November, 2006 - Archive

Eye candy gnome + adesklets

Here is my Arch Linux desktop with gnome + adesklets. gdesklets is very slow, my system is not able to run the same. adesklets is a wonderful light weight desktop widget tool.

Review: Arch Linux 0.7.2

Why Arch Linux? When the life goes smooth, we get bored. When everything goes smooth we need some challenge to face and conquer. This is applicable for Linux distribution world also. After started admiring with Ubuntu, I did not want to be locked with it. I test a distribution only if it is having some unique feature in it. Zenwalk is one such promising. Here is my review on it. I came to know about Arch, which is optimized for i686 processors, so it is meant for recent generation of processors...

Windows CE 6.0 Kernel source opened

The Microsoft has released Windows CE 6.0 version yesterday. The most exciting feature for me is the share kernel source (Since I don't do any active platform building nowadays, I don't bother much about other features in this shiny new version. You may refer this link for more info on that. Why I consider open kernel source as important feature in Windows CE? Reason is obvious. Windows CE is not a Server or Desktop oriented OS, but it is closely bound with hardware of the system. In my ex-prof...