6/2002

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MY LINUX PAGE

This page is dedicated to my latest hobby. Linux. It is a new (well... not so much) operating system based on GNU's UNIX. This operating system is one of the most stable in the market and the best thing is that it is a free OS. You don' need  to pay anything to get it. And you can get the full source code of the operating system.

I recently fully installed my FlyVideo TV card on my linux. I mean that I can see TV on full screen, and even use the control remote.  Click here to read how I did it.

I recently bought an Internet Keyabord, which I did not use. since X did not detect it. I the sit down and decided to change the config file needed in order to have a borther keyboard layout. I looked how it was done in HP Internet keyboard alyout, and copied it wit ha name of "Borther Internet Keyboard", then Ineeded to figure out the codes of the keystrokes. I used xevent to do that. Then I needed to connect those codes into key names. When I did that (and boy it took time until I did it right!), I had a new keybaord layout to choose which included the new Internet Keys (I used KDE's Control Centre to do that). You can d/l a patch for XFree86 configuration here. To apply it by execyuting (you can do it in any dir, since it will apply files in /etc/X11/) :
gunzip -c brother.patch.gz |patch -p0
If you execute the same command again, it will undo the patches I made (press r).

Click here to do to my rpm's page. I recommend not pressing that link...

Click here to read my online hebrew faq (heberw only, logical oridering), and here to d/l it to read offline as one file.

Click here to d/l the editor I made in QT3 specialy for hebrew reader/writers. You will need qt3 developer packages. This project uses images from the gnome2 project, images used with autorization from the author.

Click here to get a console font with hebrew and frame chars. Use and distribute freeely. (soon to come a series of fonts)

I installed linux, and in the beginning it was difficult to use, but there is a lot of documentation for it. Much more then for Windows or DOS. And the best thing (in my opinion) is that when I have a problem with some program I can E-Mail the person who wrote the program to get help. I can get the full source for that program (GNU License rools!!!), and the software is much stable then I ever knew. Almost every program found in Windows, has a port to LINUX (or there is a program that does the same):
 

Linux is made from the "basic" kernel as it's base, The main distribution site of the kernel is found at: http://www.kernel.org.
On top of the kernel is another layer which is called the X-Windows. You can download the latest version (4.2) with 3D support from http://www.xfree86.org.

One of the most important things that can be done with a computer is play games. And this is the biggest flaw of Linux. There are not very much ports of popular games to it. Here are some ported games to Linux:


For more information about games on the Linux platform visit: www.linuxgames.org.
 
 

Linux is a UNIX like operating system (it is fully compatible with it), but some guys decided that it is not enough. They wrote emulator for other operating systems:

Press [here ] to see how XWindows Linux looks on my computer.
Press [here ] to go to my DOSEMU page (information and also my patches to LFN DOSEmu).
Press [here ] to go to my FlyVideo and remote control page (BTTV and LIRC).
Press [here ] to go to my tricks page.
Press [here ] to go to my rpm's page.

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