I've finally borrowed, inherited and purchased enough extra parts to slap together a Linux LAMP stack after some spectacular hardware failures.
Unfortunately, it's been so long since I've done Linux-anything, that I'm a bit behind the times. I'm a big fan of Vista/7's start text field, but I can't find anything quite the same in Ubuntu. Deskbar seems to be it, but it won't pick up partial program names.
For instance, I just installed synergy, and it won't pull up synergyc when I type in syn. Any ideas for better workflow?
Try Gnome-Do. It's worked pretty well for me so far.
I've finally borrowed, inherited and purchased enough extra parts to slap together a Linux LAMP stack after some spectacular hardware failures.
Unfortunately, it's been so long since I've done Linux-anything, that I'm a bit behind the times. I'm a big fan of Vista/7's start text field, but I can't find anything quite the same in Ubuntu. Deskbar seems to be it, but it won't pick up partial program names.
For instance, I just installed synergy, and it won't pull up synergyc when I type in syn. Any ideas for better workflow?
Try Gnome-Do. It's worked pretty well for me so far.
Gnome-Do is cool and pretty. The KDE standard equivalent is also pretty neat.
If you wanna go light, I'm using dmenu right now and love the hell out of it.
How were you using atop? Did you try setting a longer interval (and let it run there), and sort all processes (not just active ones) by CPU used?
I did think of one thing...do you have powertop installed? Your CPU could be scaling down its clock speed and the idle CPU usage is inflated because of that. powertop would keep track of what processes are effectively consuming the most power and also display your current CPU frequency.
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Next time you have access to a power outlet try to change the cpufreq governor to 'performance' and see if top's CPU usage looks normal. IIRC it should just be:
cpufreq-set -r -g performance
If you want to see the current governor first (it should go back to normal after a reboot) use cpufreq-info.
I've finally borrowed, inherited and purchased enough extra parts to slap together a Linux LAMP stack after some spectacular hardware failures.
Unfortunately, it's been so long since I've done Linux-anything, that I'm a bit behind the times. I'm a big fan of Vista/7's start text field, but I can't find anything quite the same in Ubuntu. Deskbar seems to be it, but it won't pick up partial program names.
For instance, I just installed synergy, and it won't pull up synergyc when I type in syn. Any ideas for better workflow?
Try Gnome-Do. It's worked pretty well for me so far.
Gnome-Do is cool and pretty. The KDE standard equivalent is also pretty neat.
If you wanna go light, I'm using dmenu right now and love the hell out of it.
I'm about to head home, and I just noticed this. I'll try it as soon as I get back. Thanks, guys!
My friend just gave me an ubuntu install disk and I wanted to play around with it. I don't really have a spare computer right now nor do I want to make it the main OS on either of my main computers right now. What I do have is a 1Tb harddrive running Win7 right now. Is it possible to make a new partition and then have ubuntu install there and have a dual boot set up? Any steps necessary to do that?
My friend just gave me an ubuntu install disk and I wanted to play around with it. I don't really have a spare computer right now nor do I want to make it the main OS on either of my main computers right now. What I do have is a 1Tb harddrive running Win7 right now. Is it possible to make a new partition and then have ubuntu install there and have a dual boot set up? Any steps necessary to do that?
When I wanted to mess around with ubuntu I went with Wubi. Not sure it's the preferred method, but it was what I did.
Still need to get around to removing that from the boot menu
When I wanted to mess around with ubuntu I went with Wubi. Not sure it's the preferred method, but it was what I did.
Preferred method is more opinion then anything else. Wubi is fine for just trying it out without going through the hassle/risk of a true dual boot, if thats what you're wanting to do then thats the best choice for you. Be aware that if windows goes down it'll (usually) take wubi installed ubuntu with it as well. If you like ubuntu and plan on keeping it then I would recommend uninstalling from wubi and doing a true dual-boot. With multiple partitions you are less likely to lose ubuntu if your windows goes down.
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Free Moonbase Commander remake @ http://code.google.com/p/tether
What would you use that for and how the hell would you keep track of what was where?
Hardcopy lines @ the bottom and naming your screens and it's like a window manager with shortcuts only.
It's useful if you have to ssh in several machines or different accounts in a single machine and you want to split the tasks.
I'm using it as 1x3x2 set up, 1 terminal holding 3 local screens each having 2 remote screens. It allows me to have only one bloody terminal window open! I have no idea why I never even bothered to tried setting it up before.
