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Where is FOSS? Apps for sale everywhere. Google Play, Apple's App Store, and now Ubuntu Software Centre. Now, I have nothing against paying for a very good application, and I also realize that it takes a lot of time and effort to create an application. But, there are a lot of applications out there that shouldn't cost a cent. Now just look at Ubuntu Software Centre and the number of applications that aren't free that have sprung up over the last year. My challenge to the developers out there who want to create great programs for Ubuntu and the soon-to-be Ubuntu phone is: Keep it free and Keep it open. Then people will want to use Ubuntu over other devices. Chris Love
Où sont les Logiciels libres et gratuits ?
Il y a des applis en vente partout. Google Play, l'App Store de Apple et, maintenant, la Logithèque Ubuntu. Remarquez, je n'ai rien contre l'achat d'une très bonne application et je me rends également compte qu'il faut beaucoup de temps et d'efforts pour créer une application. Mais, il existe beaucoup d'applications qui devraient coûter rien du tout. Allez regarder la Logithèque Ubuntu et le nombre d'applications payantes qui ont poussé comme des champignons en cours d'année. Je lance un défi aux développeurs que veulent créer des programmes géniaux pour Ubuntu et le prochain Ubuntu phone : qu'il soit toujours gratuit et open source. Et alors les gens voudront utiliser Ubuntu plutôt que d'autres systèmes.
Cron + GUI I read Jeremy Boden's interesting article on cron, a useful and sometimes under-appreciated tool. For those who prefer to use GUI editors rather than vi or nano, readers may be interested to know how to do this. As Jeremy already wrote, the way to edit cron is: crontab -e However, you can change the default editor to a GUI one as follows: VISUAL=gedit crontab -e You can replace gedit with leafpad, or whatever your preferred editor is. Or, you can set VISUAL in your .bashrc file to make this permanent and avoid having to type it each time. The two find commands as used can also be simplified to avoid using the -exec option, as follows. find ~/.thumbnails -type f -atime +7 -delete find ~/.thumbnails -type f -atime +7 -ls | more You could substitute -print for -ls in the second command – depending on how you prefer the output. In certain cases, the commands as shown are safer than the original, although this is unlikely to happen in the thumbnails folder. Paddy Landau
Cron + Interface graphique
J'ai lu l'article intéressant de Jeremy Boden sur cron, un outil utile et parfois sous-estimé. Pour ceux qui préfèrent se servir d'éditeurs avec une interface graphique à la place de vi ou nano, les lecteurs pourraient aimer savoir comment faire. Comme Jeremy a déjà indiqué, pour modifier cron, vous faites :
crontab -e
Vous pouvez cependant changer l'éditeur par défaut en un éditeur avec interface graphique, comme ceci :
VISUAL=gedit crontab -e
Vous pouvez remplacer gedit par leafpad, ou votre éditeur préféré, quel qu'il soit. Ou, vous pouvez mettre VISUAL dans votre fichier .bashrc pour le rendre pérenne et ne pas avoir à le taper chaque fois.
Les deux commandes find telles qu'utilisées peuvent aussi être simplifiées pour ne pas avoir à utiliser l'option -exec, comme suit :
find ~/.thumbnails -type f -atime +7 -delete
find ~/.thumbnails -type f -atime +7 -ls | more
Vous pourriez remplace -ls par -print dans la deuxième commande - selon vos préférences de sortie. Dans certains cas, les commandes montrées sont plus sures que l'original bien que ceci soit peu probable dans le dossier des miniatures.
Paddy Landau
SolydXK
I saw your facebook post the other day, and downloaded SolydK to try it out.
I am not a Linux guru, but I do like trying new Distros. I have been using various Linux distros exclusively for the last 3 years (hint, NO Windows). I think Solyd is a great distro. I am using the live version on my home-built desktop, after trying it out on my Toshiba laptop (which worked great).
I like it so much I planned to install it alongside my Zorin 6, which has not impressed me much. Zorin 6 doesn't seem that much different from version 5, so I was looking for something new.
One thing that really appeals to me is the fact that, when I hover over a file, I get a lot more info than any Ubuntu version I've tried.
I have six old Windows virus infected hard drives that have music I want to keep. I used the recovery disk to get what ended up being recovered files with not much info on them. A different and much, much better info with Solyd.
I read today that, on March 1st, SolydK is coming out with another version. I will happily use the live version till March 1st at which time Ill install it on my hard drive next to Zorin 6, and, hopefully, replace it. I'm not badmouthing any Ubuntu distro, but am hoping the best for SolydXK.
Dennis McClellan
Ronnie says: Check next month’s FCM for a full review of SolydXK from long-time reviewer Art.
Table of Contents
I have been reading this magazine for many years now and I keep older issues on my laptop for reference. But…sometimes, I want to read again an article about something specific I remember having read in a former issue. Finding the article again in my collection of FCM issue is… very tedious and time consuming!
That is why I had this idea: how about building a compilation of all articles published, let's say on a yearly basis. The list could be sorted out by themes, making it easy to find the specific FCM issue containing that article.
Gilles Tournier
Ronnie says: Good idea, but we beat you to it. At the top of the FCM site is a button marked 'Table of Contents' which links to: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuMagazine/FullIssueIndex. It's not bang up-to-date, but it's close! Gord has also just released a Google Docs file which lists all how-to's and even questions answered since the beginning of (Full Circle) time: http://goo.gl/C6JiI.