I’ve written about Manjaro many times on this blog. Other than a lack of testing with NVidia cards/drivers, it’s hard to find fault with this distro. They are definitely doing a better job than Canonical with Ubuntu. I had made my peace with the poor performance of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, believing it a price worth paying for the embedded systems development support. Testing out 22.04 changed all of that. Granted my machines are a long … Why Manjaro is Taking OverRead more
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PageEdit – BlueGriffin
PageEdit is a true pleasure for editing html files that will be use for things like online documentation or even in-app help. For many years I used BlueGriffon but the last update of that was 2019 and some Linux distros have dropped inclusion. Technically they only supported Ubuntu, but AUR had a build as did other places. Given Ubuntu’s massive bloat and sluggish performance since the 20.04 release (getting far worse with 22.04) people are … PageEdit – BlueGriffinRead more
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Getting Rid of Thunderbird Threading
Every young hacker who volunteers for an OpenSource Project wants to put “their mark” on the thing, that has to be where Thunderbird threading came from. For over a decade we have not had threading and we have adjusted to it. The sad part of this is if you click on the first collapsed message in the thread, instead of expanding the thread, it opens all of them. I can’t tell you how to fix … Getting Rid of Thunderbird ThreadingRead more
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Emacs GDB Breakpoints
Most books only give you a once-over-lightly when it comes to GDB, especially GDB breakpoints inside of Emacs. They show you how to set a breakpoint. While that is important, it doesn’t do much to tell a developer why they should use the non-sexy Emacs front end for GDB instead of some GUI. To start with GUIs don’t give you the GDB command line. Here is the situation. CsScintilla is a CopperSpice port of Scintilla … Emacs GDB BreakpointsRead more
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Using Your Core Dumps
So, you read the last post and now know where to find your core dumps, great. Now what? That always seems to be the question, doesn’t it. What good is a core dump? The answer is “They can be really good, but you need tools.” Emacs No matter how much you hate it, no matter how much you think it is from the stone age, no matter how bloated you think it is, install GUI … Using Your Core DumpsRead more