{"id":42,"date":"2007-01-08T23:25:14","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T03:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andyanglea.com\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2007-01-08T23:25:14","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T03:25:14","slug":"coming-to-you-live-from-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Coming to you live from Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu Dapper Drake to be precise.  Over this last week I\u2019ve been in Linux just about as much as windows, actually. As i have no room for a Linux partition on my primary harddrive, I\u2019m running it on an external USB drive. I think i\u2019ve posted about his previously elsewhere. But I now have it in an upgraded, fully usable state. Previously it was more of a toy, and lots of stuff (Firefox plugins, customizations, etc.) wasn\u2019t in place. But it\u2019s now much more \u201cme.\u201d<br \/>\nI also was able to get <a title=\"PeterAnglea.com\" href=\"http:\/\/peteranglea.com\/\">my brother<\/a> on linux (albeit on M$ Virtual PC).  He\u2019s running Xubuntu (uses the <a title=\"Answers.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/main\/ntquery?s=xfce&amp;gwp=13\">XFCE<\/a> <a title=\"Answers.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/desktop-environment?ff=1\">desktop environment<\/a> instead of <a title=\"Answers.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/gnome\">GNOME<\/a>). I still find it quite oxymoronic (is that a word?) to run linux using a Window$ program. Anyway, I thought since i was using linux \u201cso much\u201d <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/andy.xhtmlpro.com\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_biggrin.gif\" alt=\":D\" \/> this week, i should at least make a post using it.<\/p>\n<p>Customizations i\u2019ve made to the default install include (but are not limited too)\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Firefox 2 (not in the dapper repositories yet)<\/li>\n<li>Automatix &#8211; nice installer for lots of common plugins (flash, quicktime), apps (gFTP, Gaim beta 3, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Bluefish and much more), codecs, etc. that make Ubuntu much more friendly to my everyday use.<\/li>\n<li>xorg.conf customization for Thinkpad scrolling<\/li>\n<li>Copy of file browser running as root<\/li>\n<li>Standard Firefox and Thunderbird icons (not the ubuntu versions)<\/li>\n<li>msttfcorefonts (Verdana, Trebuchet MS, Arial, Tahoma, ect [since almost every website <a title=\"web design outside the box\" href=\"http:\/\/xhtmlpro.com\/\">we\u2019ve<\/a> created uses at least one of those)<\/li>\n<li>other tweaks such as theme, screensaver, fonts, wallpaper, etc, to give it \u201cmy\u201d touch<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Before i sign off, i suppose i should register at least one complaint, and others have mentioned it before\u2026 If linux is ever going to go mainstream, linux support is going to have to stop referring users to the terminal. I personally like using it, but my brother dislikes it a good deal. Eh, as a designer, he just wants a Mac, anyway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Current System specs:<\/strong><br \/>\nThinkpad R40 2723<br \/>\n80GB Western Digital external USB hard drive<br \/>\n1.3 GHz Centrino processor<br \/>\nUbuntu Dapper Drake 6.06 (I\u2019d upgrade to Edgy, but it seems to have been giving too many users problems)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu Dapper Drake to be precise. Over this last week I\u2019ve been in Linux just about as much as windows, actually. As i have no room for a Linux partition on my primary harddrive, I\u2019m running it on an external USB drive. I think i\u2019ve posted about his previously elsewhere. But I now have it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[41,61,90,95],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","category-technology","tag-geek","tag-linux","tag-tech","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyanglea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}