Direct MP3 Download: Linux For The Rest Of Us 6: CrashPlan, SuseStudio, And Pandora Unleased!
A podcast for those of you wanting to learn about LINUX but need a little push. Hosted by Steve McLaughlin and Steve Cherubino.
The discussion turns to the increasing ease and usability of linux gui interfaces. Breaking down myths about using linux, its not just a command line desktop platform
Door to door geek discusses the successes and failures of trying to expose the average user to linux with the walmart brand laptop called Everex. The machines are sturdy but because the OS was unfamiliar to most, the machines were eventually returned because the users were not used to a linux desktop and their personal apps did not work as expected or at all.
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Next up – Suse Studio! http://susestudio.com/ As the site says “build an appliance or build a distro”! Door to door talks about the versatility of what suse studio can do.
Need a boot up flash drive but don’t know how to make one? Check out unetbootin which is in both the synaptic and software manager in ubuntu and mint. Make a usb flash of any distro you want!
Discussion of Crashplan
Door to door talks about getting his wife a Kindle
A new weekly topic for ongoing discussion is the linux file system and what it does. This weeks folders are /home and /tmp For further reading on this subject go to the website – http://www.comptechdoc.org/os/linux/manual2/rootdir.html
A question that comes up, how often do you need to use the admin password and when would you need to use it. This topic runs into the issue of setting rights for files to run on your linux system.
Ever want to know which distribution is right for you? Wonder no more, checkout the site – http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/ All you need to do is answer a few basic questions and the results let you choose which distribution is right for you!
Looking for a linux app which helps you organize your finances? Check out Homebank – http://homebank.free.fr/
Door to door also helps out with machines that have multiple hard drives, as most linux users know the OS will not pick up the second hard drive, luckily you can use Pysdm, the description taken from the website describes the app as “PySDM is a Storage Device Manager that allows full customization of hard disk mountpoints without manually access to fstab. It also allows the creation of udev rules for dynamic configuration of storage devices” For more about this app, go to the website for download and usage.
Time to declare war on malware. Try out Remnux, the software that helps reverse engineer malicious software. More details can be found here – http://zeltser.com/remnux/ The site also has an interesting video featuring how to analyze malware.
Door to door loves the versatility of Pidgen, he is able to connect through any social site, IM clients anything.
Quick talk about pauldotcom and their work in security and a frightening example of what they do!
Next items are for EDUCATIONAL purposes only!!! If you love pandora (the music website) you’ll love piano bar. Piano bar is a command line app for pandora meaning you only hear music and thats it. If piano bar wasn’t enough you have piano bar fly! Piano bar fly rips the music from pandora and it comes complete with ide tags which properly organize the music that gets downloaded. NOT ENDORSED by podnutz!!! This is for educational purposes.
SCO is indeed dead!!! Please checkout the autopsy from the slashdot site – http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/07/11/2314254/Claimed-Proof-That-UNIX-Code-Was-Copied-Into-Linux?art_pos=1 This was the so-called evidence they had until SCO eventually lost the claim in court concerning their ownership (lack of) of Unix.
