Volume 40 May, 2010 KDE 4: Panel Keeps Pace & Place KDE 4: Widgets Galore Command Line Interface Intro: Part 8 A Taste Test Of The PCLinuxOS Flavors Behind The Scenes: PCLinuxOS.NL Forum Etiquette: How To Be a Good Citizen PCLinuxOS Folding Team Forum Foibles Computer Languages A to Z: Korn Shell NibiruET PCLinuxOS 2010 Released! 1 9 Live CD ISOs ... 6 Desktop Environments And much more! TTaabbllee OOff CCoonntteennttss 3 Welcome From The Chief Editor 3 4 April Showers ... Bring 9 ISO's!!! 4 5 Screenshot Showcase 5 6 Dear PCLinuxOS: A Letter To Texstar 6 The PCLinuxOS name, logo and colors are the trademark of 7 The Loss Of A PCLinuxOS Family Member 7 Texstar. 8 Double Take/Mark's Quick Gimp Tip 8 The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine is a monthly online 9 KDE 4: Widgets Galore 9 publication containing PCLinuxOS­related materials. It is published primarily for members of the PCLinuxOS 12 Screenshot Showcase 12 community. The Magazine staff is comprised of volunteers 13 Forum Foibles: Forum Book Reviews 13 from the PCLinuxOS community. 17 Command Line Interface Intro: Part 8 17 Visit us online at http://www.pclosmag.com 27 The PCLinuxOS Folding Team 27 This release was made possible by the following volunteers: 29 Behind The Scenes: Wamukota & PCLinuxOS.nl 29 Chief Editor: Paul Arnote (parnote) Assistant Editor: Andrew Strick (Stricktoo) 33 Screenshot Showcase 33 Consultants: Archie Arevalo, Tim Robinson 34 KDE 4: Panel Keeps Pace & Place 34 Artwork: Sproggy, Timeth 37 37 Magazine Layout: Paul Arnote, Meemaw, ms_meme Screenshot Showcase HTML Layout: Galen Seaman 38 Testimonial: A New PCLinuxOS User 38 Staff: 40 Screenshot Showcase 40 Neal Brooks ms_meme Galen Seaman Mark Szorady 41 Computer Languages A to Z: Korn Shell 41 Patrick Horneker Macedonio Fernandez Guy Taylor Meemaw 44 A Taste Test Of The PCLinuxOS Flavors 44 Andrew Huff Gary L. Ratliff, Sr. 48 48 Screenshot Showcase Contributors: 49 Testimonial: PCLinuxOS 2010 A Job Well Done! 49 Peter Kelly Linuxera Daniel Meiß­Wilhelm 50 ms_meme's Nook: Quiet Nights 50 51 Forum Etiquette: How To Be A Good Citizen 51 The PCLinuxOS Magazine is released under the Creative Commons Attribution­NonCommercial­Share­Alike 3.0 54 Zip­Player Plays Music Archives: Part 1 54 Unported license. Some rights are reserved. 56 Testimonial: A Boring Evening 56 Copyright © 2010. 57 More Screenshot Showcase 57 2 WWeellccoommee FFrroomm TThhee CChhiieeff EEddiittoorr I hate to say "I told ya so," but I told ya so. April did simply a comparison. And, it's a testament to the computer programming languages, with his article end up being a very busy month! April saw the ability of Texstar to produce what many PCLinuxOS series, Computer Languages A to Z: Korn Shell. release of nine new ISO's, covering 6 desktop users already know: the best version of Linux out Meanwhile, Meemaw explores what it takes to be a environments. Yep, count them ... six desktop there. It's now only up to the rest of the world to good citizen in the PCLinuxOS forum, with her environments and nine ISO's: KDE 4, MiniMe (also discover the thrill of running the most stable, fastest Forum Etiquette: Being A Good Citizen article. KDE 4), Gnome, Zen Mini (also Gnome), Phoenix version of Linux – or of any operating system – (XFCE), PCLXDE, PCLXDE Mini, Enlightenment available. Ms_meme continues to entertain us with Forum e17, and OpenBox (still in beta, but VERY near its Foibles: Forum Book Reviews and ms_meme's final release). The magazine staff have been just as busy over the Nook, where she dedicates her song, Quiet Nights, last month, preparing the May issue for the to her PCLinuxOS experiences. Georgetoon is back So April became the month were many community. Of course, we have an with another installment of Double Take & Mark's PCLinuxOS users were reinstalling. article on the new releases, in April Quick Gimp Tip. We also pay tribute to a recently The sheer number of upgraded Showers Bring ... 9 New ISO's! We departed PCLinuxOS family member, NibiruET, in components forced a temporary break also take a more detailed look at the The Loss Of A PCLinuxOS Family Member. We from the rolling distribution model. But different versions released, in also take a Behind The Scenes look at Wamukota in the end, it was worth it. Users ended Stricktoo's Taste Test Of The and the PCLinuxOS.nl users. Linuxera shares some up with a much more stable PCLinuxOS Flavors, in an effort to fascinating information about the PCLinuxOS installation, and the new version was help you make the decision of which Folding Team. able to come out faster than if an version may be right for you, based on upgrade path that would have worked a) the equipment you have on hand, And, to round things out, we have four separate with all the countless computer and b) how you work with your Testimonials