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FCM 61 Italiano Full Circle LA RIVISTA INDIPENDENTE PER LA COMUNITÀ LINUX UBUNTU Numero #61 - Maggio 2012 AUDIO FLUX NUOVA SEZIONE MUSICA GRATIS IN CC foto: downhilldom1984 (Flickr.com) CCOOPPIIAA EE CCOODDIIFFIICCAA DDII DDVVDD QQUUAATTTTRROO SSIISSTTEEMMII CCRROONNOOMMEETTRRAATTII EE PPRROOVVAATTII full circle magazine n.61 1 Full Circle magazine non è affiliata né sostenuta da Canonical Ltd. indice ^ HowTo Full Circle Opinioni LA RIVISTA INDIPENDENTE PER LA COMUNITÀ LINUX UBUNTU Python-Parte33 p.07 Rubriche LaMiaStoria p.38 UsareilcomandoTOP p.10 NotizieLinux p.04 AudioFlux p.52 LaMiaOpinione p.42 VirtualBoxNetworking p.15 Comanda&Conquista p.05 GiochiUbuntu p.53 IoPensoChe... p.43 GIMP-BeanstalkParte 2 p.21 LinuxLabs p.29 D&R p.50 RecensioneLibro p.45 Torna Prossimo Mese Inkscape-Parte1 p.24 DonneUbuntu p.XX Chiuderele«Finestre» p.32 Lettere p.46 Grafica Gli articoli contenuti in questa rivista sono stati rilasciati sotto la licenza Creative Commons Attribuzione - Non commerciale - Condividi allo stesso modo 3.0. Ciò significa che potete adattare, copiare, distribuire e inviare gli articoli ma solo sotto le seguenti condizioni: dovete attribuire il lavoro all'autore originale in una qualche forma (almeno un nome, un'email o un indirizzo Internet) e a questa rivista col suo nome ("Full Circle Magazine") e con il suo indirizzo Internet www.fullcirclemagazine.org (ma non attribuire il/gli articolo/i in alcun modo che lasci intendere che gli autori e la rivista abbiano esplicitamente autorizzato voi o l'uso che fate dell'opera). Se alterate, trasformate o create un'opera su questo lavoro dovete distribuire il lavoro risultante con la stessa licenza o una simile o compatibile. Fullcircle è completamente indipendente da Canonical, lo sponsor dei progetti di Ubuntu, e i punti di vista e le opinioni espresse nella rivista non sono in alcun modo da attribuirefull circle magazine o approvat n.61i da Canonical.2 indice ^ EEDDIITTOORRIIAALLEE Questa rivista è stata creata utilizzando: Benvenuti a un altro numero di Full Circle! llora: non avete ancora finito di giocare con la 12.04? Io ho aggiornato il mio Kubuntu 11.10 alla 12.04 un paio di giorni dopo ilrilascio e, devo ammetterlo, l'aggiornamento è stato impeccabile. Anche se ho dovuto lasciarlo in download A per tutta la notte, visto che, suppongo, i server erano sotto assedio. Pieni voti a tutto il team di Kubuntu. Spero che i vostri aggiornamenti siano andati altrettanto bene. Questo mese niente LibreOffice: Elmerha un po' di impegni nella vita reale. Avrete invece un ottimo tutorial sul comando TOP. Top è un applicazione di tipo taskmanagerche si esegue dalla riga di comando. Robin Catling (quello del podcast scomparso) ha scritto un Full Circle Podcast articolo in quattro parti sul networking con VirtualBox. Piuttosto che pubblicarlo in quattro Rilasciato mensilmente, ogni episodio numeri, li ho stipati tutti in questo. Mi ha già chiamato pazzo (tra le altre cose) per averli raccoglie tutte le più recenti notizie, pubblicati in un solo articolo. Intanto aggiungeremo un villaggio e una pianta di fagioli nel opinioni, recensioni, interviste e mio tutorialdi GIMP, e, anche se è un po' presto perquest'anno, imparerete a fare un feedback dei lettori, dal mondo Ubuntu. IlSide-Pod è una novità: è un pupazzo di neve nel tutorial di Inkscape. Anziché una recensione software, questo mese breve podcast aggiuntivo (senza abbiamo la recensione di un libro. Date una letta alla mia recensione, quindi cliccate sul link regolarità), inteso come un'appendice perottenere uno sconto. In esclusiva peri lettori di Full Circle! del podcast principale. Qui vengono inseriti tutti gli argomenti di tecnologia in generale e il materiale E perfare un tuffo nelpassato -lui lo è davvero -abbiamo Nicola Cappellini. Nicola è non inerente ad Ubuntu che non stato un correttore di bozze anni fa e di fatto ha ideato, e ha scritto, le linee guida peri rientrano nel podcast principale. nostri scrittori. Oggi è tornato con una rubrica musicale - in cui suggerirà canzoni Creative Commons (il mese prossimo), siti (questo mese) e software. Ospiti: Robin Catling Ed Hewitt Con i migliori saluti, e restate in contatto! Dave Wilkins Ronnie [email protected] http://fullcirclemagazine.org full circle magazine n.61 3 indice ^ LLIINNUUXX NNEEWWSS Ubuntu 12.10 sarà chiamato Un piccolo PC esegue Rilasciato Linux Mint 13 "Quantal Quetzal" Linux e Android 4.0, "Maya" RC! EPUB costa solo $74 Finalmente, abbiamo le versioni per cellulari di Full Circle nella rima abbiamo visto pagina di download. Al Raspberry Pi e Cotton momento ci sono online Candy; ora l'ultimo a solamente un paio di edizioni, P venire [è] il micro-PC ma speriamo di avere le edizioni MK802, un dispositivo a grandezza precedenti a breve. Se avete dei di USB che costa solo 74 dollari. problemi con i file o la a sfida inizia con ilnome in formattazione epub potete Equipaggiato con un processore codice del successore di scrivere una email a Jens: AllWinner A10 Cortex A8 