I Love It by Icona Pop is the song that features in an ad commercial of the newly launched Samsung Galaxy S4. From the ad, you may be compelled to believe that the name of the song is “I Don’t Care”, but it actually is “I Love It”.
It’s a nice, lively song. 
LXPUP — Puppy with LXDE
A couple of days back, I got myself a new puppy. Nope, not the dog sort. It’s a variant of Puppy Linux, and comes with LXDE. The most wonderful aspect of Lxpup is that it is a perfect fusion of an ultra-lightweight feel (of Puppy) and a more usable (and beautiful looking) desktop environment (LXDE). Really, Puppy works so amazingly out-of-the-box and is so incredibly damn fast that it is pretty hard to resist. Add to it its binary compatibility with Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise), and that makes it nothing short of legendary. In short, that gives users the ability to download apps from one of the biggest package repositories on planet.
Puppy’s default window manager, JWM, is kinda annoying to say the least. LXDE is a decent mix of usability and small size, and blends so well with Puppy. In fact, Lxpup’s default customization of LXDE is pretty enough to make you want to keep using it for long.
I’m currently loving my Puppy experience. It runs completely off my USB pendrive. And needless to say, I’m making this post from within Puppy.
OpenMandriva, an association formed to create a community-based Linux distro sponsored by Mandriva SA and ROSA, is now a registered non-profit organization in France. The progress over at OM is going pretty well, and now they need a logo for the association.
Yesterday a logo contest was launched by OM, which will accept user-submitted designs that’ll be later put up for voting, and the best submission will be selected as OM’s official logo.
Think you have what it takes to make the logo for an open source association? Then head over to openmandriva.org for contest details.
Slax 7 Desktop
I was so impressed with the latest iteration of my oldest favorite mini distro, especially its KDE implementation, that I immediately wanted to make Granular’s next release look like and as fast as Slax. Slax 7 comes loaded with all the bare essentials that actually make sense. Plus its ability to run from a USB drive without much efforts makes it a winner to me.
Everything just works, very straightforwardly. It has a lot of stuff packed in a small size of 220MB, which is a marvelous feat (made possible by use of compressed/packaged modules). But it may or may not detect all of your hardware correctly. For me, it didn’t recognize my WiFi module, which I got working by installing the necessary firmware files (look here for instructions). My laptop’s (Synaptics) touchpad performed fine, but its vertical edge scrolling didn’t. I corrected that using the command synclient VertEdgeScroll=1.
Stardust
Just a small random poem I scribbled during my last journey to home.
Out I went under the starry sky,
unaware of the full moon shining bright.So beautiful as was the view;
so much to see, so much to love.I had only drunk half a glass of its glory
when my eyes turned red and mind heavy.Lusty eyed I passed out staring at the sky;
what was left to be seem came in my dreams.Dreams of galaxies far away, but they bust
in the morning when I was woken by stardust.
