Tag Archives: gnome

Enjoying ubuntu: Desktop migration from FreeBSD

Months after I discovered FreeBSD’s excellent performance, and because my debian unstable desktop became, well, unstable, I decided to give FreeBSD as a desktop a try.
My desktop needs are pretty basic, I just need:

GNOME: Originally I migrated from fluxbox to Gnome to “try linux as a real final user”, now I just can’t live without [...]

Of Debian, Gnome and Nokia

Nokia has just announced the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet.

Now this wouldn’t be interesting (at least for me), but the 770:

Runs Debian GNU/Linux (kernel 2.6) in an ARM processor
The user interface is GNOME based
They created an open platform called Maemo and they are encouraging maemo developers to use the GPL

The maemo platform can be seen [...]

Changing

I’m happy to announce that I got a new job at the Lima Chamber of Commerce (Camara de Comercio de Lima). So, again, the motto of this blog (trapped in the NOC) must change (again). Suggestions are welcome.
Also, I’m now a (happy?) gnome user. I still miss some things from fluxbox like EXTREME key-binding to [...]