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XMIR UPDATE FOR UBUNTU • High quality and no- WINNERS OF THE 2013 process and adding a hallway track compromise standards remain first for impromptu sessions, and asks 13.10 class citizens in Ubuntu, Mir/XMir UBUNTU APP SHOWDOWN that all sessions are proposed by "The liver Ries announces that will not ship by default in Ubuntu ichael Hall announces Fri 1st Nov 2013. judging is finishedandthe O while the Mir team is on track 13.10 - M https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/c scores are in, we now have the to support native Mir + Unity 8 http://iloveubuntu.net/high- ommunity-announce/2013- winners ofthis year’s Ubuntu App running on Ubuntu Touch images, quality-and-no-compromise- October/000014.html Showdown!" they not going to be able to deliver standards-remain-first-class- Michael names the Mir + XMir + Unity 7 as the default citizens-ubuntu-mirxmir-will-not- winning apps, congratulates the "a big thank you MIR RUNNING NOW ON experience on the desktop for the ship winners and says "Mirhas to everybody who participatedor Ubuntu 13.10. Oliver says • Ubuntu 13.10 Will Not Use UBUNTU ON PHONES made tremendous progress andis helpedthose who participated, and XMir By Default - ono Bacon shares the news currently available on the Ubuntu all ofthe engineers who have http://www.webupd8.org/2013/10 J that with update 90 on the archive foruse, but there are still workedon building the Ubuntu SDK, /ubuntu-1310-will-not-use-xmir-by- Ubuntu for phone images Mir has some outstanding quality issues that Click tools andapp store." default.html been enabled by default. Jono says we want to resolve before we feel • Ubuntu 13.10 Desktop Will http://developer.ubuntu.com/2013 that there are some bugs but comfortable turning it on by Not Use XMir By Default - /10/winners-of-the-2013-ubuntu- nothing major, and congratulates default" and links to a Q&A for http://www.phoronix.com/scan.ph app-showdown/ the Mir and Ubuntu integration further information. p?page=news_item&px=MTQ3NDQ teams. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ • Britney-obsessed Ubuntu NEXT UDS: 19 - 21 NOV http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/1 ubuntu-devel/2013- 13.10 DUMPS X Windows-killer Mir 0/10/mir-running-now-on-ubuntu- October/037695.html 2013 on-phones/ in desktop U-turn - ono Bacon announces that the http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013 Several blogs and news outlets J next online Ubuntu Developer /10/02/ubuntu_delays_mir/ UBUNTU 13.10 (SAUCY covered this news, the following is Summit is going to be taking place • Ubuntu holds back on from Tues 19th Nov - Thu 21st Nov SALAMANDER) RELEASED a selection from our editors: defaulting Mir due to quality issues 2013 and as ever, the event is free dam Conrad, member of the • XMir Dropped from Ubuntu - http://www.zdnet.com/ubuntu- and open to everyone, and Ubuntu Release Team, 13.10 Default Due to ‘Technical holds-back-on-defaulting-mir-due- A accessible at announces the release of Ubuntu Difficulties’ - to-quality-issues-7000021435/ http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/201 http://uds.ubuntu.com. 13.10 Saucy Salamander which 3/10/xmir-longer-default- introduces the first release of supported-cards-13-10 Jono lists some improvements Ubuntu for phones and Ubuntu such as simplifying the registration
full circle magazine #78 4 contents ^ UBUNTU NEWS Core for the new 64-bit ARM There has been a lot of future-remains-a-year-away/ part of 14.04 LTS. Mark asks "But… systems (the "arm64" architecture, coverage on the release of 13.10! The release of the phone what will we call it?" and goes on also known as AArch64 or ARMv8), Check out the following sampling version with 13.10 was also heavily to announce "I give you, as Seuss and improved AppArmor of reviews selected by our editors: covered by a number of outlets would, with hullabaloo, the confinement. In addition to these • Inside the Ubuntu 13.10 Linux we’re not used to seeing included temperate and thrifty, the talented flagship features there are also 'Saucy Salamander' Linux Desktop - in this newsletter: and tactful but ultimately, and major updates throughout. http://www.eweek.com/enterprise • Ubuntu phones one step tellingly, trusty tahr." -apps/slideshows/inside-the- closer to the market with Ubuntu http://www.markshuttleworth.com Find out what's new in this ubuntu-13.10-linux-saucy- 13.10 release - /archives/1295 release with a graphical overview: salamander-linux-desktop.html http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/n http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop • Ubuntu 13.10: It just works - ews/ubuntu-phones-one-step- http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/f http://www.techrepublic.com/blog closer-to-the-market-with-ubuntu- Many Thanks to the Ubuntu eatures /linux-and-open-source/ubuntu- 1310-release-433651 News Team for their contribution 1310-it-just-works/ • Ubuntu OS launched for this month. In this email to the ubuntu- • Ubuntu 13.10 Available For smartphones and PCs - announce mailing list, Conrad also Download - http://www.telecoms.com/188922/ News this month comes from: notes that newest Kubuntu 13.10, http://www.webupd8.org/2013/10 ubuntu-os-launched-for- Edubuntu 13.10, Xubuntu 13.10, /ubuntu-1310-available-for- smartphones-and-pcs/ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuW Lubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu GNOME download.html • Ubuntu Touch OS Launches on eeklyNewsletter/Issue336 13.10, UbuntuKylin 13.10, and • Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4 Devices https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuW Ubuntu Studio 13.10 were also Salamander) review: Smart Scopes - eeklyNewsletter/Issue337 released. More details can be in, Mir out - http://www.technobuffalo.com/20 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuW found for some of these at their http://www.zdnet.com/ubuntu-13- 13/10/17/ubuntu-touch-os- eeklyNewsletter/Issue338 individual release announcements: 10-saucy-salamander-review-smart- launches-on-galaxy-nexus-and- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuW • Kubuntu: scopes-in-mir-out-7000022022/ nexus-4-devices/ eeklyNewsletter/Issue339 http://www.kubuntu.org/news/ku • Ubuntu 13.10 lands on • Ubuntu Launches OS For buntu-13.10 desktops, servers and (er, some) Touch Smartphones - • Xubuntu: phones - http://www.gadgetreview.com/201 http://xubuntu.org/news/saucy- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013 3/10/ubuntu-launches-os-touch- salamander-final /10/17/ubuntu_1310_ships/ smartphones.html • Ubuntu Studio: • Ubuntu 13.10 review: The http://ubuntustudio.org/2013/10/ Linux OS of the future remains a QUANTAL, RARING, SAUCY... ubuntu-studio-13-10-released year away - ark Shuttleworth reflects on https://lists.ubuntu.com/archiv http://arstechnica.com/informatio M the 13.10 release and looks es/ubuntu-announce/2013- n-technology/2013/10/ubuntu-13- at some of the features that will be October/000177.html 10-review-the-linux-os-of-the-
full circle magazine #78 5 contents ^ CCOOMMMMAANNDD && CCOONNQQUUEERR Written by Lucas Westermann CClloonniinngg && FFiixxiinngg HHaarrdd DDrriivveess
owards the end of September, externally should work for the (Latin)). If you have a french 500GB drive. T I ended up replacing an old second drive). keyboard: You'll need to choose it 8. Choose target disk – Here you SATA 150 500GB hard drive with a • Make sure you can recognize the from the full list instead of the need to find the serial number that Western Digital Blue 1TB drive. correct drives (if you have two arch list. This is a bug and won't corresponds to your new drive. Doing so involved cloning it using drives of the same size, make note work otherwise. 9. Choose if you need to have the Clonezilla, and resizing it using of the serial numbers). This can be 3. Start Clonezilla. source file system checked – If GParted. A few days later, I also done with: 4. Here you can choose from two you're copying a Linux partition ended up fixing an unrecognized options: Device-Device, or Device- and you know it needs to be external hard drive for a friend sudo hdparm -I /dev/sda Image. If you're backing repaired, you can run the check. up/restoring a hard drive, then However, it's should be fine to skip using TestDisk & Photorec. Seeing Replace /dev/sda with the actual you'll probably be working with this step (and therefore cut down as almost every one of these device you want to check. It would Device-Image. However, for cloning the time you need). If it's an scenarios was requested in some be best to write down the serial from one drive to another, you'll NTFS/FAT/HFS drive, I would form during the survey, I decided number for later reference. need to choose Device-Device. recommend not running the check, to spend this month covering • Once you have the information 5. Choosing beginner is probably as I'm unsure if it supports those these tools. for both drives, it's time to put the the easiest. If, however, you want types. Clonezilla CD in the drive and clonezilla to resize to the target 10. Now you'll be dumped to a CLONING & RESIZING DISKS reboot. disk's size, you can choose Expert terminal screen, and it will ask you • Once you've booted to Clonezilla and the -k1 option. However, I the following: Tools you'll need: (by choosing any of the options in recommend doing this via GParted 10.1 If you're sure you want to • Clonezilla: the boot list, though I would later. continue, type “y” (without the http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla- recommend the To RAM option), 6. In the scenario I've described, quotes) and hit enter. live.php you'll need to work through the you'll need to choose either 10.2 If you're sure you want to • GParted (liveCD from here: following: disk_to_local_disk, or create new partitions on the target http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ or 1. Language – you can choose any part_to_local_part, depending on drive, type “y” (without the quotes) any liveCD that contains GParted, you like, but I'll be working with whether you want to clone the and hit enter. such as an Ubuntu liveCD) the English names and choices. entire disk, or simply move a single 10.3 If you want to clone the boot 2. Keyboard layout. Default is US, partition to a bigger drive. loader (if this is your primary disk), and if you're using anything STEPS: 7. Choose source disk – Here you type “y” (without the quotes) and different, you can choose it from • Connect both drives to your need to find the drive that matches hit enter. the arch list (i.e. German keyboard: computer (for Desktop PCs, your serial number for the original 10.4 Lastly, it will ask once again if Arch List -> QWERTZ -> German internally, and, for laptops, drive. In my scenario it was the you're ready to continue, type “y”
