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Video: What is Your Favorite Linux Distro? UNIX.com and Primis
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With so many great flavors of Linux to choose from, we asked our UNIX.com members what is their favorite Linux distro and why.
Here are the results:
What is your favorite Linux distro?
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Discussion started by: Neo
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2. Ubuntu
Greetings!
Here's something which I came across whilst mucking about with a UNetbootin thumbdrive install of 12.04 (I suspect this would apply to other variants as well).
Here's the scenario:
As an experiment before burning to flash, I generated a comprehensive md5sums.txt for the entirety... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: LinQ
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have 2 computers, from now on i shall call these computers A and B.
Made a live linux distro (bodhi) on A which has 1GB internal memory , because windows is unstable on B, which has 512MB internal memory.
I mean with memory the internal memory of the computer, not the memory of the usb... (0 Replies)
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4. Linux
Hey,
weird story, dunno if this is actually possible, but here's what happened: My dad's PC (Windows) is completely full of trash, the hard drive is completely full. After the last Windows update he wasn't able to boot anymore, even from a WindowsCD it didn't seem to work. That's at least what... (7 Replies)
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5. Fedora
I'd like to become more familiar with Unix. To that end I want to install and practice/play with a (open source) Unix distro; however, I'm uncertain which one I should use. I'm considering freebsd, openbsd, and openSolaris.
I'm familiar and comfortable with RHL/CentOS and Debian/Ubuntu. Keeping... (3 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm creating a python script to load a configuration to gnome-terminal immediately after a Live Boot. I must run it in super-user mode, because I shut down some services first. After this, I want to configure gnome-terminal. The problem is that if I run it as super-user, it successfully shuts... (0 Replies)
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ok so i am writing in VI.
Basically i am writing a script which does the following
1.) creates a file name as: `hostname.`date '+%d%m%y_%H%M'.1.html
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3.) takes info from command showrev -p and then >> to the same file
4.) echos closing... (4 Replies)
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
what unix could you advice to me for following purposes?
-browsing web
-reading text information
-listening to music (mp3/ogg/tracker modules)
-watcing movies (rare) (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: spacevoid8
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Looking to get a Unix Live Cd. Could anyone tell me a good website to go to and download it. I have tried Puppy Linux and it has not worked of me .
I thank you for your help.
tva?wants2know :) (0 Replies)
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File::HomeDir::Unix(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation File::HomeDir::Unix(3pm)
NAME
File::HomeDir::Unix - Find your home and other directories on legacy Unix
SYNOPSIS
use File::HomeDir;
# Find directories for the current user
$home = File::HomeDir->my_home; # /home/mylogin
$desktop = File::HomeDir->my_desktop; # All of these will...
$docs = File::HomeDir->my_documents; # ...default to home...
$music = File::HomeDir->my_music; # ...directory
$pics = File::HomeDir->my_pictures; #
$videos = File::HomeDir->my_videos; #
$data = File::HomeDir->my_data; #
DESCRIPTION
This module provides implementations for determining common user directories. In normal usage this module will always be used via
File::HomeDir.
SUPPORT
See the support section the main File::HomeDir module.
AUTHORS
Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>
Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>
SEE ALSO
File::HomeDir, File::HomeDir::Win32 (legacy)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2005 - 2011 Adam Kennedy.
Some parts copyright 2000 Sean M. Burke.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.
perl v5.14.2 2012-01-25 File::HomeDir::Unix(3pm)