Jesus, Yet Another Sun God Myth.

Worship of the sun, under it's myriad forms, has been around since neolothic times. Neolithic times (new stone ages) lasted from about 10,000 BCE to about 2,000 BCE (BCE=Before the Common Era, i.e., before the alleged Jesus was born. CE=Common Era).

Some of the best known sun worshippers were the Sumerians, the Egyptians and the Babylonians. They had all kinds of imaginative myths surrounding their worship. One of the common stories was that at the winter solstice (21st of December), as seen from the Middle East or thereabouts, the sun would stay low in the sky for three days and then start rising. It was said to "die" for three days and then resurrect, or rise from death.

Is There Really Freedom in Linux Land?

Recently, I wrote a blog titled "One Desktop To Rule Them All", in which I advocated making GNOME KDE the desktop of choice for Linux. One desktop for Linux is not a new idea; in fact, many people have advocated that for Linux in order to better compete with bloated Windows, and OSX which you almost have to be rich to run, because their computers are so terribly over-priced.

Why I don't Like Microsoft and Windows

I'm not one of those Linux fan boys who loves to hate Microsoft and its bloated, over-rated and over-priced OS.... okay, I lied, I'm one of those Linux fan boys who loves to hate Microsoft and its bloated, over-rated and over-priced OS. Why do I hate  Microsoft and Windows? For one, because of Microsoft's shitty business practices, and for another because their OS sucks the bag.

Why Arch Is Not For Me... Or Maybe It Is?

Okay, time to eat humble pie. I recently wrote two blogs; one was about how I thought the Evo/Lution-AIS "distro", AKA Architect, was not user-friendly, and the other one was about the flood of invective I received over it. I was wrong. My opinions were not based on proper research. First, it's not a distro, and second, it's way more user-friendly than I first thought. 

I have removed to offending blogs for the sake of unity in the Linux community and for the sake of fairness to the dev who worked hard to make Arch easier to install and for the sake of those who love and defend it. Now to the main subject of this blog.

Netrunner Linux: Two Versions One Vision

Early Wednesday morning, I couldn't sleep past 06:00 hrs, so I decided I'd give Netrunner a try, a Linux distro based on Manjaro Linux, which I had downloaded the previous evening. Netrunner has two versions based on two different distros. One is the stable version, based on Kubuntu 14.04 LTS, the other is a rolling distribution based on Manjaro 0.8.10 "Ascella", with KDE. In short, Netrunner offers one desktop, KDE, in two different editions... two versions, one vision. 

Elementary My Dear Watson

The first thing you notice when booting Elementary OS, called Freya, version 0.3 Beta 1, is how pretty it is. It's a beautiful piece of work, with a light gray and whitish modern interface and an eye-pleasing bitmap for the background, called "Blueprint".

You have a dock at the bottom which you can configure, but not extensively. It works very well and can be resized and made to look white, dark, or transparent. You can easily remove icons by right-clicking them and un-checking them to make them disappear. If you make a mistake and make the wrong one disappear, you can always use the menu, on the top left of the screen, to restore that icon by dragging it back on the dock. The doc also acts as a task manager, with a pointer below the icons to show which program is sunning. All-in-all, well thought out design.

Evo/Lution Linux: Another Try

N.B. This post has been completely re-edited. 02-Nov-2014.

About one hour ago, I decided give Evo/Lution-AIS (Evo) another try; after all, some of my assumptions about it had been wrong from the get-go, so I owed that piece of software another go.

I plugged in my USB thumb drive, re-started my system and booted into Evo. I followed the instructions and installed a bare-bones KDE desktop. Once I got that done, I re-booted into a brand new pure Arch install and into KDE.

Then, as per a tip from a gentleman named pjhalsi, I added a repo, typed in 'sudo pacman -Syy" and then installed yaourt, which permitted me to download Octopi, which permitted me to install a fully functional KDE desktop. So far I'm loving it. Stay tuned, because I'm going to give Arch some time to see how it works out for me. I get the feeling I'll be keeping this install.

My thanks to the Evo team.

grgaud
Peace