A very nice post at Linux Magazine explains the benefits of Aptitude and the basics of how to use it. Aptitude takes the apt-get command and provides a menu driven system. This is one of those nifty old menu systems that runs in your terminal window. Enjoy!
The tip is at nixCraft.
Well, here I am playing around with my new Ubuntu machine again, and being a Bible teacher and writer, I obviously want Bible software on any machine I’m running. A little effort found me the Sword Project, and it’s related materials. I intend to try out GnomeSword, and I’ll write about it when I do,…
I’ve blogged before on Bible software for Linux. One of the annoyances of switching to Ubuntu (there are very few) has been not having my Libronix software easily available. I have it on a notebook, but I don’t always have that machine on and available when I want to look something up. There is some…
Greg Laden provides a good guest post by Scott Rowed. I agree in general with what he has to say. I found that I did have some problems with wireless when I got my wife to switch using a defunct laptop. The previous user had just dumped it due to problems with Windows XP which…
I’ve recently reorganized my use of virtual servers for my company’s web sites, which led to me having one site that does not use a control panel, and just has one website on it. Oddly, even though I’d read up on how to redirect www to non-www and have the SSL certificate handle the result,…
Today in my inbox, which often overflows with notifications about open source software, I received two separate notifications which I plan to combine in one blog post. The first was a list of command line clients for Twitter for use under Linux. My main office machine runs Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak), and I date from…
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