Posts by BoogY:
- Python: a simple, easy-to-learn, flexible and efficient, high-level language.
- GTK: a comprehensive and powerful graphical toolkit for creating applications and the foundation of the GNOME desktop environment.
- GNOME: the desktop environment that ships with Ubuntu, offering many integration facilities.
- Glade: an application for creating user interfaces quickly and easily, which then can be loaded right into your Python programs.
- GStreamer: a powerful but deliciously simple framework for playing back and creating audio, video and other multimedia content.
- DesktopCouch: a framework for saving content in a database that is fast and efficient, hooks neatly into Ubuntu One and is awesome for replication.
- gedit: for editing code—Quickly assumes you are going to use the text editor that ships with Ubuntu, which provides a simple and surprisingly flexible interface for writing your programs.
Check out the new Linux Mint Debian Edition 201009
September 8th, 2010Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) is a rolling distribution based on Debian Testing.
At the moment, it comes as a 32-bit live DVD with a Gnome desktop.
The purpose of LMDE is to look identical to the main edition and to provide the same functionality while using Debian as a base.
Getting Started with Quickly
September 2nd, 2010At the heart of what makes Linux thrive as an operating system are applications. Within it is a vibrant, diverse range of applications, satisfying even the most particular needs, all just a few clicks away. With such an imaginative range of applications available, a similarly vibrant developer community has formed, complete with a vast array of tools, languages and functionality. Unfortunately, although powerful, many of these tools are awkwardly complex, and many developers have let their ideas and creativity become buried under an avalanche of confusion around how those tools fit together.
Part of the cause of this problem is that many developer tools cater only to systematic developers—the kind of code-writing workaholics who hack for a living, with a fervent attention to detail backed up by unit tests and other hallmarks of the professional programmer. There are, however, developers of a different sort who are driven by writing practical code, scratching their itches and having fun writing programs and sharing them with others. These are opportunistic developers.
As part of our work in Ubuntu, we have been keen to harness opportunistic developers and enable them to do great work using Ubuntu as a platform. As part of this goal, we have developed a series of tools to make it simple for you to break down the barrier between idea and implementation, and help you to scratch your itches more quickly and easily. One such tool is Quickly (wiki.ubuntu.com/Quickly).
Enter Quickly
Quickly gets you up and running (quickly, of course) writing an application from scratch. Traditionally, writing desktop applications has involved a not-insignificant amount of faffing required, with build systems, source control, packaging frameworks, graphical interface tools and other things that get in the way of writing code. Quickly is a tool that simplifies how those different things fit together.
Quickly provides a framework with a series of templates for creating different types of applications. With each template, a series of opinionated decisions are made about the tools involved in creating that application. By far, the most popular template and the one that Quickly itself was created to satisfy is the Ubuntu template. This template uses a set of tools that has become hugely popular in modern desktop software development, and tools we have harnessed in Ubuntu. They are:
With this core set of tools, you can write any application you can imagine and know that it will run effortlessly on Ubuntu and other distributions. Let’s make the magic happen.
Today, Quickly primarily is used on Ubuntu and is not currently packaged for other distributions, although we hope this changes in the future and that other distributions use Quickly too. If you are running Ubuntu, getting Quickly is as simple as installing from the Ubuntu Software Center or firing up a terminal and running:
sudo apt-get install quickly
After a few minutes, you should be up and running.
Creating a Project:
With Quickly installed and ready to roll, let’s start creating a simple application. Fire up a terminal with Applications→Accessories→Terminal, and enter the following command:
quickly create ubuntu-project myapp
This command uses Quickly to create a new Ubuntu Project called myapp. You will see a flurry of lines fly past your eyes as Quickly generates the new project and saves its various files inside a new directory called myapp. When Quickly finishes generating the project, it runs it automatically, and you should see a window that looks remarkably similar to Figure 1.
