March 27th, 2007
Some time ago I choose Linux as my general operating system and that’s why I don’t have much experience with bash. I needed it not so often, because I’m simply a home user and not a developer. Yesterday, I updated the Emeranld Theme Manager and after that I could not load the GUI.
The reason of this problem was an update for Emerald Theme Manager, after that Beryl was unable to work properly.
To solve this problem I needed to edit the auto-start file.
But it was for me not so simply, because I’m a n00bi
I could use gEdit or Kate, but now I needed to work with vim.
With help of lynx I found a lot of different HowTos. With help of them I learned some useful commands and now I use vim more often than Kate or gEdit.
Here are some of important and useful commands:
Create or edit a file:
vi Filename (if the file exist, it will be opened, otherwise it will be created)
Editor-Mode: Insert
Command-Mode: Esc
Quit:
:q (if file was not edited)
:wq (save changes and exit)
:q! (ignore changes and exit)
Save a file:
:w
Delete line:
yy
Insert line:
p
Search:
/search-word – the document will be searched from the cursor position until end of the document
Search and replace:
:%s/search-word/replace-word – search-word will be replaced to replace-word
Syntax highlighting
:syntax on – activating of syntax highlighting
:syntax off deactivating of syntax highlighting
Line numbers:
:set number – activating of line numbers
:no number – deactivating of line numbers
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February 15th, 2007
I think that many of Linux users know about live distribution called “Kanotix”.
I found Kanotix because I searched for the possibility to configure an internet connection with ADSL USB modem AT-AR215 (Allied Telesyn) and Kanotix was the singly distribution that supported this hardware without need to compile and install any software.
I found a board about how to configure AT-AR215 on Linux OS. Yes, there was a board about it! The moderator of this board told me about Kanotix and I tested it. The installation was very simply and I was very pleased with Kanotix.
The community and developers of Kanotix were very active.
Unfortunately the best time of Kanotix has gone. Some of developers lived the project, the last “stable” version is pretty old and the plans of Kano (Jörg Schirottke) are the developing of the distribution based on Debian stable.
If you like Kanotix, but you prefer to use SID-based version you can try Sidux.
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January 22nd, 2007
Many of not very experienced Linux users have often problems with network configuration with Linux and windows clients.
In Spite of user-friendly interface of modern Linux it is needed to have some general theoretical and practical knowledge about Linux and internet protocols to be able to establish the network connection with samba.
The Unofficial Samba HowTo :
http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba.html will be a big help for those users.
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September 3rd, 2010
That is the title of the Heise.de report on a study carried out by Microsoft, according to which Microsoft has captured in a short time the market for ultra-mobile notebook computers, so-called “Netbook”. Inspite of the critics that theese studies are rough nobody can deny that MS had pulled the most Netbook vendors to the side. Why had it happened? Probably because the most endusers were not ready to change their familiar surroundings to something new. so they urged the producers on rethinking their initially Pro-Linux Alignment.
What has the Linux community to do to break this vicious circle?
An optimist would say that the user interface needs to be revised so that even Windows users would find it better and no longer have a desire to be moving back to Windows.
A pessimist would say however, that the Linux community has lost this battle, because they are not in a position to make Linux more attractive.
According to my observations, I see a lot of progress in the things concerned the usability of Linux. These advances are not yet sufficient enough to make Linux attractive attractive for the uses. But there are also advantages in this negative situation. The less common is an operating system, the more uninteresting it is for virus writers.
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