Linux In Da House

Paige talks about the Wacom Bamboo tablet she got for Christmas. Her work in the Gimp is coming along very well:

Mya - Paige's manga character

She also colored this drawing:

Paige also talks about her experience using Audacity to create a ring tone.

Her homework for the next show is:

• Create a drawing using either Inkscape or Synfig Studio

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Paige reviews Linux Mint 12 RC, which we replace Ubuntu Oneric Ocelot with on her Pangolin. Keyboard troubles plague her along with the changes in desktop environments like Gnome and Unity from her beloved Gnome 2.

No homework was completed due to some outstanding issues so the Battle for Wesnoth will continue at a later date.

For next show’s homework Paige will:

• Create a ringtone with Audacity
• Try a different Desktop Environment – KDE 4 or XFCE, or something else

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We cover some listener feed back! The we delve into last show’s homework and come across the bugbear that was the Natty to Oneric upgrade and how poorly that went off on Paige’s Pangolin. Paige rages against the user interface decisions of Ubuntu, Unity, and Gnome 3.

Beneath a Steel sky is discussed along with Trauma from the latest Humble Indie bundle.

We then talk about the reactions Paige receives from her friends for using Linux. Whoa, it’s a dooozy!

Paige describes how she altered the original left image to look like the image on the right:

Finally we come to the Accident Swan:

Paige’s homework for next show is to actually play Battle for Wesnoth. Create some ringtones for her phone using Audacity.

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After months of waiting we are finally back and Paige is raring to go! Paige has completed her homework and gives us three great reviews:

1. Linux Action Show
2. GNU World Order
3. Linux News Log

Paige talks Gimp projects and gives her thoughts on the new Alice Cooper album: Welcome 2 my Nightmare.

Paige’s homework for next show is to play and review to games she has never played before under Linux.

Be sure to send your feedback to feedback at linuxindahouse.org

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Paige gets down and dirty with Gimpe and Inkscape, check out her work:

Original scanned drawing to the left (obviously) and the colorized version – done with Inkscape and Gimp.

Paige gives her opinion of RevolutionOS.  Do not expect us to post it here, you have to listen for yourself!  Also includes a brief discussion of BSD.

We talk about Stallman, Torvalds, and Raymond, and Paige gives her impressions.

Paige gets down and dirty with the Gimp and Inkscape as you can see from the images above.  While we both had homework, we are not ready to show what we had accomplished on our first attempts, it was very hard.

Paige’s homework for the week:  Listen to three different podcasts:

• Linux Action Show
• Gnu World Order
• Paige’s Choice

We hope that the next show will be a bit more earlier than the gap between the 3rd and 4th episdoes.

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Tonight Paige reports on the four freedoms posited by the GNU manifesto.  She then gives an overview of OpenOffice and how it compares to the Office suites she uses in school.  We discuss the software used at school and what her friends use and the trials therein.  A challenge is levied by Peter64 to produce a wallpaper comparable to his by following tutorial #9 on the wonderful repository of 30 Gimp Tutorials he pointed us to.

Additionally, Paige is tasked with exploring OpenOffice Draw and watching RevolutionOS.

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So this week Paige talks about how she made me Dann a sweet little Valentine’s Day Background image for his desktop. There is much discussion about how the new external hard drive was shared via Samba and ssh technologies. Paige’s homework for this week is to list the four freedoms provided by the GNU General Public License.

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Our first episode has been released!  Paige gives a review of her System76 Starling netbook and her impressions of Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10.  We talk about all the hardware in the house running Linux or another OpenSource OS.  Paige’s homework for the next show is to name who created Linux and why he or she created it.  Enjoy the first show!

Music by Vcnt – ERH

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The first episode was recorded before the website was set up.  The first episode should be out soon so keep checking back.  Also coming are the RSS feeds, a better theme, and promos.  Hooray!