Elegant Gnome Pack 0.7.0 is released with a lot of new features |Ubuntu & Linuxmint
September 2nd, 2010Elegant Gnome Pack 0.7.0 is released, the version comes with a lot of change and new features: a GUI utility to configure your desktop, Icon theme: based on AwOken icon theme v 1.1 by alecive, GTK+ theme: Elegant GTK theme v 2.1, Cursor Theme: Neutral++ by ducakar, Wallpaper: gDIGE by *Muscarr , Keyboard layout indicator flags, Firefox theme, Google Chrome theme by Jorge Carrillo ,Google Chrome scrollbar extension,Smplayer theme.
Before to install Elegant Gnome Pack, you need to have these dependencies installed in your system:
1- Nautilus-Elementary
For installation in ubuntu open terminal and enter the commands bellow:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:am-monkeyd/nautilus-elementary-ppa sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade nautilus -q #restarts nautilus
2- Droid Sans Font:
Open terminal and enter the command bellow:
sudo apt-get install ttf-droid
3- The latest Murrine engine from GIT
Open terminal and enter the commands bellow:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:murrine-daily/ppa sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-murrine
Installation of Elegant Gnome Pack In Ubuntu and LinuxMint:
For installation in ubuntu open terminal and then:
First add repository and update
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elegant-gnome/ppa && sudo apt-get update
For Ubuntu use this command to install Elegant Gnome:
sudo apt-get install elegant-gnome
For Linux MInt:
sudo apt-get install elegant-gnome-mint
Now go to Applications–>Accessories–>Elegant Theme, and choose to install the theme pack for elegant theme.
Source from here
Linux Server Monitoring with Bijk
September 2nd, 2010How you can monitor your server and performs usage? With Bijk you get online 30 graphs about Load, CPU, memory, traffic, Apache, PostreSQL and others with Alerts. Bijk can be used on Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat and with Cloud providers.
The demands on Internet servers keep growing, with increasing numbers of visitors to sites, greater complexity of Internet traffic and projects that tend to run on ever-larger groups of servers. Development of a custom internal solution is a very costly and time-consuming process for any company.
Dasboard – list of servers in Bijk with graphs overview
But now there is a new tool that simplifies Linux administrators’ work, saves time and money and enables businesses to increase the overall speed and stability of their web servers.
Bijk – born of a natural need for information
SaaS application Bijk.com was introduced in summer 2010, with the sole purpose of providing Linux server administrators with user-friendly, comprehensible graphs.
Load graph – 24 hour detail – Bijk.com
Bijk.com installation on Linux server is easy – it requires just four steps:
1) Create a free account on Bijk.com
2) Add a Linux repository or download source code
3) Install the Bijk package
4) Connect to a Bijk user account.
Installation on three servers takes only five minutes.
Server monitoring: Bijk.com offers a free and a commercial version, distinguished mainly by the number of servers that can be added in Bijk.
CPU usage graph – 24 hour detail – Bijk.com
Where does Bijk save time?
Bijk helps you to search for and prevent many causes of server downtime. You will be notified of changes in load, a full hard drive, increases in traffic and any strange server behaviour by Bijk.
The CPU load chart indicates why the server may be slow. The chart showing the usage of the HDD can estimate the speed at which the drive will fill up and performs usage analysis, which helps to avoid overburdening of the HDD.
The advanced Apache and MySQL charting can follow the structure of requirements including page-views, number of SELECT and UPDATE queries and even developments over time – for example, based on an aggregation of memory and disk writes.
Operating a popular web project, server or database without using a server performance monitoring tool is very risky.
There are many smart, simple tools (top, htop, iostat, iptraf and many others), but none of them provide historical analysis of trends and changes that are important for future planning.
Bijk Alerts – SMS & Email
Every (load, disk space, Apache stats) can be monitored by using a simple user interface, and if min/max limits are exceeded, Bijk will notify you by mobile phone or email alert.
