Tarus Balog OpenNMS - CEO POSSCON 4/14/2015 Open 101 Track: 4:00 PM Talk

1. Or How I Learned to Start Worrying
and Love the Linux Desktop

2. Or How I Learned to Start Worrying
and Love the Linux Desktop
Or How I Learned to Start Worrying
and Love the Linux Desktop

7. Your Mission … Should You Choose to Accept
It:
Replace Apple software on Apple hardware
without loss of features or functionality.

9. What Are Your Critical Apps?
● Mail.app
● iCal
● Web Browsing
● Word Processing/Spreadsheet/Presentations (iWork)
● Quickbooks
● Photoshop
● iTunes
● iPhoto
● VMWare Fusion

10. Make Room for Linux
● Consider using Time Machine to back up your OS X
installation.
● Use Bootcamp to create a second partition
● Alternatively, use the command line to create two
partitions: Install Disk → Utilities → Terminal:
diskutil partitionDisk disk0 2
"Journaled HFS+" Mac 250G
"MS-DOS FAT32" Linux 250G

11. Which Distro?
● Debian
● Fedora
● Mint
● SuSE
● Ubuntu

12. Which Desktop?

13. Why I First Chose Ubuntu with Unity
● Simple Support for Proprietary Drivers
● Launcher analogous to Dock
● Shuttleworth Reminds Me of Jobs
● One of the most popular desktop distros
(Steam built a native Linux client for Ubuntu)
● LTS version means stability
● Ubuntu Software Center

14. Ubuntu Software Center

16. nomodeset Is Your Friend

17. I Now Run Linux Mint

18. Mail and Calendar
● GNOME: Evolution
● KDE: Kmail
● Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning

23. Extry Credit: Set Up SOGo

24. Web Browsers

25. Office Options

26. Accounting
● Option 1: Use QB on Mac via VNC
● Option 2: Use QB for Windows and WINE
● Option 3: Switch

27. Graphics Editing

28. The GIMP

29. Music and Media Management

30. Amarok

31. Clementine

32. Rhythmbox

33. Banshee

34. Integration with Ubuntu

35. .is_audio_player
$ cat .is_audio_player
audio_folders=Music/,Video/
video_folders=Video/
output_formats=audio/ogg,audio/flac,audio/mpeg,
video/x-msvideo,audio/mp4,video/mp4
# This allows Banshee to make playlists on this
device.
playlist_path=Playlists/
playlist_formats=audio/mpegurl, audio/x-mpegurl,
audio/m3u

36. Managing Photographs

37. digiKam

38. Shotwell

39. Darktable

40. Migrating from iPhoto

41. Virtual Machines

42. Extry Credit: Bridging
# apt-get install bridge-utils
# cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet manual
iface eth0 inet6 manual
auto br0
iface br0 inet static
address 172.20.1.14
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 172.20.1.0
broadcast 172.20.1.255
gateway 172.20.1.1
bridge_ports eth0
bridge_stp off
bridge_fd 0
bridge_maxwait 0

43. OS X Lion

44. Reverse Scrolling
To reverse vertical scrolling:
$ cat .Xmodmap
Pointer = 1 2 3 5 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
To reverse horizontal as well:
$ cat .Xmodmap
Pointer = 1 2 3 5 4 7 6 9 8 10 11 12

45. https://oneplus.net/one

46. http://tomato.groov.pl/

47. http://openelec.tv/

48. http://www.wviewweather.com/

50. #noapple
● Frustrating at first, but rewarding later
● opt-out of “the Cloud”
● Having options is the best feature
● It's about creation, not consumption
● Own what you create

51. Tarus Balog
tarus@opennms.org
G+: Tarus BALOG
Twitter: @sortova
http://adventuresinoss.com
http://tarus.io
http://forgottencocktails.com