Redhat/Fedora 3rd-party Repositories

Repositories under RpmForge umbrella:

• Dag: focuses on RHEL support, Fecora Core support up till FC3.

• Dries: focuses on Fecora support, currently packages are being updated for FC4-FC6.

• FreshRPM: focese on Fedora support, right now only FC5 and FC6 packages are being updated.

Other repositories:

• ATrpms: supports RHEL(3,4,5), and Fedora (5,6,7).
• Livna.org: supports FC(5,6), focuses on non-free packages such as multimedia applications, 3D graphics drivers.

EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux)
KDE-Redhat

ePSXe on Linux

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Epsxe_playstation_emulator
http://terror.snm-hgkz.ch/gaming/linux/epsxe_howto/

Manage reference and eprints like we manage media files

update:
Check these out:
http://mekentosj.com/papers/
http://www.smileonmymac.com/PDFpen/
http://www.sintraworks.com/

We have all kinds of applications now to help us manage media files, picasa(windows), digikam(KDE) and F-stop(Gnome) for digital photos; i-Tunes(windows), amarok(KDE) and Banshee(Gnome) for music files. These applications are quite similar, basically, you have a database at the back storing all the metadata(tags) of all the files, then in the front you have a nice GUI to manage this information, moving, deleting, renaming and tagging. Digital photos will have info like time and place it’s taken, the camera and setting used. Music files on the other hand have info like title, artist, album, year, genre and so on. And as an graduate student, here is my idea, why don’t we have an application to manage the papers(pdf or ps files, maybe other formats too) we are interested, we’ve read. They have metadata too, author, journal/conference, year, title and so on. We have bibtex and other things like Endnote, but we don’t have something as good as what we have for media files. Work is as serious as fun stuffs, right?

update: Apparently somebody had the same idea before I did. Check it out.
http://freelancepropaganda.com/themp/

http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-metadata/2003-October/000189.html

Lyx Quickstart

If you are sick of M$ Office and want to try TeX/LaTeX, but the transition is too abrupt for you somehow. Try lyx, it hides all the details of TeX behind a nice GUI, provides similar WYSIWYG experience to M$ Word and at the same time preserves high-quality typesetting of TeX. It’s a perfect stepstone into the world of TeX!

http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200210/200210.htm

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/documents_with_lyx
http://www.tldp.org/linuxfocus/common/src2/article368/lyx_article_lyx.txt
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/

KDE programming tutorial using KDevelop

http://www.dazzle.plus.com/linux/

Have always meant to pick up KDE programming with KDevelop. It’s been on my “nice-to-do” list for too long to remember.

GNU Screen–不可或缺的命令行工具

以前不知道screen的时候一直用konsole的多窗口功能，偶然的机会发现的screen，我的命令行使用习惯就此改变。
一些链接：
http://jmcpherson.org/screen.html
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Using_screen
http://www.zorg.org/linux/screen.shtml
http://aperiodic.net/phil/archives/Geekery/ode-to-screen.html
http://www.jukie.net/~bart/blog/20060824224842
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Using_screen

Bash Completion小诀窍

Path-name completion
This type of completion occurs on the first token of the command line, allowing you to complete on executable files. Together with file-name completion, it is the most known and used type.
File-name completion
This allows you to complete on file and directory names at the second and subsequent token position on the command line.
User-name completion
This allows you to complete on user names by prefixing the token with a ~ (tilde).
Host-name completion
This allows you to complete on host names by prefixing the token with a @.
Variable-name completion
This allows you to complete on variable names by prefixing the token with a $.

imlib2的tutorial

http://enlightenment.sourceforge.net/doxy/imlib2/index.html

如何使用top

http://www.linuxforums.org/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=89&Itemid=64&pop=1&page=0

Tex和Presentation

在LaTeX里，可以使用一些package来写Presentation用的slides，可用的包有seminar，prosper，beamer，pdfslide+ppower4，pdfscreen。我用过Prosper，还不错，是从这里起步的。