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<title><![CDATA[Karmic koala: Gnumeric in Italiano]]></title>
<link>http://technos.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/karmic-koala-gnumeric-in-italiano/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>technos</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Gnumeric in italiano Tra i vari programmi che si trovano nei repository di Ubuntu, è molto popolare ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Karmic Koala (Kubuntu e Xubuntu 9.10): prova su strada]]></title>
<link>http://linuxbyprofkoji.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/karmic-koala-kubuntu-e-xubuntu-9-10-prova-su-strada/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>profkoji</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Ubuntu nelle sue diverse varianti (Kubuntu e Xubuntu le più note) è senza dubbio la distribuzione GN]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Ubuntu nelle sue diverse varianti (Kubuntu e Xubuntu le più note) è senza dubbio la distribuzione GNU/Linux che ha fatto più proseliti, soprattutto tra i newbie, per la sua estrema semplicità d&#8217;uso e per il suo &#8220;parco&#8221; software vastissimo.</p>
<p>Per Kubuntu potete visitare  il <a href="http://www.kubuntu.org/news/9.10-release" target="_blank">sito</a> dove è postato l&#8217;annuncio ufficiale di rilascio ed un (<a href="http://www.seoexpertconsultants.com/index.php?linux&#38;release=Kubuntu%209.10" target="_blank">breve tour</a>) che illustra le caratteristiche salienti di questa versione. Il sito per il download è <a href="http://www.kubuntu.org/getkubuntu" target="_blank">questo</a>.</p>
<p>In modo simile anche per Xubuntu potete leggere <a href="http://www.xubuntu.org/news/9.10-release" target="_blank">l&#8217;annuncio</a>, visualizzare un breve <a href="http://www.seoexpertconsultants.com/index.php?linux&#38;release=Xubuntu%209.10" target="_blank">tour grafico</a> e quindi passare al <a href="http://www.xubuntu.org/get" target="_blank">download</a>.</p>
<p>Su Kubuntu in versione live vengono riconosciute e montate le eventuali partizioni windows presenti, così fin da subito si ha la possibilità di aprire i propri file per testare le applicazioni presenti in questa distribuzione, non invece su Xubuntu.</p>
<p>La scelta di Kubuntu è adatta all&#8217;utente che sa quello che fa, quella di Xubuntu è invece adatta all&#8217;utente che preferisce non correre il rischio di rovinare il file system preesistente sul pc.</p>
<p>Dopo una rapida &#8220;esplorazione&#8221; ci si renderà conto che non è possibile visualizzare correttamente siti con contenuto flash, come ad esempio <a href="http://www.youtube.com" target="_blank">YouTube</a>, e nemmeno potersi godere i propri file musicali ed i propri filmati.</p>
<p>Karmic Koala infatti non include i principali codecs audio e video (nemmeno flash) e nemmeno driver proprietari, quali ad esempio quelli della scheda video.</p>
<p>Ciò potrebbe far scoraggiare l&#8217;utente che sia avvicina per la prima volta al mondo GNU/Linux, ma occorre sottolineare che bastano pochi interventi perché Karmic Koala diventi perfettamente &#8220;usabile&#8221;.</p>
<p>I filmati che vi propongo servono soltanto a mostrare l&#8217;impatto visivo di queste due distribuzioni e fare una carrellata dei principali software che mettono fin da subito a disposizione.</p>
<p>Le durate dei filmati non corrispondono a quelle reali, infatti prima di postarli ho preferito cancellare i &#8220;tempi morti&#8221; di durata eccessiva, anche perché per la registrazione mi sono servito di macchine virtuali che non emulano a dovere le caratteristiche hardware dei pc in circolazione.</p>
<p><strong>Kubuntu</strong></p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/3jFS9wqNRss&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/3jFS9wqNRss&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>L&#8217;ambiente desktop è KDE 4.3.2 ed il kernel 2.6.31.14.generic.</p>
<p>Ecco una breve rassegna dei software inclusi (cito solo quelli di uso più comune):</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>navigazione web:</strong> Konqueror</li>
<li><strong>posta elettronica:</strong> KMail</li>
<li><strong>chat:</strong> Kopete, Quassel IRC</li>
<li><strong>torrent:</strong> KTorrent</li>
<li><strong>ufficio:</strong> OpenOffice.org,  Okular (visore di svariati tipi di documenti)</li>
<li><strong>grafica:</strong> Gwenview (viewer)</li>
<li><strong>audio:</strong> Amarok</li>
<li><strong>video:</strong> Dragon Player</li>
<li><strong>CD burning:</strong> K3b</li>
<li><strong>navigazione file:</strong> Dolphin</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Xubuntu</strong></p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/yGohnL9Uvnw&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/yGohnL9Uvnw&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>L’ambiente desktop è Xfce 4.6.1 ed il kernel è 2.6.31-14-generic</p>
<p>Ecco una breve rassegna dei software inclusi (cito solo quelli di uso più comune):</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>navigazione web:</strong> Firefox</li>
<li><strong>posta elettronica:</strong> Thunderbird</li>
<li><strong>chat:</strong> Pidgin, XChat IRC</li>
<li><strong>torrent:</strong> Transmission</li>
<li><strong>ufficio:</strong> Abiword, Gnumeric</li>
<li><strong>grafica:</strong> Ristretto (viewer), Gimp (editor)</li>
<li><strong>audio:</strong> Exaile</li>
<li><strong>video:</strong> Totem</li>
<li><strong>CD burning:</strong> Brasero</li>
