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FOSSPICKS Drukkar p66 Android-x86 4.4 RC p67 HotShots p68 rCSSmin p68 Gipfel p69 Lynx p69 Flpsed p70 Lynis p68 NightmareTris p70 Zatacka p71 Sparkling gems and new releases from the world of FOSSpicks Free and Open Source Software Mike Saunders has spent a decade mining the internet for open source treasures. Here’s the result of his latest haul… Lightweight blog platform Drukkar 2.0 http://drukkar.sourceforge.net ituation: you want to set up entries as simple XML files, and is your own blog. Options: a designed with minimum bandwidth Smillion and one competing overheads, so the “content should blog platforms, each one trying to account for most of your web be more feature-rich, flashy and traffic” as the developer puts it. Web 4.0 than the last. End result: you get tired of trying to work out Nice and simple what’s right for you, give up, and go To install Drukkar, extract its .zip to the pub instead. file directly into a location on your Sounds familiar? Most of us web server (note that it won’t create don’t need whizz-bang WordPress a subdirectory during extraction). installations with all the trimmings Then edit config.xml and set for our day-to-day musings, and the base_url and base_location Drukkar does a splendid job with settings to match your installation minimal requirements. It doesn’t path. Finally, make sure that the need a database or special Apache entries, files and cache directories Drukkar’s default theme, “flat”, is clean and simple. To change the modules or anything like that – its are writable by your web server text on the right, edit inc/sidebar.php. only requirement is a web server account (eg www-data on Debian/ with PHP. Drukkar stores blog Ubuntu systems). Now access the Drukkar installation in your web browser, and voilà: your blog is ready to go. You can see that a sample entry has been created automatically. To add new entries, go to edit.php in your Drukkar installation and enter the admin password (by default it’s just password). You can then add a new blog entry in plain text, HTML or Markdown. It’s possible to add tags to entries for organising them later, and add files to them as well (go to files.php to manage them). See config.xml for more options, such as changing the blog’s title and creating a new password. It’s all charmingly simple, lightning fast and no-nonsense – we’ve got it The official webpage of Drukkar is made in, you guessed it, Drukkar – a good old running for a tech-shy relative who open source “eating your own dogfood” approach. wants his own type-and-go blog. 66 www.linuxvoice.com FOSSPICKS Operating system Android-x86 4.4 RC www.android-x86.org es, you can run the world’s Wi-Fi networks; Android will use the most popular mobile emulated network adaptor. Also, if Yoperating system on your you can’t see the mouse pointer, try desktop PC. And no, there are no disabling mouse integration from pressing reasons to do so, other the VirtualBox menu. than out of curiosity. But that’s why From here, it’s very much we love Linux and Free Software, standard Android: the black bar at right? If you’re absolutely bursting the bottom of the screen is almost to do some Android development always present, and includes three but can’t get your mitts on an buttons. The first takes you back to Android-powered smartphone or the previous screen (useful if you’ve tablet, this project might help you dived into several levels of settings), out somewhat. Bearing in mind that while the second takes you back to Android was developed specifically the home screen from whatever for handheld devices, don’t expect app you’re using. The third button to be amazed with this PC port. brings up a simple task manager The usual gamut Still, it’s surprisingly usable. for switching between apps. of Android apps is included by default: its fonts are Android-x86 is available from the bundled, along with a ridiculously tiny, so click the project website (and on the Linux Our new Google overlords terminal emulator. three-dot icon in the top-right Voice DVD) as an ISO image that Click the circle button with six dots (Android’s stock button for settings), you can burn to a CD-R, or inside to view the included go to Preferences, and finally Font alternatively, boot in VirtualBox. If software. Android-x86 bundles Size. When you’ve selected you do the latter, make sure that Google’s apps, so you can something better (eg 16pt), click the you provide at least 32MB of video immediately use Google+, Google back arrow in the bottom bar. RAM to the VM, and choose Maps and other services without Android as a PC OS is little more SoundBlaster 16 for the emulated extra fiddling. The Play Store is also than a novelty at this stage, but in sound card. Boot from the ISO provided as well. We’re pleased to time it might be a useful desktop image and at the initial menu, hit see that a terminal emulator is OS for non-technical users who are Enter on the first entry to start the already familiar with its interface on OS in live mode, running straight a smartphone or tablet. If we ever from the disc. You’ll be asked a few “In time Android might be a useful had the time to do our podcast questions before reaching the home desktop OS for users who are challenges, “use Android-x86 as our screen. If you’re running VirtualBox, already familiar with its interface. sole desktop OS for a week” would you can skip the question about ” be a darn good ’un… How it works: install Android-x86 to your hard drive 1 Boot 2 Partition 3 Install Burn the ISO image to a CD-R – you’ll find it Choose a partition on your drive for the Choose ext3 as the file format, choose to on this mont’s cover DVD – and boot from it. At the Android files. (This will wipe the data!) If you need to install Grub, and the files will be copied over. initial menu, select the 4th option: Installation. partition manually, the third option runs cfdisk. Reboot and enjoy exploring the OS. www.linuxvoice.com 67 FOSSPICKS Screenshot creator/editor HotShots 2.1.0 http://sourceforge.net/projects/hotshots t’s something of a cliché to say full details. Once you have it “Foo is like Bar on steroids”, but installed, enter hotshots and the Ithat certainly applies here. main window will pop up. The app HotShots is a screenshot creation also drops an icon in your and editing tool with nigh-on every notification area, so you can easily feature you can imagine rolled in, pop it up when needed. and it does a sterling job. You might think: what’s so special about taking Many, many extras a screenshot? Just hit the Print In the main window, the most Screen key. Well, that’s fine if you important widget is Capture Mode. HotShots lets you draw just want a rather generic capture of Along with grabbing the whole writing documentation and want to areas on the screen to the screen, but if you want to add screen or a specific region, this also take as a screenshot, explain parts of an interface. effects or annotations, it’s better to lets you save hand-drawn regions with the background set You can save your work as a .hot use a specialist tool. with smoothed edges – something as transparent. file for later editing (eg if you want HotShots uses Qt4 for its we haven’t seen in other screenshot to reposition elements), or export it interface, and the dependencies creation tools. Click the fire button in PNG, BMP, GIF and other formats. you’ll need on Debian/Ubuntu- on the left, and after you’ve chosen It’s even possible to upload based systems are qt4-qmake, the area to grab, the editor will pop screenshots to an FTP server or libqt4-dev, libxtq-dev and libxfixes- up. This is a mightily powerful tool image hosting site like Imgur with a dev. Its installation process that lets you add snazzy-looking single click – great if you need to includes several alternative shapes, arrows, numbered tags and quickly show someone else on the methods – see INSTALL.txt for the text boxes; very useful if you’re net your current screen state. CSS compressor rCSSmin 1.0.3 http://opensource.perlig.de/rcssmin f you’re developing a website, than you do, though. It simply strips it’s all too easy to focus on out spaces, comments, semi- Ihome or office users with fast colons (where possible) and other connections and unlimited bits and bobs that aren’t required. bandwidth. But there’s an Two versions are provided: one is increasing number of people on written in Python, takes its input via expensive mobile data tariffs, and stdin, and spits the results to there are still some people stuck on stdout. So if you have a file called dial-up, so it’s important to consider style.css, compress it like this: Before and after: our all types of users and reduce your cat style.css | ./rcssmin.py > new.css 70k to 40k. This isn’t a world- 70k CSS file in the left- site’s overall data requirements.