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  • Five Tips To Get The Most Out Of KDE 4.5

    Five Tips To Get The Most Out Of KDE 4.5

    Posted on August 10, 2010 | 5 Comments
    Today should mark the debut of KDE SC 4.5.0 (providing it doesn’t get delayed again). To help you make the most out of this new version, I decided to compile a list of tips that I feel makes the most of this revolutionary desktop. Some...

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  • Linux Tip: Using a Shell Script to Set Up Your Computer

    Linux Tip: Using a Shell Script to Set Up Your Computer

    Posted on May 25, 2010 | 10 Comments
    Linux is full of some amazing tweaks that go far and beyond other operating systems. Last week I wrote about using scripts to simplify shell commands, and today I’m going to take that a step further, but it takes a little bit more leg work.

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  • Linux Tip: Simplifying Commands

    Linux Tip: Simplifying Commands

    Posted on May 18, 2010 | 17 Comments
    There are a lot of things that I do to simplify things when using Linux, and I decided that I would start writing about them. First, I’m going to describe a method I use personally to make Linux commands easier to remember. The information here...

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  • Building The Ultimate KDE Desktop With Arch Linux (Part 2)

    Building The Ultimate KDE Desktop With Arch Linux (Part 2)

    Posted on November 12, 2009 | 14 Comments
    Welcome back! As long as everything went well last time, you should have a basic Arch Linux set up with KDE 4.3.x. Your KDE installation should have a text editor (kate), a command terminal (konsole), and some basic Plasmoids for your desktop. Unfortunately, the desktop...

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  • Building The Ultimate KDE Desktop With Arch Linux (Part 1)

    Building The Ultimate KDE Desktop With Arch Linux (Part 1)

    Posted on October 27, 2009 | 11 Comments
    Welcome to the first part of my mini-guide for creating a killer KDE4 desktop with Arch Linux. In this multi-part article, I’ll first give you a general overview of installing this awesome distribution, and then in subsequent parts I’ll kick it up a notch and...

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