Moving to a Unix system is a lot easier than it use to be but learning all the terminal commands can be daunting. There are awesome cheat sheets to help new users remember the system commands, but few for learning the specific text based programs.
I am a big fan of the VI text editor. It's fast, customizable and available on pretty much all Unix/Linux machines. Over the years, I'm relied on VI for most of my text editing work but I've always thought I was just scratching the surface of VI with respect to all the functionality it ships with. Furthermore, most of the vi cheat sheets are multipaged, complex and hard to understand and master.
Last weekend, I decided to spend some time looking through all the VI commands and then compiling a single-page cheat sheet with commands I thought was essential. My hope is this will help me use more of the VI functionality, which I have already accomplished by creating the cheat sheet.
I modeled the VI cheat sheet after Fosswire.com's awesome Linux cheat sheet and hope new and existing users of VI will find it useful. Please let me know if you find any errors.
Showing posts with label linux applications. Show all posts
Showing posts with label linux applications. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Essential applications on a new Xubuntu install
Xubuntu is a pretty bare boned system, which makes it fast and lightweight. It's also easy to customize and really make your own. Following are a few things I did to customize my Thinkpad to my work flow.
Power Management
For advance power management I installed tlp. See site for details.
Office Suite
Xubuntu ships with Abiword for word processing and Gnumeric for manipulating spreadsheets. These programs are lightweight and easy to use, but not powerful enough for my needs. The obvious choice is LibreOffice, but I decided to go with Kingsoft Office. Kingsoft has been around for a while but only recently ported their office suite to linux. Although, it's still in alpha testing the applications are powerful, the UI is familiar and they are completely compatible with Microsoft Office generated files. Download here.
Design and graphics
For editing images, creating illustrations and page layouts, I use Gimp, Inkscape and Scribus, respectively. These are all available from the application center.
Internet
I use Firefox browser, which ships with Xubuntu. I added the Adblock Plus and Youtube HTML5 extension. I uninstalled Thunderbird and installed Geary mail client.
Python development
I use the Geany IDE for working with Python.
More to come later...
Power Management
For advance power management I installed tlp. See site for details.
Office Suite
Xubuntu ships with Abiword for word processing and Gnumeric for manipulating spreadsheets. These programs are lightweight and easy to use, but not powerful enough for my needs. The obvious choice is LibreOffice, but I decided to go with Kingsoft Office. Kingsoft has been around for a while but only recently ported their office suite to linux. Although, it's still in alpha testing the applications are powerful, the UI is familiar and they are completely compatible with Microsoft Office generated files. Download here.
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| Presentation Application |
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| Spreadsheet Application |
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| Word Processor |
Design and graphics
For editing images, creating illustrations and page layouts, I use Gimp, Inkscape and Scribus, respectively. These are all available from the application center.
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| Gimp |
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| Inkscape |
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| Scribus |
I use Firefox browser, which ships with Xubuntu. I added the Adblock Plus and Youtube HTML5 extension. I uninstalled Thunderbird and installed Geary mail client.
Python development
I use the Geany IDE for working with Python.
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| Geany |
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