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(without the quotes) and hit enter. device path for the drive (i.e. at the top), you'll need to hit the When to use TestDisk: If your 11. Now you should be back at a /dev/sda1), and if you need the “b” key to boot once you've made drive isn't being recognized as nice Ncurses interface with UUID, open the terminal from the your changes. In GRUB2, the key is formatted (appears as “RAW” or information on the status of the GParted desktop, and run: F10. In either case, the keys are “UNFORMATED” in GParted) but cloning process. sudo blkid listed at the bottom of the menu you haven't done anything to 12. Once the cloning is finished, it Take note of the UUID that when editing. delete partitions. Or if logical will ask if you want to stay in the corresponds to your drive. 16. If you've done the last step partitions have vanished. console (option #1), or if you want 14.6 You'll need to adjust your correctly, your system should boot to exit/logout (option #2). Most /etc/fstab file as well if you use properly. Once there, you'll need What to do before running likely you'll want to exit, so hit 2 UUIDs. Device paths should to adjust the GRUB entries testdisk: If you're planning to do and then choose an option continue working, but, if not, correctly in the configuration files more than re-create a partition (poweroff or reboot). simply jump back to this step. To to make it permanent. table, you'll want to run the 13. I would recommend powering do so, run the following commands 16.1 With legacy GRUB, you simply commands on an imaged copy of off and removing the old drive, if in the terminal: do the following: the drive (see Clonezilla step 4 you plan to get rid of it. Otherwise sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst above, and choose Device-Image). move on to the GParted steps and sudo nano /mnt/etc/fstab Then find the correct entry and Since partition tables are a table of reformat the old drive if you want Replace the UUIDs with the correct adjust the information as in Step contents for your drive (in layman's to continue using it. ones according to blkid. Once 15. terms), you can freely re-write it as 14. If you've moved to a larger you're done, hit ctrl-x, and choose 16.2 For GRUB2 you can either use you want without impacting the drive, you'll want to boot to your to save the file before exiting: grub-customizer, by hand: actual data. As such, doing this on GParted CD now. Once the desktop sudo umount /mnt 16.2.1. For Ubuntu (and the physical device should be fine, has loaded, you'll need to open the 14.7 Reboot to your normal GRUB. derivatives): even if it needs multiple tries. GParted program. Then do the 15. Now you're ready to boot to sudo update-grub following: your old system on your new drive. 16.2.2. For any other systems: 1. Run testdisk from a terminal. 14.1 Find the correct disk in the However, you will need to manually sudo grub-mkconfig -o 2. You'll be asked about log drop-down list at the top right. edit the GRUB entry in order to /boot/grub/grub.cfg creation, choose “create”. 14.2 Find the partition you want to point to the new disk, especially if 17. You should be all set! 3. You'll need to now choose the resize, select it, and choose resize. you were using UUIDs. To do so, correct drive from the list. 14.3 Adjust the size of the you need to select the GRUB entry TESTDISK & PHOTOREC 4. Testdisk will automatically partition until there is no free in the menu, and hit the “e” key identify the partition table type. space left (you can simply drag the (for edit). Then use the arrow keys What you need: To install Testdisk Do not choose anything but the end of the bar from the diagram to to move to the correct part of the (or run a liveCD that contains default option unless you know the end of the empty space). entry (UUID or device path), and TestDisk). In Ubuntu the package is exactly what you're doing. 14.4 Hit enter and wait for the replace it with the new called testdisk, and is in the 5. Choose Analyse, which will scan process to finish. information. If you're running universe repository. the partition table, and then look 14.5 Lastly, make a note of the legacy GRUB (it will say GRUB 0.9.X
full circle magazine #78 7 contents ^ COMMAND & CONQUER for partition headers for “lost” new table, which you can choose to photorec. partitions. write to the disk. If, however, 1. Run photorec from the terminal. 6. It will then show you the current something is still missing, you can 2. Select your disk and choose Hopefully this article will help a partition structure – double-check choose the deeper search option proceed (if you have the option, few readers with recovering lost here to make sure the partition (which works the same as Steps 9 choose the raw device listed as data or fixing “broken” drives. If you're looking for is missing. If it is and 10). For damaged files and /dev/rdisk as it's faster). you have any specific problems listed, then this process won't help partitions, you'll need to follow 3. Highlight the partition you want (that aren't explained in the you and you can quit. If it is more specific advice, which you can to scan (or the whole disk), then: Further Reading section links), feel actually missing, continue by find on the TestDisk wiki in the 3.1. Open File Opt in order to free to email me and I will do my choosing “Quick Search”. Further Reading section. select what files to recover (to utmost to help solve these issues. 7. Testdisk will ask you a few 12. Once you've written the table avoid recovering tons of files you If you have any questions, questions based on the analysis, so (this worked fine for the HFS+ aren't interested in). There are suggestions, or requests for answer them as best you can drive, and as such should work for further options under “Options”, articles, you're also welcome to (suggested values are supplied by everything), you may need to but the defaults are most likely all email me those. My email address TestDisk for those who are reboot before the drive shows up you need. is: [email protected]. unsure). again, though in my case it popped 3.2. Choose “search”. 8. Once the scan is complete, it will up the moment the partition table 4. Select file system type. Further Reading: show you a list of partitions it was written. 5. If your file system is corrupted, found (in green). Select the you can choose Whole in order to TestDisk: partition you want to restore (if If this doesn't yield results, and search for files from everywhere. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Te you want to restore more than you're looking for files to restore However, if you've only deleted the stDisk_Step_By_Step one, choose one to start with and (deleted, lost, etc.), you can also files and want them back (and complete step 9 for the other try the Advanced option instead of TestDisk has failed), you should be Clonezilla: http://clonezilla.org/ partitions as well). Analyse at Step 5. There are fine with the Free option. 9. Hit the “p” key to list the files on specific instructions on the wiki 6. Choose the location where the Photorec: the partition (it should work for according to partition type. recovered files will be written. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Ph most formats, though it failed to 7. Patience. Photorec will put them otoRec_Step_By_Step do so on the HFS+ partition, If your hard drive is damaged or in folders called recup_dir.1, claiming it needed to be compiled has been completely reformatted, recup_dir.2,... within the folder you with that support, though I could you can try to recover items using chose. Once the scan is running find no indication as to the Photorec. However, this results in and files are being restored, you compilation option for this). files named by blocks instead of can access them even while the Lucas has learned all he knows from repeatedly breaking his system, then 10. If these are the partitions you the actual file names (though scan is running. If you end up wanted, and the directories/files Photorec may manage to restore having no other option but to interrupting the scan, you can discover how to fix it. You can email are listed properly, hit enter. some names, it's better to assume resume it next time you run Lucas at: [email protected]. 11. Testdisk will then show you the the worst).
full circle magazine #78 8 contents ^ HHOOWW--TTOO Written by Greg Walters PPrrooggrraammmmiinngg IInn PPyytthhoonn -- PPaarrtt 4488
elcome back. It’s hard to this: to produce an output with a total >>> info = {"FName":"Fred","LName":"Fark W imagine that it’s been 4 width of five and three decimal el","City":"Denver"} years since I began this series. I String a is Hello Python places. Notice that the decimal thought that I’d shelve the media point takes up one of the places of >>> print('Greetings %(FName)s %(LName)s of manager project for a bit and PYTHON 2.X the total width. %(City)s!' % info) return to some basics of Python One other thing that you might Greetings Fred Farkel of programming. Of course you remember the Denver! simple syntax for the print function not realize is that you can use the keys of a dictionary as part of the This month, I’ll revisit the print in 2.x uses the variable substitution The following table shows the format command. command. It’s one of the most of %s or %d for simple strings or various possible substitution keys used (at least in my programming) decimals. But many other and their meanings. function that never seems to get formatting options are available. the detail it deserves. There is a lot For example, if you need to format of things you can do with it outside a number with leading zeros, you of the standard ‘%s %d’. can do it this way:
Since the print function syntax >>> print("Your value is %03d" % 4) is different between Python 2.x Your value is 004 and 3.x, we’ll look at them separately. Remember, however, In this case, we use the ‘%03d’ you can use the 3.x syntax in formatting command to say, Python 2.7. Most everything I “Display the number to a width of present this month will be done 3 characters and if needed, left pad from the interactive shell. You can with zeros”. follow along as we go. The code will look like this: >>> pi = 3.14159
>>> a = "Hello Python" >>> print('PI = %5.3f.' % pi) >>> print("String a is %s" % PI = 3.142. a) Here we use the float and the output will be in bold, like formatting option. The ‘%5.3f’ says
full circle magazine #78 9 contents ^ HOWTO - PYTHON PT48 This version of Python is something like this: PYTHON 3.X 3.3.2 >>> d = With Python 3.x, we have many As they say on the TV ads, “BUT datetime.datetime(2013,10,9,1 0,45,1) more options (remember we can WAIT… THERE’S MORE”. If we wanted to do some inline use these in Python 2.7) when it >>> The Ubuntu Podcast covers all comes to the print function. formatting, we have the following print("{:%m/%d/%y}".format(d) ) the latest news and issues facing options. 10/09/13 Ubuntu Linux users and Free To refresh your memory, here’s :
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f you work in LibreOffice much, letter to a scientific research paper the Footer tab and check Footer SAVING THE TEMPLATE I you will find yourself using the has a required layout and format. On. Click OK to save the changes. same formating over and over. Let us say we are writing a Click into the header area of the We are now ready to save our Whether you use it to write letters document that requires a first page, Insert > Fields > Title. template. File > Save as Template or to create the next best-seller, numbered outline format with Type a space and “by”, then Insert will open the Template Manager. you spend a lot of time setting up sublevels. Another requirement is > Fields > Author. Move your cursor Select the template folder where the same styles over and over that the title and author appear at down to the footer at the bottom you want to store your template. again. Templates are the answer to the top of each page, and the page of the page. Type “Page”, a space, Click Save. A dialog will prompt this problem. A template is a number at the bottom in the then Insert > Field > Page Number. you to name the template. Enter document model used to create format of “Page # of #”. Type space “of” space, then Insert the name you want to show for the other documents. All the > Fields > Page Count. template and click Accept. Close LibreOffice applications can use We will tackle the numbering the Template Manager. templates. In fact, every time you style first. In a new Writer create a new document, document, open the Styles and LibreOffice is using a default Formatting window. Click on the template. list styles icon (the last one on the Styles toolbar). Select Numbering Styles are the key to creating 1. Right-click Numbering 1 and templates. Styles are a preset way choose Modify. On the Outline tab, of displaying information. I first pick the style that is labeled discussed the importance of using “Numeric with all sublevels” when styles all the way back in part 3 of you hover the mouse over it. Click this series, discussing how styles the Apply and OK buttons. help create a uniform look in your document as well as saving you Now, to take care of the header time. In the spirit of saving you and footer. Open the Styles and time, we can add one more use for Formatting window and click on styles, creating templates. the Page styles icon (next to last on the Styles toolbar). Right-click the Default Style page style and SETTING UP A TEMPLATE select Modify. On the Header tab, check Header On, then switch to Everything from a business
full circle magazine #78 11 contents ^ HOWTO - LIBREOFFICE Pt31 to the folder where you have your template and select it. Click on the “Set As Default” button. Now, anytime you start a new document of that type, LibreOffice will use your template instead of the default template that comes with LibreOffice.
