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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 168
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| Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter,
| Issue #168 for the week November 8th -
| November 14th, 2009. In this issue we
| cover: UDS: How to participate even if you
| aren't attending, Lucid translation imports
| are now active, New Ubuntu Developers, New
| York State Release Celebration, The Planet:
| Dustin Kirkland, Shane Fagan, Arkeia
| Releases Free Network Backup Software for
| Ubuntu, Canonical and Creative Commons Meet
| Donations Target, and much, much more!
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https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue168
Installing Software on Ubuntu: AllMyApps.com, Appnr.com, Ubuntu Software Center
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| Software installation on Ubuntu and really
| all major Linux distributions contrary to
| some peopleâs uneducated rants on the
| subject can actually be much easier than
| anything Windows has to offer. You just
| have to be accustomed to it and accepting
| of the software found in your desired
| distributions repositories. In Ubuntuâs
| instance there are nearly 2500 GUI-centered
| applications and close to twenty-five
| thousand other packages which include
| drivers, modules, and numerous command-line
| utilities. In that mix of GUI apps you will
| likely find a suitable, equal, and often
| times superior replacement for whatever
| Windows or proprietary software you may
| have been accustomed to prior to your
| switch to open source computing. Its often
| as simple as search, check, and install.
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http://tuxsoftware.com/?p=122
Use NameBar And DockBarX To Optimize Your Screen Real Estate [Ubuntu]
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| About a week ago, we wrote about gaining
| some space on your Linux Desktop (but the
| tutorial was focused on Ubuntu) by removing
| the titlebar of maximized applications -
| which can be achieved either with Maximus
| or Compiz. But at the time, we only
| provided some keyboard shortcuts to handle
| these windows. Read on to find out another
| way to do this and also how to use DockBarX
| for some even more optimization.
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http://www.webupd8.org/2009/11/use-namebar-and-dockbarx-to-optimize.html
Recent:
New Approach to Open Source Application Deployment
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| Open Source application deployment has come a long way. Currently, there is
| excellent way for Linux distributions to install and update its software.
| For example, both Fedora and Debian based distribution has RPM / DEB package
| management systems with its associated tools YUM / APT. This simplifies Open
| Source application deployment and update with easy to use tools.
|
| However, we would like to raise two issues for discussion:
|
| 1. In order to create a RPM / DEB package, you will need to learn and
| understand how to build and maintain these package systems. You need to
| understand spec / control files; how scripts interact with packages. They
| are not hard to learn, but there is a learning curve.
| 2. The current ways of asking users to specify parameters are not
| re-usable. A package maintainer can use script and command line to query
| user input, but that requires hard coding the questions inside the
| package. Debian has the debconf templating system, which provides a
| centralized location to store question templates, default values, and
| variables. This again require learning the debconf system - not difficult
| to do - but there is a learning curve.
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http://www.emergsoft.com/index.php/blog/43-emergence-software-blog/69-new-approach-to-open-source-application-deployment
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