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The Linux Outlaws and the Ubuntu UK Podcast are organising a barcamp-style free software / free culture event called OggCamp on Sunday, the 25th of October in Wolverhampton in the UK (home of LugRadio and LugRadio Live).

The event is located in the Connaught Hotel which is also the official hotel for LugRadio Live 2009 to be held on the previous day.

Admission is free and anybody can turn up on the day to talk about an interesting topic close to his or her heart or just roll out of bed and nurse the post-LRL hangover while listening to other people do the talking.

You can find out more about the event at http://oggcamp.org

In this episode

Wine
Wine AppDB

Codeweavers
CrossOver Linux
CrossOver Games
CrossOver Mac

Cedega

Web site of the week

BeginLinux (Learning Linux one step at a time)

Feedback

The LinuxMint Master

Linux Distribution Chooser

More info

[podcast [mintcast.org]

mintCast: Episode 22: Podcatchers

2009-09-20T20:33:50+02:00

OggCamp

The event is located in the Connaught Hotel which is also the official hotel for LugRadio Live 2009 to be held on the previous day.

You can find out more about the event at http://oggcamp.org

In this episode

Linux Mint 7 XFCE released
The XFCE Community Edition aims to provide a version of Linux Mint which uses the XFCE desktop.

How to reinstall grub from a live cd

Podcatchers

Linux Podcast Software

Rhythmbox
Banshee
Amarok
gpodder (Not in mintinstall)
miro
songbird (Not in mintinstall)
PenguinTV (Not in mintinstall)
~~Yamipod~~Now called Floola
Armangil’s podcatcher

Podcatching from a Cron Job

Separate partition for /home folder

Considerations before you install: [forums.linuxmint.com]
Parted manual: [www.gnu.org]
Filesystem features: [en.wikipedia.org]

Web site of the week

Hak5

Feedback

Password Gorilla

Rooting your Android phone
Here’s why you should do it
Here’s how you should do it
Here’s what you can do with it

More info

mintCast: Episode 21: File Permissions

2009-09-07T05:43:33+02:00

Ontario [GNU] Linux Fest

The third annual Ontario [GNU] Linux Fest, sponsored by Google and IBM, will be held on Saturday, October 24, 2009 at the Days Hotel and Conference Centre Toronto Airport East in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The Ontario Linux Fest is a non-profit event that brings together professionals, students, and enthusiasts who share an interest in Linux and Open Source software.

Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier, long time FOSS advocate and openSUSE community manager, is the keynote speaker.

Last year 300 people attended, from as far away as Brazil.

Visit the website at http://www.onlinux.ca, sign-up for the mailing list, or follow on Twitter at @OntarioLinux.

In this episode

Hannah Montana Linux

Ontario [GNU] Linux Fest

SCO lawsuit back on

Ubuntu releasing an App Store

New Ubuntu installer coming soon

Dell refutes Microsofts claims that Linux Netbooks get returned more than Windows Netbooks

Linux vs Windows 7 feature comparison

File Permissions

chmod Tutorial: Interactive commands and examples

chmod command using numbers

chown [-R] [[user]][:group] target1 [[target2 ..]]
chmod [options] mode[,mode] file1 [file2 ...]
chgrp group target1 [target2 ..]

u	user	the owner of the file
g	group	users who are members of the file’s group
o	others	users who are not the owner of the file or members of the group
a	all	all three of the above, is the same as ugo

+	adds the specified modes to the specified classes
-	removes the specified modes from the specified classes
=	the modes specified are to be made the exact modes for the specified classes

r	read	read a file or list a directory’s contents
w	write	write to a file or directory
x	execute	execute a file or recurse a directory tree
X	special execute	which is not a permission in itself but rather can be used instead of x. It applies execute permissions to directories regardless of their current permissions and applies execute permissions to a file which already has at least 1 execute permission bit already set (either user, group or other). It is only really useful when used with ‘+’ and usually in combination with the -R option for giving group or other access to a big directory tree without setting execute permission on normal files (such as text files), which would normally happen if you just used “chmod -R a+rx .”, whereas with ‘X’ you can do “chmod -R a+rX .” instead
s	setuid/gid	details in Special modes section
t	sticky	details in Special modes section