewhere between full-on Gnome and my Openbox setup on my aging P4-3GHz desktop. Feature-wise XFCE has been pretty much on-par with the full Gnome/Ubuntu desktop except I've been using the XFWM4 [...]

Episode 266 of The Linux Link Tech Show promised to be a very interesting show, and it didn't disappoint. Why was it interesting? Because Bryan Lunduke of the Linux Action Show came on to discuss his plans to introduce a couple of closed-source commercial applications on Linux. Talk about lots of fodder for discussion! Here [...]

I have been using the Task application created by Paul Beckingham for about 5 months to keep track of my todo list. Before that I was a big fan of the Todotxt.com method. Then I found out about Paul's app and got it to build on Cygwin (which I run at work on XP). Both [...]