Installed Debian For The First Time

The Asus laptop that Imee left us was low powered for Windows so I immediately planned to use a linux distro for it. I installed Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on it not really thinking about it. Well it installed alright but it was slow. It starts slow and most applications starts slow. Ubuntu requires a 64 bit processor and at least 4 GB of RAM. This machine only has 2 GB of RAM. I need an desktop environment that can work in less than 4 GB of RAM. I figured XFCE would be great with it.

I installed Debian with XFCE today. It went very well.

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Appindicator In Natty Ubuntu 11.04

Previously ranted about the blind alley Ubuntu 11.04 seemed to be leading us when it comes to some applications not being ready yet for the dropping of system tray. What I should have done is press on. There are posts about editing a white list with a recommended GUI tool to help us out here , here and here . Like everything in Linux, there's a configuration file for it, if you can find it and if you have the inclination to go ninja. If not then there's dconf-editor. Download dconf-tools from Software Center. Navigate to desktop>unity>panel. Add your application in the white list. Then close the window. No save button. mmm. So far I have added Shutter, Dropbox and Keepassx in the white list. Before... After.

Evolution Mail on GNOME 3.26

There's a slight change in the user interface. A To Do column now appears to the rightmost after the GNOME 3.26 update. Also there's a noticeable stability increase, what with goa-daemon stopping its RAM usage creep. I don't have to kill it every couple of hours.

Jose Rizal, December 30, 1896 Execution by firing squad

From a photograph by Manuel Arias Rodriguez. He was executed for the crime of rebellion.

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