If the load on your servers rises rapidly, Bijk sends an SMS to a mobile phone with a direct link to a live graph that you can view direct from your mobile phone.
Activity time – evidence for your boss
Many Linux administrators work in companies for which the servers and IT environment are only an adjunct to the main business of the company.
Linux administrators often find themselves in a situation in which the rest of the company does not understand how much time they need for their work; they cannot even estimate the time spent by admins on servers.
In Bijk.com there is a simple function called “Activity time,” which measures the actual time used by Linux administrators on specified servers or groups of servers over any given time period.
Activity time – clean SSH work time on server – 4 hour work from 24 hour detail – Bijk.com
Now you can easily confirm to your boss, your customer or anyone else how much time you really spent working on a server: the net time can be shown on a chart. (Bijk monitors the idle time value for each user.)
For all users, the basic version of Bijk is completely free. Add your first server and start Bijking!
Article from here
GNOME Split 0.9
September 2nd, 2010GNOME Split is a tool that allows you to split files and merge them back. It is written in Java and uses a GTK+ user interface (thanks to the java-gnome project). The goal is to offer a native implementation of similar projects which can handle multiple file formats (e.g. Xtremsplit).
With bugfixes and GTK+ graphical interface enhancements.
- Split and merge using the GNOME Split file format.
- Split and merge using the Xtremsplit file format.
- Split and merge using the KFK file format.
- Split and merge using the YoyoCut file format.
- Split and merge using a generic file format (like “split” and “cat” tools).
- File integrity verification using the MD5 algorithm.
- Notifications to show the end of a split or a merge.
- Asssistant to make split and merge easy for new users.
- Speed indicator to know how fast the action is performed.
- Accelerators to quickly manage a split or a merge.
Unity adds improved launcher, dash icons
September 1st, 2010by Joey on omgubuntu.co.uk
Ubuntu 10.10′s Unity interface has gained some new icons in an update tonight.
Three new launcher icons – for applications, places and trash respectively – are joined by category icons in the dash over-view.
Also noticeable in recent updates are a refined set of ‘hover’ effects.
VLC in Ubuntu Gets a New PPA And It’s Working Great!
September 1st, 2010Think you all knew this already, the c-korn/vlc ppa has been removed by the author himself. You can’t live without PPAs in Ubuntu especially for most downloaded apps like VLC. Guys at LFFL have made a dedicated PPA for VLC. I just gave it a try and it worked awesome.
Install Latest VLC 1.1.4 in Ubuntu 10.04 From the New PPA
- The latest VLC 1.1.4 is available with the repo and it’s working great. Copy-paste the following lines into Terminal to install the new PPA and the latest VLC 1.1.4
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/vlc && sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install vlc mozilla-plugin-vlc
- If you have already installed VLC in Ubuntu, remove the c-korn/vlc PPA first and then install this new PPA as shown above. Afterwards do an upgrade simply.
sudo apt-get upgrade
- Done.
Source from here
Ofris – Deep Freeze Like Application For Linux [Ubuntu PPA]
August 30th, 2010If you ever went to a cyber cafe, you probably noticed that any changes you make to their system: create or delete files, settings and so on, everything resets when you restart the computer. That’s what the Deep Freeze program does.
Ofris is a Deep Freeze like application for Linux that is very easy to use – once you install it, you can “deep freeze” your Linux computer in a matter of seconds.
Ofris comes with an Ubuntu PPA so you can install it using the following commands (available for Ubuntu 9.10, 10.04 and 10.10):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tldm217/tahutek.net sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ofris-en
The last command will install the English version of Ofris (the package called just “ofris” will install the Indonesian version).
Once you install it, open a terminal and run:
ofris-en
And then select what you want to do, like freeze the system for this user or for another user. You can later unfreeze the system the same way.
Here is a video tutorial on how to use Ofris to “deep freeze” your Ubuntu installation, created by gotbletu:
Source from here
