My Top Used Linux Applications
Nov 06I have this constant fear of losing my memory. Which i believe i already have an issue of. Some of the music i loved a year ago, i can’t even remember the bands names. Though might be due to not listening to that kind of music any more. Besides the point, If i ever lose my memory, i want to come back to PasteLinux and read this post and hopefully trigger some memory back. If not at least I will know what programs I use daily. I know its only two, but its for my purposes and more to introduce to you guys something new.
Galculator
Galculator:
Galculator is a simple GUI calculator. It seems really simple unless you go to ‘view>paper mode’ which is perfect for any math I ever need to use. I don’t like pressing buttons on a gui to get calculations done. Instead Paper Mode allows for you to type an equation and press enter and it does the math for you. example: ‘cos(20)*10^3′ so much easier to type then click buttons. For more information on Galculator.
yauap in action
yauap *
Yauap is a simple terminal based audio player. Its lovely it tells you everything from the file name, track number, artist, album, genre, audio-codec and must more. Probably everything you could ever want to know about an audio file its in this player. Plus its in your terminal, so it uses barely any processing. Its so easy to use and clean. The only audio player i will use for linux.
Humble Voxatron Release!
Nov 03
Voxatron Gameplay
Ever game on the Humble is Cross-platform, Pay what you want, Supports Charity and DRM Free!
Cross-Platform means:
- Linux
- Window
- Mac
This Humbles games contain Blocks that Matter, The Binding of Isaac, Voxatron Alpha. And goes to the Child’s Play Charity and Electronic Frontier.
Visit Here for more information:
http://www.humblebundle.com/
Ubuntu Global Jam 2011
Sep 03This weekend Is the Ubuntu Global Jam and your guessing correct I am here.
So I am going to record what went down today.
We are going to be fixing bugs in ubuntu 10.04.
This is my first time checking out 10.04. Heres what it looks like when it first started up.
“It’s Official: Valve Releasing Steam, Source Engine For Linux!” but when?
Aug 29
Alright so back in 2008 Valve sort of hinted that Steam was coming to linux. Then in 2010, the title of an article “It’s Official: Valve Releasing Steam, Source Engine For Linux!” was pushed out.
2011 is almost over and still linux is not seeing any good sign of a native port of steam. Which makes me wonder is stream really even coming to linux.
I can imagine that because most games have been built until windows developement, it would be a little difficult to port over games like COD, L4D and other popular stream releases.
What I don’t understand is that Mac has had steam for a good while. Isn’t mac unix based? So how how would it be to push a “linux” based port?
Well until we can get steam on linux I guess we have wine to do the job for us. Check out this, which shows you how to install steam with the help of wine or playonlinux
Linux History: August 25th, 1991
Aug 25
Today is Aug 25th, meaning the day Linus Torvalds first came out and told the world he is working on a free operating system. Below is the original Email out to the Minix community:
From:torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
Newsgroup: comp.os.minix
Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?
Summary: small poll for my new operating system
Message-ID: 1991Aug25, 20578.9541@klaava.Helsinki.FI
Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki.
Hello everybody out there using minix-
I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big
and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has
been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I’d like
any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix; as my OS
resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-sytem
due to practical reasons)among other things.
I’ve currently ported bash (1.08) an gcc (1.40), and things seem to work.
This implies that i’ll get something practical within a few months, and I’d
like to know what features most people want. Any suggestions are welcome,
but I won’t promise I’ll implement them 
So what can we do on this day? Well i am thinking everyone get your linux tee shirts (or make one) and let the world know linux is here and still strong!
I hope everyone enjoys this post, i’ll be doing more ‘linux history’ as history in linux comes up!
-Pastelinux