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Volume 93 October, 2014 Happy 11th Birthday, PCLinuxOS! Inkscape Tutorial: Sunset With Stars PCLinuxOS Family Member Spotlight: agmg October Is Breast Cancer Awareness Month Pick The Right Tool For The Job Game Zone: So Many Me Inkscape Tutorial: Smiling Jack-O-Lantern Ghostery Makes Ghosts Of Third Party Trackers PCLinuxOHS Maagapzinep y H a l l o w e e n ! And more inside! Page 1 Table Of Contents 3 Welcome From The Chief Editor 4 Screenshot Showcase The PCLinuxOS name, logo and colors are the trademark of 5 Happy 11th Birthday, PCLinuxOS! Texstar. The PCLinuxOS Magazine is a monthly online publication 14 Screenshot Showcase containing PCLinuxOS-related materials. It is published primarily for members of the PCLinuxOS community. The magazine staff is comprised of volunteers from the 15 PCLinuxOS Family Member Spotlight: agmg PCLinuxOS community. 16 Screenshot Showcase Visit us online at http://www.pclosmag.com This release was made possible by the following volunteers: 17 Inkscape Tutorial: Sunset With Stars Chief Editor: Paul Arnote (parnote) Assistant Editor: Meemaw 20 Pick The Right Tool For The Job Artwork: ms_meme, Meemaw Magazine Layout: Paul Arnote, Meemaw, ms_meme 21 Screenshot Showcase HTML Layout: YouCanToo Staff: 22 ms_meme's Nook: Who ms_meme loudog Meemaw YouCanToo 23 PCLinuxOS Recipe Corner: Ground Beef & Sausage Manicotti Gary L. Ratliff, Sr. Pete Kelly Daniel Meiß-Wilhelm Antonis Komis daiashi smileeb 24 October Is Breast Cancer Awareness Month Smileeb 25 Screenshot Showcase Contributors: Khadis 26 Game Zone: So Many Me 28 Inkscape Tutorial: Smiling Jack-O-Lantern The PCLinuxOS Magazine is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share-Alike 3.0 30 Screenshot Showcase Unported license. Some rights are reserved. Copyright © 2014. 31 PCLinuxOS Puzzled Partitions 34 Ghostery Makes Ghosts Of Third Party Trackers 36 More Screenshot Showcase PCLinuxOS Magazine Page 2 Welcome From The Chief Editor I don’t think there’s a computer user on the planet changes to the environment. Climate change, fisheries, their user names to reflect the snarkiness of their that doesn’t realize that the mascot for Linux is Tux, disease, and pollution are all prime suspects in driving persona. a cute little penguin. When I see a penguin, the first penguin population decline. Penguin Watch will help the thing I think of is Linux. It’s been that way since researchers understand more. Also, September saw the magazine’s website before I ever was a Linux user. experiencing a slowdown. Some of the slowdown To take part, visit www.penguinwatch.org and follow the was related to bots and crawlers indexing the site. There’s a new project on Zooniverse to help tag and short tutorial to get going with your first image. You can Unfortunately, they hammered away at the classify pictures of penguins in the Antarctica. If discuss images at talk.penguinwatch.org and you’ll find magazine’s home on the web at the first of the you’re not familiar with Zooniverse, it’s a “collection the project on Twitter and Facebook. month – right when everyone is trying to get the of web-based citizen science projects that use the latest version of The PCLinuxOS Magazine. Thanks efforts of volunteers to help researchers deal with Thanks, a lot, Google and Yahoo! But also caught poking the flood of data that confronts them.” Currently over around in the nether-regions of the site were 125,000 volunteers from around the globe are Rob and the Zooniverse Team hackers from China and Russia (don’t these fools helping sort through mountains of data in various have anything better to do?). YouCanToo, who hosts scientific endeavors related to space exploration, Gee … what Linux user wouldn’t want to help the magazine’s home on his servers, had to block nature, climate and biology. preserve and protect the living, breathing versions of some fairly significant ranges of IP addresses If you Tux? I left all the links intact, just in case some of were caught up in the blockade by having your IP More specifically about the Zooniverse penguin you out there want to lend a hand. address inadvertently blocked, please accept our project, called Penguin Watch, you can help find the apologies. Send us a PM in the forum, or send us an reason for the recent decline in the Antarctica email, with your IP address so we can attempt to get penguin population. Specifically, here are the you reconnected and off of the list of blocked contents of the email I received recently: visitors. Everything should be (and seems to be) running well now. Today we welcome a new project (and a new species!) to the Zooniverse. Penguin Watch asks you to tag penguins Until next month, I bid you peace, happiness, in amazing images from around Antarctica. Find the serenity and