ARM Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise [email protected] single-core da 1.5 GHz, Android 4.0, L Pangolin", che dovrebbe isponibile in due 512MB di memoria RAM DDR3 ad Un grande grazie a Jense i beta essere rilasciato questa settimana, versioni, Linux Mint 13 alta capacità e connettività WiFi. tester per aver reso ciò realtà. annunciato da Mark Shuttleworth. offre la possibilità di "Quantal Quetzal" è il nome D Con un processore grafico MALI400, scegliere tra un annunciato nelpostdi un blog da il dispositivo [...] ha 4GB di memoria ambiente desktop maturo, stabile e Shuttleworth, che ha affermato Flash, un ingresso microSD e due porte produttivo: MATE 1.2; o il nuovo ed che sarebbe ridondante usare Google Currents USB: una di dimensioni standard, l'altra eccitante Ciannmon 1.4. Questi "Quality" nel nome, poiché "In micro. Ha una uscita video HDMI da sono due tra i migliori ambienti questitempi ogni rilascio ha come Google Currents è stato 1080p e gli utenti possono sia scrivere desktop disponibili, perfettamente priorità la qualità". rilasciato su internet, quindi su una tastiera virtuale Android, sia integrati con Linux Mint e sono una installatelo sui vostri dispositivi collegare un mouse o tastiera wireless. buona alternativa per gli utenti di IlQuetzalè una famiglia di Android/Apple, cercate 'full circle' Forse la cosa più bella è la possibilità di Gnome 2. Inoltre LinuxMint13 è un uccelli trovati nell'est del Messico, (nell'app) e aggiungete i numeri eseguire Ubuntu, Debian o un'altra rilascio LTS (Supporto a Lungo coperto in gran parte da un 55-60. Oppure, potete fare clic sui distribuzione Linux a propria scelta Termine) e riceverà supporto fino piumaggio verde iridescente. link della pagina download di tramite la microSD. ad Aprile 2017. FCM, per scaricare quelle edizioni. Fonte: h-online.com Fonte: pcadvisor.co.uk Fonte: linuxmint.com full circle magazine n.61 4 indice ^ CCOOMMAANNDDAA && CCOONNQQUUIISSTTAA Consigli & Trucchi II Scritto da Lucas Westermann Consigli & Trucchi II Nell'articolo del mese scorso ho precedenti articoli, ne ho fatto conky basata su lua con Music Player Dvol: uno script per impostare il chiesto ai lettori se poteva riferimento). Qualsiasi domanda Daemon information. Potrebbe volume (inclusa una visualizzazione a interessare un intero articolo specifica può essermi inviata essere adattato, ma essenzialmente è schermo con dzen) inerente i miei file di all'indirizzo email sotto indicato. inutile perchi non usa MPD (anche se configurazione. Dalle risposte non vedo ilmotivo percui MPD non volstate: uno script perlo stato del ricevute ho avuto la sensazione che Gestore delle Finestre debba essere usato!). volume che ne include le informazioni ci fosse interesse, pubblicherò (azzeramento o la percentuale se non quindi illinkai miei file di .xmonad.hs è il file di configurazione Il file .conkyrc è la mia istanza azzerato). configurazione e vi spiegherò cosa del mio gestore finestre (XMonad) e non "principale" con dentro un po' di fanno e perché ne ho bisogno. Gli interessa a chi non usa lo stesso. Lo uso informazioni di sistema. Utilizza un file Mpd-cover: Uno script (non creato script si trovano su github, qui: congiuntamente con il file lua per creare uno sfondo uniforme semi- da me) che scarica le copertine degli https://github.com/lswest/dotfiles .conkyrc_dwm_bar per creare la mia trasparente, ma potrebbe anche essere album per una determinata canzone /tree/master/C&C (questa cartella barra delle applicazioni (originariamente usato facilmente senza. usando le informazioni prese da MPD e non sarà aggiornata, salvo che io la usavoin DWM e da qui ilnome). le salva nella cartella .covers. Funziona non faccia correzioni, mentre i file Il file .conkyrc_reminders contiene un abbastanza bene, a meno che non ci che effettivamente utilizzo sono Impostazioni generali del front-end per lo script phyton ToDo (vedi siano simboli misteriosi o musica disponibili nella directory master/). terminale: numero 46). Formatta documenti di testo esotica. Gli altri file sono molto generici. Il in un elenco puntato, usando i nomi dei Una schermata di esempio del file .Xdefaults contiene i colori e le file per denominare le sezioni. Packages-short: Un script mio sistema: impostazioni per rxvt-unicode. Inoltre indicatore di nuovi aggiornamenti http://lswest.deviantart.com/art/M uso Zshell, quindi il mio file .zshrcè un Ulteriori script inclusi: (utilizza pacman ma apt-get potrebbe arch-201 2-Screenshot-289550803 po' più dettagliato del corrispondente essere un'alternativa). file .bashrc. Uso tuttavia i simboli Vim- Wallpapers.sh, che seleziona Non scenderò nei dettagli di jDate: Un orologio con datario in Powerline (vedi numero 59), siate casualmente ogni 15 minuti uno sfondo tutte le opzioni che uso nei miei lingua giapponese personalizzato che quindi consapevoli di ciò se riportate da una specifica cartella (facilmente file, altrimenti risulterebbe un uso con conkye dzen come una barra ilpromptdelmio PS1.
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