The experiment will complement the earlier media attempt nicely, and give us additional insight into how third-party software sources and programs are used in this distribution.
It may not be the most obvious choice, compared to Mint or Ubuntu, which we used in the first two parts, plus it does not ship with any proprietary software out of the box, and that is exactly the reason why we will be using Fedora. We will do everything twice, from the GUI and then the command line, and we will be using Fedora for that.
As you can imagine, we will see how easy it is to obtain games and play them on Linux, the best methods to achieve the desired results, and how to cope with various snags and issues that may arise. In order to help the bi-boot-curious people bridge the gap more easily, today, we will dabble in gaming. True, the Steam revolution happening on Linux is sending shockwaves of changes throughout the community, but we are still a couple of years away from total, seamless indifference. There are still a huge number of games available only for Windows, and we want to be able to play them.
Alongside Office really, this is the big reason why so many people still keep Windows around, myself included.
*It was already in the Ubuntu/Debian repositories, so all I had to do in order to install it was to open the Software Center and search for it.The third part of our migration slash conversion adventure takes us into the realm of gaming. * It shows you how many errors (misspellings) you have done, and list which letters you need to work on more. * It can graph your progress, including letters-per-minute, and words-per-minute. It also shows the colored map for which letter is associated to which finger at all times. *Unlike a few others I check it displays a keyboard on screen, indicating which finger you should use to type the current letter. Later exercises then combines new letters with the ones you already know. *It provides small sets of words (or letter combinations in the earlier stages) so that you get some practise with each letter before moving on to the next one. I tried a few but settled with using KTouch for a couple of reasons: Anyways, turns out there are a bunch of programs that help you learn/train touch typing. So since I type a lot, I might as well learn how to do it properly, and hopefully increase my typing speed while I’m at it. Most of the stuff I write happens through a keyboard, whether it is code, assignments or blog posts or something completly different. If you have wondered exactly which colors are used, these two friendly owls (?) will let you know.Īt some point I figured I should learn touch typing. Speaking of Ubuntu, you may have noticed the main colors used are orange and aubergine. Since it is still under development, I recommend not using your day to day machine, but rather test it in a virtual machine or something in case something breaks. Check here if you want to take it for a test spin, or here to see the expected release schedule. It is hard to say something about the plot without spoiling too much, but it is a sci-fi series.Īnd Ubuntu recently released alpha 2 of their upcoming Oneiric Ocelot release. So far they have released four episodes, with two more coming soon. It is an interesting approach because they are funded by donations and make the episodes freely available from their website. They have both been posted on YouTube by Carnegie Mellon.Īlso on YouTube is the TV-series Pioneer One. He also gave an interesting lecture on time managment. The talk is his chosen topic for what they referred to as a “last lecture”, which essentially means if you were given one last lecture to hold, what would you talk about? The twist here is that he had recently been diagnosed with cancer and informed he had maximum six months left. He was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. “Achieving your childhood dreams” is the name of a presentation I watched a long time ago (last fall or something), which is a really inspiring talk by Randy Pausch. Actually, it is brilliant, so you should probably go see it anyway. If you know what a Möbius strip looks like, you should check it out this short little story about a girl living in Möbius world. I read some parts of it, and it looks like they are already working on volume 2. Among the programs covered are Eclipse, Mercurial, CMake and Battle for Wesnoth.
Since the code is open and freely available, this makes it possible to discuss how it is constructed and how the choices made in development affected the end result. Someone made a Creative Commons licensed book about the architecture of open source applications. This is a collection of some various, interesting things I have stumbled across lately which doesn’t really justify a separate post each.