I think it's very good to learn how to build a distribution but in most cases I think that's just adding up to a pile, as you stated in your opening question.

Wouldn't it be easier to take a tiny distribution with your favorite package manager and window manager and then to customize it with themese and apps that you like using scripts for autmoation?

In this manner you take away the assle of maintaining your distro for your familly and firends over time, you increase the use of standard distro which helps with bug reports and you contribute scripts and themes to the community.

I think the problem of our world (true in the west only) is that we have too much... too much information is available, too many distros, too many languages... and creating more just doesn't help.

My 2 cents ;).

Hum... you have a Linux GPL version available but it's a trial only download, and one must pay for the full version?

Are you sure you have read the GPL?

Hi Annabella,

I downloaded the abaddon fonts from the link you provided and did the following to get them to work on my Ubuntu 9.04 system:

Create a file (under my home directory) named ttf-abaddon.hints with the following content:

category truetype

begin /usr/share/fonts/truetype/abaddon/abaddon.ttf

  Family = Abaddon

  FontName = Abaddon

  Encoding = Unicode

  Location = English

  Charset = ISO8859-1

  GeneralFamily = SansSerif

  Weight = Medium

  Width = Variable

  Shape = Upright

  Foundry = Abaddon

  Priority = 20

end

From the command line (on Gnome menu click Applications > Accessories > Terminal) I entered the following:

sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/abaddon
sudo cp abaddon.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/abaddon/
sudo cp ttf-abaddon.hints /etc/defoma/hints/

The first command will prompt you for your password (I take it you are administraotr of the box).

Then I opened Abiword and selected the font menu, moved all the way up (pressing the Home key) and there it was.

I guess it'll be very hard to make it any simpler, albeit I'm not 100% sure that the hint file is properly filled (my guess).

I think Ubuntu LTS should meet your needs without any problems.

Which is best rolling release distribution with
- all multimedia codecs

- powerful software like Openoffice Base, Skype, Picasa

- for 64 bit notebook

Note Skype doesn't work on 64-bit Linux because the software wasn't build for that platform (may be we should ask Skype why?).

- for newbies

I can only repeat myself here. Go Ubuntu!

What that means is you install once, keep upgrading, never reinstall, maintain the newest versions of every Linux kernel and package available keeping your existing confs the same without the need for a 6 month release cycle.

I don't really understand... you want to be able to have a stable distribution but be up-to-date with the latest kernel and packages? Or you want to have a simple, easy to maintain distribution that will include newer packages using a 6 month cycle like Ubuntu?

I suspect the goals of having an easy to maintain system with rolling release is going to be very challenging.

SMB (SaMBa)

SMB actually stands for Server Message Block :p.

BlackfoxKitsune wrote:

Hi i've been all over the linux website trying to find how i can ADD fonts that i download interdependently of any OS.
On windows for adding new fonts you can simply down load them and then paste the opend zip files into the font folder, in Linux i can't do that, so how do i add new fonts, i'm not talking about things like times new roman, i mean things you can down load like the elven fonts from gray company and plant like fonts you can find on google. its driving me nuts most of the fonts i have on linux look rubbish, and the ones I want to download and add are so i can do my design pics with the font styles i need, which at the moment since switching i can not do.. Someone PLEASE help.

If you are using Ubuntu then you can check some of the ttf packages in the main repository. You can see the font packages available by opening the console and typing "apt-get install ttf-" and press <tab> to expend the ttf-* packages available.

Now I can see that you want to install the fonts you already downloaded, so to do that the best option is to see how ttf package maintainer do it.

To do that I switched from the console to firefox and typed ttf in the search box, then I switched from my default search provider to the built-in "Ubuntu Package Search".

Hit enter, and there you have many font packages. I picked one that I have installed and used, called ttf-dustin. Then I browsed to the '[list of files]'.

And there we have it. Right up the top: /etc/defoma/hints/ttf-dustin.hints.

With the file location and naming convention we can now install fonts without having to tamper the X11 configuration etc.

I think the fundamentals of cloud computing is the ability to transpose any workload from one location (system) to another. In short it is to make the application hardware agnostics.

Guzanof: #!/bin/sh

# need `aptitude install beep`
beep -l 350 -f 392 -D 100 --new -l 350 -f 392 -D 100 --new -l 350 -f 392 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 311.1 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 466.2 -D 100 --new -l 350 -f 392 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 311.1 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 466.2 -D 100 --new -l 700 -f 392 -D 100 -- new -l 350 -f 587.32 -D 100 --new -l 350 -f 587.32 -D 100 --new -l 350 -f 587.32 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 622.26 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 466.2 -D 100 --new -l 350 -f 369.99 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 311.1 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 466.2 -D 100 --new -l 700 - f 392 -D 100 --new -l 350 -f 784 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 392 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 392 -D 100 --new-l 350 -f 784 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 739.98 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 698.46 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 659.26 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 622.26 -D 100 --new -l 50 - f 659.26 -D 400 --new -l 25 -f 415.3 -D 200 --new -l 350 -f 554.36 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 523.25 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 493.88 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 466.16 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 440 -D 100 --new -l 50 -f 466.16 -D 400 --new -l 25 -f 311.13 -D 200 -- new -l 350 -f 369.99 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 311.13 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 392 -D 100 --new -l 350 -f 466.16 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 392 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 466.16 -D 100 --new -l 700 -f 587.32 -D 100 --new -l 350 -f 784 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 392 - D 100 --new -l 25 -f 392 -D 100 --new -l 350 -f 784 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 739.98 -D 100 --new -l25 -f 698.46 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 659.26 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 622.26 -D 100 --new -l 50 -f 659.26 -D 400 --new -l 25 -f 415.3 -D 200 --new -l 350 - f 554.36 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 523.25 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 493.88 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 466.16 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 440 -D 100 --new -l 50 -f 466.16 -D 400 --new -l 25 -f 311.13 -D 200 --new -l 350 -f 392 -D 100 --new -l 250 -f 311.13 -D 100 -- new -l 25 -f 466.16 -D 100 --new -l 300 -f 392.00 -D 150 --new -l 250 -f 311.13 -D 100 --new -l 25 -f 466.16 -D 100 --new -l 700 -f 392

There's a minor problem in the command line, position 596 we have "--new-l" instead off "--new -l".

But when it plays, it's real cool:p

Well done!

Hum... I don't think any of these Linux distribution come with VMWare player installed.

Remember that most of the PEN drive are build from small ISO with the packages available to run in LiveCD mode.

Do you want to install from USB and then run Linux + Windows, or you want to run from USB?

If you want to install Linux and then access Windows you can use VMWare Server (it allows you to create and modify VM's) or some open source virtualisation like Xen or VirtualBox OSS.

+1.

It's strange that the formatting isn't a little more dynamic adapt to larger modern screen (whilst remaining compatible with lower resolution users).

I have a tiny space in the middle to show and edit post, whilst the left and right side of the screen is used to displayed a grey background only... and the banners at the top and bottom...

My screen width is 1440.