Posted by chrisj on December 16th, 2009
As I mentioned in my previous post “That eternal question…” one of my biggest reasons for choosing openSUSE as my starting point for getting into KDE was the system management tool “YaST“. YaST automates (or at least greatly eases) the task of getting and installing or updating many of the applications available for the Plasma Desktop. It is important to note that YaST is a tool that is specific to openSUSE (but not to KDE) so if you are following along from a different distribution you will not be able to use YaST, however most distributions have a tool similar to YaST that is specific to them.
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Posted by chrisj on December 15th, 2009
Just a quick post tonight to draw attention to a new section I am adding to the site.
On the top and bottom right (one tab, one link) you should now see the new “Tips” section (as I am calling it for now). I plan to use this section as the organizational area for what I am learning and blogging about before I start trying to submit it to the KDE Userbase/Techbase/etc. so that I have it well thought out, vetted, and formatted before doing so. This will also serve as a longer term “static” link to the various knowledge covered in the articles here and what I can glean from comments made by readers.
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Posted by chrisj on December 13th, 2009
Which distribution should I choose?
I think that even the most die hard fan of a given distribution would admit that this is largely a personal decision; though you might have to pry that admission out of them from what I’ve seen in my searches. Given that realization I thought that I would use this first post after my introduction to discuss which distribution I chose, and why. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by chrisj on December 11th, 2009
A fitting beginning to my journey as any, if the purists will forgive me for not properly representing my IOStream #include.
As is appropriate to any beginning allow me first to introduce myself and then to introduce my cause, to which I will hopefully attract you. My name is Chris Johnson though as you may have guessed by now I will be masquerading here as the proverbial “Little Blue Penguin” himself. I am an avid programmer and all-around computer enthusiast having tinkered, broken, fixed (in most cases), and generally loved everything electronic since an early age. My employment however has always kept me as a Windows (.NET) developer. Recently however, a good friend has extended me a wonderful offer: Red pill, or blue?
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