Episode 25: User Interview with SiKing
In this episode
Skype on Linux to be Open Sourced
Mandriva 2010.0 has been released
User interview with Mark Lehky, a.k.a. SiKing
Web site of the week
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Hosts: Charles, Rothgar, Siking
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For what tools are you still using with Wine. Certain apps are designed with Wine in mind. See uTorrent, Picasa, Steam games, etc. Is that something we should be happy with(as linux users) or should we looking for/encouraging native apps?
Native!
I don’t know if you ever looked behind the scenes of something like Picasa on Linux, but everything there (I repeat on Linux) looks like Windows. They have virtual directories like “My Documents”, _under_ which you have directories like “My Pictures”. This does even remotely resemble the actual directory structure you have on your Linux box, unless you manually created it, so you have to do mental gymnastics in order to be able to make sense of it.
Why use Linux Mint instead of Ubuntu?
MintUpdate, mintUpdate, and mintUpdate!
Every operating system should have a tool like mintUpdate. The ability to filter updates by rank is incredibly useful. This feature has actually allowed me to avoid an annoying bug that I had in Ubuntu by not downloading an unnecessary update. (They were the same version.) Details are toward the end of my blog post: http://jertech.blogspot.com/2009/02/stick-of-mint.html.
The mintMenu and user-friendliness are also very nice, but mintUpdate takes the cake.
I find it a bit problematic to describe the system and the tools as done by enthusiasts. The heavy part of the goods are supplied by people working on company time.
newbie here,
should i install mint on a FAT32 or NTFS partition? what’s the difference or whats better?
thanks
I am not sure if you are talking about using a installation USB drive or actually doing the install. If you are installing from a USB drive you should format the drive as ext3 (if you are creating the install disk from linux) or FAT32 (if you are creating the installation USB from Windows).
For the actual installation you should use ext4 which is the default file format that Linux Mint and Ubuntu choose for the installation.
Just to expand on what Rothgar said: if you try to install Linux directly on a harddrive that has either FAT32 or NTFS, it will not work. Those filesystems do not support security permissions that Linux requires. Unless you are talking about the Wubi installer https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide then everything is different. 🙂
Hi, i find it bether to use native apps.
IMHO i find it very good, that it gives wine.
I use it now for 2 years allready, and i MUST say that it has now a very large support for very many applications.I have to and I must say that i realy dont like it, becouse the bottles system :/!.
I find that wine is bether becouse it is more integrated and easier to install programms.
Just had a chance to listen to the final cut of the show. WOW, do I really sound like that? Every third word “basically”. :)))
I reaaly love this podcast. I download every episode so I can listen to it when I have time. Sorry to say. This time the sound quality was terrible. Please do try to fix this. This episode hurt my ears. Keep up the good work. You’ve helped me a lot. since I started using Mint 6 month ago.
Best regards
From Kirkenes Norway
Is it just me but was the sound quality of Rothgar much better than Charles and SiKing. Can you do three way Skype? And if you can… maybe you could do the old thing with Audacity and the sound quality would be much better.
It’s not just you. Rothgar (eventually) dialed in through Ekiga. It is not possible to dial an IP number through Skype (even thought it claims to be VoIP software), which is how you get into TalkShoe where we record the show. Charles and myself were on a plain landline telephone. 🙁 We’re working on it. 🙂
Charles,
About HNB: Simply run hnb as user in the terminal.
A shortcut can be made with, say, xterm -e hnb.
Interesting show. What would the chance be of an interview with Clem? I would be really interested in contributing some questions.