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- 10 Finger Licking Linux Desktop ThemesOctober 10
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Last time when we published such a list on Linux Desktop; we received a lot of flak for showing mockups and not actually showing how the themes can be replicated by users. Anyone can go to gnome-look and go through thousands of available theme, but we have decided to make a list of ten themes that we thought are a cut above the others, with a link to download and you can try them yourself. Feel free to share your favorite Linux Desktop theme on the comment.
2) Mire v2
3) Arezzo
- Linux For The Masses: Are We There Yet?October 9
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Every year, every major Linux development, every major distribution release sparks a volley of so-called expert opinion of this being finally the year of the Linux. As they provide argument and counter-argument over certain news of Dell/HP/IBM/Asus releasing pre-installed Linux computer; and how this will single-handedly fix every problems and finally allow Linux to take over the world.
As another year is coming to an end, and another major distribution is around the corner; this might be a good time to remind everyone how next year will not be much different from this year. It took years and years of dedication and innovation for MacOS to finally reach 8% market share. Depending on your level of cynicism, Linux Desktop market share is a somewhere around 1%-5% (being generous).
This is a not a post about “why?”, I will let you talk about it. I think it is more interesting to look at what has been said in the past.
- 2008: Year of the Linux Desktop - “When Evans Data released its survey on Tuesday showing a sharp shift toward Linux (and away from Windows) among developers in North America, the Linux world wen
- Look Ma, No ‘X’October 7
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INX is an interesting Linux distro released today, which is based on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and it is console only, without any graphical “X” programs. According to the release note INX is intended as a ‘tutorial’ and “introduction to the Bash command line”. It is important to note that INX is not the only console-only Linux distro. However their intention seems to be clear, as they are looking to build a console only “liveCD” distro which is “fun, and not intimidating for console beginners.”
Dynamic Virtual Terminal Manager? Click for larger image.
Some information about INX 1.0, quoting from their website:“INX 1.0 also includes new features; you can now set up wireless with the “Ceni” tool from the INX “Net & Web” menu. You can use your mouse with programs like xlinks2, elinks, mc, and the jed text editor. In addition to the powerful GNU Screen program, INX now sports the “Dvtm” Dynamic Virtual Terminal Manager, a “tiled terminal manager”.”
Not to confuse with my
- wubi: Best Thing Since LiveCDOctober 7
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Click for larger image.Wubi (Windows-based Ubuntu Installer) is amazing. It’s one of those tools that should make 100s if not 1000s of people to try out Linux right away. But I am not sure if this tool is making as much noise as it should. If last time you tried to install Linux was 5 years ago and the thought of installing Linux on a separate partition along side your existing windows installation gives you nightmares, this tool is for you.
We are not asking you to abandon windows OS; we are encouraging you to try Linux without any risk.
How to install?
- Download wubi.
- Select your choice of Desktop Environment. Choices are Gnome, KDE and Xfce.
- Select Installation size, Language, Username & Password.
- Reboot. Install. Done.
No terminal commands, disk partitioning or disk formatting is needed. The best part is that the installation it
- Fun Way To View Logs with logstalgiaOctober 5
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To observe server performance I have a separate monitor on my desk that I use to SSH from terminator with split screen. I usually use trafshow and htop to monitor and occasionally tail -f log messages. Which are mostly enough for basic server monitoring.
But if you are looking to make your server monitoring a lot more interesting (besides using woopra), you should definitely try out “logstalgia“. Also known as “ApachePong“, it displays apache access log as a retro arcade game-like simulation in real time. Warning! This is extremely entertaining and you might end up spending a lot of your time watching server logs, which you otherwise wouldn’t. It basically works by accessing your apache access log and piping it to logstalgia installed in your local machine. Depending on the location of your log the command would look like this: ssh user@yourserver.com tail -f /usr/local/apache/log//access.log | logstalgia -
logstalgia in action on linuxhax
