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full circle ISSUE #26 - June 2009 L INUX DEV ICES full circle magazine #26 1 contents ^ full circle Command & Conquer p.05 Ubuntu Women p.22 Inkscape - Part 3 p.07 Ubuntu Games p.24 My Story p.15 MOTU Interview p.19 Ubuntu As A Guest p.09 My Desktop p.27 Apt-Cacher p.13 Review p.17 Letters p.20 Top 5 p.29 The articles contained in this magazine are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. This means you can adapt, copy, distribute and transmit the articles but only under the following conditions: You must attribute the work to the original author in some way (at least a name, email or URL) and to this magazine by name ('full circle magazine') and the URL www.fullcirclemagazine.org (but not attribute the article(s) in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you must distribute the resulting work under the same, similar or a compatible license. full circle magazine #26 2 contents ^ EDITORIAL This magazine was created using : Welcome to another issue of Full Circle magazine. irst things first: I want to say a huge thank you to all the people who sent in articles to FCM. It will certainly keep us going for a short time, but we do still need articles, so don't stop now! Keep them coming! FHopefully, from next month, we'll have a new series of articles on setting up a LAMP server. I know we did a series on LAMP a little while back, but it's always good to have a refresher course and, since it's written by someone else, it may be easier to understand than the first series, or may include more nuggets of information. A letter we received this month has an interesting idea: would you, the readers, Ubuntu is a complete operating system that is perfect for be interested in a weekly/monthly IRC discussion? Check this month's 'Letter of the laptops, desktops and servers. Month' on page 20 for more details. I'm interested in hearing your thoughts on this Whether at home, school or work idea, as Robert is getting very lonely in our empty IRC channel. Feel free to head Ubuntu contains all the over there and say 'hello' - we're on , , and no applications you'll ever need including word processor, email excuses, as even Pidgin can do IRC! application and web browser. Ubuntu is and always will be free As you can see from the cover, this month's Top5 is somewhat different. It doesn't of charge. You do not pay any list every Linux device, that would be a magazine in itself, but lists the types of licensing fees. You can download, use and share Ubuntu devices Linux is installed on. And I can vouch for the goodness of Android - I have a with your friends, family, school G1. We wish Andrew Min the best of luck in his exams. He'll return to his Top5 next or business for absolutely month and thank Andrew Harris for filling in. nothing. Once installed, your system is ready to use with a full set of productivity, internet, drawing Editor, Full Circle magazine and graphics applications, and [email protected] games. use the new 'contents' link to jump to the contents page from any other page! full circle magazine #26 3 contents ^ NEWS founder of the Ubuntu project. One Hundred Paper Cuts Use Ubuntu As Media Canonical Announces “Intel’s Atom processor along project Center With Moovida Support For Moblin v2 with the Linux Foundation bring fantastic energy and excitement Canonical has launched a to OEMs looking to deliver Linux- project with the intriguing title based experiences for users of "One Hundred Paper Cuts". through Moblin. Adding it as an The plan is to identify and fix option alongside Ubuntu, and 100 small points of interface eventually sharing elements pain for users. between the two, means even more rapid innovation on open The company says: "A paper platforms which will benefit cut is a minor usability Moovida is what used to be developers, manufacturers and, annoyance that an average At Computex in Taipei called elisa,it is an open source most importantly, users.” user would encounter on cross-platform media center Canonical announced support his/her first day of using a new of Moblin, an optimized open solution designed to be simple : installation of Ubuntu 9.10". It's for people not particularly source Linux software stack not looking for specific familiar with computers. By and application framework, by problems with apps - the bringing together all your committing to the company wants system-wide movies, TV shows, tunes and development of a product issues. photos in one simple based on the recently released innovative interface. Moblin v2 for Intel® Atom™ How successful the project is processor-based platforms. will depend on the thousands More than that, Moovida Moblin v2 provides the core of volunteers that contribute to brings you the best of internet infrastructure, applications and the Ubuntu OS. Still, it's a noble video, music and images to user experience that Canonical FCM#25 WINNER goal and should drive further play on your HDTV, laptop or will integrate into an Ubuntu- uptake of the top free Linux- based product. "We are very Congratulations to our PC. FCM#25 winner: based OS. excited about bringing a : unixmen.com Moblin v2-based product to : pocket-lint.com : moovida.com market in the near future,” Who wins a copy of said Mark Shuttleworth, full circle magazine #26 4 contents ^ COMMAND & CONQUER efore I get into any lightweight, if that's what sudo apt-get install moc new topics, I'd like to you're going for). Tired of most people think of take a moment to having your music stop playing Once the program is complicated thank reader Harold when your Xserver dies (or you installed you can open it by commands, or black BDe Bruijn for pointing out the turn it off)? MOC will continue running: terminals... existence of playing music since it runs as a (http://pacpl.sourceforge.net/), CLI server, or you can run it mocp and the fact that it supports from a tty screen without any correct result and hit Enter to The default view will be, on the converting of tags. It's also kind of X. Or has your Xserver play it. You can use the file the left side, a file browser, and in the Ubuntu repositories. This died and you need help to fix ~/.moc/config to specify a on the right side will be the can be used instead of ffmpeg it, but don't have any way to beginning layout, and if you playlist (empty for now). Use in the m4a function I explained ask anyone? Irssi will let you go want shuffle on or off, repeat, the Tab key to switch between in the past issue, since it saves on IRC (so you can visit etc. I won't go through the the file browser and the the tags in the newly #ubuntu on freenode, for almost endless list of options playlist. From the file browser converted format. example). Not only are these (because, well, I have no idea applications useful for when menu you can browse to your where to start, there's just so music folder. If you want to add Now, back to this month's you are without a GUI, but they much), my ~/.moc/config file all your music at once, just hit article. When you mention the also are extremely can be seen at: Shift+a, so that it adds the command line, most people customizable (colors, extra http://fullcirclemagazine.org/mo directory to the playlist, hitting think of complicated functions, etc). I, for example, c-config/ just 'a' will add the currently commands, or black terminals use a script to pull the selected file. Once it loads all with white (or often green) text information from MOC into the music and tag information, scrolling huge amounts of text. conky, but you can also write a g – search you should have a nice list of Or they think of apt-get, script that is executed at the space bar – pause/play your music. But wait, what if I aptitude, elinks, etc, since they end of a song to display the enter – choose/start playing want to play one specific song, are widespread applications new song title and place it in a selected file do I have to scroll through this and very commonly used. text file (for more real-time tab – switch between file all? Simple answer? No. If you However, how many people updates). browser and playlist hit 'g' and then type the name think of MOC (Music on n – next song of an artist, song, etc, it will Console), or irssi (IRC client)? First, let's start with MOC. To b – previous song filter the results in the playlist, Both programs are CLI-based, install moc run the following C – clear playlist and you can highlight the and are very useful (and command: A – add folder recursively to full circle magazine #26 5 contents ^ COMMAND & CONQUER playlist input field. If you want to go .theme extension), so it would coding and CLI apps. I find it a – add file to playlist from window-2 to window-1, for be the best environment for both. s – shuffle toggle example, hit meta (usually the Even if you're not planning on h – help menu windows key, but ESC works as /set theme rainbows using these programs, I'd well), and 1 to get to the first recommend having at least screen.