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Connect to Android? I am a big fan of your magazine, been reading it from issue 20-something – I don't recall exactly. In last month’s issue, I found an article about how to connect an IOS device to a Linux machine, and I was impressed how detailed you guys were. It was a nice article; it explained the process so that even a noob will know how to do it. I am writing to request an article of similar form but on connecting an Android device to Linux. With the new connection mode Google used on their OS, I find it hard to connect some devices. I found a lot of articles on the Internet which explain how to do it, but none of them seemed to work on my Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. In the old days, using Android USB mode protocol, it was pretty easy; now with MTP stuff it is hard to get them to automatically mount when the device is connected. I will be glad to see this. Carlos john Gord says: see FCM#80, page 40.
Se connecter à Android ?
J'aime beaucoup votre magazine et le lis depuis le numéro 20 ou quelque chose comme ça - je ne m'en souviens pas exactement. Dans le numéro du mois dernier, j'ai lu un article sur comment connecter un périphérique IOS à une machine Linux et j'étais très impressionné par la quantité des détails fournis. C'était un bon article ; le processus était expliqué de telle façon que même un débutant saurait comment faire.
J'écris pour demander un article forme similaire, mais concernant la connexion d'un périphérique Android à Linux.
Mint KDE vs Kubuntu
I had been using Linux Mint Cinnamon for quite a while – and I started testing out KDE but installing it as a boot option with my Mint Cinnamon. I liked it so much that, with my last update, I went for the Mint KDE edition as my main install. Since then I have noticed more and more positive reviews about KDE and its popularity (funny I never noticed them whilst using Cinnamon). Now I have installed Kubuntu in Virtualbox and am really liking what I see. I notice Kubuntu's OS as well as KDE is newer than Mint's. So my question is: what are the key differentiators between Kubuntu and Mint KDE, and any advice on why we would want to use the one versus the other?
Danie van der Merwe
What, No Predictions?
Thank you for covering HomeBank in FCM#84.
I have been using Quicken for many years. Unfortunately, as excellent as the product is (and it is excellent), my version has become old and no longer works well on Linux (and not at all on Windows, even though it's a Windows program) — and I'm not about to cough up a significant annual fee for a new version that used to cost far less and probably won't even work on Linux!
I have been searching for over a year for a suitable replacement. Every Linux-compatible application that I have looked at, from GnuCash to HomeBank, lacks a feature that is critical for bookkeeping: Looking into the future.
Without the ability to enter future payments and income, both repeating and one-offs, and to then see a graph of how the future will pan out for both individual accounts and combined accounts, the bookkeeping application is no better than keeping a paper copy. Well, it's more convenient than paper, but functionally no better.
To my astonishment, one developer of a cross-platform product (I forget which one) went so far as to claim that such a forward-looking feature was not relevant to keeping one's books.
Tracking the future is vital to prevent overspending and to plan for major expenses, from holidays to home maintenance, paying off a loan, marketing, or having a baby. Any company knows this and does it. Well, any company that wants to stay afloat and grow. Also, any individual who wants to keep control of his finances and not slip into debt.
I don't mind whether an application is open source or closed, libre or proprietary, free or paid (within reason) — but unless a bookkeeping application allows me to not only keep books but also to plan for the future, it is useless to me or my (very) small business.
A cloud service would be even better, as I could then access my books from my Ubuntu desktop, my Android phone, or a friend's iPad. Alas, I have also not found a suitable web-based version.
If any of your readers know of a suitable product that doesn't cost the earth, is fairly easy to use, and is either Ubuntu-compatible or (preferably) web-based, perhaps they could let you — and therefore your readers — know of it!
I'll be happy to write a review on whatever I finally purchase and use, assuming of course that I find something suitable.
Paddy Landau
Customizing The Desktop
I am new to Ubuntu and I was delighted to find Full Circle Magazine.
FCM helped me a lot, though I'm still missing one thing: there are no articles on desktop settings and customization. I'd love to see a series which covers the installation of icons, themes and panels.
As I said, I'm new to Ubuntu, so I'm sure other beginners will find these topics very interesting.
All new users spend weeks on customizing and prettifying their desktops.
And if they fail, they will return to the ‘old’ OS.
Customizing Gnome or Unity is not an easy thing to do. I'm using Kubuntu, which is a lot easier then these two, still I couldn't set it the way I wanted to.
There are a lot of packages on kde-look, but it's difficult to find your way around the different installation methods and desktop environments.
László Kiss