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The archives for February 18th, 2008

Feb 18

Final Cut Rap

Mailed from Mad to the 10:03 pm in Several, Video | 3 comments”

I know that already I have mailed the video of the week and that this does not regard Linux, but Final Cut, therefore Apple, but is figata and I have not known to resist, for which:

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Feb 18

Like creating a connection in the menu in order to execute an application.

Mailed from Mad to the 4:41 pm in Programming, Tips, Video | no comment”

This tip is particularly interesting for who wishes to try the last innovationes as regards applications not still pacchettizzate and wants to create a connection in the menu “Applications” to the eseguibile of the installed program. The example that I have reproduced is that one of a connection to the IDE of development Netbeans 6,0 of which they are occupied to me in post a precedence. It is made thus:

from root creating with editor rows netbeans.desktop on /usr/share/applications (gedit /usr/share/applications/netbeans.desktop);
to insert quese inside lines of the rows:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Netbeans 6.0
Comment=IDE
Exec=/usr/local/netbeans-6.0/bin/netbeans
Icon=/usr/local/netbeans-6.0/nb6.0/netbeans.png
Type=Application
Categories=Application; Development;

to save, in the menu Applications will come addition the voice Programmazione->Netbeans 6.0

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Feb 18

Interview to Linus Torvalds

Mailed from Mad to the 2:49 pm in Several | 2 comments”

Recently the father of Linux, to the century Linus Torvalds, has released an interview to the Linux Foundation. In this conversation with Jim Zemlin he speaks about the future of Linux, of the licences, the inner and external competition, Microsoft and thus via. The interview is under form of a podcast, and is uniform in two parts [Part I, Part II]. The Linux Foundation also has put on hand the transcription of the interview that, if you have a some familiarity with English, you can read here: [Part I, Part II].