Episode 127: Bring on the Accessible Computing Foundation!

• MATE vs Unity, GNOME 3: Open Source Desktop’s Future?

• Debian Now Defaults To Xfce Desktop

• Is SCO finally and completely dead?

• Digia Buys Out Qt From Nokia

• Microsoft is pushing users and vendors to Macs and Linux

• Jonathon Nadeau from the Accessible Computing Foundation joins us for a moment to speak about the progress he has made in accessible computing and to inform us about his fundraiser to help get his non-profit organization off the ground. By helping to fund his foundation we can help spread computing to the masses.

• Accessible Computing Foundation
• The Accessible Computing Foundation exists to design Free software to help bridge the gap between accessibility and technology. As a nonprofit we will hire developers to create Free accessible software and bring awareness to people’s accessible needs around the world.

• Ctrl + x + e  Rapidly invoke the default editor (environment variable $EDITOR) to write a long, complex, or tricky command.

• Next time you are using your shell, try typing ctrl-x e (that is holding control key press x and then e). you’ll see the command you are writing in your editor, there you can change it, and once you save and exit from that editor the modified command will be automatically run on your shell. (credit to Linuxaria )

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