Direct MP3 Download: Linux For The Rest Of Us 7: Untangle, DevilsPie, DistroWatch, TurnKeyLinux
A podcast for those of you wanting to learn about LINUX but need a little push. Hosted by Steve McLaughlin and Steve Cherubino.
The show opens with a discussion about Teamspeak an application which was created for online gamers. However Door to Door Geek discusses other uses for the application such as using it to host a podcast. Teamspeak3
Steve and Door are using Google Wave which features topics for todays podcast.
Shoutouts to Bruce from distrowatch for the notes for today’s show.
Recap of last weeks discussion of Susestudio and Door discovers Ubuntu has a version which allows for creation of your custom distro. The ubuntu app is called Reconstructor – https://build.reconstructor.org/ Reconstructor is a toolkit for creating custom versions of the GNU/Linux operating system, specifically Debian and Ubuntu Among the uses for such an app, you can create a specific image needed for the workplace.
Bandwidth management problems? You can now manage your bandwidth using Untangle. Untangle will help manage your firewall Read more about untangle by going to http://www.untangle.com/ Untangle will allow you the option of setting application priority to the net. This is important if you have multiple connections through one modem or router. Untangle also comes with apps for antivirus, spam blocker, openVPN, protocol control, etc.
http://code.google.com/p/gdevilspie/wiki/gDevilspie
Door discusses the website www.distrowatch.com This site is one stop shopping for all linux distributions. Among the interesting links – http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity Find out where your distribution sits. For podcasts checkout the left hand side about 3/4 down the page, you’ll see the distrowatch podcast as well as other recently released podcasts.
How can you make money in Linux? Checkout Turnkeylinux.org They are looking for some fresh ideas and you can also earn some money. The contest can be found at http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/contest This site also has free learning modules. There is even a live chat room for questions!
Door also discusses using a VM to scan an infected machine.
Checkout Free Mega Games Pack For Linux – http://maketecheasier.com/free-mega-games-pack-for-linux/2010/07/14
For a more detailed list of what is available for Linux games, checkout http://www.cyvoc.net/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=36
Door to door geek will mention weekly linux games
Steve Cherubino even spotted Ghostbuster’s three on this disk!!!
Want to build your own gaming machine? You can by going to http://revision3.com/systm/
The disclaimer you do not have the rights to these games, however if you do own a physical copy of the game, than you are in the clear as far as DMC
Commandline Kung Fu is awesome! http://blog.commandlinekungfu.com/
An index of all commands can be found here – http://blog.commandlinekungfu.com/p/index-of-tips-and-tricks.html
BleachBit quickly frees disk space, removes hidden junk, and easily guards your privacy. Erase cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, remove unused localizations, shred logs, and delete temporary files. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean 70 applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Adobe Reader, APT, and more. http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/
Curious about Unix, you can learn it in 10 minutes by going to http://freeengineer.org/learnUNIXin10minutes.html
Also, be sure to RTFM! ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/
In keeping with command line love, an indespensible site is http://ss64.com/
Door discussing the various shells that can be found in linux. Everything from BASH (bourne again shell) to FISH (gui front end for bash shell). Checkout more about fish by going to http://fishshell.org/index.php
The “diff” command allows you to compare two files and to return the difference between the two. An example where this is useful, when updating a file, you might want to compare the original vs the new file. Example of the command in use. Say you have two files – File1 and File2 If you want to see what is different between the two files use the command as such:
diff -b -i File1 File2
You’ll notice that there are switches (-b & -i)
-b = ignore blanks
-i = ignore case
Back to BASH you can also see the history of either a task or file. Example hit Ctl + R Podcast will show all commands that were used in association with that folder called Podcast.
For something completely different, how about creating 2D animations using Ktoon! http://www.ktoon.net/portal/howCompileKTooN Create a live cd, boot it up and you’re on your way to creating 2D animation
Listener e-mails
First one comes from Tony Ubuntu easy copy
Second e-mail comes from Robert Trouble with Ubuntu
Machine constantly crashes
Consensus points to hardware error
Last e-mail comes from Wes New podcast listener and Ubuntu user.
