Linux Basement Presents: Chad’s Blog

Vista Who?

So I’ve pretty
much made the switch over to Ubuntu on my home desktop flawlessly. I
have not run into an instance that it can’t do what I need it to do. I
really thought I would miss Dreamweaver a lot. I know I can mess with
crossover office or wine to get it working, but I’ve not missed it
enough yet. The truth is, most of the web work I’ve been doing has been
over SSH, which I have grown to love and rely on so much, that a lot of
times I’m just editing php right in SSH using nano. No, I’m not talking
about an ipod nano, though I do have one of those and love it. I’m
talking about the linux text editor, nano. Many true linux heads say
that vi is the bomb, but I have not had the time to break through the
learning curve in Vi, so for now, I’m happy with nano.
You can find out more about nano here.

This would probably not work for someone who was heavy into html
editing or CSS, though I seem to do all of that by hand now-a-days too.
I guess it just comes with the territory.

Interestingly enough I think I’m working more efficiently doing
things this way. It also makes me revisit the way I structure my
/var/www files and I keep them much more organized.

Random Thought: I can’t find all the fonts that i want on GIMP. What up with that??

I did run into an interesting predicament today, which interested me
about Ubuntu Studio. I do not see a good video editing suite. Not a
one. I need to do some investigation on how I can splice 3 small movies
onto one disk with a menu that will play in DVD players. I’m sure I’ll
find something, but we’ll see. If anyone has any suggestions for Linux
I welcome them.

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