DIFFERENT SOURCES FOR TEMPLATES USING THE TEMPLATE Let's try out that outline numbering system. Open the Creating your own templates is great, but you will not always need Let's use our newly created Styles and Formatting, click on the to put in all that work. The official template. File > New > Templates. List styles icon, and double-click template repository at Open the folder where you saved Numbering 1. Your input will http://templates.libreoffice.org your template and double-click change to the list style we defined SETTING A NEW DEFAULT has hundreds of templates for you your template. The title shows as for the Numbering 1 when creating TEMPLATE to try and use. To use individual the title you gave the template. the template. Add some text and be sure to add several levels to templates, import them into the Let's change it. File > Properties. If you need to use your new make sure it is all working. Now, template manager. Select the Description tab and template most of the time, why change the title to something else. you can save your document like not make it your default template? Some templates are collections. Click OK. The title in the header you normally would. This does not This is easily done in LibreOffice. They have a extension of .OXT. To will change to whatever you typed save it as the template, but as a File > New > Templates. Navigate import these templates, you use in. new file on your computer.
full circle magazine #78 12 contents ^ HOWTO - LIBREOFFICE Pt31 the Extension Manager, Tools > Extension Manager. Click Add, and PYTHON SPECIAL EDITIONS: browse to your downloaded OXT file. Select the file and click Open. The Extension Manager will process the file and add the collection to your Template Manager.
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XE can be considered as one of RUN_DEAMON="yes" TFTP_USERNAME="tftp" In standard mode, the DHCP TFTP_DIRECTORY="/var/lib/tftpboot" P the ways to load the operating server does not directly provide TFTP_ADDRESS="0.0.0.0:69" system on a computer. the boot server, but acts as a "PXE TFTP_OPTIONS="-l -v -v --secure" redirection service", which The Preboot eXecution redirects the client to the available log. It is not over yet with DHCP... Environment (PXE, also known as PXE server. Pre-Execution Environment; Now we work on the files vim /etc/default/dhcp3-server sometimes pronounced "pixie") is The PXE server is a modified related to the DHCP Service: an environment to boot computers DHCP server, which uses UDP port and specify the interface to use using a network interface 4011 and provides the client with vim /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf with the INTERFACES directive. independently of data storage the IP address of the boot server devices (like hard disks) or installed and the name of the network and type the text shown below. We put in /var/ lib/tftpboot an operating systems. bootstrap program (NBP) to Ubuntu distribution netboot download. Clearly, the IP addresses are version taking it from here: When the computer has PXE totally invented; you must insert capabilities, the BIOS allows the In practice, usually the PXE the correct ones. lftp -c "open user to choose among the possible firmware is able to directly receive http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubu devices to load the operating ntu/dists/lucid/main/installe the necessary parameters from the The filename parameter is r-i386/current/images/; system, and thereby boot from the DHCP server to identify the server usually pxelinux.0, but can be network. and the boot file to download, and modified at will by placing it where mirror netboot/" you can configure a standard DHCP it is convenient for you. If this option is selected, the server to provide the necessary firmware PXE uses DHCP to parameters to boot via PXE. option domain-name-servers 8.8.8.8; configure an IP address on the default-lease-time 86400; network adapter and locate a sudo apt-get install tftpd- max-lease-time 604800; authoritative; server (the "boot server") via TFTP hpa dhcp3-server netkit-inetd lftp subnet 113.112.117.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {range to download a file, storing it in 113.112.117.118 RAM memory. 113.112.117.250; Modify the /etc/default/tftpd- filename "pxelinux.0"; hpa file as shown above right. option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; This file is then executed, option broadcast-address 113.112.117.255; thereby booting an operating option routers 113.112.117.1; The last row will have a verbose next-server 113.112.117.118; } system.
full circle magazine #78 14 contents ^ HOWTO - INSTALL LINUX VIA PXE Then we start the services: and write LIBREOFFICE SPECIAL EDITIONS: sudo /etc/init.d/tftpd-hpa start wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubu sudo /etc/init.d/dhcp3-server ntu/dists/hardy/main/installe start r- i386/current/images/netboot/u buntu-installer/i386/boot- and we pass to the configuration screens/boot.txt of the PC terminal on which it will wget be installing the operating system. http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubu ntu/dists/hardy/main/installe r- http://fullcirclemagazine.org/libreoffice- Usually, modern BIOSes have http://fullcirclemagazine.org/libreoffice- i386/current/images/netboot/u special-edition-volume-one/ special-edition-volume-two/ the boot option set to the F12 key, buntu-installer/i386/boot- but I recommend the classic RTFM screens/splash.rle ... to dispel any doubt. This will allow you to boot using The computer that will be used older machines. as a terminal seeks the IP address via DHCP, and once it has obtained this, will allow access to the folder of the tftp server to show the typical GRUB installation. http://fullcirclemagazine.org/libreoffice- special-edition-volume-three/ I usually work with server versions of Ubuntu, but it could INKSCAPE SPECIAL EDITIONS: happen that the desktop version, using the graphical installer, does not allow the proper display of the options, especially if the machine on which you want to proceed is a bit old and has not large-capacity video graphics. In this case, edit Calogero (aka 'Kalos') is an open the source enthusiast, whose favourite GUI is the tty. He specialises in DevOps, technical writing, mind http://fullcirclemagazine.org/inkscape- /var/lib/tftpboot/ubuntu- maps and open knowledge. http://fullcirclemagazine.org/inkscape- installer/i386/boot-screens special-edition-volume-one/ special-edition-volume-two/
full circle magazine #78 15 contents ^ HHOOWW--TTOO Written by Nicholas Kopakakis BBlleennddeerr:: PPaarrtt 99aa
s I promised for this month, You should have something like Select the middle vertex (called With the right control point A we will introduce Bezier the image below control point) as shown below: selected, press Ctrl+LMB. You Curves. create another control point and actually extrude your curve. The Bezier curves (named by the newly created control point is the French engineer Pierre Bezier) are last now, the last one represents used in computer graphics to set where your curve is finished. If you the coordinates for a smooth curve want to extend your curve from really easily. the starting edge, select the starting edge and press Ctrl+LMB Lets see what we are talking to add a new control point as the about. Start a new project in Lets press the Tab key to enter Notice that the other 2 vertices starting edge. If you want to close Blender and get rid of the cube the edit mode. You can see a (called handles) are selected as the curve, select the two edges (select the cube, press X to delete strange looking shape of well. Press the G-key to move the and press the F-key to add a and confirm). something like a fish skeleton or control point. Your curve's right closing segment. This is all we pointing arrows – whatever you edge moves. Press the RMB (right need in order to create our logo Now, press Ctrl-A to add a prefer to call it ... mouse button) to cancel or the with Bezier curves. Curve-->Bezier LMB (left mouse button) to confirm the movement. Now, For more details about Bezier select the right-most vertex Curves go to (handle for now on). Move it as we http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/ did earlier with the control point. Doc:2.6/Manual/Modeling/Curves
The control point stays in place Our goal is to create a three- but the handles are moving. Also, dimensional logo from a two- the curvature of the curve is dimensional logo, and we will start Press R for rotation, X for the X- The interesting stuff is the two changing! Moving the other from an easy one. My favorite axis, and 90 for the degrees of the pink lines representing the edges handler also changes the curve. Greek team is Panathinaikos, so rotation. Then, press Numpad-1 for of the shape (this “shape” is the Moving the handler towards the let’s google to find the team's Front view and Numpad-5 for actual segment of the curve). Let’s control point changes the logo. orthographic view. focus on the right pink line. Press curvature of the curve the A-key to deselect everything. respectively. I came across this jpg that is just
full circle magazine #78 16 contents ^ HOWTO - BLENDER: PART 9a fine for the work. window. Leave it unhide, scroll it show you techniques to handle down, and “tick” the Background images as 3d objects viewable Images from any angle and any view.
Now, add a Curve-->Bezier. Press Tab-key to go to edit mode and using the Ctrl+LMB to add the necessary control points, create an outline of the clover as shown at the image below. Use the handles in order to create the curves that you need:
I don't really care about the To be continued... text so if I want to I can crop it using Gimp. It's fine for my purposes, so I'll leave it the way it Press the Open button and is. The good thing is that we have navigate to the location that you to model just a clover. An easy task downloaded the image. Select and for bezier curves. open that image.
So start a new project, remove The image appears at the the cube, and have a Front background. You can alter some of Orthographic view on your 3d view its properties (the transparency or window. the position, for example) from the After that, we don't need the panel that appeared just below the background image. Untick it at the One powerful tool is the ability open button that we pressed properties panel or press the X blender gives us to have as a earlier. icon just below and to the right of Nicholas lives and works in Greece. blueprint an image at the the Add Image button. He has worked for a post-production background, for easy modeling. house for several years and migrated Tip: The background images are Up to now, we have a two- to Ubuntu because “it renders Press N-key to toggle visible only at orthographic view dimensional shape, and we have a faster.” You can email him at: [email protected] hide/unhide the right side panel and only at precise angle (front, little more work to do for the third (properties panel) at the 3d view left, top etc). At a later stage, I can dimension.
