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For Desktop Users
- “The joyful lives of many Linux desktop users are clouded by many packages and frameworks that are well-intentioned and try to solve real and painful problems, but which are immature, not designed in the UNIX spirit, poorly documented and most importantly, do not really have a working implementation. Oh well. I have taken the stance of patience and ascetic acceptance of the new burdens – instead of trying to purge my systems of all that is unholy and evil, I spend that time trying to debug and fix up the problems they incur (often in vain). Sometimes I even file bugs, but that can be rather… unrewarding experience – more about that at another time.”
For Commandline/Script Newbies
- “A parameter is an entity that stores values. It can be a name, a number or some special characters. A variable is a parameter denoted by a name. Some variables are set for you already, and most of these cannot have values assigned to them.
- These variables contain useful information, which can be used by a shell script to know about the environment in which it is running.”
- “Well, I posted a tutorial about clones, and who never forget some steps making a clone? After the end of the cloning process, grub just say “no way” for you. Important: just for cases which grub its installed on MBR.
There are many websites talking about specific errors, but I will give some hints which helped me sometimes.
- Frequent Error: its the “Error 2″ on the stage 1.5 of grub loading. When this error occurs, please check your HDD configuration on FSTAB and MTAB. Normally when we change some old machines which use PATA HDDs to new SATA HDDs, Grub get confused with these devices. After check FSTAB(/etc/fstab) and MTAB(/etc/mtab) after a successful clone process, please pay attention on file device.map, usually at /boot/grub.”
For Developers and Programmers
- “In season 2 episode 7 of our podcast we laid down the simple challenge for each of the four podcasters – Andrew, Graham, Paul and Mike – to produce something original for the website. Paul – eager to show the world how much he, er, loves Python – has now finished his entry, and you’ll find it below: a video talking you through how to get started with Python, PyGTK and WebKit. It’s easier than you think!”
For System Administrators
- “Have you ever thought how users should configure their systems, deployed by AutoYaST or kiwi? One of possible answers is called YaST Firstboot.
The YaST firstboot utility is a special kind of configuration workflow that can be run after the basic system is installed. It is started on the first boot of the system and guides a user through a series of steps that allow for easier configuration of their desktops. YaST firstboot does not run by default and has to be configured to run by the user or the system administrator. It is useful for image deployments where the system in the image is already configured (read: AutoYaST, SUSE_Studio, KIWI), and end-user should do only the last few steps, like setting the root password.” |
