Issue #20 - December 2008 full circle ANDREA COLANGELO THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE FOR THE UBUNTU COMMUNITY PROGRAM IN C - PART 4 WEB DEVELOPMENT - PART 1 BACKUP & SYNC YOUR MUSIC WEB DEVELOPMENT THE DAUNTING TERMINAL NEW SERIES! UBUNTU KUNG FU Full Circle magazine is not affiliate1d with or endorsed by Canonical Ltd. p.04 The Daunting Terminal p.06 Program In C - Part 4 p.08 Web Development - Part 1 p.13 Backup & Sync Your Music p.19 full circle Making Money With FOSS p.23 w w w . f u l l c i r c l e m a g a z i n e . o r g Italy Speaks OSS p.26 Ubuntu Kung Fu p.27 : Andrea Colangelo p.28 p.30 27 .28 p.31 08 13 P. P P. P. p.32 p.34 p.35 : Backup Solutions p.37 p.39 32 .37 P.19 P..23 P. P icons: KDE4 Oxygen 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. 2 EEDDIITTOORRIIAALL This magazine was created using : nother month, another new series. Over the next few months, Brett Alton will be teaching us Web development, beginning, Athis month, with an introduction to some of the tools available. We've had quite a few requests for Web Development articles, so I'm sure this will be a very popular series. Ubuntu is a complete operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. Whether at home, school or work Ubuntu contains all the applications you'll ever need including word processor, email application and web browser. Ubuntu is and always will be free of I wish you all the best of luck in 2009! charge. You do not pay any licensing fees. You can download, use and share Ubuntu with your friends, Ronnie family, school or business for Editor, Full Circle Magazine absolutely nothing. [email protected] Once installed, your system is ready to use with a full set of productivity, internet, drawing and graphics applications, and games. 3 While we can't give every reader one Hackers boot Linux on iPhone penny, we would still like to hear your thoughts. NNEEWWSS The port is of the Linux 2.6 kernel and We want to know what you like, or can run on first and dislike, to help us improve to Linux Kernel 2.6.28 Released second generation make 2009 even better than 2008. iPhones as well as the The Linux 2.6.28 kernel will be the fifth We'd really appreciate it if you could first generation iPod Linux kernel release of 2008 and follows take a few minutes to fill in this short touch. PlanetBeing the 2.6.27 release that came in October. survey: details his Linux port on his blog, making http://url.fullcirclemagazine.org/e78bdf sure to note that the Linux project is We'll keep the survey up until 24th Jan. separate from the iPhone Dev Team project. and publish the results in the January Currently the Linux port is fairly incomplete. issue of FCM. Torvalds wrote in a Linux Kernel Mailing The framebuffer driver, serial driver, serial List posting. From everyone at Full Circle, we want to over USB driver, and drivers for interrupts wish you all the best for 2009, and and other miscellaneous components have thank you for melting our admins server been successfully ported over. Read-only each month with over 20,000 support for the NAND memory is coming downloads. The ext4 filesystem, which has been in along also, but there are a number of various stages of implementation in the components still not running, including We couldn't do it without out you folks! Linux kernel over the course of 2008, is write-support for NAND memory, baseband one of the big items in the 2.6.28 chip support, and support for many iPhone release, which marks the first release in features such as the touch screen, which the new filesystem has been accelerometer, sound, and wireless declared stable. The new system is an networking. evolution of the ext3 filesystem, the Currently the port is possible through the default on many current Linux iPhone attached to a computer with USB distributions. keyboard so it isn't a fully portable Linux Congratulations to port yet. Hopefully future updates will find a While ext4 represents the next stage who wins our copy of way to use a touch pad keyboard. But even from ext3, Linux developers are also at . We'll get that sent in an incomplete state, it is very promising work on another filesystem, BTRFS, off to you as quickly as we can. which may deliver even further to see a version of Linux running on iPhone, improvements in 2009. and an indication that a more complete port If you didn't win, sorry, but there's will be coming in the future. another competition this month to : http://www.internetnews.com win a copy of . : http://www.washingtonpost.com 4 Linux Gains Prey NNEEWWSS Linux game programmer This release candidate of CrunchEee is Ryan "Icculus" similar to the "lite" edition of KDE 4.2 Beta 2 Released for Gordon has CrunchBang, but for the inclusion of Further Testing released a native additional Internet applications. Here is Linux client for a list of features/installed software: Prey, a two-year- old first-person • Array.org repository enabled with shooter (FPS) game from Human Head 2.6.27-8-eeepc-lean Kernel installed. Studios. The client requires users to • Modified theme with smaller fonts. The KDE Community announced the purchase a copy of the title for Windows • Terminator terminal. immediate availability of "Canaria", PCs. • Firefox web browser. (a.k.a KDE 4.2 Beta 2), the second • PCMan File Manager with HAL testing release of the new KDE 4.2 Gordon first posted a "demo" of his Prey automounting enabled. desktop. Canaria is aimed at testers and client for Linux back in October, inviting • Leafpad text editor. reviewers. It should provide a solid users to send feedback. Then, he • VLC media player. ground to report bugs that need to be announced an initial release on his website. • Claws Mail email client. tackled before KDE 4.2.0 is released. He appears to have subsequently released • Liferea feed reader. Reviewers can use this beta to get a first an updated installer said to fix "all known • gFTP file tranfer client. look at the upcoming KDE 4.2 desktop issues." • Transmission BitTorrent client. which provides significant improvements Prey was originally announced in 1998, but • Skype VoIP client. all over the desktop and applications. suffered development delays before being • XChat Internet Relay Chat client. • gPodder podcast catcher. Since the first beta, which was released resurrected and finally shipped in 2006. • Pidgin instant messenger. less than 4 weeks ago, 1665 new bugs Gordon's port may be available from his • Gwibber microblogging client. have been opened, and 2243 bugs have website's Prey download area, here. Users • Various tools and utilities, such File been closed. Since the release of KDE will also need to have a copy of Prey, from Roller, Evince PDF viewer, etc. 4.1.0, more than ten thousand bugs Human Head Studios. Also of possible were closed, showing a massive focus interest to those porting Prey to other : on stability in the upcoming KDE 4.2.0 platforms -- an SDK download said to http://crunchbang.net/pub/linux/crunch which will be released in January 2009, 6 include "all of the game code (for building eee-8.10.01.i386rc1.iso months after KDE 4.1. KDE 4.2.0 will be your own Game DLL), as well as some code followed up by a series of monthly examples/tutorials that explain a few of the : service updates and followed up by KDE basic things you should know before diving http://mirror.h3o.in/mirror/crunchbang/c 4.3.0 in summer 2009. into the code-base." runcheee-8.10.01.i386rc1.iso : http://kde.org : http://www.desktoplinux.com : http://crunchbanglinux.org 5 using text-based commands. CCOOMMMMAANNDD AANNDD CCOONNQQUUEERR This means that you’re Written by Philip Royer eliminating the need to use a graphical interface, or a bunch of ou’ve been sitting in a worried that something might go friendly buttons, to initiate doctor’s office for nearly an wrong. What if I mis-spelled commands. It’s called command Yhour. Each second seems something and it destroys my line, meaning, instead of clicking like an eternity. Worry is starting computer? Over time, though, that buttons and icons, you enter to grip your gut. The test results worry was replaced by a confidence I commands with text. For are being discussed by two nurses could have had from the start. example, to update your system, you would enter: in the hallway, and the grim looks This is what I think every time I on their faces don’t look hear the word “terminal.” It’s never a sudo apt-get update promising.