Since so many GNU/Linux applications are distributed in source code format, perhaps a primer in programming is appropriate.
Authors (sometimes referred to as vendors) write (almost) human readable code called ‘source code’.
Source code is then compiled on a target platform and OS to make an executable file for that platform and OS.
Therefore, in order to make […]
In a very broad sense, GNU/Linux applications are distributed in two formats: source code and distribution-specific packages.
See Primer on Programming post.
The concept of distributing an application as source code seems foreign to many computer users, but it is extremely logical.
It is usually preferable to find a distribution specific package of the application for your […]
Most modern computers have the ability to boot from their CDRom drive. This is typically how operating systems are installed (although many OSes come preinstalled these days).
You may have to change the boot order in your computer’s BIOS to make your CD bootable, but generally you will be able to boot from a bootable […]
Of this there can be no doubt. It is pronouced “Guh-noo”.
Link to the Free Software Foundation’s explanation.
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There are many reasons why I chose to run GNU/Linux over any other operating system out there. Things like security and speed and freedom.
But screw all that - I like being able to make my desktop look like this! (click the pic for a bigger shot)
This is my desktop right now. What you’re looking […]
How is the Gnome Desktop Manager for GNU/Linux Pronounced?
General concensus seems to feel that it is pronounced “Guh-Nome”. There are many Google hits for ‘How is Gnome Pronounced’ and most of them seem to agree.
Google search.
This is consistent with the pronounciation of the GNU Project’s name, which is the project Gnome is being developed under.
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When you type the name of an executable file, GNU/Linux searches for that executable in all the directories specified in the PATH environment variable.
By default, your GNU/Linux distribution probably set up a default PATH variable during install. To see what your current PATH variable is set to, in a terminal window, type:
echo $PATH
and press ENTER. […]
Nothing.
It used to stand for ‘Kool’ in the time honoured KDE tradition of taking words with the letter ‘c’ in them and replacing them with the letter ‘k’, but in 1996 ‘Kool’ was dropped.
Now KDE just means ‘K Desktop Environment’.
Link to a discussion on the topic from the KDE site.
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Sometimes it’s useful to start a script in all, or at least the most used, runlevels. In a Debian system, do this:
For example purposes, we want to start the script named ‘foo.sh’
As root, type:
update-rc.d foo.sh defaults
The defaults argument causes foo.sh to start in runlevels 2,3,4,5 and stop in 0,1,6.
To make foo.sh start in runlevels 1,2,3 […]
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