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Books essential to understand the basics of Unix

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Miguel de Icaza is one of the personalities Open Source . Although his last steps in this segment have been somewhat controversial because of their affiliation to the world-Mono Microsoft recognizes Icaza, Open Source is an implementation. NET, do not forget that de Icaza was the founder of the GNOME project, and other projects.

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diving in his biography I found a fact that did not know De Icaza is the creator of Midnight Commander , a myth of Linux utilities “console” and very popular used by Linux users around the world.

and this program has now spoken on his blog, one of the best names in the blogosphere in my opinion, tyranny is surprised to see how many users of Linux and Mac OS X not have a sufficient basis to understand to what extent can control their operating systems.

Hence we encourage everyone to read some books on the topic and also follow some tutorials and using some tools. The tips below:

Unix Programming Environment : This book by Kernighan and Pike covers many of the characteristics of modern Unix systems, but according to de Icaza is an essential book for understanding the basis of many components.

fot the Impatient Unix : is a book much easier to read, with practical help and allowing us to enjoy reading, according to the original post, from beginning to end.

Emacs : Here things start to get complicated, because I know for a fact that many of you readers muylinuxeros, you use alternatives such as vi / vim or nano. But advocates Icaza Emacs and strongly recommended to follow his entire tutorial, which you can access by launching Emacs and then pressing the Ctrl-h and then t. Over the next 2 hours we will understand the operation of an editor … goes far beyond being an editor.

Midnight Commander : a little self-promotion here talking about the advantages of using MC as a file browser instead of performing these operations from the terminal. The truth is that it is a good idea to save time in many operations, especially if we learn the long list of keyboard shortcuts that optimize the use of Midnight Commander.

Unix Power Tools

: According to de Icaza, this book is a compilation of tips written by some of the most experienced users of Unix. The truth is that it looks great.

last tip de Icaza is more curious, and is learn typing with applications such as Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing (do not know if it is available in Castilian, I guess because it’s pretty famous), although one of the comments here vote for a much more fun to learn to type: The Typing of the Dead game, which I fear is only in English, but it must be pretty original.

original and interesting collection sure I can be helpful . Especially coming from someone like Miguel de Icaza, who has quite a few tables in this world of Linux and Open Source;)

Surviving GNOME Shell (III): Tweak Tool, essential [Updated]

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Some of the shortcomings of GNOME Shell, or by the so named “usability” but not so intuitive environment, can be solved by a simple but basic tool in importance called Tweak Tool , which at the project page described as “a tool to configure advanced options of GNOME 3 ” but in fact the opposite is true , in fact some of the most basic desktop visually you can only configure from there.

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For example, from Tweak Tool can do that again show the desktop icons and files in the folder have the same name (one of the issues that Linus complained)

Surviving GNOME 500x402 GTT1 Shell (III): Tweak Tool, essential [Updated] Also can set the fonts

Surviving GNOME 500x402 TWG2 Shell (III): Tweak Tool, essential [Updated]

visual desktop theme, icons and cursor or if the menus or icons show:

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Make the clock

also display the date, restore and maximize buttons MiniZ window, change the visual theme or choose Shell shares off by the device button , which by default is not suspended and off:

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Finally, from Tweak Tool you can set some options related to the windows and install extensions from the desktop, but the latter already have a article on another day, not necessary to “survive in GNOME Shell” .

You will find

GNOME Tweak Tool repositories from your distribution if and although they do not come installed by default, something that really can not believe it’s limited available system configuration (rather not believe that has not been directly implemented in the System Setup).

The latest version of Tweak Tool also facilitates the installation of extensions and in general is an empowering tool that will gradually for the enjoyment of users of GNOME 3. That said, imperative .

Update: I forgot a little trick we key for months and is as basic as many of the issues mentioned today: Reviving the “Del” key to delete files and folders in GNOME 3 . Drawer.

Books essential to understand the basics of Unix

Surviving GNOME Shell (III): Tweak Tool, essential [Updated]

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