LXF just pointed me to an article listing some of the new features of Fedora 10.
Category: Great Links
Open Publishing
I had been looking for this link a while ago and couldn’t remember the name:
I found it a long time because it was linked to Bob Young, one of the founders of Red Hat. It seemed like a great option if I ever wanted to try to publish something.
Resources
Sharing Files
Sharing files from Ubuntu was very easy with this how to. The only problem was that I had to start nautilus with root privileges the first time:
sudo nautilus
Then, I could follow the instructions.
Great Link: Grocklaw — Practical Guide to GPL Compliance
Here is a link worth taking note of. This article gives some tips on the legal side of using Open Source software.
How To Avoid Becoming a Defendant in a BusyBox or Any GPL-Related Lawsuit
Interesting Article: Unit Testing
This is one of the links from my list of things to blog. It has been a while, but I came across this link and thought it was worthy of remembering:
Writing Eclipse Plugins
I found an excellent article about writing Eclipse plugins and publishing them on SourceForge. I hope to work on a project like this soon.
Webex in Linux
I finally got Webex to work in the lastest version of Ubuntu (Hardy Heron – 8.04). It was as simple as setting the JAVA_HOME variable.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=841801
At least this allowed the client to load. I have yet to test it in a meeting.
Windows VPN in Linux
I had need to connect to a Windows-based VPN, and I found the instructions to do so here:
Two Great Reviews
Today, I found two great reviews with a nice list of software to watch or install.
First, Linux Format Magazine published a posting announcing the releasing of Ubuntu 7.10, which included a review of the release:
http://lunapark6.com/ubuntu-710-gutsy-desktop-edition-review.html
Not only does the author describe his experience with installing the new version, but he also provides some nice ideas for software to install such as vlc, k3b, Kino, ardour, Google Earth & Desktop, VMWare Server, and MythTV.
Another article I found from Linux Format Magazine was about installing Slackware:
The Perfect Desktop — Slackware 12
This article also listed numerous software install ideas along with detailed explanations on how to install the system. The article also points out that the HowToForge also has other similar articles for other distributions. I haven’t tried it but the Linux Distribution Chooser sounded very interesting too.
Link: Migrating to Linux
InfoWorld’s Zack Urlocker pointed out 3 tools to aide in migrating data from Windows to Linux in his article Moving from Windows to Linux.
Three Tools
- Ubuntu: has built-in tools to move the information from Windows
- MoveOver
- Desktop Migration Agent
These tools look very interesting. I think a database of applications would be more helpful for me. I don’t have as much trouble moving my data from one place to another, but finding Linux applications to replace the Windows applications is where I have the most trouble.
Interestingly enough, I came across this article shortly after. The section “The application situation” had some very helpful tips including this source:
The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.