tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31373668.post3921272484043145726..comments2023-06-05T01:16:06.879-07:00Comments on Fresh Ubuntu: Add and Remove, uh, Sometimesharlemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00844965833027345105noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31373668.post-58584784396784437632007-02-05T11:20:00.000-08:002007-02-05T11:20:00.000-08:00Harlem, just thought I'd write a quick word to say...Harlem, just thought I'd write a quick word to say "keep up the good work". Fresh Ubuntu is one of the podcasts I listen to regularly as I commute to/from work here in London, (that's the one in the UK).<br /><br />I've been a Ubuntu users since Warty way back in 2005 and it's still one of the 2 distros that's is on at least one of my PC's (the other is openSuse, although I've tried many, many others).<br /><br />While some of the other podcasts I listen to have a bit more gloss they are obviously the product of people with either big backing or a long history in journalism and/or media, it's great to see an individual enthusiast giving them a run for their money and showing others that maybe you don't need normal people can use Linux and contribute.<br /><br />I have a couple of commands I'd like to suggest for you to cover on Fresh Ubuntu, they aren't Ubuntu specific, I use them on other distros too.<br /><br />1) Is a "drop-down" konsole utility called yakuake, it's very handy if you need to fairly regularly use a command like for things. It uses F12 to drop down a Konsole screen over the desktop, and then F12 rolls it back up again until you need it again.<br /><br />2) Is an archiving/backup utility and it's GUI front end, dar and kdar. I've just found this (maybe I'm slow, but I always naturally turned to tar which I've used for years on Unix systems). It's great as it splits the archive into "slices" that are the right sice to burn onto CD's or DVD's. It allows you to save profiles for archiving different things. The kdar front end also can save a shell script to invoke the dar utility which is great as a starting point for use cron to automate backups.<br /><br />3) Maybe we should add cron to the list of command you could cover.<br /><br />Sorry for blathering on,<br /><br />Terryterrylovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04947171244009864742noreply@blogger.com