Archive for September, 2009

Bootsplash themes gallery

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

I was installing a new kernel and wanted a bootsplash theme. So I installed the splash themes packages:
emerge media-gfx/bootsplash-themes media-gfx/splash-themes-gentoo media-gfx/splash-themes-livecd

But then I dearly missed an overview of all the themes to choose one. I found no splash-theme selector or anything, so it seemed I had to do it myself. Fortunately the themes are …

Distribution Madness

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

Over the past 48hours I’ve gone through 3 different installations of distributions. I’ve started with an Ubuntu 64bit. Sadly the jaunty jackalope has only really old stuff in it. Mainly the old subversion version was a no go, as I need to work on my diploma thesis which I manage in a SVN-repository. The …

Phoronix Test Suite on Ubuntu

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

After installing the Phoronix Test Suite on Ubuntu (9.10 Karmic Koala on AMD64) I tried to start the GUI.
Unfortunately there was an error:
kazamatzuri@maya:~$ phoronix-test-suite gui

The PHP GTK module must be loaded for the GUI.
This module can be found @ http://gtk.php.net/

After googling a bit, I found the fastes solution to be:

Get the php-gtk package: …