Highlights from this release include visual refreshes for a number of applications, including the desktop itself. The complete list of features and improvements are in the release notes. GNOME 3.34 is code-named “Thessaloniki” in recognition of the most recent GUADEC, held this past August in Thessaloniki, Greece. GNOME 3.34 contains six months of work by the GNOME community and includes[…]
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Happy again, with Linux
On how people become happy again using Linux on their PCs and Macs. If you want to rediscover the beauty of Information Technology, using a secure and reliable system, but also having fun, then give Linux a chance. And have more fun choosing from its many distributions. Through the years, as my MacBook’s hardware failures became increasingly inconvenient, and as[…]
Read moreThe first black hole photo and the future of the Linux desktop
At the heart of the Milky Way, there’s a supermassive black hole that sucks up anything that ventures too close to it, even light. We knew it, but we never saw it. Until these days. On Wednesday 10th April, the first photograph of a black hole appeared. A black hole, probably the most mysterious celestial body and the most stimulating[…]
Read moreHow to create a menu entry for Calibre
I have installed Calibre, the perfect ebook management program, on a fresh install of Xfce using the Linux binary installer from the official website and I found no entry for Calibre on the applications menu. A menu entry for Calibre that works also under Xfce No menu entry, so, to solve this issue I have created a .desktop file for[…]
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