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full circle NEW SERIES ISSUE #38 - May 2010 ) m o c . r k c i l F ( r a u g a J e h t o k a b m a T : y b o t o h P RREEVVIIEEWW -- UUBBUUNNTTUU 1100..0044 -- LLUUCCIIDD LLYYNNXX full circle magazine #38 contents ^ full circle Program In Python Pt12 p.07 Ubuntu Games p.33 My Story p.18 MOTU Interview p.29 Read how one user began with OpenSolaris, and another user came from Freespire. Virtualization Intro p.12 Command & Conquer p.05 Browser Blogging p.15 Review - Ubuntu 10.04 p.24 Letters p.31 Top 5 p.39 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 #38 contents ^ EDITORIAL This magazine was created using : Welcome to another issue of Full Circle magazine. his month sees the start of a new series of articles on virtualization. If you've ever wanted to try a new operating system, but without dual booting, or if you just want to run Windows for that one elusive application then this series is for you. In this first part, Lucas Westermann will take you through the set up of Tyour virtual machine. From next month you get your hands dirty with actually installing an OS. Yes, 10.04 was released several months ago, but this month we have a review of it's good, and bad, points and the writer has thoughtfully included an extensive list of applications which he finds useful, maybe you'll discover a new favourite application. Ubuntu is a complete operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. I'd like to thank those of you who sent in your Top 5 lists for this issue, while Andrew Whether at home, school or Min is away, I could only print one but rest assured, the next time Andrew needs some work, Ubuntu contains all the time off, I'll use the other Top 5 lists. applications you'll ever need including word processor, email application and web browser. Speaking of submissions, remember folks, we're always open to new ideas for Ubuntu is and always will be free articles, columns and so on. We've no limit to the number of pages in FCM so feel free of charge. You do not pay any to write some articles on whatever you're best at. licensing fees. You can download, use and share Ubuntu with your friends, family, school or business, for absolutely nothing. Editor, Full Circle magazine [email protected] Once installed, your system is ready to use with a full set of productivity, internet, drawing and graphics applications, and games. use the new 'contents' link to jump to the contents page from any other page! full circle magazine #38 contents ^ NEWS 512 bytes and an new Linux wins the SCO vs Nvidia Display Driver SystemRescueCd 1.5.6 alignment option. With GParted Novell case 256.35 For Linux includes new version of users can easily create, organise and delete disk The six-year-long Novell-SCO After many GParted partitions using a graphical case is over - the judge ruled months of hard The user interface (GUI). that Novell did indeed own Unix work, Nvidia SystemRescue patents copyrights which SCO finally Cd developers is failed to license properly and announced on have issued available to download from: therefore the case is closed. June 22nd the final and stable the sixth http://www.sysresccd.org/Downl version of the 256.x update to the oad. A user manual is also Judge Ted Stewart said: "The proprietary driver for Nvidia 1.5.x branch of their Linux available to download from: jury could have rejected the graphics cards. Nvidia 256.35 distribution. Based on the http://www.sysresccd.org/Onlin testimony of SCO's witnesses incorporates lots of fixes and Gentoo LiveCD, the e-Manual-EN for a number of reasons, improvements, over previous SystemRescueCd is configured including their lack of releases. Unofficial GLX as a tool kit for administering : h-online.com involvement in drafting the support was also added for a or repairing an operating APA, the fact that there was few OpenGL extensions, as system and recovering data little testimony on any actual well as Thermal Settings after a system crash. discussions concerning the reporting improvements, Supported file systems include transfer of copyrights, or that Compiz fixes, many VDPAU Ext2, Ext3 and Ext4, ReiserFS, many of the witnesses had a improvements, and many XFS, JFS, VFAT, NTFS, ISO9660 financial interest in the more. and Btrfs. litigation." Ask The Editor For the complete and detailed SystemRescueCd 1.5.6 uses Robin Catling has somehow SCO became little more than a changelog, please check the either the 2.6.32.15 Linux managed to convince me source of lawyers' letters and release announcement at: kernel or the 2.6.34 kernel as (Ronnie) to appear on was seen by many as the arch http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/li an alternative and features the to make it nemesis to the development of nux-display-ia32-256.35-driver- latest major 0.6.0 update to an FCM editorial Q&A, so if you Linux. uk.html the GNOME Partition Editor have a question for me about that adds support for devices anything FCM, email it to: : theregister.co.uk : softpedia.com with sector sizes greater than [email protected] full circle magazine #38 contents ^ COMMAND & CONQUER efore I begin the patches for DWM (Dynamic There are probably many other actual article, I'd like Window Manager) so that they uses (adjusting configuration to mention an email I would work with the pango files, and so forth) that I received from a patch, which adds xft font haven't thought of yet. Breader. Alexander was kind support to DWM's statusbar. In enough to point out that there doing so, I learned quite a bit Diff is installed, by default, is a GUI tray program called about diff, and have decided to in most distributions. If it's not “gstm” that does ssh port share what I learned with you, present in Ubuntu, just install it And I want to change this to: forwarding. For those of my my readers. If you're asking with: readers who prefer GUI yourselves “why should I know alternatives where possible, how to use diff, since I don't sudo apt-get install diff there you go. It's available in use DWM nor generate the universe repository. Also, a patches?”, the answer is Once it's installed, you're reader (who, alas, did not simply because diff can be pretty much all set. In order to share his/her name with me - applied to so many situations. generate a .diff file, you need but you know who you are!) Imagine you are writing a to have two files you want to pointed out that in Step 7 of script, and you want to add to analyse. One will be the my FCM#37 C&C article I failed the script, but require the old “original” (I will refer to it as to point out that you need to version for a different such from now on), and the substitute "localhost" with the computer - instead of creating other will be the “updated” file. IP of your server. (The and backing up two separate command was "ssh -D 8080 scripts, you can write the For simplicity, let's say I I'd make the changes I want lswest@localhost", where script, create a copy of it, make have a file that contains the in the “updated” file. I usually lswest@localhost had to be changes to the copy, generate following: add a “-patched” suffix at the substituted with a .diff file, and back up the end of the filename. Once the your_username@IP_ADDRESS_S original script and the .diff file, changes are made, and I want ERVER). Sorry for any and save yourself some work in to generate a diff, I will type confusion that may have the future. Or, if you're helping the following into my terminal resulted. a friend, and you can't simply of choice: send them the file you need to This month, I spent quite correct, you can send them a diff -up original updated > articles\list\update.diff some time re-writing a few .diff to make the changes. full circle magazine #38 contents ^ COMMAND & CONQUER Replace “original” and it's usually configuration files), very useful tool for figuring out “updated” with the actual file and you don't know if they've the differences between two names and paths. If you don't been changed, and if they files, especially if they're rather want the diff file to be created have, what changes you've long. You can pipe the output in the current working made. To check this, you can into “more” or “less” for easier directory, append a path to the simply run the command: reading, or redirect it into a filename on the other side of text file.
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