Für Hotz dient Hacking nicht dazu, etwas zu bekommen, wofür man nicht gezahlt hat, sondern dazu, sicherzustellen, das zu bekommen, wofür bezahlt wurde.

Zitat golem.de

Der Artikel zeigt das eindrucksvolle Engagement eines Programmierers, der sich gegen die restriktiven Bemühungen eines machthungrigen Herstellers stemmt.

Zur Feier des Document Freedom Day veröffentliche ich hier meine Projektarbeit im Rahmen meiner Ausbildung zum IT-Systemkaufmann als Open Document Text. Das Dokument stelle ich unter die Creative Commons Lizenz zur Namensnennung-Keine kommerzielle Nutzung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 3.0.

Downloadlink: Projekt_lite

Die offiziellen Dokumente der IHK Flensburg wurden entfernt (Projektantrag, Genehmigung des Antrags) außerdem die persönliche Erklärung, dass ich für den Inhalt verantwortlich bin.

I’ve just tripped on the linux foundations video contest and I thought I’d post my favourite of them I have seen.

I just found the magazine with which I got my first Linux CDs, so I thought I’d throw out a blog post about it.

I’ve started experimenting with Linux at the age of 14 in 2003 I think. I don’t remember exactly, had to check when SuSe Linux 8.1 came up, which I started to install on my first decent own machine. I’ve had been using computers since before my third birthday. My father allowed me to play some old DOS games on his computer back then. Later I started experimenting with a computer with Windows 3.11 and later Windows 95. I never really missed anything, because I mostly played games until I more and more read of Linux in various computer magazines.
I was a fan of share- and freeware and the concept of open source started to catch my interest. Since 2003 I’ve tried a lot of Linux distributions and various versions.
I had shorter installations of Knoppix, Mandrake or Suse and longer ones with Kanotix, Debian, Gentoo or Ubuntu. Right now I’m mainly using Sidux on my Laptop and mainstation because I’m basically a Debian fan who just loves apt but likes the scripts delivered by the Sidux team.
A saying I believe in, concerning distributions is: Ubuntu for users, Debian for servers, Gentoo for insanes. I don’t know if meadow is the creator of this saying, but if so: credits to him.

I’ve been looking for a fast and easy to use desktop environment forever. XFCE was a bit too heavy and Fluxbox too minimalistic. The guys from Fluxbuntu did a good job on a minimalistic and easy to use distribution, but you have limited possibilities of adding all these features to a running installation.

A few month ago I heard about LXDE. LXDE is exactly what I’ve been looking for, it even seems familiar for Windows users. It’s easy to install on every running installation, like any desktop environment.

Here we see the PcMan file manager, the Gpic image viewer and the standard text editor leafpad. The startmenu is very small and easy to overlook

Through a middle click we can view all applications opened on all desktops. The graphical theme chooser of openbox, lxde’s window manager and a classic shell (lxterminal).

So the most basic LXDE apps are:

• PcManFM, should look familiar to windows users
• Openbox, combined with the panel a very need window manager
• Gpicview
• LXDEPanel
• LXDETerminal, simple terminal without many effects, but with tabs support

With Gpicview I’ve found a new favourite image viewer, it’s really quick and functional.

Beginners might need a bit help with language and keyboard layout functions, I’ve not found build-in options for that yet. Maybe a small app for that would help. If you don’t know how to change your keyboard layout, have a look at the setxkbmap command.