Issue #16 - August 2008 full circle JAMIE STRANDBOGE THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE FOR THE UBUNTU COMMUNITY GIMP PART 5 GNOME-LOOK GUIDE CREATE YOUR OWN UBUNTU CREATE YOUR OWN SERVER 8 CREATE YOUR UBUNTU CREATE AND MOVE FILES CREATE A PERFECT INSTALL AND BURN IT TO CD. MMMM?? DDPPII?? SSIIZZEE IISS EEVVEERRYYTTHHIINNGG IINN:: UUSSIINNGG GGIIMMPP PPAARRTT 55 Full Circle magazine is not affiliate1d with or endorsed by Canonical Ltd. p.04 Creating And Moving Files p.06 Create Your Own Ubuntu p.08 Server Series - Part 8 p.12 GIMP - Part 5 p.15 full circle GNOME-Look Guide p.18 w w w . f u l l c i r c l e m a g a z i n e . o r g Out With The New... p.24 Ubuntu And Kubuntu Themes p.26 : Jamie Strandboge p.27 p.29 p.30 06 p.32 08 12 P. P. P. p.33 : Twitter Clients p.35 p.37 27 .35 P.15 P..18 P. P 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 : This month, we have an in depth article looking at the various pieces that make up GNOME themes. Once you've got your desktop looking pretty, we give you details on how you can create your own perfect Ubuntu install CD from that installation. We also have the next installment of , and the final installment of . Do you, the readers, have anything you want Daniel to discuss next? If so, email him at:: [email protected] After last year's 'Christmas' edition furor, as an artist and art lover, I just want to say that this issue's cover - a painting depicting creation - is appropriate for an issue with an article on creating your own Ubuntu is a complete operating system that is perfect for laptops, Ubuntu. It's an illustration. So, please, no emails on religion! They will desktops and servers. Whether at be ignored. home, school or work Ubuntu contains all the applications you'll No articles means no magazine. Feel free to send us some articles. ever need including word processor, See the news pages for more info. You don't have to be a skilled email application and web browser. writer. An article's content is what is most important. Although we have many translators bringing to their You do not pay any native tongue, we could use more. So, if you would like to translate, licensing fees. You can download, use and share Ubuntu with your please contact us. If there's an active group in your language, we'll friends, family, school or business put you in touch with them. If not, you can start a group. Don't worry, for absolutely nothing. we're here to provide help, raw text and Scribus files. Once installed, your system is ready to use with a full set of productivity, internet, drawing and graphics applications, and games. Editor, Full Circle Magazine [email protected] 3 Feel free to email news stories Intrepid Ibex Alpha-4 released NNEEWWSS to: [email protected] Alpha 4 is the Please include a source URL. fourth in a series of milestone CD Ubuntu-Maker Canonical Joins foundation also supervises the images that will be released Linux Foundation Linux Standard Base, a set of standards and specifications for throughout the Intrepid development cycle. The Alpha the Linux kernel that is followed by buntu distributor images are known to be reasonably the Linux distributors. Canonical has joined the free of showstopper CD build or Linux Foundation, installer bugs, while representing a U "We look forward to very recent snapshot of Intrepid. bringing more of a desktop working with them to consumer point of view to the continue the march of : enterprise Linux-dominated Linux in all areas of computing," organization. Canonical CTO Matt Zimmerman Ubuntu has taken on an said in a foundation statement. increasingly important role with Zimmerman noted that Ubuntu its focus on desktops, Windows community members are already compatibility, and ease of participants in foundation installation. Mark Shuttleworth workgroups, such as the one A magazine isn't a magazine founded the Ubuntu project in adding to the Linux Standard Base without articles and Full Circle 2004 to get Linux established and one for porting device drivers is no exception. We need your as a low-cost education system that have just become available , and in South Africa, then built for Linux back into the older . We also need Canonical to support it. He still versions of the operating system (games, apps & serves on its technical board. already in use. Ubuntu work on hardware), articles drivers has been critical to (on any K/X/Ubuntu subject) The Linux Foundation is the Ubuntu's ease of installation on and any questions, or vendor-neutral employer of many Windows machines. suggestions, you may have. Linus Torvalds, Linux originator and lead developer. The 4 NNEEWWSS The Space Cube Runs Linux SCO fined in Germany over Linux claims Linux server market exceeds 13% SCO Group has been ordered to pay a Linux has always been €10,000 (£7,900) fine in better received in the Germany for making server market than the claims that Linux includes intellectual desktop market, where property from Unix. it's compatibility with UNIX and POSIX- SCO has repeatedly claimed that Linux It’s one of the smallest PCs in the compliance has made it a great fit for is an unlawful derivative of Unix, but had world, with each side measuring companies who aren't about to shell agreed not to make this claim anymore around 2 inches square. out for UNIX licensing. The past year in Germany, following a lawsuit in 2003. along has seen significant Linux server In the flesh it’s even more impressive The current case found that the claims growth, which now accounts for over than in pictures, inspiring awe and were still present in US material 13% of the market. provoking disbelieving reactions across available on the site of SCO Group the PC Pro office. It’s actually quite They share this with many top players, GmbH, the group's German subsidiary. difficult to comprehend just how small including Microsoft, who has more than As well as paying the fine, SCO will have the PC is. a third of the total market. While UNIX- to monitor its German presence. like operating systems still make up the So, we’ve established that it’s "Patent-threat scare tactics lion's share of all servers active in the incredibly, impossibly small. But what’s against free software are world, vendors who support and sell inside? There’s a surprisingly capable frequently used, but have Linux will likely have to find new ways CPU packed away in the tiny chassis never been backed up," said Mark to erode Microsoft market share rather with a top clock speed of 300MHz. It’s Taylor, president of the Open Source than others, or they risk stalling growth. arrived with us clocked at a slightly Consortium, a UK open-source advocacy more modest 200MHz,but a simple IBM remains the number one vendor for group. "Germany's approach is the jumper built in to the case enable the selling servers, selling significantly sensible and traditional 'innocent until processor to be clocked up to either more than HP, Sun, Dell and others. proven guilty' and puts the onus on the 250MHz or the full 300MHz that it’s mud-slingers." : TechSpot.com capable of. : news.zdnet.co.uk : PCPro.co.uk 5 the directory, but you can do so, if you like to be sure what's CCOOMMMMAANNDD AANNDD CCOONNQQUUEERR going on. You need to be careful Written by Robert Clipsham when using mv and cp, as they will overwrite any existing files ow that you know how to I'm not going to tell you what it is!). you may have. This is not an navigate a command line, Now that we have a file and directory issue with our practice files, but Nfind out where you are, and to practice with, it's time to do when you do it with real files, it how to list the files in your current something with them. The first thing could cause problems. You directory, we'll show you how to I'll show you is how to make a copy should back up before manage your files using a shell. To of a file or directory. interacting with any files using the command line if you are begin with, open up a terminal $ cp foo foo2 and do the following: worried about losing things. If This will copy the file 'foo' (which you would like to be notified $ touch foo we created earlier) to 'foo2'. Now when your command calls for an $ mkdir bar let's move our new file 'foo2' to the overwrite, use the -i switch. For The first of these commands 'bar' directory, and at the same time example: will create an empty file called rename it to 'foo'.