Issue #18 - October 2008 full circle STEPHAN HERMANN THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE FOR THE UBUNTU COMMUNITY GIMP - PART 7 PROGRAM IN C - PART 2 INSTALL UBUNTU 8.10 A SECURE NETWORK DRIVE THE INTREPID IBEX PACKAGE MANAGEMENT WE TAKE A LOOK AT UBUNTU 8.10 Full Circle magazine is not affiliate1d with or endorsed by Canonical Ltd. p.04 Package Management p.06 Program In C - Part 2 p.08 A Secure Network Drive p.12 GIMP - Part 7 p.14 full circle Install Ubuntu 8.10 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 Ubuntu And Me p.21 How Many Distros Is Too Many? p.22 Urban Terror p.24 : Stephan Hermann p.30 p.33 P.24 P.08 P.12 p.35 p.36 : Mind Mapping Tools p.37 p.39 30 .37 P.14 P..18 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 : October marks the birth of two very important events in the Linux world. It was in October, seventeen years ago, that Linus Torvalds announced he was working on a UNIX-like kernel. And, by the time you read this, Ubuntu 8.10 (and its derivatives) will be upon us. Also, this month, Full Circle received several books for review from , and , so, from next month, we will be reviewing one, or two, books each month - with the possibility for you, the readers, to win some of the books under review. We would like to extend our thanks to and , for supporting Full Circle. Expect to see ads Ubuntu is a complete operating system that is perfect for laptops, in Full Circle for these publishers. It's only fair that we support them in desktops and servers. Whether at return. home, school or work Ubuntu contains all the applications you'll We're always looking for articles to publish in Full Circle. If you're ever need including word processor, interested in writing something for us, please send your articles as email application and web browser. text, or OpenOffice documents, with screens/photos (please don't embed them in the ODT file!) to [email protected]. You You do not pay any don't need to be an expert to write an article - you just need to know licensing fees. You can download, a bit about your subject. I'm no GIMP, nor Scribus, expert but I've use and share Ubuntu with your written about the bits I use and know about. friends, family, school or business for absolutely nothing. Once installed, your system is ready to use with a full set of productivity, Editor, Full Circle Magazine internet, drawing and graphics [email protected] applications, and games. 3 Linux On Brazilian Voting Machines Linux As a Model For a New NNEEWWSS Government? A hedge fund investor who prided himself on achieving 1000% returns, Ubuntu Confirms Linux Netbook Andrew Lahde, wrote a goodbye letter Returns Higher than Anticipated to mark his departure from the financial world. In it, he suggests Joanna Stern reports on remarks made people think about building a new by MSI concerning a higher rate of government model, and his suggestion return on Linux installed netbooks than is to have someone like George Soros with Windows XP installed netbooks. fund a new government that brings Gerry Carr, marketing manager at together the best and brightest minds 130 million Brazilian voters were Canonical, has confirmed that the rate in a manner where they're not tempted turned into users of one of the of return appears to be higher than by bribery. In doing so, he refers to largest Linux deployments average. There are still some questions how Linux grows and competes with worldwide: the 400,000 electoral sections in about what manufacturers, what Microsoft. An open source government. all of the 5,563 Brazilian municipalities were distributions, and most of all what How would such a system work, and running electronic voting machines, and the figures are actually involved. Carr could it succeed? How long before it Linux kernel was running on all of them. highlighted a few reasons why Ubuntu- became corrupt? Would it need a running netbooks are returned more These voting machines have been used in benevolent dictator? often. Brazil since 1996, and are rugged, self- : slashdot.org sufficient low-spec PCs. Technical details about this Linux deployment and implementation are available elsewhere (and more will come, for sure), but I thought it would be interesting to show some A magazine isn't a magazine pictures and a movie - shown at the source without articles and Full Circle is no link below - of Linux booting on these voting exception. We need your Opinions, Carr stressed that, in these cases, it machines, so I asked for official permission Desktops and Stories. We also doesn’t matter how good, or bad the (thank you, TRE/SC!), and was helped by a need Reviews (games, apps & Linux OS is. These customers just don’t technician while I took some quick pictures hardware), How-To articles (on any want to try something new. and made a small movie showing the boot K/X/Ubuntu subject) and any process. questions, or suggestions, you may : Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter have. #112 http://br-linux.org/english/linux- voting-machines/ Send them to: 4 NNEEWWSS Monday 3 November to Friday 7 November on IRC OpenOffice.org Update Sets in #ubuntu-classroom Downloads Record OpenOffice.org 3.0 • learn about the Ubuntu landscape was downloaded 3 million times in its • talk to some of the key developers from the Ubuntu project first week, with • find out about the Community and its relationship with Canonical about 80% of the downloads by • participate in an open Q&A with Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu Windows users, an and much more... official with the group said in a blog post last week. The successful introduction of the open source office suite came despite the group's download servers being temporarily overwhelmed by demand for the new software last week. Only 221,000 downloads by Linux users were recorded, leading John McCreesh, head of marketing for OpenOffice.org, to suggest a massive undercount. McCreesh said 90% of Linux users traditionally receive OpenOffice.org updates straight from their Linux distribution's vendor, which would explain the relatively low Linux count. With the undercount included, OpenOffice.org 3.0 may already be installed on up to 5 million computers worldwide, McCreesh said in a blog post. : PCWorld.com 5 of output will be from the second CCOOMMMMAANNDD AANNDD CCOONNQQUUEERR command. It will look something Written by Robert Clipsham like: his month, we'll show you 'root' user, giving it full control over how to do package your system. This is necessary, as Tmanagement using a otherwise you won't be able to install command line. When it comes to the packages. The next bit tells package management using a aptitude to 'update' its package command line, there are two main database, so it has a list of the most tools available, apt-get and recent packages. The '&&' is a aptitude. I won't go into a command line operator, which tells comparison of them here, as a the command line to run another quick Google Search will give command. The next command tells more than enough information on aptitude to run a 'safe-upgrade' of all Read the information it gives, it. I have chosen to use aptitude the packages on the system. This is and if you're ok with it, type 'y' for this tutorial, but you can make the command that actually updates (without the '') and press enter. your own decision based on the the packages. There is also a 'full- Otherwise, type 'n', and nothing information you find. upgrade' option available, which is less conservative than safe-upgrade, will happen. As you can see from First off, let's update our and could cause unwanted actions. the screenshot, there are system. Open your favorite See the man page for more numerous updates I need to do; terminal emulator, then do the information on it. You will be asked to however, if you've been keeping following: enter your 'sudo' password, which your system up to date, then it will be the same as the password you may just take you straight back $ sudo aptitude update && to a command line, as there are sudo aptitude safe-upgrade use to log in (you must have a privileged account to do this; it won't no updates. This may look quite complicated work on restricted accounts). The next thing to show you at first, so let's break it down. First with aptitude is how to add and of all, you'll notice we're using You will see lots of text fly past, remove packages.