this month, from PCLinuxOS users. configurations were attempted. KDE computer. I continue a look at the new We also have 10 more user screen shots to highlight was upgraded to the most recent features of KDE 4 this month, with and share, with Screenshot Showcase. release. We saw the latest kernels KDE 4: Panel Keeps Pace & Place being rolled out. The xorg server saw a and KDE 4: Widgets Galore, taking a As we start to move from Spring into Summer, and significant upgrade. The upgraded look at the options in setting these up experience summer vacations and holidays, things toolchain necessitated the rebuilding of on your KDE 4 desktop. continue to move forward for PCLinuxOS. So, until virtually every package in the next month, I wish each and every one of you PCLinuxOS repository. Leiche take us on the first part of a journey that not peace, happiness, and tranquility. only explains one of the newer original programs in And when it was all said and done, the users of the PCLinuxOS repository, Zip­Player, but also the Paul Arnote [parnote] PCLinuxOS benefited, by having a stable system process he went through in creating it, with his Chief Editor (regardless of the desktop environment used), that article Zip­Player Plays Music Archives: Part 1. PCLinuxOS Magazine has the best hardware recognition of any Linux Critter continues his series of articles, Command distribution, and that runs faster and better than Line Interface Intro: Part 8, taking you farther into a most any Linux distribution out there. Am I bashing greater understanding of the command line and the other Linux distributions? Absolutely not, but it is scripting. Eronstuc continues his exploration of 3 AApprriill SShhoowweerrss BBrriinngg........ 99 NNeeww IISSOO''ss!!!!!! by Paul Arnote (parnote) Built upon a common core, each of the 2010 releases of PCLinuxOS run on the 2.6.32.10­bfs April has been a very, very busy month. For those kernel. The 2.6.33.5 kernel is also available for involved in the PCLinuxOS community, it's not news installation via Synaptic. There are also multiple that PCLinuxOS 2010 has been released. But for versions of each kernel, including the "plain vanilla" those who may not be quite so involved in the kernel, the a64 kernel for AMD 64 bit processors, PCLinuxOS community, PCLinuxOS 2010 has not and a legacy kernel for older hardware. only been released, but multiple versions supporting all the major desktop environments have also been simultaneously released. magic on KDE 4 (both the main release and MiniMe), slick50 has assembled the Gnome release, siamer has created the Zen Mini release, Linuxera created the Enlightenment e17 release, Sproggy made the Phoenix XFCE release, Neal created the PCLXDE releases, and melodie has created the OpenBox version. Gnome and Zen Mini have a similar appearance, while all the other desktop environments share a common theme and appearance. There are currently nine ISO's covering six different The KDE and Gnome releases are most suited for desktop environments. All are built using a stable more recent hardware, while Phoenix, PCLXDE, core, developed by Texstar and the Packaging Crew. Enlightenment e17, and OpenBox are capable of Currently, the 2010 release of PCLinuxOS covers running on older, legacy hardware. The minimum the following six desktop environments: KDE 4.4.2, recommended RAM for running KDE and Gnome Gnome 2.30, XFCE, LXDE, Enlightenment e17, and are 512 MB, the other, lighter weight desktops are OpenBox. Added into this mix are bare bones capable of running on hardware with 256 MB RAM, versions of KDE 4 (MiniMe 2010), Gnome (Zen or in some cases, even less. Mini), and LXDE (PCLXDE Mini). The simultaneous release of nine ISOs, featuring six While Texstar is largely responsible for working his of the most popular desktop environments, based 4 April Showers Bring ... 9 New ISO's! SSccrreeeennsshhoott SShhoowwccaassee upon a common core is virtually unheard of among Linux distros. Now, PCLinuxOS users, and users giving PCLinuxOS a try for the first time, have a real choice to match, first, the way they interact with the computer, and second, the wide assortment of hardware they may have on hand. Posted by BubbaBlues on April 8, 2010 using KDE 4 5 DDeeaarr PPCCLLiinnuuxxOOSS:: AA LLeetttteerr TToo TTeexxssttaarr Dear PCLinuxOS, The government gives me an appointments, which staff member allowance every month which I is coming over each day ... and Wow! Is the word describing your never see, because I am not able the list is endless. operating system. to handle money. I don't think it is a lot because when the On the entertainment side: I use Hi! my name is Richard better staff take me to the store, I am my Linux for watching movies, known as rskit2002 on the often turned down for the things playing music, surfing the net, internet.