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Archive for the ‘Geeky Fun’ Category

May 14th, 2008

Linux From Scratch

Why would anyone bother with making Linux from scratch? With all these distros with almost everything you need, people still choose to build Linux from source. There are people who say that they get a more optimized system that way. Others want it because of the control that they have over the […]

By Clair -- 3 comments

May 10th, 2008

Warsow your Linux online first-person shooter game

If you love first-person shooter games, Warsow just might be the thing for you. It is based on the novel “Chasseur de bots” which is a French E-novel. (You could read it in English here.)
Those familiar with the gameplay of Quake, you might enjoy Warsow. You can do various kinds of jumps […]

By Clair -- 2 comments

May 8th, 2008

Why not try Korn shell?

By default, most of the distros I’ve tried have bash or the Bourne again shell installed in them. Anyhow I was reading an article on Linux.com about korn shell and it seems like a good introductory material for us who don’t have a clue about it.
Things I took away from the article:

Korn shell has more […]

By Clair -- 0 comments

May 8th, 2008

LXDE - another lightweight desktop environment

A link to the LXDE site was on del.icio.us and I just had to click it because in this day and age, I sometimes get tired of eye candy. I like pretty desktop environments, surely but there are times when I just need to sit back and relax with simple and straightforward user interfaces. […]

By Clair -- 1 comment

May 7th, 2008

Pandora the Linux gaming handheld console

If you love games so much, why not keep an eye on Pandora? It’s the size of a DS but it has a QWERTY keyboard and gaming buttons. It will have a customized Debian-based Linux distro and so you could expect emulators to work on it as well as browsers.
It’s exciting because you […]

By Clair -- 1 comment

May 7th, 2008

Link love: How to Manage Your iPod with gtkPod

Disclaimer: I don’t have an iPod but some of you might have one. Or you might come across fellow new Linux users who want to ask you about this topic.

HowToForge has a detailed guide on managing your iPod with gtkPod.
It tells you how to do the following:

Configure gtkPod and that you’d have to […]

By Clair -- 0 comments

May 5th, 2008

Of bash, history and you

The command line — where you type commands and do other funky stuff is sometimes a seemingly different area altogether. It takes time getting used to but it’s worth it. There are a lot of things you can do on the command line. You could do them with some tool with graphical […]

By Clair -- 0 comments

April 30th, 2008

Review: Hackett and Bankwell Issue #1

I was lucky to have received my copy of Hackett and Bankwell Issue 1 this week. (Thanks so much to Intarcorp who sent me a copy!) I saw that there’s a huge penguin on the cover. Yay! Hooray for penguins! :D It’s an interesting way to study using Linux especially Ubuntu.
Things I liked about […]

By Clair -- 0 comments

April 29th, 2008

Surf the ‘net on the terminal via w3m

Looking for a way to surf the ‘net on the terminal? Use w3m!
I’ve used w3m time and again because it’s quaint that way. ;) I usually use it as an Emacs macro/extension. It’s nice! I could read webpages while in Emacs, aside from the terminal.
You could look it in Synaptic if you’re […]

By Clair -- 0 comments

April 25th, 2008

Ubuntu Linux on the Nokia 800

Last year there were news about Nokia 770 and Debian Linux. A while ago I read about Ubuntu coming to Nokia 800. From the article, Ubuntu is already running on an SD card. :D Sounds exciting. It’s just that the Nokia 800 will probably be a high-end consumer device here in the […]

By Clair -- 0 comments

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