contest – mintCast https://mintcast.org The podcast by the Linux Mint community for all users of Linux Thu, 26 Apr 2012 03:09:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://mintcast.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-small-logo-32x32.png contest – mintCast https://mintcast.org 32 32 164426984 Episode 112: LinuxFest Northwest Lookahead https://mintcast.org/episode-112-linuxfest-n-lookahead/ Thu, 26 Apr 2012 03:09:54 +0000 http://www.mintcast.org/?p=1991

News:

  • There is now a PPA for Cinnamon themes, extensions and applets. (webupd8.org)
  • Big things coming next week for the Linux desktop. (phoronix.com)

The Main Topic: LinuxFest Northwest 2012

  • LinuxFest Northwest is a free annual event produced by the Bellingham Linux Users Group and volunteers from other open source user groups. It is held on the campus of Bellingham Technical College.
  • The Fest features Linux and open source experts and aficionados sharing their experience and enthusiasm with a wide variety of free and open source technologies. This generally means that there will be a lot of smart people who come with something to share and a desire to learn. This is a free+cheap event that’s held on a weekend, so there are also folks who don’t usually go to commercial conferences. All in all, it’s a lot of fun with fresh faces on eager people.

Featured Website: LinuxFest Northwest

Tip:

  • This podcast’s tip comes to us from Brad Alexander who wrote in with some advice about the problems Rob has had with doing upgrades and specifically dist-upgrades. Brad says,

I have a bunch of machines and VMs at home, and what I do is to preserve the package list on each one, using the command:

dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall > $HOSTNAME-pkglist

This gives me a usable list of packages that I can then use to build a machine (more on this later). Since I do this on all of my machines, I have a nice pool of package lists that I can call on to get something fairly close to what I need to build.

So when I (re)build a box, I do a Debian base install, which only installs the base system, only the minimal packages (less than 1GB?) …I go through the drive layout and get everything set up the way I want. However, when it wants to install extra packages (e.g. desktop, dns server, web server, etc), I either uncheck everything, or in squeeze and beyond, I *only* check ssh server. This gives me the base install + ssh. Once grub is installed, I finish the install and reboot. Log in and copy the appropriate package list to /root or /tmp or wherever, then do:

dpkg --set-selections < $HOSTNAME-pkglist
apt-get dselect-upgrade

This will (intelligently) install the packages from the list on the system. When this is complete, you have a working near-clone of the system from the package list.

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]]> 2032 Episode 111: Home Alone https://mintcast.org/episode-111-home-alone/ Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:59:39 +0000 http://www.mintcast.org/?p=1985

News:

  • The expanding need to protect innovation in Linux. (zdnet.com)
  • Say Goodbye to Ubuntu Linux 10.10 ‘Maverick Meerkat’ (and LM 10 Julia). (pcworld.com)
  • Linux Mint Debian 201204 RC (MATE/Cinnamon & Xfce) released! (linuxmint.com)

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Credits: Podcast Entry and exit music provided by Mark Blasco (podcastthemes.com). The podcast’s bumpers were provided by Oscar.

]]> 2030 Episode 76: Compiling Software on Debian Based Systems https://mintcast.org/episode-76compiling-software-on-debian-based-systems/ Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:21:01 +0000 http://www.mintcast.org/?p=1606

News & Personal Updates

Main Topic

  • 0:30:42 Compiling Debian Software
  • Exampe Used: Flight Gear dependenciessudo apt-get install git-core subversion build-essential cmake cmake-curses-gui libpng-dev libfreetype6-dev libjpeg-dev libungif4-dev libtiff-dev libxmu-dev libxi-dev libglut3-dev libalut-dev libboost-dev automake autoconf libfltk1.1-dev libplib-dev libopenscenegraph-dev

Website of the Week

Tip of the Week

  • If you get errors when running make install it’s probably because you don’t have permission to copy files to /usr/local/bin, in that case do a sudo make install and you should be good.

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]]> 1606 mintCast Wallpaper voting https://mintcast.org/mintcast-wallpaper-voting-2/ Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:01:33 +0000 http://www.mintcast.org/?p=698 Listeners were asked to submit a wallpaper of their making that advertised mintCast in some way and were encouraged to be creative. We have over 80 wallpapers for you to vote on. Please vote for your favorite 5 wallpapers here.
The top two winners will both win IBM laptops (R51 and R40).

Rules for voting:
1. You are allowed to vote for your top 5 wallpapers.
2. You are only allowed to vote for your favorite 5 wallpapers once.

Click on any thumbnail for the full resolution wallpaper. Due to limitations of the poll system we were not able to submit every variation of a wallpaper that was submitted, but we tried to be fair and submit as many as we could.

If you would like to download all of the wallpapers in one .zip file you can get that HERE. Included in the .zip is a “mintcast.xml” file, which is a rotating background for gnome. Simply copy/move the entire mintcast folder to /usr/share/backgrounds/ (the default gnome background folder) and then drag the XML file into the “change background window” (right click on your desktop and select “change desktop background”). Or you can set a static wallpaper by simply extracting the wallpaper and dragging the single picture you want into the “change background window”.

Thank you all for your submissions and good luck to the winners.
Voting has ended but you can still download all the wallpapers below
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Thank you to everyone that made this a success and congratulations again to the winners.

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