The recent re installation of Chakra on my tower as well as a new laptop as meant that I have had to reinstall a downloader for Emusic. However, for some reason Emusicj (see earlier) didn't want to run what ever I did. so I tried a search for the official downloader and yes their still is one but it doesn't appear to have been updated to their version 5.
You can download here-
http://www.emusic.com/info/download-manager/
You need to click on 'get older version version near the bottom of the page'.
To install.
1. Unzip the file in its own folder in home.
2. Go to that folder and click on emusicloader -> builds -> emusicdlm
3. It should then run, follow the set up instructions, job done!
It works well in conjunction with firefox (not tried chrome), after the first time go to the setting in firefox where you will fine applications and click on emusic downloader to open with the file type from emusic.
Nighthawk
Friday, 9 March 2012
Charkra Linux 2012.2, a personal review
About a week and half ago I decided that my tower PC was getting a bit in need of updating to something that was a rolling release but not Arch (I've heard its a pain). I am coming to the opinion that an OS should be more of a rolling release with improvements made along the way rather the Linux standard of re install every time a new version is released. I see it as a waste of time an that it is more important to improve what we have rather than replace with something just as buggy or doesn't work quite right.
I started looking and found exactly what I want in the form of Chakra 12.2, Arch with out the rumoured pain and with KDE. Chakra is actually a fork of Arch and if Chakra is anything to go by after my sort experience with it then I may one day have a go with Arch because, quite frankly, its been a joy! Well almost.
The other thing that attracted me to this distro is that it is KDE which I have a great liking for because I find it much more pleasant to use than Gnome3. This distro is only KDE, meaning that there are no Gnome files, if you want these so that you can run some software it is easy to download from the distros' repos.
Everything just worked apart from the problem that my HP printer/scanner does not work right as a scanner. There seems to be something missing, not sure what, but there is. It works fine a printer though.
One of the first things added was Nightingale (naturally), didn't work properly at first. I found by chance that after rebooting it did work.
When I installed the system I checked the wiki in case of anything extra, seeing as though its a new distro for me. I found the instructions slightly different when it comes to partitioning for the new system and was able to follow the instructions so that I could have a seperate /home folder so that I wouldn't lose anything personal files like music and photos.
Apart from that not much to it. So I can highly recommend it.
Nighthawk
Link for downloading the ISO- http://chakra-linux.org/get/
Wiki Link- http://chakra-linux.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_Chakra#Partitioning_Schemes
I started looking and found exactly what I want in the form of Chakra 12.2, Arch with out the rumoured pain and with KDE. Chakra is actually a fork of Arch and if Chakra is anything to go by after my sort experience with it then I may one day have a go with Arch because, quite frankly, its been a joy! Well almost.
The other thing that attracted me to this distro is that it is KDE which I have a great liking for because I find it much more pleasant to use than Gnome3. This distro is only KDE, meaning that there are no Gnome files, if you want these so that you can run some software it is easy to download from the distros' repos.
Everything just worked apart from the problem that my HP printer/scanner does not work right as a scanner. There seems to be something missing, not sure what, but there is. It works fine a printer though.
One of the first things added was Nightingale (naturally), didn't work properly at first. I found by chance that after rebooting it did work.
When I installed the system I checked the wiki in case of anything extra, seeing as though its a new distro for me. I found the instructions slightly different when it comes to partitioning for the new system and was able to follow the instructions so that I could have a seperate /home folder so that I wouldn't lose anything personal files like music and photos.
Apart from that not much to it. So I can highly recommend it.
Nighthawk
Link for downloading the ISO- http://chakra-linux.org/get/
Wiki Link- http://chakra-linux.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_Chakra#Partitioning_Schemes
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