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Properly Setting A Default Web Browser

Tue, 2011-10-18 22:08 — ThistleWeb

I'm growing increasingly impressed with Xubuntu but setting the default web browser is a nightmare. In theory, you simply choose your preferred web browser in the settings and it should be enough. Some applications just ignore this and open in whatever was set before them by the distro makers. There is a reason, and a solution.

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I'm Seriously Impressed With OpenSuSE 11.4

Wed, 2011-03-16 09:24 — ThistleWeb

I've heard a lot of good things about OpenSuSE 11.4 since it's release so I thought I'd give it a go. I decided to try both the live KDE and live Gnome CDs as live sessions and was very impressed with both. Before I delve into this I'll get the "conflict of interest" thing out of the way. I have been a long time XFCE (GTK) / Debian (Ubuntu / Mint) based (Apt / Synaptic .deb etc) user. I also don't like the whole Microsoft / Novell / Mono thing. So let's begin.

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