Full Circle THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE FOR THE UBUNTU LINUX COMMUNITY ISSUE #56 - December 2011 COMPETITION: WIN 100GB OF SPIDEROAK SPACE! BBIIGGGGEERR IISSSSUUEE WWIITTHH MMOORREE GGAAMMEESS!! MULTIWINIA, BOBBY, AND MORE! full circle magazine #56 full circle magazine is neither affiliated wit1h, nor endorsed by, Canonical Ltd. contents ^ HowTo Full Circle Opinions THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE FOR THE UBUNTU LINUX COMMUNITY Make 11.10 Look 'Classic' p.08 My Story p.34 Linux News p.04 My Desktop p.53 LibreOffice Pt10 p.13 My Opinion p.37 Columns Backup Strategy Pt4 p.15 Command & Conquer p.05 Ubuntu Games p.50 I Think... p.38 Persistent USB Stick p.18 Linux Labs p.27 Q&A p.47 Review p.41 BACK NEXT MONTH Connect To IRC p.21 Ubuntu Women p.54 Closing Windows p.30 Letters p.43 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. Full Circle magazine is entirely independent of Canonical, the sponsor of the Ubuntu projects, and the views and opinions in the magazine should in no way be assumed tfoulhl acivrecleCamnaognaiczainlee#nd5o6rseme2nt. contents ^ EEDDIITTOORRIIAALL This magazine was created using : Welcome to the last issue of Full Circle. he last of 2011 that is. It's another bumper issue this month with a little bit of everything: make a persistent USB stick, create a backup with SpiderOak, LibreOffice Calc, making 11.10 look 'classic', and how to connect to IRC. Not only that but Ubuntu T Games has grown to two articles each month, so please welcome Riku and Jennifer as our regular gamers. Charles has taken over the Linux Labs column and, this month, shows you how to install XBMC (Xbox Media Centre). I've also added a few other new bits to this issue, but I'll let you find them yourself. Robin 'Mr. Podcast' Catling makes an appearance with his review of Puppy Linux. Now based Full Circle Podcast on Lucid Lynx, Puppy is even more relevant to us than in previous incarnations, and if you Released monthly, each episode haven't tried it yet on your old hardware I definitely recommend it. It's small, lightning fast, and covers all the latest Ubuntu news, fully equipped for that aging hardware you have lying around gathering dust. opinions, reviews, interviews and listener feedback. The Side-Pod is a new addition, it's an extra The majority of people voted that they would attend, or would be interested in attending, (irregular) short-form podcast an FCM IRC meeting each month. I'll try and set something up for January/February 2012 if which is intended to be a branch possible. I'll announce a date either in FCM#57 or online via our website mailing list, Facebook, of the main podcast. It's somewhere to put all the general and Google+, so stay tuned! technology and non-Ubuntu stuff that doesn’t fit in the main Don't forget to check out the questionnaire for next month. Fill it in and you could be in podcast. with a chance to win 100GB of cloud space courtesy of SpiderOak. We'll also pick winners from Hosts: Twitter and Facebook. See the 'I Think' results pages for more info. Robin Catling Ed Hewitt All the best, keep in touch, and I'll see you all in 2012! Dave Wilkins Ronnie http://fullcirclemagazine.org [email protected] full circle magazine #56 3 contents ^ LLIINNUUXX NNEEWWSS Ubuntu 11.10 To Power Gnome 3 Shell Forked Android Drivers To Be Ubuntu Kills Java New PC Line As Cinnamon Included In Linux 3.3 Oracle’s Sun Java JDK packages are Kernel to be removed from the Ubuntu partner repositories and disabled on Android drivers are users systems after Larry Ellison returning to the ruled that the retiring the Linux kernel. Kernel ‘Operating System DistributorLicense maintainer Greg forJava, means Canonical no longer Kroah-Hartman has have permission to use it. retrieved the Android drivers removed from the The change will affect Ubuntu staging area of Linux 2.6.33 in the 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04 users only. spring of 2010 and put them back So why has Gnome 3 been forked Those who have ‘sun-java-6' package US PC maker CTL [has] announced a into his development branch for [...] ? [It] comes with a completely installed on their system will see it new line of Ubuntu-powered version 3.3 of the Linux kernel. computers, beginning with a new way of using the desktop that removed via a future software not everyone will be comfortable update. notebook called the MB40U. The plan is for a Linux 3.3 kernel to with. be able to boot on an Android Source: fudzilla.com A Dramatic Increase in Speed device without further patches – With the release of Linux Mint 12, although not all Android patches the Linux Mint developers created Equipped with up to 8GB of are being automatically carried extensions for Gnome 3 that FC Notifier Update memory, a second-generation Intel over to the main development Core i3, i5, or i7 processor, DDR3 brought back a lot of the Gnome 2- branch. For example, the WakeLock The Full Circle Notifier is still at memory, Bluetooth, and style UIs however, there is a limit code, which helps Android devices' 1.0.2, but the PPA has been multimedia buttons, the 14.1-inch to how far one can go with just batteries last longer but is not updated for Oneric. FCN is a small MB40U weighs just 4.85 pounds extensions. So the Gnome 3 has necessary for booting, is not application that sits in your and offers a battery life of up to six been forked, with the intention of included. system tray and will announce hours. 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