Loud ramblings of a Software Artisan

Wednesday 14 November 2007

Screen color calibration

Ross, now one needs to integrate that to Gnome, totally. That and your XICC and we can have the display calibration handled in standard way.

For those who wonder about the Spyder2 color calibration hardware support, please read this. Sad. Very sad.

Thursday 1 November 2007

Desktop on server?

"GNOME is attractive to some seasoned Linux users because it one of the few complete desktop environments that is more lightweight than KDE, which makes GNOME more appropriate for use on servers." -- Nicholas Petreley, November 1st 2007

Mr Petreley, you are the reason why I did not renew my subscription to Linux Journal and stopped reading the only dead-tree magazine I considered worthwhile. Not that its content was less good, just that your rants as Editor in Chief were always missing the point.

That was last year.

The question today would be: What would a desktop environement, whether it is KDE, Gnome or any other, have to do on a server? Beside wasting resources. I think it is time for you to stop writing about Linux and start using it.

OK, now I put away the rotten tomatoes.