My Linux Way

I thought Pidgin can be heading towards more user friendly wise to gain on the IM market shares. But years already, I still didn’t see very aggressive GUI improvement from Pidgin.

One of the problems, I’m still facing is I want to minimize the buddy list during start up. In Pidgin default setting or the command line, you could not any of this. But here is a way how to get it done in just 3 simple steps.

Step 1. Install pidgin-extprefs from Synaptic

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Minimize Pidgin during Startup

Often normal PC user think Linux is too greeky and the command prompt terminal is too dull to be a working environment. While cool desktop only can be found on Mac and Vista OS. But you are wrong!

Below the 10 pretty Linux desktop recommended on Digg, if I didn’t tell you, you might not even notice it is running on Linux! Especially, with the effect of Compiz Fusion, you now can achieve more amazing visual effects than Vista and Mac OS X!

• gnome：2，3，9
• e17：4，6
• pekwm：5
• fluxbox：8
• Not sure: 1, 7, 10

So, which one you prefer the most?

1.

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Top 10 Pretty Linux Desktop

Saw this trick on downloadsquad.com, so share this tips here on how to reset your forgotten password.

1. In GRUB message, press the escape key.
2. Select the one with the recovery mode
3. Boot up in shell until you reach the command prompt. Type in "passwd username" where username is your account username. (typing "ls /home" to bring it up)
4. Enter your new password. Confirm your password again.
5. Type "shutdown -r now" to reboot your system.

Ubuntu announced the roadmap for the upcoming OS today. Mark Shuttleworth has mentioned the arrangement for Ubuntu till 11.04 in the year 2011. After Ubuntu 8.04, the upcoming LTS will be 10.04 and will be supported up to year 2015.

Ubuntu 11.04 seems to be very far from now. I’m more expecting Ubuntu 8.10, it was mentioned by Ubuntu developer saying that it will be major appearance changes and great performance on network.

In Linux and Unix, users only allow to access files/folders with their permission only. However, under a superuser named root, users are able to have the privileges to all the administration work.

su root

su stands for Switch User. To access other users, just use their username instead of "root".

What Ubuntu different from other Linux distro is it includes sudo command. It will assign users for temporary root-level privileges. So, to execute your command in terminal under root-level privileges is simple, just add "sudo" before your command. Please note that the password require is user password and not the root password.

userA@machineA:~$ sudo vi /etc/testing.conf

"sudo -s" is equivalent to "su"

You do not have to worry when running GUI programs that require for root privileges as it will prompt for a password automatically.

For those used to Windows system, you might find Linux folder system is totally a confusion for you. Folders name such as /bin, /etc, /media really didn’t clear indicate the purpose. And most of the time you don’t know how to get back to the original path.

Here is a picture clearly illustrate how Linux folder system really works. Hope this really give you a clear picture. Basically, I normally mess around in /mnt, /etc, /dev and /home.

Previously I have solved my problem with Miro, now it comes another new issue. The problem occurred because Ubuntu has updated the libxine to 1.1.10-1, but Miro depends on libxine1 earlier than 1.1.8 to run!

So, in the end, either you can install Miro 1.2 with libxine1 1.1.7 or Miro 1.1.2 with libxine1 1.1.10 on Hardy Heron or latest gutsy.

Hope Miro can solve this problem as soon as possible.

Yeah, Ubuntu 8.04 is coming on the way! What make Ubuntu 8.04 so special? It’s a LTS, which mean it will be given Long Term Support. Ubuntu last version LTS is 6.06.

Ubuntu 8.04 is built on top of Linux kernel 2.6.24-11.22, it compliance with the Completely Fair Scheduler. Besides that, the application software used on Ubuntu are up to date like Gnome is 2.22.0, Firefox 3.0 beta 4, Gimp 2.4.5, Apache httpd 2.2.8 and much more.

Another new thing you can expect on this Buntu version is ufw ( Uncomplicated Firewall ). It significantly improved the currently complicated command iptable firewall.

So, your final question might be, how do I down it? If you are currently using Ubuntu, you just need to type update-manager -d in your terminal.

One of the purpose of my Linux desktop is to play media files! Yes, I subscribe plenty video feeds on Miro. It will automatically download new video files and play directly on it.

Good day does not last long, out of sudden my Miro starts to crash every time it plays to the last video on the playlist. Then I ran my Miro using the terminal console and found out that the error shown was "Segmentation fault".

This is not an isolated case, I have seen a lot enquiries about such problem. None of the any reply from Miro team or fixes for this problem. Here is a solution for your problem.

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Solution for Miro’s Segmentation fault

Adobe has successfully brought Flash to a new level by introducing the vibrant AIR to Windows desktop. The benefits of AIR is to help those Flash developers shorten the development and deployment and bring rich internet applications to your desktop. Of course, Adobe would not want to leave out the Linux market.

Below video shows the demonstration of Adobe AIR on Linux.