Posts Tagged ‘linux’

Fun with ion3

Ion™ is a tiling tabbed window manager designed with keyboard users in mind.
In recent years I've been a GNOME / Compiz guy, but while I've enjoyed it's tight integration with Ubuntu and flashy effects, I've always missed the simplicity of so-called minimalist window managers, mainly fvwm. These days, however, practically everything I do happens inside [...]

Setting up rTorrent with Firefox

Being the closest thing we have to a native uTorrent in Linux, I really like Deluge. But, at least for me, it uses a seemingly impossible amount system resources. Since a Bittorrent client is the kind of thing I want to leave running in the background, I needed a lighter alternative.
I don't see any real [...]

Installing Linux Mint 6 on your Asus EeePC 901

I was a fan of ubuntu-eee (now known as EasyPeasy) for a long time, but after upgrading to EasyPeasy 1.0 on my 20gb EEE 901 ($379.99) tonight, I've decided it's time to move on, and I'm happy I chose Linux Mint. Here's what I've done so far to get it running great:
Install Linux Mint
Since the [...]