prosperity. project at www.penguinwatch.org. Penguin populations are declining but the harsh Linux Docs conditions of the Antarctic make monitoring them logistically challenging. Researchers from around the Linux Man Pages world have established a remote camera network to Paul, Ryan and Laura at Ryan’s first Kansas City Royals monitor penguin colonies across the Southern Ocean. By baseball game, September 2, 2014. tagging images from these cameras on Penguin Watch, you can help scientists understand how and why penguin Meanwhile, an invasion of “mites” have invaded the Linux Training populations are declining – and how to best protect them. PCLinuxOS forum in September. Thanks to ms_meme, who started a post, users started Courses & Classes Penguins play an important role in the Antarctic changing their forum user names to celebrate the ecosystem and are considered sentinels of change – any mighty mite. For a while, it was hard to tell just who variations in penguin dynamics may reflect larger was who. Others were too “snarky” and changed PCLinuxOS Magazine Page 3 SSccrreeeennsshhoott SShhoowwccaassee It's easier than E=mc2 It's elemental It's light years ahead It's a wise choice It's Radically Simple It's ... Posted by YouCanToo, September 1, 2014, running KDE. PCLinuxOS Magazine Page 4 Happy 11th Birthday, PCLinuxOS! It began on October 24, 2003. PCLinuxOS Preview Preview .3 was my first attempt to make a livecd. I .4 was released as a fork of Linux Mandrake distributed it initially to about 20 people to get their (Mandriva) 9.2. Since that time, PCLinuxOS has reaction and feedback. Everyone who tested it loved the matured into its own independent Linux distribution. livecd but there was one thing missing. There wasn't a Just uttering the all-still-too-common line that way to install the thing to the hard drive! srlinuxx from PCLinuxOS is still a fork of Mandriva may cause tuxmachines.org came up with a novel way to copy the sparks to fly. While PCLinuxOS may have been livecd to the hard drive and posted it on our forums. Jaco originally forked from Mandriva, it also borrows from utilized this information and inspiration from the Mepis openSUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu, Knoppix, Mepis, installer and wrote a pyqt script to make the Live CD Debian, Slackware, Arch and just about any/every installable, thus the birth of a new distribution. other Linux distro around. On October 24, 2003, PCLinuxOS Preview .4 was Unlike some other Linux distros, PCLinuxOS thrives released as a fork of Linux Mandrake (Mandriva) 9.2 as a community distribution. It doesn’t have utilizing mklivecd scripts from Jaco Greef, a multimedia multimillionaires and/or billionaires funneling cash kernel from Thomas Buckland (2.4.22-tmb) and a into its coffers, and it doesn’t have the backing of customized KDE (3.1.4-tex). Preview .5 through .93 were any corporation. Rather, a dedicated group of built upon on previous PCLinuxOS releases. After three volunteers keep PCLinuxOS current by developing years of updating one release from the other using the new programs unique to PCLinuxOS, packaging and same gcc and glibc core library, we found too many updating the repositories, or by donating their programs would no longer compile or work properly services for various tasks that need to be done – against this aging code base. and that make PCLinuxOS truly unique among Linux In the summer of 2003, I became interested in Live CD distros. technology after looking at Knoppix and a fresh In November 2006, we utilized a one time source code distribution from a fellow named Warren, called Mepis. I snapshot from our friends at Mandriva to pull in an Although we’ve run it before, I don’t think any was interested in helping Warren with Mepis at the time, updated glibc/gcc core and associated libraries. We spent PCLinuxOS user ever gets tired of hearing the story but I had no clue how to build DEB files. Coming from 5 the following 6 months rebuilding, debugging, of how their favorite OS came into being. If you’re years of packaging RPMS and not really wanting to learn customizing, patching and updating our new code base. relatively new here, you might want to familiarize a new packaging system, I happened to come across a We pulled in stuff from our old code base, utilized yourself with how PCLinuxOS came to be. South African fellow by the name of Jaco Greef. He was patches/code from Fedora, Gentoo and Debian just to developing a script called mklivecd and porting it to name a few. This is why you will never see me distro Mandrake Linux. I, along with Buchanan Milne bashing, as it would be hypocritical to do such a thing. What Is PCLinuxOS? (Mandrake contributor) and a few others, began working We are still dependent in many areas on other distros with Jaco to help debug the scripts.