full circle magazine #78 17 contents ^ HHOOWW--TTOO Written by Mark Crutch IInnkkssccaappee -- PPaarrtt 1188
ast time I traced a sketch of my have 548, 70, 8, 4 and 2 nodes L comic strip character, respectively. “Frankie”, using the Bézier tool. First I used the standard SVG tool. With the latter you place nodes which accurately records I find that it's usually easier to stroke, which creates a smooth nodes at specific locations and every bump and hiccup that you produce a smooth line with a outline of constant width. Then I Inkscape draws a path that make as you draw your line. graphics tablet than with a mouse, converted the stroke to a path in connects them. With the Pencil Conversely setting this all the way so stylus users may be able to get order to vary the width of the tool, however, you draw a path and up to 100 will result in a path that away with a lower smoothness outline manually. Finally I used Inkscape places the nodes for you. only honors the start and end value and still produce acceptable Inkscape's “Shape” option to The few items on the Pencil tool's points of your line, with a curve results. Remember that you can create variable width outlines. control bar are very similar to that vaguely corresponds to the always simplify the path using those of the Bézier tool: you still direction of your movements. CTRL-L, so it's often better to keep In addition to the Bézier tool, have the Shape pop-up, with its the smoothness value a little on Inkscape offers a couple of other limited list of options, if you want This example shows my efforts the low side, and tidy up the methods for drawing variable some variability in the path's to trace Frankie's nose using a results afterwards. width outlines. I've split these out width; but you also have a mouse, with the Smoothing set to into their own article because, in “Smoothing” control that's specific 1, 25, 50, 75 and 100. The paths One very satisfying use of this my experience, they both to this tool. clearly become smoother with tool – at least for those of us who particularly benefit users of each increase in value, but in doing can't draw particularly well – is to graphics tablets and can be When you draw a line using the so, the finer detail of the shape is set the smoothness fairly high and difficult to use effectively with a Pencil tool, the Smoothing value lost. By checking the status bar the shape to “ellipse”, then freely mouse. The first is referred to determines how accurately the when each path is selected, the sketch with a stylus or mouse. The variously as the Pencil tool or the final path will follow your reason becomes clear: increased smoothing turns your jittery paths Freehand tool. The keyboard scribbles. Setting this to a low smoothing results in fewer nodes into swooping impressions, and shortcut, on English versions of value will create a path with lots of in the path. In this case the paths the ellipse shape gives something Inkscape at least, is either F6 or “P” of a brushwork feel to the image. – so “Pencil tool” is a better You probably won't sell the results mnemonic. at a gallery, but it does make for a quick and easy way to create a The Pencil tool (left) is rough sketch that you can then best thought of as a refine using other tools. Here you freehand version of the Bézier can see the results of two minutes
full circle magazine #78 18 contents ^ HOWTO - INKSCAPE Pt18 spent playing with a graphics tablet – I'm sure many readers will be able to do much better. (above) has a lot of buttons, sliders I've omitted the “Splotchy” The final preset, “Tracing”, does and options, reflecting the preset from that collection something a little different to the complexity of this tool and the because I think it's fairly useless others. Rather than the thickness range of effects it can produce. with its default settings. In of the line being dependent purely particular, the width slider is set all on how you draw, it also depends A good starting point is the the way up at 100, which results in on what else is on the canvas when selection of presets. These can be extremely thick line ends that are you draw. As you draw over darker found in the pop-up menu on the too large for practical use. objects, the line will become left, offering presets called “Dip Dragging the width down to a thicker, and over lighter objects it Whereas all the options for the Pen”, “Marker”, “Brush”, “Wiggly”, lower value produces a far more will be thinner. Unfortunately it Pencil tool can be used with a “Splotchy” and “Tracing”. The last usable result – but then it's no never quite drops to zero, so you'll mouse, the Calligraphy tool (CTRL- option, “Save...” allows you to add longer “Splotchy” and you may as always have thin wispy lines even F6 or “c”) has options that are your own choice of settings as a well just save your own preset with on the whitest of backgrounds. available only if you use a graphics preset. As you can see from this a different name. In this test Here's an example in which I've just tablet. To be able to use all its image, the first four presets give image, the black line uses the scribbled over my scan of Frankie. features requires a tablet and quite different effects. These were standard Splotchy width of 100, While my scribbles are over the stylus that measures both pressure scribbled using a cheap graphics whereas the red line is set to 25. white background, the line width is and tilt angle – effectively limiting tablet that tracks pressure but not One thing to note is that this at its minimum, but as soon as I hit the tool for anyone who doesn't tilt angle. You can see that preset doesn't use the tablet's part of the character the line width have an expensive Wacom tablet. increasing the pressure as the line pressure – the thinning of the lines thickens, resulting in a blobby The tool can still be used with a moves from top to bottom results is dictated by the speed at which approximation of the image cheaper tablet, or even with a in thicker lines for three of the you draw. beneath. mouse, but not all the features will presets – “Marker” pays no be available. attention to pressure.
The Calligraphy tool (left) does not produce simple, clean Bézier curves. Instead, it produces complex filled paths that often have hundreds of nodes. Making a change to a path drawn with this tool is not for the faint hearted. The control bar
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Although the presets give a everything from the opening darkness of the objects you're tend to produce thinner lines as good idea of the range of effects “
full circle magazine #78 20 contents ^ HOWTO - INKSCAPE Pt18 values in-between affects how Finally we come to the Tremor, large amount of randomness. switch to node editing mode – much of the angle is governed by Wiggle and Mass controls. Let's get whilst the Pencil tool has produced the direction of the stroke, and Mass out of the way quickly, as it's a simple path with only four nodes, how much by the Angle and Tilt the least useful of the three. the Calligraphy tool has resulted in controls. Essentially it tries to simulate some 42! inertia in your calligraphy pen, by The best way to get a feel for making the line you draw lag a The Pencil and Calligraphy tools the Angle and Fixation controls is little behind your mouse or stylus both add more options to your simply to experiment with them. movements. It can help to smooth arsenal when using Inkscape to As usual they have context menus, out erratic hand movements, much manually trace an image. They can, and selecting the menus' default like the Smoothing control of the of course, also be used as creative values of 30° angle and 90 for the Pencil tool. Unfortunately, the tools in their own right – especially fixation produces a passable range of values far exceeds if you have a graphics tablet and fountain pen style for signatures anything that is likely to be useful. some artistic talent. For those of or calligraphic flourishes. Although you can drag this control The Calligraphy tool can us with very little artistic talent, all the way up to 100, anything produce some interesting artistic however, I'll be delving into The Caps control allows you to over about 10 results in so much effects, especially when used with Inkscape's tools for automatically define how rounded the ends of lag that it's almost impossible to a graphics tablet, but the results tracing bitmaps in the next your lines will appear. A value of produce the shape you want, can be very difficult to edit. instalment. zero will produce a square line end, rendering 90% of the scale Consider something as simple as a with increasing values making the essentially useless! little swirl, drawn with a stylus: ends bulge out to semicircles, and ultimately to long ellipses. As usual Tremor and Wiggle are far more the context menu has some useful controls. On the surface sensible default values labelled, they both produce similar results – the effects of which you can see in adding some degree of this example. randomness to your line. But whereas Tremor introduces randomness in the thickness of your line, Wiggle randomizes the The version on the left is a position a little – wiggling the line simple Bézier path with a stroke, up and down. The two are both drawn using the Pencil tool. The one on the right was drawn with Mark's Inkscape created webcomic, dramatically affected by the speed 'Monsters, Inked' is now available to with which you draw and can, of the Calligraphy tool, and is a filled buy as a book from course, be combined to introduce a path. The difference becomes clear http://www.peppertop.com/shop/ if you look at the status bar, or
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i, everyone! Welcome back to weirdly accurate. Let me explain. from the original King Kong. Bacon). H Ask the New Guy! Mir is a display server, a piece of If that’s not clear enough for Well, Mir was chosen to replace If you have a simple question, software that sits between you you, below is an extremely simple the X window server, the existing and Linux is so confusing to you and the Linux kernel in Ubuntu. It diagram I found to help explain display server in Ubuntu. that you think “home folder” takes your input, routes it to the what a display server does. Canonical, the lead Ubuntu refers to a shut-in origami right place, and then returns the developer, and the company in enthusiast, contact me at output to your screen. If you’re See? Simple. charge of all final decisions with [email protected]. married, Mir is like your spouse, regards to what default programs taking your dinner invite to the Okay, so that’s what Mir does. appear in Ubuntu, made the choice Today’s question is: neighbors whose name you can Still doesn’t explain why to move away from X. Why? X had never remember, and reporting everyone’s treating it like the new been serving the needs of Linux Q: A lot of people seem to be back their refusal because of your kid in school who cuts his own hair users for almost three decades. If unhappy with something called tendency to get drunk and act out and smells like pork products all it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, right? Mir. What is it and why the drama? the Empire State Building scene the time (we called him Ricky
A: I know, right? So much duh- raaamaaaaa, it’s getting like an episode of Glee around here. I half expect Mark Shuttleworth to break into a Mariachi rendition of Missy Elliott’s Work It:
Is it worth it?
Let me work it.
I put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it.
Actually, in reference to today’s question, the above lyrics are
full circle magazine #78 24 contents ^ ASK THE NEW GUY The problem was that X wasn’t Nope. have married Derrick! on multiple fronts simultaneously. up to the challenge of delivering Uptake skyrocketed and suddenly an operating system on all They chose a program called Canonical set about designing the Linux desktop seemed more appliances a user might have. Wayland. Actually, Wayland is a the next generation display server, viable than ever before. Actually, that’s not entirely true. X “protocol,” a series of instructions codenamed Mir, thereby angering was up to the challenge of defining how input and output a lot of people, not least of all fans Diehard Linux enthusiasts, the delivering to your Internet-enabled should be handled. At this point I of old Soviet space hardware, a ones who tattooed Tux on their toaster, it just couldn’t do it the just sat down and cried because I pretty tough bunch, in case you biceps, continued to use the way you were most familiar with. was pretty much over my head didn’t know. command line and roll their own about five minutes ago. distros. Me, I was thrilled to use an The thing is, most of us know Mir is meant to offer the OS that did everything I needed, what an operating system should Upon further evaluation, familiar Ubuntu experience using a didn’t cost a cent, and didn’t stalk look like on a small screen. We use Canonical decided Wayland wasn’t window server that can handle the me like a psycho ex to update our thumbs to navigate from one going to do the trick either. So they f ‘n f demands of modern users. bloatware programs I never screen to another, pinching and did what every amateaur wanted installed in the first place. zooming as fast as our minds can woodworker does when his wife What’s not to like? handle. And there’s the real tells him they need a new picnic Ubuntu just worked, and it did it problem with X. Modern phone table for the backyard: they built Well, if you believe that with style. It was so beautiful, users have been conditioned to their own. Canonical puts too much emphasis many of us were willing to ignore expect an experience that’s been on this idea of convergence, that that, hey, Canonical is a business, dubbed “f ‘n f,” fast and fluid. If Here’s the thing about people want the same OS from not a charity. It offers B-to-B your favorite OS appears on your homemade furniture. No one, device to device, or if you doubt services for companies who want a phone, you want it to look enough except people who make furniture that users are going to ditch stable, powerful and scalable OS. like your desktop that it’s like for a living, actually know how hard desktops and laptops in favor of They incorporate the efforts of kissing your boyfriend’s twin it is to make furniture. But phones and tablets, you might not developers working for free, into a brother: different, yet similar. But everyone’s used furniture so we all be too excited. product they charge corporate you most definitely want it to think we have enough knowledge users to support. They even behave like every other phone OS to judge and criticize. Oh, this table But I think the frustration with (shudder) trademarked the Ubuntu you’ve ever seen: fast and fluid. is too scratchy, you should have Mir is simply a manifestation of a name. sanded the edges more. Oh, this different concern. Okay, so X wasn’t going to be f table isn’t long enough, you’ll Then came Unity and scopes ‘n f, so what to replace it with? The never get your whole family When Ubuntu came on the and the whole Amazon.com smart people at Canonical put around it for dinner. Oh, this table scene, the skies opened up and kerfuffle, and people began to their heads together. And they isn’t really a table, it’s a piece of angels heralded its arrival. Here realize what should have been chose Mir, right? plywood resting on cinder blocks was an open source OS that finally apparent all along: you can’t run a and my mother was right, I should had the resources to push forward company forever without revenue.
