Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Desktop Environments

I'm trying the Gnome 3 desktop environment for Debian 8 and it really isn't that bad, reminds me of Windows 8/8.1. I'm using MATE in FreeBSD which is a for of Gnome 2. And starting with Vista Windows uses DWM I think or that might be like Xorg. They use Aero. Windows also uses the Windows bootloader and Linux GRUB. I really would like to be able to install the Windows desktop environment just like another environment like KDE or Gnome. I've forked the Budgie Desktop environment and made my own called Blueberry for Linux and Gnome Shell. I've also forked the Lumina desktop for BSD which is a low level C++ desktop environment. Fairly new.

Upgrade for Wheezy to Jessie

Yesterday I upgraded to Debian 8 "Jessie" which is now on the stable branch from "Wheezy" and my base image was "Squeeze". I also began reading about the systemd process and how it replaced "init". Also here is a source list generator from Switzerland.