Man, robotics sound so cool. I just wouldn't know where to start. I guess something like the Arduino board?
Arduino works. Phidgets work really well. It depends on how much of the process you want to be involved in. If you want to focus on the algorithms and stuff, you could get away running all of it in a simulator like stage.
If you want to build your own gadgets, but you don't want to fab your own boards. Take a look at Arduino or Phidgets. The Phidgets SBC runs embedded linux and has an ethernet port, an ssh server, and the full gcc stack
CPU Usage issue SOLVED. Conky was pulling about 10 updates a second (as a default setting? Really?). I set it down to an update_interval 1, and cpu usage dropped to 2% immediately. Battery life estimates now roll around 8h. Hawt.
So, I like gnome Do better than Deskbar, but it still can't find synergyc when typing in partial names. Clearly synergy is installed on my machine, because I can launch it from the terminal. Is there something I'm missing in getting it to pop up for Do?
Also, in trying to run synergy, I've found that my PCs can't find each other using their names. When I try to ping one from the other, it hops all the way out to my DNS servers, but the IP addresses return directly from my router. Do I need to enable something to get my router to resolve their names?
Edit:
Router is WRT54G, with Static DNS 1-3 filled out.
What kind of names? Hostnames, or Netbios? Netbios usually requires Samba running I believe. where as Hostnames require DNS lookup.
Try dropping your boxes name/ip combo into /etc/hosts
This is a little difficult to manage though, as you'll have to do it on each machine. For a number of machines this becomes problematic. I am of the opinion that the highest number host file editting is worth it is one, but I am a little.... odd.
There are a number of lightweight and easy to set up DNS servers for pretty much any linux distro. Even bind is pretty straight forward, this gives you a single point of hostname updating too.
It's not even that difficult to set up a dynamic bind9/dhcp combination if you can do that which will be even less work to maintain. This is what real men do. Move ip assignment/hostname resolution off the router, the router is not your friend in this.
My there area bunch of other DNS options which are way more user friendly.
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Hey, I finished my theme, AND set up a slim theme!
Slim:
Clean:
Terms:
Nice! It's actually quite reminiscent of my theme on awesome, except all the colors are darker and I'm running a darker version of zenburn for the term.
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I have made infinityOS 1.0pre2 available on Sourceforge as of this moment. This release has a variety of bug fixes and UI improvements, and heavily reflects what the final infinityOS 1.0 will be. In fact, I anticipate that the only difference between 1.0pre2 and 1.0 will be a new boot screen and proper multi-user support, both for which packages will be made available.
Simply, I intend for infinityOS to be an operating system developed by its users, for its users. You will have a voice in every step of its development, from planning features to fixing bugs to helping solve each others problems.
I have setup a project at Launchpad, a website that integrates bug fixing, feature planning, commiting code, and answering questions into a simple easy to use UI. All you need to do to participate in infinityOS' development is sign up for an account.
Just go to https://launchpad.net/infinityos to get started.
The official IDE will be MonoDevelop, an open source IDE for Windows, Linux and Mac. We will be using Gtk# and C# (chosen as this is the language my university teaches) to develop applications. These tools will also allow your apps to be used back on Windows and Mac if you wish, as the libraries are fully cross-platform.
To get started, type in the following into the terminal:
sudo aptitude install monodevelop
This will install everything you will need to develop apps for infinityOS. It will also be at most a ~250 MB download.
Good Luck!
There was a file transfer error when I was uploading the release overnight.
I'm going to request that Sourceforge change back their listed filesizes to MiB, as the uploaded MB and MiB were about the same, causing me not to notice.
I'm uploading infinityOS 1.0pre3 now (which is just 1.0pre2 renamed). It's going to take a bit to transfer though (~5 hours).
Thanks for your support,
Ryan
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Ugh. I got the parts for my desktop, put it all together, and my 1TB raid was effed. After much ado, I managed to mount one of the two drives (raid1 mirror), rebuild the superblock, rebuild the tree, and now have half the data back, the other half in lost+found, and all of it is questionable; it's random if a given file is usable. A few years worth of photography, video, music, etc is stashed on here.
Currently backing it all up to a 2TB external drive, then I'll start sorting through. Thinking about picking up a 3rd 1TB drive and rebuilding as a Raid5 for the parity, but man, this is a headache.
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Gnome-Do is cool and pretty. The KDE standard equivalent is also pretty neat.
