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Just found through this post by Technofreak, where a simple(ok, that is not simple), onliner on your terminal will show you the top 10 commands used recently.
$ history | awk '{print $2}' | awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"}{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail | sort -nr
This on my system shows up
82 cd
63 ls
51 sudo
51 screen
18 ps
17 irssi
15 python
14 svn
12 irb
11 uptime
Full Circle is an e-magazine run by the Ubuntu community that covers the world of Ubuntu, open source, and technology. The Issue 1 is out now which has various tutorials, interviews, reviews unlike issue 0 which was a special preview edition containing the history of Ubuntu distros.
Currently there is only the english version with other languages coming out soon. This issue includes:
You can also contribute to the magazine on the wiki into various categories.
Movable Type, the most popular installable platform written in perl has decided to go open source. WordPress stole most of the popularity and fame because it is open sourced and has a huge community behind it. Movable Type has also decided to enjoy the benifits of open sourced software and announced the open source project along with the launch of the MT 4 Beta.
Movable Type Open Source, or MTOS, is the open source project that will consist of a GPL-licensed version of Movable Type 4.0, to be released in Q3 2007, and resources for the already large community of Movable Type developers, hosted at www.movabletype.org/opensource. Also the website states that they wouldn’t be abandoning the commericial licensed version of the software.
It is good to see a solid blogging platform come out into the public with the source code. You can download the beta version of MT4 to try the new features. The website says that it is easy to install and get started, which was a problem with the previous versions.
Dell has started to ship PCs with Ubuntu preinstalled instead of Windows and we were all waiting for the first impression. Here is a detailed review of the Ubuntu-Dell experience in the Ubuntu forums.
Ubuntu guy with dell TShirt
I received my XPS with Ubuntu today. The first thing I will say is that when the Fedex guy delivered it he asked if Dell was having some kind of liquidation sale because he has delivered more Dells today than ever before. He told me that he had already delivered five and there were eleven more on the truck. (Just throwing that out there.)
You can also buy your Dell with Ubuntu preinstalled right over at the Dell website. Lets hope that other manufacturers too come out and support GNU/Linux.
Read Review of Dell XPS 410n with Ubuntu Feisty preinstalled – Ubuntu Forums
This is my 300th post(it took so long to reach here) and it matches with the release of Fedora 7. For those linux users who started with Ubuntu, Fedora is a RedHat sponsored community project to develop a great GNU/Linux distribution – which will be used for developing the enterprise version of RedHat Linux.
Fedora is a nice distro and I used to use it some 4 years ago before I switched over to the debian way of package management. But Fedora too made its own package management (maybe in FC4?) called yum.
Even though there are people out there who say that Fedora has become the next Slackware, Fedora too has its own fan following – so is Slackware. It is a nice distro to use for the average linux user, even though I doubt whether it would be so easy to use as Mandriva or SuSE.
I was not able to blog for some days due to the exams (bye bye to college). Let me just post about a quick happening in the Free Software world.
The Ubuntu team has announced that there would be a Ubuntu Mobile edition in October for the 7.10 release. They would be working with Intel, which recently announced a low-power processor and chipset architecture for full Internet use.
Ubuntu Feisty Fawn which will be released soon this month (19 Apr) can be ordered through Ubuntu’s ShipIt. Feisty has been getting good reviews and has various features which make moving from Windows to GNU/Linux.
The built-in migration assistant can move data from your old OS to Ubuntu – with support for multiple users too. There are also new games like sudoku and chess. Also if you try to play any multimedia file which requires codecs to be downloaded, Ubuntu does this automatically for you. It also has better networking for wired and wireless access, kernel with VMI enabled – which means better paravirtualization, better artwork and one-click activation of desktop effects.
Gaim project, the famous open source instant messenger is now renamed to Pidgin IM. This is because of a lengthy and secret legal process with AOL. This legal problem prevented any code release except betas. Now Gaim will be called as Pidgin IM and the official website is Pidgin.im and the development is moved to developer.pidgin.im.
Here is the third part of Novell’s “Linux is ready” set of videos. See the other two videos here.