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When Canonical got around to warts and all, for the same reason I I’ve tried. Canonical the benefit of the doubt, discussing Mir in detail, it made it use a Kindle and buy Amazon that and vigilance are the price I clear that contributions to Mir products despite what I’ve seen You cannot simultaneously pay for their amazing product. from the community could be re- happen to my beloved introduce millions to Linux and licensed by Canonical as their own. independent booksellers: they are FOSS and then make everyone Oh, and what about those Missy pushing for the kind of future I ignore that they exist. Elliott lyrics? That’s when things went all want to see. Is it worth it? Game of Thrones. In other words, I know more I believe convergence is where about Linux now because of my Let me work it. I put my thing down, flip it, and People far smarter than me it’s at, one device that behaves as interest in Ubuntu. And if Ubuntu reverse it. have some serious concern, and I both desktop or “pockettop.” I ever stopped innovating, stopped will listen and learn and try to believe Ubuntu has the potential pushing the envelope, stopped understand the issues as best as to challenge Android and iOS, not trying to do grand things and Translation: my little gerbil-powered brain can. only offering more competition in drawing the criticism boldness the marketplace, but pushing begets, I would do what Ubuntu Is Mirworth it? Let me work with it. But I’m not worried. Here’s why. those other OSs to do things they taught me to do, a fresh install. would never have tried without I’ll tweak it, fork it, orreverse it. I’ve never misunderstood my Ubuntu breathing down their Ultimately, I am wary of any relationship with Canonical or necks. I believe that having Ubuntu argument against Ubuntu that I totally knew Missy was a closet Ubuntu. I recognize that there are gain a real foothold in mobile could sounds like hipster-speak, as in, “I Ubuntu enthusiast! Her early song Linus Torvalds is a Pimp! financial concerns that will drive mean the end of that market’s was totally into Ubuntu before its should decisions about Ubuntu’s oligarchy, a revolution that could auto-tune, Euro-trance, have been a dead giveaway. development. And so long as eventually run the other way, psychedelic phase.” And I won’t be Ubuntu is a free product from a growing the Linux piece of the scared away by the drama. You Good luck and happy corporate entity, I’ll remember the desktop pie. think this is drama? I was in a high Ubuntuing! warning that if I’m not the school jazz band. You don’t know customer, I’m the product. It’s And I believe Mir is a key drama, son. similar to the relationship I have component in making all this with Google, and I recognize the possible. So in answer to the question, What is Mir? Mir is a rorschach test. potential pitfalls. The real cost to Copil is an Aztec name that roughly use free products from profit- But the biggest reason I’m not People will see much in it that translates to “you need my heart for seeking entities is eternal worried about Mir, or Ubuntu, or simply isn’t there. It will likely what again?” His love of women’s the idea that Canonical is reinforce their existing beliefs until shoes is chronicled at vigilance. yaconfidential.blogspot.com. You methodically co-opting the Linux it comes into better focus and we can also watch him embarrass I am willing to support Ubuntu, community, is because you simply can test it in the wild. Until then, himself on Twitter (@copil). can’t un-smell a fart. Believe me, I’m willing to give Ubuntu and
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ast month I decided to buy Variations of the B1 seem to will not pay a premium price to get best-built tablet. It feels a little L myself a new tablet. My initial exist, mine has 1GB of RAM, but I a new proprietary cable. better than a lot of the budget impulse was to buy a Google Nexus have seen the B1 listed with tablets out there, but not as good 7, but, after looking around, I 512MB of RAM on several U.K. A great feature of the tablet as high-end tablets. settled on the Acer Iconia B1-710 websites. The look is slightly not found on a lot of budget tablet. I shouldn’t really say different as well. Mine is black with tablets is the microSD expansion If I could ask Acer one question “settled” since I’m happy with the a silver band and white on the slot; adding a microSD card will get about the Iconia B1, it would be B1, though I expect anyone looking back, while others are black with a you up to 32GB more storage “why did you bother including a for a super quality tablet would tinge of blue (insert joke about the space. Unfortunately, the slot is front facing camera?” At 0.3mp, not be. I found the B1 new for Nexus 7 beating it up, black and behind a rather cheap piece of the front facing camera takes $100 less than the Nexus 7. Price blue). Inside the box are the tablet, plastic on the back. It is not that extremely poor pictures, worse seems to vary from country to a USB cable, and the charger plug. the build quality feels terrible, the than most webcams. There is no country, and, in the U.K., it seems The tablet uses a micro-B USB style Iconia B1 actually feels okay in my rear facing camera. I suppose it to be higher than most places. If cable, so if you lose your cable you hands, but you can tell it is not the was included for applications like you are considering an Acer Iconia Skype, but 0.3mp, really? I wasn’t B1 and a Google Nexus 7, and they looking for a camera, so for me the are close in price, there is no lousy camera wasn’t a deal- question you should buy the breaker. Google Nexus 7–it simply blows the B1 away in almost every single Lots of other reviews slag the way. Iconia B1 for the screen, but I found it acceptable at 1024x600. It Besides saving $100, what I like is at least enough that I can about the B1 is the performance. It reasonably enjoy a movie is not going to play high end streaming from our entertainment OpenGL games because it does not system. High end features like an have the kind of GPU the Nexus 7 HDMI port are also missing from has, but its Dual Core 1.2 GHz the B1. processor is more than enough to handle most streaming video and My Iconia B1 came with Android games like Fast Racing 3D. 4.1.2, one of the older versions of Jelly Bean, but new enough that I
full circle magazine #78 27 contents ^ LINUX LAB really did not lack for applications. are a bit more demanding, there The stock set of applications was are much better tablets on the nice, Acer did not load the B1 with market. As far as budget tablets a ton of junk applications. And, go, it is one of the best, but be Full Circle Podcast since I use a lot of Google aware there are a couple on the Episode 34, applications, I fell in love with all market (one with 512MB, one with Raspberry the included apps for managing 1GB), and the price is not always Google services, particularly the that far from more powerful Jamboree 2013 contacts application which also tablets. shows recent social media activity. Your hosts: • Les Pounder The Acer Iconia B1 is not the • Tony Hughes Lamborghini of the 7” tablet world. • Jon Chamberlain • Oliver Clark It is more like a Chevrolet Chevelle Charles McColm is the author of – it has some horsepower behind Instant XBMC, and the project and Freaky Clown it, but it is not as flashy as its manager of a not-for-profit Google cousin. If all you need is a computer reuse project. When not from the Blackpool (UK) LUG building PCs, removing malware, http://blackpool.lug.org.uk basic tablet, the Acer Iconia B1 is encouraging people to use Linux, not all that bad. It has a fairly solid and hosting local Ubuntu hours, body, decent CPU performance, Charles blogs at Welcome to the first of a 2 and can be expanded with a http://www.charlesmccolm.com/. part conference special, in microSD card. But, if your needs this episode the presenters reflect on the first ever Raspberry Jamboree held at the Manchester Central Conference Centre on 9th March 2013
full circle magazine #78 28 contents ^ MMYY SSTTOORRYY Written by Gabriele Tettamanzi
’m almost 50 and my running and I could not find a Windows XP, I decided to test only way I have to connect to the I professional curriculum is solely solution. Looking for an alternative some Linux distros, because I read web. as Supply Chain and Production to MS Works, I discovered open on the internet that most of them • The performance of my manager. Currently, I'm plant source software by downloading just work on notebooks and were notebook. director for a food company. I'm the OpenOffice suite. I was able to boost old hardware • The appeal of the desktop. neither an IT professional nor a strongly impressed by that office performance. smart young digital native. My suite. It was so much better than After this first selection, I chose experience might be interesting Works and it was free. I downloaded a free guide from Xubuntu 12.10, Bodhi 2.3, Mint 14 for others who are interested in Makeuseof.com indicating Ubuntu Mate and Ubuntu 12.04. I was not nature, not young any more, and At more or less at the same was a good solution for renewing convinced by Lubuntu, even if it interested in Linux, but might be time, an IT advisor working for my old hardware. I started from that was really light and therefore fast worried to attempt something company gave me a Knoppix live interesting guide where I found my on my pc, because there is no LTS new. CD. It was a very nice and rich in very first piece of information. version and I did not find a functionalities. Nevertheless I was Another very good source was compelling explanation of this I became familiar with Linux for not capable of solving problems I Distrowatch difference with the other three the first time about 30 years ago. had in setting up an internet (www.distrowatch.com) where I *buntus. Bodhi is a rolling At the time, I was a university connection via winmodem. have studied the reviews of the distribution, for sure not the best student. My very first access to a distros which were tested. for a newbie, but the distro computer was on a microcomputer I continued discovering and website has very good running Unix; text mode only of using open source software and I took the time to use documentation and this convinced course. Counting my university tools like Gimp, Firefox, Unetbootin and to test live distros me. term (5 years) and my 15 months Thunderbird, OpenOffice, Hugin booting from a usb pendrive of service as an officer for the became my standard home including: all the 4 flavours of I took Parted Magic–in my military navy–they were using Unix computing tools, but I was still a Ubuntu family (Gnome wasn't still opinion really a wizard too–I've being using Windows PC Windows user. official), Mint 14 Cinnamon and distribution–and I made room on or AS400. Mate, Fedora 18 Xfce, Debian 6 my hard disk for testing the four A few months ago, after the last Gnome, Mageia 2, Fuduntu, Bodhi distros, installing them alongside At the beginning of 2000, I ran antivirus update and the last Linux. My test was: Windows XP. I resized the Windows into an issue I was not able to solve consequent performance • Live run with full hardware XP partition, setting up a new on my PC, which was running the reduction of my notebook, a recognition. swap and a new empty partition unlucky Windows Millenium. The Lenovo Thinkpad T43, Pentium M, • The readiness of setting up a for the new system. office suite MS Works stopped 2.13 GHz, 2 GB Ram, running mobile broadband connection–the
full circle magazine #78 29 contents ^ MY STORY First test was Ubuntu 12.04. It complete the process. I abandoned the file manager Thunar to the 1.6 see my iPad directories in Thunar. has a very easy installation this distro. It was fast and nice. As version because of the nice But, if I want to access the process, but it is a bit resource soon as I am more experienced I tabbing feature missing in the standard Music, Video and Picture consuming and it slowed down my will try it again. older version installed is standard. repositories on iPad, I see them as PC. The software that came with I made a few aesthetic if the titles of the songs or video the standard installation was older Fourth was Xubuntu 12.10. It modifications to the icons, the or picture were encrypted and if I than the versions I was using on has the same easy installation fonts and the system bar. want to update the iPad OS I need Windows XP. After some updates process as Ubuntu 12.04. It is iTunes – that runs decently only from ppa, I decided that I comfortable to use for a newbie There are only two minor issues under Windows or Mac OSx. At preferred some system stability like me and runs fast on my I was not able to overcome in a present I have no idea on how to issues in return for the availability notebook. In my opinion, it does pure Linux way with my Xubuntu have complete control of my iPad of newer software versions. I have not have much eye candy, but it installation. Because of my iPad without iTunes, therefore iTunes is tested VirtualBox and I hae set up looks elegant. There are only a few and Kobo, I have set up a installed in the XP virtual machine. a Windows XP virtual machine. By software packages with the Virtualbox virtual machine running Workarounds: for the OS updating, the way, after the unavoidable standard installation, but the Windows XP. I should find a wifi hot spot; for the very first confusion of being a Ubuntu software collection is the standard repository access I should long-term Windows user, I liked largest in the Linux world. Kobo: Calibre, a very efficient test the tools available for iPod. Unity DE. ebook manager, works smoothly Conclusion: Xubuntu 12.10 is with my Kobo, but if I want to My PC looks like new. It starts Second was Mint 14 Mate. It my choice. update the firmware, I need the up fast, it runs fast, and it is had the same easy installation as specific Kobosetup software, and I affordable. After more than a Ubuntu, very nice look, very easy After the installation and the was not able both to setup the week of testing, the system is now to use for a long-time Windows updating, I installed Ubuntu- unofficial Linux release of it, and stable and I'm feeling comfortable user like me, but still a bit heavy on restricted-extras, Calibre and to run the Windows version of it in my home daily working. my slow hardware. I have been FBReader (ebook manager and under Wine. At present, I have using this distro for a week and I reader), Gimp 2.8, LibreOffice 4.0, installed the Windows version of This is the beginning of a new never rebooted XP. Instead, I Hugin (panorama picture Kobosetup in the XP virtual era of learning and experimenting installed Virtual Box and used the composer) and Luminance HDR machine. Another way to get a for me. I have a lot of things to VM I made during Ubuntu 12.04 (HDRI photo tool), VirtualBox, VLC solution is to find a wifi spot and learn about Linux. I am planning to testing. (media player), Vuze (bit-torrent upgrade the firmware via wifi, but test Lubuntu, because, during the client),Wammu (managing tool for my PC wifi card does not support tests mentioned above, I realized Third was Bodhi Linux. the broadband mobile modem), wifi access point. that my way of using a PC and Something went wrong during the Wine from the Ubuntu software software does not need ‘long term installation. My system halted repository or from the official ppa iPad: I have no problem if I want support’ (for my use I just need the after the interactive part of the or from the web and then by GDebi to access the apps repositories; back-up of my data), and soon I will installation and I was not able to of each package. I have updated Gigolo does an excellent job and I be back again testing Bodhi.
