After failing to find any real screen shots of KDE 4 I decided to try out Open Suse’s “KDE 4 Live” DVD. Don’t get your hopes up expecting to see plasma goodness at this point. Currently it looks a lot like KDE 3 with great Icons. I did notice a lot more vector art and some nice interface features due to QT4. Either way, I’m really looking forward to seeing the finished version later this year.
I just installed Slax on on a 1 GB USB Drive and it’s working great. This distro has some great innovations including the ability to save and restore your settings and a modular application system. To install an application you simply download the module from Slax’s large database of applications and copy it to a “module” folder on your USB drive. The same technology is used to save your data between boots.
USB Installation Instructions:
I run Ubuntu which doesn’t use LILO so if your distro does, you might not have to boot into the Live CD before running the make script.
*GParted Note: By default Ubuntu auto-mounts new devices when plugged in. This causes a problem with Gparted. So before you format a drive, open Gnome’s Removable Media and un-check the auto-mount features.
I’ve had this issue when attempting to remove folders containing large amount of files. Using this string in BASH works great!
# find . -name ‘foo-*’ | xargs rm
This is a pretty great desktop theme, I especially like the toolbars
LINK To www.slax.org