JD's Linux Love

Wallpapers are always fun, although lately I’ve just been using digital snapshots.

Some pretty good looking Linux wallpapers.

More useful Emacs knowledge keeps bubbling up. This time, it is the occur command, which brings up a list showing where a particular regexp shows up in your file. Also, see the comments for more occur goodness.

I have been using Emacs for 20 years (or more even!) and it still brings new tools to the workshed.

Sweet list of conky setups. I have a pretty basic one, but it works very nicely. Wish I had more time to customize it, but maybe I can just use one of these instead!

Focuses on Ubuntu, with its emphasis on the squirrelly GNOME desktop, but still a good intro page.

Always love a good destkop image. These are nice big images from the covers of Linux Format magazine, my fave Linux mag.

Looks like a solid list of Linux and open source books. Thanks to @geekegrrl for the link.

The computers the girls use are hand me downs from work and have been very unstable lately. Probably just years of WinXP cruft. So I’ve been thinking of reformatting the hard drives and throwing a Linux on there. I could just use my regular distro, openSUSE, but this month’s Linux Format magazine has a feature called “Get a Better Linux!”, where they propose a distro for different kinds of users. For kids, they recommended Qimo, which is a Ubuntu offshoot, with educational games and a special interface. I’m going to give it a shot.