full circle magazine #78 30 contents ^ MMYY SSTTOORRYY Written by Roland Hunt
y move from Windows to and wired connection. With the The only software that I would Weekly Sale. My second was the M Linux started in the middle help of the Ubuntu forums I was like to use – that I am unable to very addictive Kerbal Space of March after I had to re-install able to get my Kodak ESP 1.2 until there is a way to get it to Programme that I purchased Windows 8 Pro on my Toshiba Wireless AIO Printer running (but I work in WINE – is Microsoft Office directly from the Kerbal Space C660-15R notebook and it refused had to use the Kodak Hero 3.1 AIO 365 Home Premium. I have been Programme website, as it was to Activate. I could have gone driver to get it working, as the one unable to get it to work in much cheaper than purchasing it down the route of downloading an that was suggested did not work PlayOnLinux, and Crossover Office on Steam. Activator, but as I had the Ubuntu for me). was not available for 13.04 at the 12.10 disk, and an Ubuntu 13.04 time of me moving to 13.04. I've In the time that I have used Development Release Daily Build You might be wondering why I not had the chance to try Ubuntu 13.04 development disk – along with an OpenSuse 12.3 chose the potentially unstable Crossover Office (as at the time of release, then beta, I've been very DVD lying around, I decided to give Ubuntu 13.04 Development writing I only just found out that it impressed with how much faster them a go. I was a bit hesitant, as Release over the more stable had become compatible with my Notebook has become, and my Kodak ESP 1.2 AIO wireless Ubuntu 12.10. The simple reason 13.04), so I've been using the web how much free HDD space I had printer has only Windows and Mac for my decision was that I will version of Office 365 Home post install along with how much OSX drivers. probably end up upgrading to Premium combined with more productive I've become 13.04 when it is released. It made LibreOffice. Currently, the only compared to when I was using I first tried Ubuntu 12.10 for 30 more sense to work my way up piece of Software I'm using via Windows. minutes. Then I tried Ubuntu 13.04 from Development Release to Beta WINE, thanks to PlayOnLinux, is Development Release for the same Release to Final Release using the excellent script and novel I'm looking forward to finding amount of time as 12.10. Next, I Software Updater than having to writing package, Celtx. I'm sure as I free and even Open Source tried OpenSuse 12.3 for about 3 download and burn the Beta become more proficient with versions of all the applications that minutes and then re-installed Release to disk, then backup my Linux, I'll probably be able to install I'm used to using on Windows, Ubuntu 13.04 Development data to Install 13.04 Beta, and have the native Linux version of Celtx. along with learning how to Release. The reason I decided to to do the same when the final program in one or more of the use Ubuntu was due to the fact release comes out. I'll have to see how many of my various programming languages that OpenSuse 12.3 did not pick up Windows native games work via that are available on Linux. the wired or wireless connection to The Ubuntu Forums even PlayOnLinux at some point, but my network, and, therefore, had helped me to restore the I've already purchased a couple of no connection to the Internet right Hibernate function that is not games since using Ubuntu 13.04. out of the box. Both Ubuntu 12.10 enabled by default. My first one was Bastion, that I got and 13.04 picked up my wireless when it was in the Humble Bundle
full circle magazine #78 31 contents ^ RREEVVIIEEWW Written by Kevin O'Brien GGooooggllee PPllaayy MMuussiicc AAllll AAcccceessss
ike many people, I enjoy plays something from the artist but you cannot control it precisely. suit a particular need or mood. It L listening to music, and having you named, with the rest being the Sometimes I know exactly what I has a very large library, but not my music with me everywhere is "similar" artists. It's not bad, and want to listen to, or I want to check everything is there. A number of important -- and I have a large you can use it for free if you don't out an artist I just heard about. So I very high profile artists have music collection to draw on. Trying mind ads and use it only 40 hours got an account with Spotify. refused to license their music to to have everything with me at all per month. I elected to go ad-free Spotify is a service that has most Spotify, such as The Beatles. I times is a bit of a problem, though, and unlimited and pay $36 per year of the recorded music available for happen to be a big Beatles fan, and considering how much music I (also available for $3.99 per you to stream, and lets you create I have their albums on CD and have have. Right now I own a number of month). I generally pay for apps playlists. A paid account is $10 per ripped them to Ogg or MP3 as portable MP3 players, two of when I can to support services I month. It is fantastic for things like needed, but that doesn't help on which are full of music that I carry rely on. putting together a playlist of every Spotify. with me. My pockets can get very song a particular artist has full that way, though, and while I Pandora was good in its way, recorded, or making playlists to Then, 2 years ago, Google got like listening to tracks I own, what about finding new stuff? My MP3 players have never suggested anything to me. This is where the cloud services come in.
My first cloud service was Pandora. I could listen to it on a computer using Pithos, or on my phone with the Android app. Pandora is like a radio station that plays the kind of music you like. You give the service the name of an artist, and it builds a channel for you based on that style of music. It finds other artists it considers "similar" to the one you named, and builds a playlist around that. I find that roughly every 5-8 tracks it
full circle magazine #78 32 contents ^ REVIEW - GOOGLE MUSIC into the competition. Their initial new Google Play Music All Access phone or in your browser. The Play on your tracks, and even offering was based around a music was recently released, and for your Music app has an icon like a pair of suggestions based on playlists you store much like the iTunes store or monthly fee you get access to a headphones. have created. Ubuntu One, but had an large library of music you can • My Library - You can start with interesting feature that let you stream in addition to all of your All Access is what you get when the tracks you have uploaded, but upload your own tracks to their own tracks. You can do this by you sign up for the $10 per month you can also add any tracks you servers from which you could creating playlists, in which the plan. It gives you all of the above find in Google's library to your own stream those tracks to your tracks can come from Google's services. Open the app on your "My Library". But note that this devices. So I could upload all of my library or from your own. And you phone and you will see the does not mean you can download Beatles CDs to their servers, and can create radio stations similar to following sections: any of them, this is purely listen to them all I want. That was Pandora. After trying this for a • Listen Now - This is where you can streaming from Google. great, and I could also upload week, I canceled my Pandora and search for tracks in Google's • Playlists - Here is where you those rarities that would Spotify accounts, because I now library, plus all the tracks you have access any of the playlists you have otherwise be unavailable (bootleg get it all for less money. And for uploaded, plus suggestions based created. This is very like Spotify, tracks, for instance, or direct sales whatever reason, I find I am for instance. tracks from bands like Phish that listening to music even more often Radio - You create "stations" here sell concert recordings direct to now with Google Play Music All by giving an artist or track and the fans). This is a great feature, Access. So how does it work? telling Google to build a dynamic and I signed up for my Google playlist of what it considers Music account. In addition, I could GOOGLE PLAY ALL ACCESS "similar" tracks. This feature is very buy tracks from Google Music like Pandora. which would automatically be ON YOUR ANDROID PHONE • Explore - Here you can browse by added to my account, and I could new releases, particular genres, or easily upload tracks I purchased Google Play is the name for check out curated playlists offered from Amazon or from eMusic. Google's all-in-one online store. It by Google. offers music, movies, TV, books, So now I had three different magazines, apps for Android, and Now, because we are talking cloud services each doing different even Google-branded hardware about streaming, you should things. I liked them all well enough, like Nexus and Chrome. So it definitely be thinking about and among them they pretty much combines in one place everything whether this is using your mobile covered everything I wanted. But you might ever want to buy from data. Because I don't want to hit then Google raised the bar. It Google. For this review, we'll focus any caps, or be deprived of music created a new service, Google Play just on the music section, but in a poor coverage area, I always Music All Access, which combined chances are that if you have an load a couple of gigabytes of all of the above into a single Android phone you have visited tracks onto my phone from my service for $10 per month. The Google Play Apps either on your purchased music collection. A good
full circle magazine #78 33 contents ^ REVIEW - GOOGLE MUSIC thing to do is to go to your One neat feature is that you Settings menu and set it to stream can drag-and-drop any track into a over Wi-Fi only if you are playlist. A good example is using concerned about being hit with a the Radio feature to find tracks big data bill. you might not have known about previously. If you hear a track you You can also "pin" certain tracks like, you can just drag it onto a to your device for offline listening. playlist and it is added. Open the track you would like to "pin", and look for an icon that BROWSER SUPPORT looks like a pushpin. If it is at an angle, that means it can be I generally listen to Play Music downloaded to your device. If it is on my Kubuntu desktop computer vertical, it means it has already using Google Chrome, but I have been downloaded. But note that also used it with Firefox, and at you can download a track only work I have used Internet Explorer twice. It really is meant to be a (though Google complains that it is streaming service. Note too, that browser on my computer. Of to the Android app: too old and some features may not in the settings you can specify to course, you have to be logged in to • Listen Now - This is a combination work). But because the service is download tracks only via Wi-Fi. Google to do this, but all of your of tracks you have uploaded, tracks entirely browser based on settings are synced through your you put in playlists, radio stations computers, it is inherently cross- FULL ACCESS ON YOUR Google account. To open this, log you have created, etc. platform, and I think any Linux user COMPUTER in to Google using Gmail, Google+, • My Library - All of the tracks you should have a good experience. or any other Google application. have uploaded. Actually this has become a When you do this, Google places • Radio - The stations you have SHARING favorite for me. I have some the black menu bar of all of their created. decent speakers connected to my applications at the top of your • Explore - Popular new albums and Of course, Google is all about media computer, and with Google Window. Select Play in this black tracks, and playlists by others that the social these days, so sharing Chrome open to the Play Music bar, and then Music in the menu Google has selected. music is built in to Google Play app, I have all of the same access. bar on the left. • Auto Playlists - Playlists Music. You can share playlists (see And perhaps because I am a bit generated algorithmically by your https://support.google.com/googl older than most of the readers, I This will open by default to the actions. eplay/answer/3140173?hl=en) with don't find managing everything on Play Store, where you can purchase • Playlists - the Playlists you have your friends, or with the general my cell phone quite as convenient. tracks. But if you select My Music, created. public. Just open a playlist you So I created my playlists in my you will get a list of options similar want to share, and you will see the
full circle magazine #78 34 contents ^ REVIEW - GOOGLE MUSIC Share Playlist button. Click on that forwardto expanding to more to get your Sharing options. countries aroundthe world.
