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Steam available in Arch Linux repositories

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This news is at least a few days old by now, but it seems the official Steam client for GNU/Linux is now out of Beta and ready for use! Ubuntu users could already download the deb package from the steam website. However, if you’re an Arch Linux user, like me, then you’ll find that since the 26th of February, the steam client is already in the official Arch repositories and can be installed with a simple:

# pacman -S steam

Of course as soon as it’s installed it’s time for Steam to start its slow, perpetual update process, but except for that I think this is fantastic!

Free Software Day tomorrow

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If Pockey Lam hadn’t pointed it out I probably wouldn’t have known it was Software Freedom tomorrow. Better than last year though, when I only found out after it had happened. Software Freedom is important to me —most of this blog is related to it— and I’d really like Namibia to participate in this event, especially the Polytechnic of Namibia where I study, as it’s one of the few universities on the African continent mirroring Free Software.

In this effort I’ve written a post on the PoNLUG site and sent some emails in an attempt to get people excited about organising something for an event this weekend or Monday, because I can’t do something like this by myself. I realise it’s probably a bit late to try to get something big going at this point but hopefully we can do something and next year the PoNLUG will be prepared for Software Freedom Day!

Finding photos of a known size

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Recently I did a friend a favour and installed Linux Mint on her laptop as she was a bit frustrated with Windows. Unfortunately I assumed she’d backed up everything before handing it over to me, so I re-partitioned the whole drive to ext4. She hadn’t.

On the bright side the computer was quite new and the only thing she wanted from the disk were some photos she’d taken. Well, that just made it my lucky day because there just happens to be a tool specifically for recovering photos (and a myriad of other filetypes) from disks that have been written over: TestDisk

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Tab button in GIMP

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I just realised that in the GIMP you can press Tab to toggle hide/show the two windows showing layers, tools and so on. Wow! Am I the only person who didn’t know this?! Surely this wins any argument with someone complaining that the GIMP feels more complicated than Adobe Photoshop because it has 3 windows.