Author: Brett Johansen
There are a bunch of IRC clients for Linux, but one of the oldest is ircII. You can find ircII, or just irc, on just about any version of Linux. To start irc, just type this in a terminal window:
irc BobFromAccounting irc.freenode.net
And the irc client should launch. If you get an error message, then it probably isn’t installed. To install irc in ubuntu, type this:
sudo apt-get install ircii
Many people associate pdf to adobe reader, but is this the best reader of this type of documents that we have on Linux?.
But in the while le’ts say that Portable Document Format (PDF) is an open standard for document exchange. The file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 is used for representing two-dimensional documents in a manner independent of the application software, hardware, and operating system.
Originally a proprietary format, PDF was officially released as an open standard on July 1, 2008, and published by the International Organization for Standardization as ISO/IEC 32000-1:2008
zsh it’s a perfect alternative to the classic bash that we have as default on our linux box.
zsh is a shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language. Many of the useful features of bash, ksh, and tcsh were incorporated into zsh; many original features were added.
Origin
The first version of zsh was written by Paul Falstad in 1990 when he was a student at Princeton University.
Etymology
The name zsh derives from Yale professor Zhong Shao, then a teaching assistant at Princeton University. Paul Falstad thought that Shao’s login name, “zsh”, was a good name for a shell.
Author: Juraj Sipos
XKB and Xmodmap
First, I must say that Linux (Unix) uses two approaches to configure the keyboard layout (they are both independent of each other): XKB and Xmodmap. XKB is an extension of X, many people say that it is better, but too robust and perhaps less understandable by beginners. Xmodmap is one of the oldest ways how to configure your keyboard layouts – a little easier approach, especially good for experimentation, but no only that.
In Linux, setting an image as the desktop wallpaper is not a difficult task, but getting it to change automatically at a certain interval is.
If you have a good collection of wallpapers and want to see them in action on your desktop, there are some nice wallpaper changer software, i’ll try to give you an overview of some of them:
Desktop Drapes, Webilder, wallpaper-tray, desktopnova, wally