The default for every playlist is What this means in practice is for it to be private. But if you like, that it rolled out first in the United you can change that to "Public". States. It was then offered in When you do this, a Google+ Australia and New Zealand. And on button appears, and this lets you August 9 it was announced that it select who you would like to share was now available in 9 European your playlist with. You can share it countries as well ( Austria, with the "Public", which in practice Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, means anyone who follows you on Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, and Google+, or you can select specific the UK). And I would assume that people. They do need to be on Google would like to achieve Google+, though, for you to share global domination, so it should be with them. And if anyone shares a appearing in other countries in the playlist with you, you can subscribe months ahead. But, if you cannot to the playlist, and if they add wait, I have heard rumors that they tracks later, those tracks will be mostly depend on a credit card added to your subscribed copy. address, and don't inquire too closely into the validity of that AVAILABILITY address as long as the charges clear. Google Play Music All Access depends on making licensing deals So I hope this article has piqued with the record labels, so, as you your interest in this music service might expect, it is not available that I have found to be very everywhere just yet. Here is what attractive. And if you want find me, Google says on their website about I am +Kevin O'Brien on Google+. it:
All Access is available forGoogle Play Music users on Android2.2 and above. All Access isn’t available everywhere yet, but we look
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ith our computers being screenshot; no editing features, no you’re dissatisfied with the first, a capture mode, and a delay timer. W portals to new universes, we session, no nice effects, etc. So I drop down menu to select the At the bottom are four buttons: often wish to take a picture of the startedto develop Shutter(formerly screen - a screenshot. Most Linux gscrot) with these features and users rely on the ‘Print Screen’ goals in mind. button or basic software such as gnome-screenshot or KSnapshot There is anotherbig point, (the defaults in GNOME and KDE though: we all spendmuch ofour respectively) while some achieve time in forums, wikis, chats, etc. this task through the trusty GIMP From time to time we needto do using File->New . While writing some screenshots anduploadthem these articles I stumbled upon so we can share them with other another alternative - Shutter. people, so I wantedto have a built-in function to uploada screenshot with nice link-formatting so you can post THE VISION the generatedlink directly in the forum, wiki, etc. Mario Kemper, the creator of Shutter, explained his reasons for (reposted from Launchpad Blog creating a new screenshot tool: blog.launchpad.net/projects/shutter by Canonical Ltd ; licensed under Creative "Well, I am a computerscience Commons) student working as a QA person in my free time. When I startedto do Ambitious goals, but does the QA work, I was looking fora Shutter deliver on this promise? neat screenshot application, Time to test the claims. because we are doing a lot of documentation forthe developers as USER INTERFACE well. KSnapshot has a deceptively There were some apps like simple user interface (UI). There’s a ksnapshot, gnome-screenshot, etc, preview window with a button but they all focus on a single below to take a new screenshot if
full circle magazine #78 36 contents ^ SOFTWARE SHOWDOWN
Shutter has a bigger UI but is EXPORTING still quite intuitive and well designed. You have the familiar KSnapshot can save the options to take a screenshot of a screenshot in a variety of formats selection, the entire desktop, or a including .png, .jpeg and .bmp. It window. You also have the ability has no built-in editor, but can send to take screenshots of menus, the screenshot to GIMP. Its export tooltips, and even websites! One options are the most can’t help but be impressed. There comprehensive; in fact I was forced is a built-in editor, an export to include a screenshot as listing button, and a delay timer. For all them by hand would have taken the features it incorporates, too long. Shutter’s UI still remains beautiful and easy on the eyes. Gnome-screenshot falls on the other end of the spectrum. It doesn’t offer you any editing SAVING, EDITING AND options, and allows you to save
‘Help’, ‘Send To’, ‘Copy’ and ‘Save whole desktop, the current As’. window, or a specific area. You can also specify the delay and whether Gnome-screenshot has an even to include the pointer or not. more straightforward UI. There are There are also a ‘Help’, ‘Cancel’ and 3 radio buttons which allow you to ‘Take Screenshot’ buttons at the choose whether to ‘grab’ the bottom.
full circle magazine #78 37 contents ^ SOFTWARE SHOWDOWN screenshots only in the .png gnome-screenshot Website: http://shutter- format. Export options are CONCLUSION project.org/ completely lacking. Of course, it Shutter’s advanced feature set was meant to serve as a basic THE WINNER OF THIS screenshot tool, but a few more and clean UI separate it from the file formats would have been rest of the pack. It truly delivers on The Good: SOFTWARE SHOWDOWN IS appreciated. its original promise. If you need • Uncomplicated and simple - does more export options, you can’t go the job Shutter Shutter allows you to save wrong with KSnapshot. And if you images as .png, .jpeg or .bmp. don’t want to scroll through never- The Bad: However, the format to save to has ending menus, or tweak under-the- • Ability to save in different to be decided beforehand in the hood settings, you may appreciate formats lacking (you can save in ‘Preferences’ dialog. Shutter also the simple and straightforward .png only) allows you to export pictures as gnome-screenshot. • No export options PDFs, a feature that’s extremely • No inbuilt photo editor or option useful. The built-in editor is SUMMARY to invoke GIMP elegantly designed and will be more than sufficient for most KSnapshot Website: users. It is one of the best built-in https://git.gnome.org/browse/gno editors I have seen, with a me-screenshot/ perfectly understandable UI and a plethora of features. Add to this a Shutter series of plugins like ‘Sepia’ and The Good: ‘Grayscale’ and you realize you’ll • Ability to save to most image seldom have to leave Shutter. If formats only your camera had such • The best export options software! If, however, a screenshot The Good: needs even more editing, Shutter The Bad: • Ability to save to the three most can hand the reins over to GIMP. • UI not as beautiful or simple as common formats Shutter can make your screenshot other two • Amazing inbuilt screenshot editor perfect, but if you want to show it Clean, simple and understandable Tushar is a 17-year-old Indian who loves Ubuntu/FOSS. He programs in off to the world, you’ll have to put Website: UI Java and C++, enjoys writing and, in the effort yourself. My version's http://www.kde.org/applications/g recently, making Android apps. If you export options were limited to raphics/ksnapshot/ The Bad: enjoyed this article, his blog is at ‘imagebanana’,‘imageshack’ and • Limited export options tusharbhargava.wordpress.com for more articles. Ubuntu One.
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• how much work I have to do after Mint with Cinnamon requires installation (installing the the least work after installation, in programs I use and setting order to do the things I want to do. preferences), Most lightweight Linux distros do • the political factor: do I approve not include Libreoffice, and I can't of the behaviour of the live without it. I also want to view organization. Youtube videos and listen to MP3s.
I feel there are only two I am a huge fan of Canonical significantly different desktop and Mark Shuttleworth, even if styles: Unity/Gnome, and they have had some recent KDE/Cinnamon/LXDE/XFCE. Within missteps in dealing with the the two groups, the differences community. Desktop Linux would are minor. I always install my own be nowhere without Canonical, and wallpaper, so there's no brown vs I am grateful. Also, I have the blue vs green debate on my impression they have a long-term systems. vision for the future. But I still find Unity counter-productive. I find the Windows XP/7 style user interface is most productive I'm also a big fan of the Mint for me, so there's no way I would team. Again and again, they seem use Unity or Gnome as a daily to ask the question, "what do the driver. (I do have the LTS and latest users want," and come up with the versions of Ubuntu installed in right answer. Users don't care Virtualbox in order to answer about the future, they just want to questions.) get stuff done today. That's me in a nutshell. Many Kubuntu users rave about its file manager, but it makes me crazy; I can't figure out how to do what I want to do. I find the file manager in Lubuntu (LXDE) far too After a long career in the computer stripped down, but the one in industry, including a stint as editor of Xubuntu does the job. However, Computing Canada and Computer Dealer News, Gord is now more-or- for everyday use I prefer Nemo less retired. (Mint) or Nautilus (Ubuntu).
