Linux

First of all, sorry for the long absence. I’m involved in many projects and I couldn’t get to this earlier.

Here are the updates:

I’ve bought an extender for the RP pins from Jola Engineering and soldered the shim onto it. Now I can put everything together nicely.

This article is not exactly a tutorial, it’s the sharing of an experience that might help others. Follow this guide at your own risk. Document yourselves before doing anything. „Don’t write code you don’t understand” (Toth Arpad).

After using LVM for a long time, and performing all sorts of experiments with logical volumes on my laptop, to have flexibility and to be able to keep moving and reinstalling all sorts of Linux distros, I’ve decided to go for it and listen to the Open Source community and give BTRFS a run for it’s money.

Two weeks ago was the release of the latest and greatest Kubuntu.

Kubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet brought to the market one very important and very significant change: It’s among the first distros to ship with Plasma 5 and the new KDE Frameworks 5.

In celebration of this, together with Aaron Honeycutt, Rick Timmis and of course Jonathan Riddell, I held a presentation of our new Kubuntu at the Ubuntu Online Summit 2015.

First of all, a big thank you to the Ubuntu Community for sponsoring me to be there.

I first arrived in Brussels on Friday, at around noon, and took a good nap to rest from my exaggerated long trip (~11 hours): Minivan -> Plane -> Bus -> Tram -> Foot.

After following a course on Coursera, I’ve seen something I’ve liked and thought on how can I improve it.

So I came up with this:

The GeekAliens Linux Workspace Setup

A forked GitHub repository with Linux configuration files which I’ve customized to my likings and thought that this can be useful for anybody.

Yeeeeey…

I’ve just got my first Raspberry Pi.

It’s the B model with 512MB RAM.

Here are some rudimentary first pictures:

I love KDE and most of the applications from it. One of the most used is Kmail. The interface is beautiful and very customizable.

But there are some things in Kmail (Kontact) that makes you want to throw the computer out the window.

Good bye Java swing, Hello Qt.

Cross platform is very searched for these days, especially with the number of Linux users growing. The need to build an application that can be used everywhere existed for a very long time, and what I intend to present here is not something new, it’s just new to me.

Qt, pronounced „cute”, is a library for C++, but not limited to that, that can be used to write code that can be compiled on/for almost any operating system, including Linux, OS X, Windows, Android, and iOS(still under development).

This is a test script I made for easier installation of LibreOffice 3.6 for Debian based Linux distributions with the Romanian Language pack. This does not require any Linux command line skills. Just download the archive and double click the file called INSTALL.sh, and follow the instructions. After the installation, the Installer window will close automatically.

This is a short an simple tutorial on how to enable remote access on MySQL on Ubuntu/Debian:

1. Edit the file /etc/mysql/my.cnf: at the line with: bind-address = …
2. Replace 127.0.0.1 with your server’s IP address.
3. Save the file!!!
4. Log in to MySQL: mysql -u root -p