Category: linux

9Apr

First things on an new Linux workstation

9 Apr 2013 pbenavent

I got a second hand laptop -just adquired- that fulfills my requirements

  • New root prompt with red background, as I explained time ago, in my opinion it must be a default configuration in order to alert you who you’re. It’s specially useful when jump from one machine to another
  • Install pure flash (yes I know it’s not FLOSS)
    1. rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
    2. rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
    3. yum check-update
    4. yum -y install flash-plugin AdobeReader_enu adobe-release-x86_64
  • have a look on what daemons are running in the system in order to stop all unnecesary software (Type as a root systemctl and get familiar with the command line for the new Systemd)
  • Make your comfortable cozy room, custom .basrch; I’m used to add this lines (plus the root prompt I told you before):
    1. set -o vi
    2. alias ll='ls -l'

I’m just to do more things, such a install my favourite browser, or few concrete software I’m devoted to, let that for a former post.

5Jan

Ubuntu for phones

5 Jan 2013 pbenavent

There few majors players in mobile OS: Apple and Android over all. In a second line Microsoft (with its Nokia slave) and RIM.

Now Ubuntu has come to this OS war in mobile devices. You may find a lot of reviews all around, not here. There’s something that comes to my mind constantly: environment.

OpenBSD is a great OS, very secure, stable, open, reliable but… what is its environment? Not desktop for sure, but high uptime servers for instance. So what in mobile OS?

  • From an IT point of view, environment is partnership with mobile manufacturers, easy apps developing, a good amount of well known apps available by default.
  • From a end user point of view, easy to use interface, smooth use experience, not crash in apps execution, and may use the apps I prefer -more than have tonnes of nonse apps-

The success for Ubuntu for phones would be decided by this non accurate list of environment items. Think about this list by comparing latest grows or fails in mobile OS: RIM, Windows, Android or iOS.

In my humble opinionUbuntu for phones:

  • comes late
  • has no support from the manufacturers
  • we already have a Linux on mobile environment with a huge company supporting its developement, yes, it’s Android
22Oct

Adobe Digital Edition vs Python & GNU

22 Oct 2012 pbenavent

A very good friend of mine send me a link time ago. It was a present, a gift, a book, a digital book. Nice, I feel very happy since I like the author, it has to have cost money because it was a recent publication.

But… there’s always a but, remember, you only have eyes for that book if you use Adobe Digital Edition. You may like it or doesn’t but that’s the way it goes. So I download proper software, I download the book and start to read.

I do prefer my Kindle that my computer for book reading. I look aroundn in the Adobe app and there’s no way to export or share with my Kindle. Adobe has decide Kindle is not supported by their platform (pardon? WTF!)

After spend few searches, I found a lot of shareware or “commercial” stuff for windows, not so easy for Mac. But I’ve found how to get as I want I found Circumventing Adobe ADEPT DRM for EPUB, from i♥cabbages, a blog about reverse engineering. Awesome. A couple of Python scripts that solve your problem, free software, up to you.

I just read it, I’ve just follow the instructions and after did what he says I transfer and convert the epub to my Kindle with Calibre.

Settled and done. Thank you i♥cabbages