Archive for September, 2007

Conky: light-weight Linux system monitor

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conky logoConky is a light-weight and highly configurable system monitor for X. It can monitor many different aspects of your Linux computer. You choose what to monitor and you choose where the monitor is displayed on your desktop through use of a configuration file .conkyrc. As for me I like to have it at the top right of my display.
To get conky running in Ubuntu execute:

sudo apt-get install conky

conky exampleFedora users should install it with yum:

sudo yum install conky

Then regardless distro you use, you should edit configuration file that is located at your home directory ~/.conkyrc. For example like this one.

Most popular Ubuntu blogs

Here is Top 25 of Ubuntu blogs provided by FreeGeekery. These four metrics were used to calculate the rankings:

GoogleGoogle PageRank
AlexaAlexa Rank
TechnoratiTechnorati Authority
bloglinesBloglines Subscribers

# Ubuntu Blog Google Alexa Technorati Bloglines Total
1 Ubuntu Geek 6 10 10 10 36
2 Ubuntu Blog 6 10 10 10 36
3 Mark Shuttleworth 7 9 10 10 36
4 The Fridge 6 10 9 10 35
5 All About Linux 5 9 10 10 34
6 Ubuntu Tutorials 5 9 9 9 32
7 Linux on Desktop 6 8 10 8 32
8 jonbacon@home 6 8 9 9 32
9 Wombat Ubuntu Blog 3 10 8 9 30
10 Only Ubuntu Linux 3 8 9 9 29
11 UbuntuOS 4 6 7 8 25
12 Motho ke motho ka botho 2 7 8 7 24
13 Ubuntu Linux Tips & Tutorials 3 7 7 7 24
14 ID- Ubuntu Blogs 4 7 7 4 22
15 Ubuntu Tutorials 4 3 8 6 21
16 Ubuntu Demon’s Blog 5 1 7 8 21
17 Ubuntu Linux Blog by Ralph 1 5 6 8 20
18 Ubuntu Tutorials, Howtos, and More 4 4 5 7 20
19 Xubuntu Blog 4 4 5 7 20
20 The Ubustu Feed 0 6 7 6 19
21 Joey Stanford 4 5 6 4 19
22 The Ubucon Blog 5 0 8 5 18
23 All About Ubuntu 0 6 6 5 17
24 Free Software Blog 4 2 5 6 17
25 Ubuntu Christian Edition Facts 5 5 2 4 16

Full Circle Magazine’s 5th issue for Ubuntu newbies

Full Circle Magazine logo

The FREE Independent Magazine for the Ubuntu Linux Community fullcirclemagazine.org just released it’s 5th issue containing articles useful for Ubuntu newbies:

  • Fluxbuntu – Step-by-step Install
  • How-To : Report Bugs with LaunchPad, CoLoCo Edubuntu Presentation, From VMware to VirtualBox and Learning Scribus Pt.5.
  • Review of Bridge Construction Kit.
  • Preview of Gusty Gibbon
  • Letters, Q&A, My Desktop, My PC, Top 5, the new My Opinion column, and more!

Full Circle Magazine’s 5th issue

English version is available in PDF here.

Google is 9 years old now

PageRank 10 page google.com, turned 9 years old at 27th of September 2007, according to the special logo put up for the occasion yesterday.

wikipedia.org:

Google was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University and the company was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 7, 1998. Through a series of new product developments, acquisitions and partnerships, the company has expanded its initial search and advertising business into other areas, including web-based email, online mapping, office productivity, and video sharing, among others.

Here is a screenshot of google.com page in early 1997 (as you might notice Linux specific resources search was available from the beginning, unfortunately I didn’t find any information when BSD related search become available):

google in 1997

Respect to Google!

Portable and integrated Linux distro for USB drives

FaunOS logoFaunOS is a portable (easy-to-carry), fully integrated Linux operating system with over 500 pre-installed packages. It is specifically designed to run from a portable USB Memory Device (USB Flash Drive). It can also run from a DVD. It does not change or install anything on your hard drive unless you specifically ask it to. This means it is safe to take your USB to a friend’s computer and boot from it (see minimum requirements). When you finish, shutdown, and remove your USB key from your friend’s computer, there is no trace of any of your activity on that computer.

Here are FaunOS features list:

  • Ability to save files back to the USB flash drive.
  • Tools that allow permanent installation to a hard drive. Supports the following install options on a hard drive:
    • Permanent Arch Linux Installer using archin
    • Frugal install (not to be confused with Frugalware Linux) installs the compressed FaunOS files to a hard drive permanently leading to an “unbreakable desktop” meaning the end user can totally ruin everything at runtime. To revert back to the starting point all the user has to do is reboot the machine and everything goes back to normal since all changes happen in RAM (unless the FaunOS session is saved on shutdown).
    • Ability to install additional packages before permanently installing FaunOS to the hard drive.
  • FaunOS Installer for creating additional FaunOS USB drives from within FaunOS.




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