Easy Ubuntu allows you to Add extra repositories, Activate the “audio preview” feature in Nautilus, Active the num lock at system startup, Replace the GNOME foot logo with Ubuntu’s logo and Install: multimedia codecs, Firefox plugins, support for RAR and ACE, P2P software, Skype, AMSN cvs with webcam support, NVIDA or ATI driver for 3D support.
Take a Quick Survey to determine which Linux distribution is right for you. Funny enough my own attempt at the survey went like this:
Your ideal distro is:
here’s how the distributions in the database match up to your choices:
| Distro name | Match % |
| Ubuntu | 9/11: 81% |
| Mandriva | 9/11: 81% |
| Fedora | 9/11: 81% |
| MEPIS | 10/11: 90% |
| SuSe | 9/11: 81% |
| Debian | 8/11: 72% |
| Knoppix | 9/11: 81% |
| Gentoo | 7/11: 63% |
| Slackware | 7/11: 63% |
| Damn Small | 8/11: 72% |
| Arch | 7/11: 63% |
| Vector | 8/11: 72% |
| Beatrix | 9/11: 81% |
| Ark | 11/11: 100% |
| LFS | 5/11: 45% |
| EvilEntity | 6/11: 54% |
I actually use Ubuntu (and love it) which scored 9/11 of my choices, but Ark linux got all 11! Maybe I should try Ark in my spare time, but I dont think I’ll be leaving Ubuntu anytime soon.
This guy offers the Sveasoft firmware for download at no extra cost (free as in beer)! He also talks about how he was abused by Sveasoft and how they are in violation of the GPL.
Can a Windows system and a Linux system talk together harmoniously? After all, there is a lot of work and personal data left on Windows PCs that many want to keep! So this question of networking the two systems is both reasonable and vital
VIM (VI-Improved) can be a real pain if you don’t understand the basics. It is included in almost every *nix distribution. Luckily I stumbled across this cheat sheet that shows the basics.
Imagine walking into your lounge room every Friday evening, sitting down on a couch and watching a movie you never knew you owned. It’s a concept, but it’s a good one.
A spare PC running an appriopriate Linux distribution could aggregate weekly RSS feeds for hot movies (the most shared ones) to download via BitTorrent. It could automatically add them to a directory that Freevo categorises. You sit down, a nice listing pops up and you enjoy your Friday night.
Concept Material
Rob’s Photo Album
I’ve been thinking about moving across to KDE on my Fedora Core 2 system. Both desktop environments are fairly stable, mature and each have their own ups and downs. I’ve come to love Redhat’s BlueCurve theme.
edit: It is interesting to note that a Google Search for the BlueCurve theme shows articles on how to remove it.
Gnome on Fedora
Fedora comes with Gnome as it’s default desktop environment. This is due to the nature of the extra work added to the gnome code base by Redhat Developers. Most mainstream distributions (Gentoo, Debian, Suse) tend to support KDE as their preferred choice. I’ll have to evaluate Gnome and KDE from my own perspective in a future article.
Removing BlueCurve
A nice Article over here explains how: Read More
QNX 6.3 was released on 3 Jun. New features include accelerated 3D, the Voyager 2 browser which supports HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.1 now, SCTP (stream control transmission protocol) and packet filtering with NAT! GCC 3.3.1 is also included. If it’s not a typo, the Professional version costs $8695/user o_O Usual QNX NC (non-commercial = free beer).