openSuse 11 GNOME/KDE 4 thoughts

Well, it’s been a long since my last post. At that time, I was a happy Ubuntu user, but since the new one is soon to be released, I gave it a break and installed openSuse on my notebook. So far it’s been a pleasant experience, installed both the GNOME and the KDE desktop and to tell the truth, I didn’t like the first one at all. The KDE 4 rocks and it impressed me a lot. Still it’s hard to get used to the way it handles the system settings (of course way different from GNOME) but once you are there, you know what’s all about. On the other hand, I like GNOME’s simplicity and if I needed all those new tools it offers I’d be completely happy. Once again, as a regular user (not a developer) I don’t seem to need the new features it has, such as new IM, tracking my time better, Ekiga, and the desk bar, to mention some. One cool thing is multiple tabs for file browsing is a high point. I have to point out that openSuse’s GNOME used about 20% of memory while KDE 4 just about 10%. I’m note saying I like one desktop more than the other, but I can’t belong to only one.

As a developer, I believe Kdevelop rules and works pretty well right out of the box. Qt designer has extremely well writtend documentation and samples.

So today I’m still using openSuse KDE 4, and I think it’ll be on mi notebook until the new Ubuntu is out, or forever, it just depends on how things work out.

Talk at INACAP La Serena

It went down very good, I spoke a whole different speech from what I had prepared because I didn’t know the folk of SUN would also speak about Netbeans a few and the mobile plataform, but anyways I felt pretty damn well. First time and willing to be out there just for the love of open source software, which has already changed my life in a way.

Thanks INACAP for the chance, and more news from me soon. Goodbye.

NetBeans over GNOME

This monday (29/09/08) I will be giving a talk about NetBeans over GNOME at INACAP campus La Serena. Before me there is a SUN talk, I don’t know the topic though.

I have planned a 30-45 minutes talk about developing java applications over the GNOME Desktop, by the end of it a simple java application will be shown. Of course there will be an intro to the GNOME Desktop so if you like open source tech and feel like attending, come on over!. It starts at 19 hrs.

Sadly I don’t have any Netbeans DVD to give away (nor any other stuff) but my knowledge =)

See you all there.

Hardy’s Trash does work!

It’s true, a long time has passed since I solved it so I just forgot to publish it. It was all my mistake since the whole process described in my entry below had not to be done as root user but as the logged in user. So it works!.