How does Linux inspire you? This short video shares some of the ways it inspires all of us and provides everyone with inspiration for this year’s Linux Foundation T-shirt Design Contest. Inspired by Linux is this year’s theme, and if your design is chosen by Linux Foundation staff and the community, you could win expenses for travel to LinuxCon in San Diego or Barcelona! Submit your design here: www.linux.com Music credit: SteveBrianMusic: www.youtube.com

Description: Vi Improved, a highly configurable, improved version of the vi text editor Vim folding commands zf#j creates a fold from the cursor down # lines. zf/string creates a fold from the cursor to string . za When on a closed fold: open it.and vice-versa. zA When on a closed fold: open it recursively.and vice-versa. zj moves the cursor to the next fold. zk moves the cursor to the previous fold. zo opens a fold at the cursor. zO opens all folds at the cursor. zm increases the foldlevel by one. zM closes all open folds. zr decreases the foldlevel by one. zR decreases the foldlevel to zero — all folds will be open. zd deletes the fold at the cursor. zE deletes all folds. [z move to start of open fold. ]z move to end of open fold. paste in ~/.vimrc to save folds automatically au BufWinLeave * mkview au BufWinEnter * silent loadview helppage on vim :help folding www.linux.com nerd-hacking.blogspot.com open vim as root or normal code paste2.org

Package: baobab Description: GNOME disk usage analyzer Disk Usage Analyzer is a graphical, menu-driven application to analyse disk usage in a GNOME environment. It can easily scan either the whole filesystem tree, or a specific user-requested directory branch (local or remote). It also auto-detects in real-time any changes made to your home directory as far as any mounted/unmounted device. Disk Usage Analyzer also provides a full graphical treemap window for each selected folder. Homepage: live.gnome.org

From the show floor at NAB 2012 in Las Vegas, here’s some quick & dirty cameraphone footage of Lightworks running on Ubuntu Linux. We realize that the video quality isn’t ideal, but we wanted to share this clip, as we’ve been getting a lot of people asking about the Linux and Mac OS X ports of Lightworks. A much better screencast recording is now available, showing Lightworks on Ubuntu being used to work on some footage from Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo”: www.youtube.com • • • • • Please see lightworksbeta.com for more details on where Lightworks is headed.

A screencast recording of Lightworks running on Ubuntu Linux. Here, we see a demo of footage from Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo” being edited, including realtime color correction, and a brief visit from Lucy the Shark at the end.

en.wikipedia.org In graphical computing, a desktop environment (DE) commonly refers to a particular implementation of graphical user interface (GUI) derived from the desktop metaphor that is seen on most modern personal computers. These GUIs help the user in easily accessing, configuring, and modifying many important and frequently accessed specific operating system (OS) features. The GUI usually does not afford access to all the many features found in an OS. Instead, the traditional command-line interface (CLI) is still used when full control over the OS is required in such cases. A desktop environment typically consists of icons, windows, toolbars, folders, wallpapers and desktop widgets (see Elements of graphical user interfaces and WIMP). A GUI might also provide drag and drop functionality and other features that make the desktop metaphor more complete. A desktop environment aims to be an intuitive way for the user to interact with the computer using concepts which are similar to those used when interacting with the physical world, such as buttons and windows. While the term desktop environment originally described a style of user interfaces following the desktop metaphor, it has also come to describe the programs that realize the metaphor itself. This usage has been popularized by the Common Desktop Environment and the K Desktop Environment.

While Linux is running our phones, friend requests, tweets, financial trades, ATMs and more, most of us don’t know how it’s actually built. This short video takes you inside the process by which the largest collaborative development project in the history of computing is organized. Based on the annual report “Who Writes Linux,” this is a powerful and inspiring story of how Linux has become a community-driven phenomenon.

Choose to use your computer your way. Choose Ubuntu!

samirahmed.github.com Commandlinefu.com is an online repository for recording commandline gems, that you return to again and again. www.commandlinefu.com ‘fu’ is a commandline interface that allows you to harvest the power of internets commandline wisdom.

LXDE The “Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment” LXDE can be installed on many Linux distributions including Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE and Ubuntu. It is the standard for Knoppix and lubuntu. LXDE also runs on OpenSolaris and BSD. (LXDE.org) Linux Mint is a Linux-based computer operating system best known for its usability and ease of installation, particularly for users with no previous Linux experience. It is available in several editions with different codebases, nearly all of which are based on Ubuntu, which is itself based on Debian. Linux Mint 12 (Lisa) was released 26.11.2011 LXDE Edition based on Lubuntu