[DC LoCo] Linux Action Show and geeky goodies

[Eric Maag]

Once they started all that unity nonsense in ubuntu, I switched over
to cinnamon and never looked back. Definitely worth a look. What's the
link for this podcast?

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Greg Reagle <reagle at cepr.net> wrote:
> Hello everyone.  I started to listen to the Linux Action Show recently (as a podcast using gpodder) and I like it a lot.  I find it too long and wordy, but there is still some very interesting stuff in the episodes.
>
> For example, I learned about the following things:
>
> nethogs is a command that shows network usage by process.  I have to sudo it for it to work.
>
> woof is a utility for very quickly and easily sharing a files or files
>
> webGL is a way to get openGL graphics on a web browser without using Flash or any other plugin (Javascript is required).  When it works, it is pretty damn impressive.
>
> Cinnamon is a fork of Gnome that has a more traditional look and feel (think Gnome 2) but more polished than the gnome-fallback in Ubuntu 12.04.  I hear it is available in Ubuntu 12.10 and that it is the default GUI for Mint.
>
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> Greg Reagle
> System & Network Administrator
> Center for Economic and Policy Research
> reagle at cepr.net
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