full circle magazine #78 42 contents ^ UUBBUUNNTTUU GGAAMMEESS Written by David Rhys Forward NNEEWWSS
s this is a big announcement releases.”Valve talks about working manufacturers in early 2014, but A for PC gaming, I would like to with well-known media services for all Steam Machines will be shipped share this news with all you music, TVandmovies on Steam OS. with Steam OS. readers and speculate about this The new service incorporates Steam fresh news and what may come of Family Sharing, allowing users to Valve is prototyping the Steam it. share theirgame libraries with Machines by sending out 300 friends andfamily, andwill include prototype boxes to Steam users If you are unfamiliar with robust parental controls. for free to test. Steam has created Steam, think of it as a service like an eligibility scheme so that you ITunes, but for video games – with can be in the running to get a Steam OS is a Linux-based STEAM BOX a friends list with chat and joining Steam Box to test (I have operating system built to stream your friends’ games. It started off personally done this). So, if you Windows and Mac games, music, Wednesday September 25th, The on Windows, but now it is would like to be in the run for a TV and movies from a computer to Steam Box exists. branching out into different Steam box and have a steam the big screen, along with support operating systems. Linux is going account, login and join the “Steam for Linux games. Steam OS will also Valve revealed the Steam Box to be playing a big part with the Universe community group” and allow users to stream over their under the name “Steam Machines.” new Steam Box and the new see if you are eligible, or how to home networks and onto their TVs. These boxes will come in multiple operating system Steam OS. become eligible, but this must be To top it off, Steam OS will soon be forms and from different available for free. Valve took its time delivering the three announcements, each Valve writes “In Steam OS, we connected with the Steam Box, have achievedsignificant which has been rumoured since performance increases in graphics March 2012, but Valve has processing, andnow we’re targeting seesawed on the existence of the audio performance andreductions in alleged hardware until now. input latency at the operating system level.” STEAM OS “Game developers are already Monday September 23rd, Steam taking advantage ofthese gains as OS is revealed. they target Steam OS fortheirnew
full circle magazine #78 43 contents ^ UBUNTU GAMES done before October 25th. will include legacy support for the an overlay on top of the game your experience is on a Linux older titles that lack controller itself, so there will be no need to gaming system. “Entertainment is not a one- support. look down at the controller during size-fits-all world,” Valve writes. gameplay. Valve also says, “The Sources: “We want you to be able to choose Instead of using a well known screen allows an infinite number of the hardware that makes sense for method for a controller, Valve’s discrete actions to be made http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/techn you, so we are working with peripheral uses two track pads available to the player, without ology-21677119 (video) multiple partners to bring a variety rather than thumbsticks and a requiring an infinite number of of Steam gaming machines to directional pad. Balancing the lack physical buttons.” http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/ market during 2014, all of them of physical sticks, the controller 25/4762374/steam-box-hardware- running Steam OS.” uses haptic feedback, “allowing With all the announcements spec precise control over frequency, made, there are still so many STEAM CONTROLLER amplitude and direction of unanswered questions about the movement.” Steam Box, OS, and the controller – Friday September 27th, the bold how much will it cost, etc... I will Steam controller. The controller has additional keep you up to date will all the features, such as a touch-enabled Valve news, and if I am a lucky surface with a high-resolution tester of the Steam Box. If any of screen. The screen can also be you readers are lucky enough to clicked as a button. When a player get your hands on a machine, taps the touch screen, it displays please write in to let us know how
Valve revealed a new controller optimized for Steam and the upcoming Steam Machines, concluding the string of announcements aimed at bridging David is a relative newcomer to the the gap between PC gaming and Ubuntu scene and really enjoying it so far. He loves games and is the living room. The controller will pursuing a career as a Games support the entire catalogue of Designer. You can follow his exploits Steam games released to date, and at: rhysforward.carbonmade.com
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ame Dev Tycoon is a and all the way up to 2015. And, With that being said, this game make sure that the next game was G simulation game where you when I say “roughly”, I mean it, is not like prancing through a bed not going to break the budget and play as the proprietor of a game because time is not based on the of poppies in order to get to Oz. In that I had just enough people for software company. You start off as Gregorian calendar. Time is fact, the biggest thing that can kill the job. With that being said, the a coder in your garage. With luck measured in years from when your your career plans is an extremely game goes through very and perseverance, you'll eventually avatar started programming successful game – for, when that predictable turns that can have end up with a legion of fans and a games. happens, everyone will judge you “unseen” events that can be crack team of programmers to help more harshly. You can also avoided without any problem. It is you make AAA games. This game appealed to me in sandbag yourself by hiring too a good game, but after you finish a several ways. For one, I have many underlings, or underlings company or two, you'll be tired of always been a sucker for who are asking for a wage that you it. INSTALLATION simulation games, and managerial cannot afford. Lastly, your game games doubly so. Secondly, I have a engine could be outdated. As a The installation could not be history of programming and make result, all of your games are also simpler. After you buy the game a living off of it – when I'm not outdated. straight from Greenhart Games writing reviews. (greanhartgames.com), you'll A problem with the game is receive an email with a link to a tar. how it rigorously follows gaming After downloading and opening history. Though the names are the tar, you will be given a choice changed, it is not hard to guess of an x32 or x64 game. Once you that a Japanese company, who make your choice, the Ubuntu broke into the US market with its Software Center will open up and TES system, is going to make a new help finish the installation. system called the Super TES. The game platforms are too easy to GAME PLAY predict and guess.
Game Dev is a little meta Game Dev Tycoon has been an because you are making a game experience that allowed me to within a game. The game takes you pretend that I am a malevolent through the ages of gaming boss of a game company. It's very history, starting roughly in 1984, challenging, and forced me to
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ne of Valve's most successful portals. However, you are not just begin playing, in the early levels, O games to date, “Portal”, was limited to shooting at walls; you the portals have already been made available for Ubuntu early PLAYING “PORTAL” can also shoot at the ceiling, or at created for you. Like most games, this summer. Although originally the floor. You can create portals the early levels are sort of tutorials released for Windows and Mac “Portal” is not your average out of almost anything, and showing you how the concept of back in 2007 as part of “The First-Person Shooter. For those learning how to use them to get portals works. It took me a while to Orange Box,” it was not until July who have never played “Portal,” it from point A to point B is the real understand what was going on the 2013 that Valve ported “Portal” to may come as a surprise that there purpose of the game. very first time I played this game. Ubuntu through its Steam game are no enemies to kill, no blood, no The basic premise is that you go engine. We are now delighted to running away to hide, no reloading The game takes place in the through a blue portal in one room, be able to play the highly of guns, no grenades, etc. Instead, Aperture Laboratories, where you and you come out of an orange successful, puzzle-solving, first- when you acquire your first are one of many test subjects, or portal in another room. After only person shooter, one-player game shooting device, which looks and “lab rats.” “Lab Rat” is the name of a couple of levels, you acquire your on Ubuntu. feels like an ordinary video game an online comic that tells the story first shooting device, the blue gun, you will be shooting holes in of “Portal” and can be found at the portal gun. From this point on, the walls, these holes are called “Portal” website. When you first orange portals are stationary, and INSTALLING PORTAL usually close to exits (or leading to an exit), and it is up to you to All you need to play the game is figure out where to create a blue the Steam game engine, which can portal and how to go through it be installed through the Ubuntu successfully so that you can come Software Center. Once you have a out through the orange portal. Steam account, and you've These are the basic mechanics of installed the Steam game engine, the game. You go in through a blue then you can search for “Portal” portal and you come out of an and buy it at the current price of orange portal, or vice-versa. only $9.99. If you do not already have Steam, let me reassure you The picture shows me looking that it will be one of your most down at mysefl through the used applications; if you plan on orange portal I made doing some gaming on Linux, you will not regret it. A few levels later, you acquire
full circle magazine #78 46 contents ^ UBUNTU GAMES the orange portal gun. Now your LTS with Unity desktop and AMD • Graphics are as good as they can Cons equipment is complete, you can 13.1 proprietary graphic drivers. get for a six-year-old game. • To play “Portal,” it is create blue or orange portals by The game-play was very smooth • The dialogue from the “Aperture recommended that you use the using either left or right mouse and the graphics were Laboratories” computer during proprietary AMD graphics drivers, buttons. From this point on, it is all phenomenal. No glitches and no game-play is very funny to listen which for some FLOSS purists about physics. If you walk into an problems whatsoever. All in all, it to, and sometimes it can even give might be unethical. orange portal you will walk out was certainly a delight playing you hints to solve puzzles. • Steam has the “Portal” minimum wherever the blue portal was “Portal” on Ubuntu. • The keyboard and mouse work system requirements posted for placed. However, if you jump from very well with this game. The Windows and Mac, but not for up high and go through an orange CONCLUSION latency, if any, is as good as it gets. Linux, even though the Linux Tux portal on the floor, you have the • The concept of the game is Penguin logo is shown on Steam's “Portal” page indicating that the potential to gain lots of speed and Steam is doing wonders for unique and becomes addictive game is supported on Linux. This come out flying through the blue Linux gamers, so it should come as when you understand what it is leaves the average Ubuntu user in portal, which, if placed in the no surprise that one of Valve's that you're supposed to the dark about what the correct spot, will help you get to greatest hits, “Portal”, is now one accomplish. minimum/suggested requirements places that otherwise would be of the best games available for • Ease of installation couldn't be are, thus having to guess or unreachable. Some of these levels Ubuntu. any better. Without sounding too are confusing to solve, but that's redundant, Steam is finally making estimate based on the Windows and Mac requirements. what makes this game so addictive. Pros games “just work” with Ubuntu. “Portal” is now available through • “Portal” has a high replay value. Steam, and I know I am not the only one waiting for Valve to release “Portal 2” on Ubuntu.
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I played “Portal” with my custom made desktop PC consisting of an AMD FX-6100 3.3GHz CPU, an Asus M5A97-EVO motherboard, a Sapphire Radeon Oscar graduated from CSUN, is a HD 5770 graphics card, 8GB of Music Director/Teacher, beta tester, Kingston Hyper X RAM, and a 1TB Wikipedia editor, and Ubuntu Forums contributor. You can contact Seagate Barracuda hard drive. The him via: www.gplus.to/7bluehand or software used was Ubuntu 12.04.1 email: [email protected]
full circle magazine #78 47 contents ^ UUBBUUNNTTUU GGAAMMEESS Written by Gabriel Di Fruscio LLeefftt 44 DDeeaadd 22
es, yes, I know: this game came stay alive as long as you can; playing. The community is very would leave you for dead without Y out in 2009, but, because of Realism reinforces the teamwork well integrated; looking for a game batting an eye. So, I would really the rumors of a Left 4 Dead 3 spirit that Left 4 Dead 2 was was quick and painless, and, if you recommend that you do the coming soon (hopefully not in designed for – by deleting the really don’t like to play games or campaigns with friends or alone Valve time), and the release of all halos (outlines) around your even if you love it but want to add before you venture into a random the Valve games going native to teammates so that you may not a touch of yourself, you could game. Linux recently (or in Beta), I see where they are unless they are create a piece of clothing or a decided to make this review. in your line of sight; Realism Versus weapon and add it to the Steam THE VERDICT is a combination of Realism and Workshop, and, if it’s popular, you Versus game modes, and can make money from it. Also, this SUMMARY I really enjoyed this game with Scavenger is a game mode where game isn’t an intense game for a friends, playing Versus in a random you must gather up as many gas modern computer, so almost If you do not like zombie game is really fun. An Infected and cans as possible to fill up a everyone can play. And did I games... you should probably skip I have played 20+ hours total (as of generator (or car) – again the mention add-ons? They can add this review. This game had me this editorial), and I have Infected and Survivors alternate hundreds more hours of game hooked since I saw the amazing completed three co-op campaigns, positions. time. first cut scene leading to the menu. and I am showing no sign of Left 4 Dead 2 is unique in my book stopping. You can get this game on The good The Bad because it not only has numerous Steam for $19.99, but this game The fact that this game was co-op The community was one of the unique campaigns, but by the fact frequently goes on sale. pretty much sold me immediately, worst things... a few campaign that every single one of the but the idea of it being a zombie games I joined were very campaigns can be played with up game turned me off. But, after a dangerous for beginners as in, if to 4 friends, or, if you are tired of couple of hours, I couldn’t stop you didn’t know the map, they campaigns with friends (or just want to fly solo), there is also a single-player campaign mode. But that isn’t the only thing they have: Left 4 Dead 2 also has: Versus, in Gabriel is Canadian video game which two teams play alternating enthusiast. He started using Ubuntu between being Infected and this year is loving it, and really enjoys the international community always Survivors; Survival is a mode where willing to help. Feel free to tweet – as the title implies – survival is to him: @bestindawork
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