In case you never knew. Kubuntu is an official derivative of the Ubuntu operating system using the KDE graphical environment instead of GNOME. While Ubuntu is based on a heavily customized version gnome desktop environment. Kubuntu is just plain vanilla kde (down to artwork) it also lacks some of the features and innovations which canonical has built into Ubuntu hence no ubuntu one, software center, me menu etc. What kubuntu however has going for it is a strong tie to the kde upstream (and the awesomeness which comes with that) and strong community control (meaning less co operate influence). Kubuntu 10.04 LTS was released couple of months ago. It is based on KDE 4.4 which brings a host of features many of which I hope to review in a much later post. I have been running Kubuntu 10.04 now since the Release Candidate and simply upgraded to the final release. So far I would have to say it has been release smooth although not perfect. Compared to Ubuntu The out of the box experience of Kubuntu can be a little rough edge and quite overwhelming especially to a user who is very new to KDE. It is for this reason that I decided to share some tips and walk around for minor annoyances I encountered using Kubuntu Lucid and generally things I did after installing Kubuntu . NB These is by no means the gospel of how kubuntu should be. It is based on how I setup my Kubuntu Desktop (Emphasis on “I” and “My” :D ) (more…)
My Perfect Kubuntu 10.04 Desktop
Sunday, June 6th, 2010Dirty fix for yahoo kopete issue in kde 4.4 on Kubuntu
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010Myself and kopete have always had this love/hate relationship. With my recent update to kde 4.4 our relationships took further nose dive when kopete refused to send my messages to my yahoo contacts even though i could receive messages from them. Here is the bug report about the issue. 
Recently I decided to fix things up between me and kopete so rather than run to its gtk cousin (looking at pidgin) I sort to see if I could resolve the problem. (after all its free and open source software we are talking about so there has got to be a way around the issue right?)
After a bit of googling I found that I am not alone (which is a good sign cause misery loves company)
From my readings it seem to be a problem with the libkyahoo library which is shipped with kde 4.4. Some are suggesting that cause is the new stealth feature introduced in kde 4.4 and occurs only when there are many contacts in contacts list. (more…)
A for Artha, The Awesome offline Dictionary for Linux
Saturday, February 27th, 2010One area that I have always found lacking on Linux is a good Dictionary software. I have tired quite a few free and 
opensource dictionary software for linux, some very good, but non had the WOW factor to keep me using them again and again. Well that was until I stumbled (no pun intended) on Artha (yeah I know free software apps and their funny names 
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