11-27-2009
"good interface like windows" is
a bit of a misnomer. It's the most familiar to you, but if other people didn't want something different Linux wouldn't exist. There's going to be a difference and a learning curve because they're simply not the same.
Windows is also the antithesis of a good programming environment; the distros that pretend the hardest to be Windows are also the hardest to program in. Every other day we get Ubuntu people trying to follow code examples and getting nowhere... Ubuntu splits its packages into the bits you need to program with and the bits you need to just use it; it's not enough to have Xorg on your system for a programmer to use it for example -- you need to manually install Xorg-
dev or something first. Rinse and repeat for hundreds of separate libraries. Most distros do this the same way.
Gentoo is a wonderful distribution for programmers. Install Xorg in it and you'll have everything you need to build things that use Xorg. It supports any language you can think of and lots nobody's heard of. It can install multiple versions of the same thing gracefully. It's also somewhat more intimidating. If you're interested in learning about Linux, installing Gentoo will teach you more than you'd learn in years of using a Windows-alike GUI shell. I used Mandrake(called Mandriva these days) for 3 years and learned nothing about what it was actually doing...
Last edited by Corona688; 11-27-2009 at 03:32 PM..
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
ts_calibrate
TS_CALIBRATE(1) tslib TS_CALIBRATE(1)
NAME
ts_calibrate - A test program to calibrate a touch screen for embedded devices.
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the ts_calibrate, a basic test program for touchscreen library.
This manual page was written for the Debian(TM) distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
Latest versions of the Xorg tslib input driver use hal to configure the touchscreen within Xorg. Environment variables are only needed for
the tslib commands.
TSLIB_TSDEVICE
TS device file name.
Default (non inputapi): /dev/touchscreen/ucb1x00
Default (inputapi) [Debian]: /dev/input/event0
TSLIB_CALIBFILE
Calibration file.
Default: /etc/pointercal
TSLIB_CONFFILE
Configuration file for tslib.
Default: /etc/ts.conf
TSLIB_PLUGINDIR
Plugin directory.
Default: /usr/lib/$triplet/ts0/ where triplet is the MultiArch path, e.g. arm-linux-gnueabi.
TSLIB_CONSOLEDEVICE
Console device.
Default: /dev/tty
TSLIB_FBDEVICE
Framebuffer device.
Default: /dev/fb0
For more information on tslib configuration, see ts.conf (5)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Neil Williams codehelp@debian.org for the Debian(TM) system (but may be used by others). Permission is
granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version
published by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
AUTHOR
Russell King
Author.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2008 Neil Williams
Debian 1 January 21, 2008 TS_CALIBRATE(1)