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LB - Episode 23 - Amazon a Mint Moodle by Linux Basement

Submitted by chad on Fri, 06/20/2008 - 01:36.

Linux Basement News:

Google Gadgets article is up. Come on by and create a user article and I will give you props on the show.

Linux Cranks is pretty cool stuff. Check it out.

Summer time blues. Contact me at chad@linuxbasement.com or visit on the forums, or in freenode.irc.net #linuxbasement

In the News:

Want to see who contributes to X? Check this article out.

Linux Haters Blog. Interesting.

While we're talking about Blogs, check out these awesome tutorial videos that Ralph, a listener of the show is doing at http://theorangeit.org/

Tips, Tricks, and Reviews:

Want to learn more about Drupal? Check out Learn by the Drop. Thanks to Chrisindalls for this find.

Very cool site on penetration testing at http://de-ice.net/

Nice little review of Amazon S3.

Very quick review of Mint 5, baby.

 Security Tools for Ubuntu. This is a great list http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/06/top-security-tools-in-ubuntu.html

Tutorial:

 Installing Moodle

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Loving Mint

Submitted by sewmyheadon on Tue, 06/24/2008 - 15:44.

Hey Chad,
Thanks for the speedy review of Linux Mint.  I'm a bit of an Ubuntu fanboy, but decided to take your advice and try Mint out on my laptop (Dell Inspiron 9300).
So far, I really love it; it's quite pretty. :)  I'm not exactly used to, and not sure I really like, the MintMenu, but that may change, but it's nice that so many things work out of the box.
I still find it preferrable to use Wicd instead of Network Manager, but that change is a piece of cake.  Mmmm . . . cake!
Great show and keep up the good work!
Cheers,
eric

Yes, I should have qualified

Submitted by chad on Tue, 06/24/2008 - 22:47.

Yes, I should have qualified in my review. The first thing I do is get rid of the mint menu and go back to standard gnome menus. Fortunately that is easy to do!

Yeah Wicd is pretty uh... well wicked.

Chad

More Mintyness

Submitted by sewmyheadon on Thu, 06/26/2008 - 23:48.

I'm just so used to the standard Ubuntu Gnome menu that the Mint Menu throws me off, but I'm trying to use it a bit to make myself more flexible. :)

Since they install GnomeDo by default, one could almost do away with menus entirely. :)

interestingly enough,

Submitted by chad on Thu, 07/03/2008 - 02:55.

interestingly enough, because I use my /home/chad directory on a separate partition, when I install mint, it actually defaults to my standard gnome setup. No fancy mint startup menu. Which is what I like. But the point is, you can indeed make it like a standard gnome menu by deleting the existing bar and throwing up standard ones. You will just need to customize them from scratch.

Chad