2002 February

EULAs for Books
http://i-want-a-website.com/about-linux/articles/feb02/book-copying.shtml
With a good-natured approach, Humorix pushes the logic of the End User License Agreement into a new light. Cast in the cloak of an article on ongoing anti-piracy efforts, this piece does what good satire does best - poking fun by sticking just close enough to the truth to point out the inherent [...]

SingIt Lyric Displayer for XMMS [217 Kb]
http://stud.fbi.fh-darmstadt.de/~glogow/xmms-singit-0.0.6.tar.bz2
http://stud.fbi.fh-darmstadt.de/~glogow/
“The SingIt Lyric Displayer is an XMMS plugin which displays formatted lyrics, including id3v2xx lyrics. It consists of the displayer and an integrated editor which allows one to easily insert time stamps, edit the text, and export & strip HTML.”

Monitoring Tools
Whether you’re a system administrator or a home user, it’s useful to know and understand the tools for monitoring your system. While some might see it as intrusive, the ability to monitor users is a great tools for managing the resources of your system. In the end, if resources are allocated accordingly and everyone’s [...]

Changing apt-get
Today’s GnomeTWEAK is a quick one, designed to help you keep your new Debian system as up to date as possible.
As I noted yesterday, one of the great strengths of Debian is apt-get, the program designed to allow easy Internet-based updates of your system. These updates can be system-wide or on a program by [...]

You’ve got to be wondering by now what kind of applications are available for the Debian distribution. If the install is as contentious as it seems to be, what’s available to make it a more tolerable Linux distribution? Well, the answer is lots or little. Consistent with what you’ve already read about Debian, the package [...]

Debian Installation Manual
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install
If you’re interested in a tried-and-true installation procedure for getting Debian up and running on your system, you can’t do better than the instructions in today’s GnomeVoice. Steve has it nailed and, with his help, so will you. However, today’s GnomeClick is the official guide to installing Deb on your system. While it [...]

Gimp Gallery [29 Kb]
ftp://skylab.org/pub/plumpy/gimpgallery-1.0.1.tar.gz
http://skylab.org/~plumpy/gg/
“Gimp Gallery is a program to create static HTML Web galleries from a directory of images. It is a gimp plugin that offers both batch and interactive modes. In the interactive mode, it will display each picture, allowing you to rotate/crop/filter/caption/etc. images before including them in the gallery, leaving your originals untouched. [...]

Configuring Multimedia Applications
We’ve covered sound and image scanning in this series on multimedia in Linux. It’s time to take a look at one of the most highly-regarded programs available for image manipulation - The Gimp.
The Gimp is the “Gnu Image Manipulation Program.” It’s often been called a freeware Photoshop, and I think the comparison is [...]

Grand and Unified
We’re wrapping up with Grub today. It is, indeed, a GRand Unified Bootloader. I like its flexibility and the fact that you can make changes on the fly. However, as always, there are just a few things to watch for when configuring Grub.
The first thing, really, is a tweak. If you’re just not [...]

So, I’ve got a good install of Debian on my test machine at home. I’d seriously started to doubt that it was going to happen until Steve Waterman stepped up to the plate and provided step-by-step installation instructions. His guide is preserved for posterity today in the GnomeVoice section. If you’re the type that likes [...]

Debian GNU/Linux FAQ
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/
As the “official” FAQ of Debian GNU/Linux, this site is chock full of useful information about this alternative to the alternative OSs. It includes a brief history of Deb, discussion on how it differs from “regular” Linux, a brief installation guide, and much else that a new Deb user could use and treasure. [...]

Simple X CDR [160 Kb]
http://ogre.rocky-road.net/files/simplecdrx-1.1-rc2.tar.gz
http://ogre.rocky-road.net/cdr.shtml
“SimpleCDR-X is a GTK+ based frontend for CD writing, mastering, and audio manipulation. Its design goals include ease of use and a clean interface without compromising functionality. SimpleCDR-X utilizes many common utilities such as cdrecord, cdrdao, mkisofs, cdparanoia, cdda2wav, mpg123, ogg tools, and lame. SimpleCDR-X supports on-the-fly CD track ripping to [...]

Configuring Multimedia Applications
Multimedia apps in Linux come in all shapes and sizes, and for a broad variety of purposes. Today, we’re going to talk about setting up your scanner using sane, the console-based program for Linux that stands for “Scanner Access Now Easy.”
True to Linux form, sane works its magic by separating the GUI from [...]

Grand and Unified
We’ve begun this week to talk about Grub, the GRand Unified Bootloader that’s winning the hearts and minds of many Linux users. With a little history and background in our pockets, it’s time to get down to the nitty-gritty - installing Grub on a system that doesn’t already leverage its great bootloading power.
First [...]

You’ve heard it from the news personalities. “We interrupt this program … ” It’s my turn, now. “We interrupt this distro review for a late-breaking news item.”

Iowa City, Iowa - At approximately 10:35 p.m., CST Thursday evening, Tony Steidler-Dennison, author of Lockergnome’s Penguin Shell newsletter, was stunned to find his desktop in a state of [...]

Linux Orbit
http://www.linuxorbit.com/
Linux Orbit is more than just another Linux news and information site. It certainly has all the features you’ve come to expect in such sites - news, forums, how-tos, etc. What distinguishes Linux Orbit is two features; Linux jobs and Live Help. Though the Linux jobs are very thin at the moment, it’s the [...]

PureFTP [175 Kb]
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pureftpd/pure-ftpd-1.0.9-1.i386.rpm
http://www.pureftpd.org/
“Pure FTP Server is a fast, production quality, standards-conformant FTP server based on Troll-FTPd. It has no known buffer overflows, is trivial to set up, and is especially designed for modern kernels. Features include PAM support, IPv6, chroot()ed home directories, virtual domains, built-in ‘ls’, FXP protocol, anti-warez system, bandwidth throttling, bounded ports for [...]

Configuring Multimedia Applications
Configuring your sound card. Listening to CDs. Playing and encoding MP3s. We’re starting to build a bit of a library of multimedia applications and uses. So far, we’ve said nothing about video in Linux. That changes today.
Neither the KDE nor the Gnome desktop managers provide DVD players. There are some strong contenders that [...]

Grand and Unified
As we noted yesterday, Grub (the GRand Unified Bootloader) is quickly becoming the bootloader of choice for most commercial distributions and individual users. I’ve always been partial to Lilo but, after further investigation, am moving more and more toward Grub. Given its increasing popularity, it seems appropriate to take a few days to [...]

For the next few weeks, we’re taking a look at the ins and outs of ELX Linux, an up-and-coming distribution designed for the desktop and based, in part, on RedHat.
After a nightmarish three days of installation woes this week, the install for ELX was a refreshing break. Don’t get me wrong. I have absolutely nothing [...]