If you wanna go light, I'm using dmenu right now and love the hell out of it.
top and htop. Just installed atop, doesn't show anything different, really. You'll note I included a top output in my post over there:
CPU Stats mpstat: ====================== Linux 2.6.33-ice (icarus) 03/16/2010 _x86_64_ (2 CPU) 08:13:32 PM CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %idle 08:13:32 PM all 14.63 0.00 8.48 4.96 0.04 0.05 0.00 0.00 71.84 08:13:32 PM 0 15.16 0.00 8.34 6.78 0.03 0.04 0.00 0.00 69.66 08:13:32 PM 1 14.11 0.00 8.62 3.16 0.04 0.07 0.00 0.00 74.00 iostat: ====================== Linux 2.6.33-ice (icarus) 03/16/2010 _x86_64_ (2 CPU) avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 14.63 0.00 8.57 4.96 0.00 71.84 Device: tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read Blk_wrtn sda 16.40 827.03 47.74 169714 9797 ============================== ps top ten: ================== %CPU PID USER COMMAND 3.1 2161 houn conky 2.5 2125 root /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -dpi 96 0.4 2543 houn urxvt 0.3 4364 houn urxvt 0.2 1 root init [3] 0.2 1537 hal /usr/sbin/hald 0.1 2162 houn sh /home/houn/.xinitrc 0.1 1216 root [kondemand/1] 0.1 1215 root [kondemand/0] ============================== top -cbn1: =================== top - 20:13:33 up 3 min, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.06, 0.02 Tasks: 105 total, 1 running, 104 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 14.7%us, 8.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 71.8%id, 4.9%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2048100k total, 213388k used, 1834712k free, 18300k buffers Swap: 3903784k total, 0k used, 3903784k free, 85368k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2161 houn 20 0 68652 3488 2592 S 4 0.2 0:04.10 conky 9022 houn 20 0 10680 1060 784 R 2 0.1 0:00.01 top -cbn1 1 root 20 0 3824 640 540 S 0 0.0 0:00.44 init [3] 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [kthreadd] 3 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 [migration/0] 4 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [ksoftirqd/0] 5 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [watchdog/0] 6 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 [migration/1] 7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [ksoftirqd/1] 8 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [watchdog/1] 9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.02 [events/0] 10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [events/1] 11 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [cpuset] 12 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [khelper] 13 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [netns] 14 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [async/mgr] 15 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [pm] 16 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [sync_supers] 17 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [bdi-default] 18 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [kblockd/0] 19 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [kblockd/1] 20 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [kacpid] 21 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [kacpi_notify] 22 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [kacpi_hotplug] 23 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.13 [kseriod] 26 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [khungtaskd] 27 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [kswapd0] 28 root 25 5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [ksmd] 29 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [aio/0] 30 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [aio/1] 31 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [crypto/0] 32 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [crypto/1] 122 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [i915] 728 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [ata/0] 729 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [ata/1] 730 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [ata_aux] 731 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [scsi_eh_0] 732 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [scsi_eh_1] 733 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [scsi_eh_2] 734 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [scsi_eh_3] 770 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.04 [jbd2/sda3-8] 771 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [ext4-dio-unwrit] 772 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [ext4-dio-unwrit] 805 root 16 -4 6488 1068 412 S 0 0.1 0:00.12 /sbin/udevd --daemon 913 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [ksuspend_usbd] 914 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [khubd] 987 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [kpsmoused] 1197 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [cfg80211] 1215 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.23 [kondemand/0] 1216 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.21 [kondemand/1] 1224 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [usbhid_resumer] 1227 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [led_workqueue] 1251 