Pure Linux

Tuxrocket began as my switching story. I am the webmaster for a software company and use computers all day every day- switching was/is not trivial. But I use Linux now for nearly all I do. You can too. I dare you to take the 100% Linux challenge. Use it for everything. Don't stop because it's tricky. There are obviously limits- you need to get the job done. But don't be a coward. Don't pack up and run when you're faced with learning how to do your work differently. Being able to learn and adapt is arguably the greatest edge the human race has- do you have it too?

Mac Apps

In moving to Linux from my Mac, I learned a bit about switching from the specific apps I use. Read all about it here.

Starting with Linux

If you're brand new to Linux, these articles might help.

Smoothing the QT Wrinkle
September 15th, 2011
Why Linux Isn’t on Your Computer
January 25th, 2009
The Linux Folder Structure: Where Your Stuff Is
January 24th, 2009
What is root?
January 21st, 2009

The Tinker Blog

As much as possible, I’ll be outlining every hitch I ran into along the journey. I switched from Mac OS X 10.5.5 Leopard to Ubuntu Linux 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and am now using openSUSE 11.2. Having been a Linux user for a while previously it has been amazing to me how far Linux has come in just a few years.

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Time Yourself

November 15th, 2011

Need to work on focusing? Try out the Tea Time timer on Launchpad. You can set up set periods of time. Depending on your work style that might include a timer for when you need to look away from your display, how long you should be in ‘flow’ time hacking on your code (vs. answering [...]

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LibreOffice Thumbnails

November 15th, 2011

If you’d like to get some nice thumbnails of your OpenOffice/LibreOffice documents, follow these instructions from Webupd8: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:flimm/ooo-thumbnailer sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ooo-thumbnailer Once installed, restart Nautilus: nautilus -q Nice and simple! Be Sociable, Share! Tweet

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Mount a Drive Automatically

October 24th, 2011

I know how to mess with fstab and get this new internal backup drive to mount automatically, but I’d like to do it with a GUI. Why? Maybe I’m sick but I like using GUI software. But nothing that ships in Ubuntu can help me there. Instead simply install Storage Device Manager from the Software [...]

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So That’s the Difference Between /mnt and /media

October 24th, 2011

When I started with Linux everything seemed to mount at /mnt in the filesystem. Later I started noticing everything seemed to be at /media. I took this to be a difference in the way different distributions were choosing to mount drives. But I just came across this answer on askubuntu where nitsoft explains that /mnt [...]

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Smoothing the QT Wrinkle

September 15th, 2011

When you’re using Ubuntu, you’re using a set of buttons and on-screen controls (a ‘toolkit’) called GTK. Part of Linux’s strength is that there are many options to choose from in terms of toolkits and programming languages that can be used. The price for that is that these toolkits technically look a little different from [...]

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