Guide to the Open Source Desktop

Or How I Learned to Start Worrying and Love the Linux Desktop

Or How I Learned to Start Worrying and Love the Linux Desktop

Or How I Learned to Start Worrying

and Love the Linux Desktop

Your Mission … Should You Choose to Accept It:

Replace Apple software on Apple hardware without loss of features or functionality.

What Are Your Critical Apps?

● Mail.app● iCal● Web Browsing● Word Processing/Spreadsheet/Presentations (iWork)● Quickbooks● Photoshop● iTunes● iPhoto● VMWare Fusion

Make Room for Linux

● Consider using Time Machine to back up your OS X installation.

● Use Bootcamp to create a second partition● Alternatively, use the command line to create two

partitions: Install Disk → Utilities → Terminal:

diskutil partitionDisk disk0 2 \"Journaled HFS+" Mac 250G "MS-DOS FAT32" Linux 250G

Which Distro?

● Debian

● Fedora

● Mint

● SuSE

● Ubuntu

Which Desktop?

Why I First Chose Ubuntu with Unity

● Simple Support for Proprietary Drivers● Launcher analogous to Dock● Shuttleworth Reminds Me of Jobs● One of the most popular desktop distros

(Steam built a native Linux client for Ubuntu)● LTS version means stability● Ubuntu Software Center

Ubuntu Software Center

nomodeset Is Your Friend

I Now Run Linux Mint

Mail and Calendar

● GNOME: Evolution

● KDE: Kmail

● Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning

Extry Credit: Set Up SOGo

Web Browsers

Office Options

Accounting

● Option 1: Use QB on Mac via VNC● Option 2: Use QB for Windows and WINE● Option 3: Switch

Graphics Editing

The GIMP

Music and Media Management

Amarok

Clementine

Rhythmbox

Banshee

Integration with Ubuntu

.is_audio_player

$ cat .is_audio_player

audio_folders=Music/,Video/

video_folders=Video/

output_formats=audio/ogg,audio/flac,audio/mpeg, video/x-msvideo,audio/mp4,video/mp4

# This allows Banshee to make playlists on this device.

playlist_path=Playlists/

playlist_formats=audio/mpegurl, audio/x-mpegurl, audio/m3u

Managing Photographs

digiKam

Shotwell

Darktable

Migrating from iPhoto

Virtual Machines

Extry Credit: Bridging

# apt-get install bridge-utils

# cat /etc/network/interfaces

auto loiface lo inet loopback

auto eth0 iface eth0 inet manual iface eth0 inet6 manual

auto br0

iface br0 inet static address 172.20.1.14 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 172.20.1.0 broadcast 172.20.1.255 gateway 172.20.1.1 bridge_ports eth0 bridge_stp off bridge_fd 0 bridge_maxwait 0

OS X Lion

Reverse Scrolling

To reverse vertical scrolling:

$ cat .Xmodmap

Pointer = 1 2 3 5 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

To reverse horizontal as well:

$ cat .Xmodmap

Pointer = 1 2 3 5 4 7 6 9 8 10 11 12

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http://tomato.groov.pl/

http://openelec.tv/

http://www.wviewweather.com/

#noapple

● Frustrating at first, but rewarding later● opt-out of “the Cloud”● Having options is the best feature● It's about creation, not consumption● Own what you create

Tarus Balog

tarus@opennms.org

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