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [hd-audio0] 1291 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.09 [phy0] 1367 root 18 -2 6476 1088 436 S 0 0.1 0:00.04 /sbin/udevd --daemon 1374 root 18 -2 6484 1084 432 S 0 0.1 0:00.03 /sbin/udevd --daemon 1378 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 [flush-8:0] 1387 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [ext4-dio-unwrit] 1388 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [ext4-dio-unwrit] 1389 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [jbd2/sda4-8] 1390 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [ext4-dio-unwrit] 1391 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 [ext4-dio-unwrit] 1510 root 20 0 25656 636 296 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 supervising syslog-ng 1511 root 20 0 28020 2072 1444 S 0 0.1 0:00.08 /usr/sbin/syslog-ng 1525 dbus 20 0 12652 932 688 S 0 0.0 0:00.03 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon -- 1534 root 20 0 3816 592 476 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/acpid 1537 hal 20 0 28052 5144 4040 S 0 0.3 0:00.46 /usr/sbin/hald 1538 root 20 0 19924 1280 1048 S 0 0.1 0:00.01 hald-runner 1566 root 20 0 22044 1260 1068 S 0 0.1 0:00.02 hald-addon-input: Liste 1568 root 20 0 22036 1212 1036 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon 1569 root 20 0 22036 1216 1036 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon 1576 root 20 0 22036 1188 1020 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon 1582 root 20 0 22052 1208 1028 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon 1583 hal 20 0 19632 1108 944 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 hald-addon-acpi: listen 1952 root 20 0 28052 1156 684 S 0 0.1 0:00.02 wpa_supplicant -B -P /v 1955 root 20 0 3808 468 376 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/wpa_actiond - 1972 root 20 0 5916 632 520 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/crond -S -l i 2034 root 20 0 47624 1096 576 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 /usr/bin/rpcbind 2039 root 20 0 13888 464 300 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/famd -T 0 -c 2050 bitlbee 20 0 25180 880 508 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/bitlbee -F 2054 root 20 0 43452 1252 972 S 0 0.1 0:00.01 /bin/login -- 2055 root 20 0 3820 612 520 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 /sbin/agetty -8 38400 t 2056 root 20 0 3820 608 520 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 /sbin/agetty -8 38400 t 2057 root 20 0 3820 612 520 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 /sbin/agetty -8 38400 t 2058 root 20 0 3820 608 520 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 /sbin/agetty -8 38400 t 2059 root 20 0 3820 608 520 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 /sbin/agetty -8 38400 t 2072 houn 20 0 15532 2256 1552 S 0 0.1 0:00.06 -bash 2093 root 20 0 8132 372 228 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 dhcpcd -qL -t 30 wlan0 2107 houn 20 0 13164 1664 1248 S 0 0.1 0:00.01 /bin/sh /usr/bin/startx 2124 houn 20 0 15452 928 752 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 xinit /home/houn/.xinit 2125 root 19 -1 96996 11m 4244 S 0 0.6 0:03.48 /usr/bin/X -nolisten tc 2129 houn 20 0 13164 1600 1204 S 0 0.1 0:00.01 sh /home/houn/.xinitrc 2136 houn 20 0 31280 2436 904 S 0 0.1 0:00.07 xbindkeys 2142 houn 20 0 19724 728 464 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 dbus-launch --autolaunc 2143 houn 20 0 12652 984 800 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon -- 2160 houn 20 0 21760 1052 848 S 0 0.1 0:00.06 syndaemon -i 2 2162 houn 20 0 13164 832 424 S 0 0.0 0:00.25 sh /home/houn/.xinitrc 2164 houn 20 0 27756 1556 1228 S 0 0.1 0:00.06 dwm 2543 houn 20 0 66680 8884 4800 S 0 0.4 0:00.55 urxvt 2585 houn 20 0 15532 2156 1488 S 0 0.1 0:00.03 bash 4364 houn 20 0 66528 8824 4796 S 0 0.4 0:00.34 urxvt 4384 houn 20 0 15524 2148 1488 S 0 0.1 0:00.01 bash 4908 houn 20 0 8084 928 772 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 less pre_x.txt 9004 houn 20 0 5548 568 484 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 sleep 1s 9013 houn 20 0 13168 1596 1196 S 0 0.1 0:00.01 sh scripts/sysstats.sh ==============================I did think of one thing...do you have powertop installed? Your CPU could be scaling down its clock speed and the idle CPU usage is inflated because of that. powertop would keep track of what processes are effectively consuming the most power and also display your current CPU frequency.
Powertop:
I'm using SSH and VNC for remote access to my home ubuntu box. It can be pretty damn slow. Any faster ways to do remote access?
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Next time you have access to a power outlet try to change the cpufreq governor to 'performance' and see if top's CPU usage looks normal. IIRC it should just be:
If you want to see the current governor first (it should go back to normal after a reboot) use cpufreq-info.
Try looking into FreeNX or the proprietary server. It's considerably faster than VNC or X forwarding, even on really slow connections.
When I wanted to mess around with ubuntu I went with Wubi. Not sure it's the preferred method, but it was what I did.
