April 30, 2017 Well done GNOME By now volumes have been written about why Canonical will replace its own Unity desktop with GNOME so I won’t bother to express any…
June 30, 2016 It’s good to be back on Chakra I installed Chakra Linux on an old notebook after a few years away from it. I now have Kubuntu, Korora (Fedora) and Chakra systems…
July 26, 2015 KDE announces Plasma Mobile In another development for independent mobile environments, the KDE project has announced Plasma Mobile. Announced during Akademy, KDE’s yearly worldwide conference, the Plasma Mobile…
June 30, 2015 Alternative mobile OS redux A while back I blogged about the possibilities for alternative mobile platforms. Unfortunately the pace of development has been slow since, but the good…
February 28, 2015 What to do when the NBN comes to town: Copper cable cut Being at one of the early release sites, it’s now been over a year since I moved to the NBN. In truth, I did…
January 30, 2014 New smartphone options for local telcos These days you can buy a smartphone from almost anywhere, from a mobile carrier to a grocery store. This month we put out an…