To celebrate the cover feature on the latest Linux Format, Tux radar has built a web app that helps you find out which Linux distro is right for you. Just enter details of what you’re looking for, and they will pick your perfect distro match.
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Great news, the Parallella is now a real computer!! The gigabit ethernet port is working and the full Ubuntu desktop version is up and running! The full story is posted at parallella.org.
As a Linux user, I have had to learn my way around the monochromatic terminal. At first I was scared of the command line, yet on Linux you cannot depend from a GUI (Graphical User Interface). As I have learned through my experience in Linux you have to learn how to use the command line, which brings the awesome introduction to true prower via the command line. Here are my top 3 command line favorites.
Swiss File Knife
This is the Swiss File Knife (SFK), a command line multi function tool created by StahlWorks Technologies, http://stahlworks.com/ . SFK was made to make things easy.File exchange between machines, find duplicates, find and replace text, list directory tree sizes, and tons of other functions for daily tasks -it’s all contained within a single application. Forget about installing dozens of tools on every new machine, missing admin rights, missing package dependencies, user account configurations and endless time wasting in general. Briefly, the shell commands `./configure; make; make install’ should configure, build, and install this package. (Make sure you have G++ on your Linux system). To run this program type “sfk” in the Terminal.
TinyBC
Tiny BASIC is the specification of the most minimal BASIC. Actually there is not much to choose from, because the next smallest specification is the Small BASIC standard, and this does not provide a small language at all. The Tiny BASIC specification was written by Dennis Allison and was published in the People’s Computer Company newsletter in December 1975. The specification was necessary because of the need to have a small interpreter which can fit into 2 KB of memory. TinyBASIC was one of the first programming languages for the microcomputers. To compile tinybc in Linux, type make in the terminal. To install tinybc, as root type make install, and to remove the installation, type make remove. The installation also copies the examples to the directory: /usr/share/doc/tinybc . To run type “tinybc” in the terminal.
Nethogs
Basically Nethogs is checking what programs and services are using the Internet. Why is this useful? Well when you have a slow Internet connection, you can check which program is the culprit of using up your bandwidth. Nethogs is the only program that is included in the Ubuntu repositories, and can easily be installed. To run this program type “sudo nethogs wlan0” (<— if you have a working wireless card. Otherwise type “sudo nethogs” to get the Ethernet cable) in the Terminal.
install AOKP android 4.2.1 build 3 jelly bean on acer iconia tab A510, follow it to update acer iconia tab A510 to AOKP android 4.2.1 build 3 Jb Custom ROM.
ZonColor is a super-theme-pack of 16 GTK3 themes, 21 icon theme variants, and a bunch of matching wallpapers - all designed to be mixed and matched.
Review: Portal on Linux (BETA)
Want some cake? Want to beat some puzzles? Want an awesome loving robot? Then Portal is for you. Portal the awesome psychological puzzle game is now available on Linux (as a BETA)! We didn’t have this game until it was available on Linux, we decided to buy it and here are the results.
Donate your brain to Aperture Science, really, its possible
The game starts off with a small room (with glass walls). Also there is the reassuring, loving (and malfunctioning) voice of GlaDOS (← the Antagonist). Then you walk through the science of boxes and buttons. Let us explain this with an equation:
BOXES + BUTTONS = OPEN DOORS
Ok so that really doesn’t impress you right? But wait until you get some cake, really, real chocolate cake! The puzzles augment in difficulty while you continue to play the game.
Portal Physics
Physics in Portal are the coolest thing I have ever seen! The people at VALVE have the most incredible imagination. Here is an example: If you dive from a high point into a portal on the ground which leads to another portal on the wall the inertia will push toward another point on the room. This impressed us so much.
Key Features
Portals (blue and orange)
Little Robots
Companion Cubes
GlaDOS
CAKE!!!! (Just wake 2-3 days for shipping)
Commentary by the creators
10/10 “One of the best games, which is a must HAVE on your collection of Steam games”
P.S. The cake is so good I took a picture!
Ubuntu 13.04, the latest version of the worlds most popular Linux distribution, is now available to download.
Sporting a more polished and performant Unity desktop, a smattering of new features, and an ample array of updated applications, it is arguably one of the strongest releases of Ubuntu in a long time.
Key changes include:
Sherpa is the worlds first truly universal mobile voice-controlled virtual assistant that provides any information and enables a natural conversational interface