Still need to get around to removing that from the boot menu
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Preferred method is more opinion then anything else. Wubi is fine for just trying it out without going through the hassle/risk of a true dual boot, if thats what you're wanting to do then thats the best choice for you. Be aware that if windows goes down it'll (usually) take wubi installed ubuntu with it as well. If you like ubuntu and plan on keeping it then I would recommend uninstalling from wubi and doing a true dual-boot. With multiple partitions you are less likely to lose ubuntu if your windows goes down.
Free Moonbase Commander remake @ http://code.google.com/p/tether
Hardcopy lines @ the bottom and naming your screens and it's like a window manager with shortcuts only.
It's useful if you have to ssh in several machines or different accounts in a single machine and you want to split the tasks.
I'm using it as 1x3x2 set up, 1 terminal holding 3 local screens each having 2 remote screens. It allows me to have only one bloody terminal window open! I have no idea why I never even bothered to tried setting it up before.
Edit: Screencap: http://bayimg.com/AALGpAaCf
Using the CLI, recordmydesktop actually worked like a dream. Thanks!
Arduino works. Phidgets work really well. It depends on how much of the process you want to be involved in. If you want to focus on the algorithms and stuff, you could get away running all of it in a simulator like stage.
If you want to build your own gadgets, but you don't want to fab your own boards. Take a look at Arduino or Phidgets. The Phidgets SBC runs embedded linux and has an ethernet port, an ssh server, and the full gcc stack
Phidgets look awesome.. I might buy an SBC. I wouldn't know what to do with it, but.. you know.
Also, in trying to run synergy, I've found that my PCs can't find each other using their names. When I try to ping one from the other, it hops all the way out to my DNS servers, but the IP addresses return directly from my router. Do I need to enable something to get my router to resolve their names?
Edit:
Router is WRT54G, with Static DNS 1-3 filled out.
Try dropping your boxes name/ip combo into /etc/hosts
*Facepalm* Can you tell how long it's been since my Linux admin classes?
I just made a custom SLiM theme that matches the rest of my system. Hawt. I'll try to get a screengrab if I can.
Clean:
Terms:
This is a little difficult to manage though, as you'll have to do it on each machine. For a number of machines this becomes problematic. I am of the opinion that the highest number host file editting is worth it is one, but I am a little.... odd.
There are a number of lightweight and easy to set up DNS servers for pretty much any linux distro. Even bind is pretty straight forward, this gives you a single point of hostname updating too.
It's not even that difficult to set up a dynamic bind9/dhcp combination if you can do that which will be even less work to maintain. This is what real men do. Move ip assignment/hostname resolution off the router, the router is not your friend in this.
My there area bunch of other DNS options which are way more user friendly.
that looks really awesome. I want to do this. Unfortunately, it will take away my last link with windows, then how would I use the accursed iTunes?
Nice! It's actually quite reminiscent of my theme on awesome, except all the colors are darker and I'm running a darker version of zenburn for the term.
Grab it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/infinity-os/ !
With this release, I would also like to announce infinityOS' planned development model.
Simply, I intend for infinityOS to be an operating system developed by its users, for its users. You will have a voice in every step of its development, from planning features to fixing bugs to helping solve each others problems.
I have setup a project at Launchpad, a website that integrates bug fixing, feature planning, commiting code, and answering questions into a simple easy to use UI. All you need to do to participate in infinityOS' development is sign up for an account.
Just go to https://launchpad.net/infinityos to get started.
The official IDE will be MonoDevelop, an open source IDE for Windows, Linux and Mac. We will be using Gtk# and C# (chosen as this is the language my university teaches) to develop applications. These tools will also allow your apps to be used back on Windows and Mac if you wish, as the libraries are fully cross-platform.
To get started, type in the following into the terminal:
sudo aptitude install monodevelop
This will install everything you will need to develop apps for infinityOS. It will also be at most a ~250 MB download.
Good Luck!
Sincrerely,
Ryan Oram
I'm going to request that Sourceforge change back their listed filesizes to MiB, as the uploaded MB and MiB were about the same, causing me not to notice.
I'm uploading infinityOS 1.0pre3 now (which is just 1.0pre2 renamed). It's going to take a bit to transfer though (~5 hours).
Thanks for your support,
Ryan
I thought it looked pretty nice.
Currently backing it all up to a 2TB external drive, then I'll start sorting through. Thinking about picking up a 3rd 1TB drive and rebuilding as a Raid5 for the parity, but man, this is a headache.