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Arch Linux has been having hard lockups recently, so I decided to try out a new distro. I had a look at Distrowatch for a different distro to try. I'm very picky with my distros...here's what I said about each:

• Ubuntu - It's Gnome...
• openSUSE - Tried it, I don't really like the package management
• Fedora - Too Gnome orientated
• Mint - Gnome orientated
• PCLinuxOS - Way outdated
• Debian - No updater for KDE or Xfce - It's very Gnome dependent

I was on Windows and noticed that Google had already released the beta for Google Chrome. So I thought, why not try it out?

My Linux CD shop, Software Care, has had a redesign and update. It features a new backend and a handful of new distros to choose from. They are: Linux Mint, Slackware, SimplyMEPIS and openSUSE 11.0. Enjoy

http://shop.archux.com

The new kernel 2.6.26 includes new Intel wireless drivers. They are great! The first thing I noticed was the wireless light was lit. And flashing when it was doing something Today I noticed something even better. I put my laptop into suspend and when I resumed it, I expected I had to open wicd and disconnect...and connect again. But I tried to open something in Firefox, and it worked Before I used to avoid using suspend because of the hassle of disconnecting and reconnecting. But now I think I will be using it much more

The old theme made from scratch was...pretty buggy. It only worked in fixed width and well, I really don't like that. So I used Zen (a Drupal starter theme) to help make my theme. The only thing I needed to edit was the CSS file! It was so easy

Improvements

• So much easier to theme and tweak
• Fluid width
• Advert now moved so it doesn't look so out of place
• It's standards compliant
• More Oxygen/Plasma like
• Search box looks much better

I've made a new poll after the old poll got about 800 votes. The new one is "What's your favourite terminal emulator?" If I've missed any out, comment on the poll

My parents wanted me to look around for a decent £200-ish computer. So I had a look. But the ones I saw weren't all that good. I then thought that I could build a computer! Seems easy enough? I found out what was compatible and bought

• Intel Pentium Dual Core 1.8 GHz
• 80 GB SATA HDD
• 52x CD drive
• ASRock motherboard
• 1 GB RAM
• Cheap case w/ PSU (remind me never to buy one of these again! You could chop your fingers off with one of those..)
• NVIDIA graphics card (256 MB)

On the 19th of June, the release date of openSUSE 11, I joined everyone else to download it. I downloaded the KDE4 version, as I had heard it was very good. So, I stuck it into my laptop. Great new design. It quickly booted up and instead of the default KDE4 theme I was greeted with a more interesting grey theme called Aya. I didn't want to explore on the live CD so I immediately installed it. After about 20-30 mins, it was done.

Since the 2008.06 version is now officially gone gold, I'm going to be updating the installation guide, as a few things have changed. I may also add a few videos

I'm a bit bored of the current layout, and it's a bit buggy, so I'm going to debug and change the theme to look a lot like KDE 4! As you can see, I've changed the sidebar blocks to look like the new default KDE 4 plasma theme and the oxygen icons are used throughout the site. I'll do this throughout, because the titles and generally the content looks very old and cheap looking, so I'll be styling it a while. Don't worry if the site goes a bit strange.