<li><strong>navigazione file:</strong> Thunar</li>
</ul>
<p>Gli altri programmi possono essere scaricati ad installazione ultimata.</p>
<p>Kubuntu e Xubuntu sono senza dubbio delle ottime distribuzioni (adatte soprattutto a chi proviene da windows) e le consiglio caldamente. Da quanto vi ho appena descritto, è chiaro che un intervento, seppur minimo, dell&#8217;utente è richiesto perché il sistema si adatti alle nostre esigenze.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[My take on gnome shell]]></title>
<link>http://vinci.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/my-take-on-gnome-shell/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>vinci</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Sorry to say this, but i think the GNOME Shell (short: GS) looks totally senseless to me. There is n]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Sorry to say this, but i think the GNOME Shell (short: GS) looks totally senseless to me. There is not much you can do with it, it reminds me a bit on a mix of the Windows Start button and the Exposé from Macos X. Or add Novells &#8220;great&#8221; idea of a new Windows XP like menu.</p>
<p>It make me a bit angry to see intelligent people put together so much crap &#8211; overloaded menus, lists of applications or lists of recent documents. And then add to all this some animated smooth switching, which eats up some working time.</p>
<p>I am not at all impressed of GS. The opposit. i dnt get the point where it helps me. Similar thought as with GNOME DO. I always used Alt+F2 if I wanted to quick start an application without the terminal. I am not against making that kond of starter better &#8211; or if you add that somehow also in the panel. But the gnome shell adds a lot of things to the screen which I never used.</p>
<p>Has starting an application ever been a problem to one of you? Or opening a file? Or moving windows between workspaces?</p>
<p>Maybe I am noit the typical user, but when it comes to what I do often I could not comprehend this to one document or one application. I will try to compile what is important from my viewpoint:</p>
<ol>
<li>Integration of applications. So like lets assume GNOME is a desktop &#8211; I dont want to waste my time knowing about applications. I expect the desktop to know which applications to know for what I plan to do. This is also true for actions like attaching files to mails or saving attachments  (which is a real pain)</li>
<li>I do get messages. And I like the desktop to save and sort them from me and allow me to manage them, copy them, add notes to them, move them from one application to the other (add a link from jabber to my bookmarks or to a mail) Messages for me are 
<ul>
<li>Emails, Jabber-Messages, forum posts, RSS Feeds</li>
<li>System Messages, Application Messages</li>
<li>System protocols,&#8230;</li>
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</li>
<li>What is a task? This is like visitting a website or checking my mail, or sending a mail &#8211; or working on some documents. There are documents that I do read often and some I only write once &#8211; and others I need ot send often. There is no such thing as &#8220;Recent Documentes&#8221;. What is this? Recently read, recently written or recently sent? Like you have a protocol that you want to send to a bunch of people.</li>
<li>Another problem is finding documents. This is a problem of the place or also the keyword. It would be necessary to be able to tag documents or even categorize them -  making the location secondary. Do I need to know where a document is saved? No &#8211; I can leave it to the system where a document resided. What I need is to find it, when I need it. Beagle a s a desktop search also needs some functionality &#8211; but sure its as well important to find bookmarks and contents of web pages. Sometimes I need to find a web page where I have read some stuff. Integrating a web based search might help &#8211; but my desktop needs to save some search results as I dont want to use Google or Yahoo more than needed.</li>
<li>Essentially there is Reading, Writing/Editing , Receiving, Sending of documents and messages. My take on this is, that with the classical object oriented model put into place into a desktop this would be a great thing. If you ask me why I would not have that much of an idea &#8211; I really think we do not start with a new GUI. What we would want is a combined effort to redefine the underlying structure and to work out new models of interaction between applications. And we would also need some serious applications which allow navigation into their functions from outside. I mean it must be possible to start an office application with the exact task that I am planing to do. It cant be the way that you start an appication and then need to find out yourself. The desktop should provide an interface to do what you want &#8211; and the applications should be the working horses. Right now applications like Firefox or OpenOffice.org are dominating everything and you need to do everything inside of them.</li>
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<p>I dont think we will see such things from classical desktops. The GNOME shell is nothing new &#8211; its because people still think in the same categories. If GS is what GNOME 3.0 (Topaz) will be I sure will leave GNOME behind.</p>
<p>I have see that Windows XP now sells a tabbed interface as their own invention. Bravo GNOME &#8211; leave it to Microsoft to integrate that. I am sure now GNOME will try to copy &#8211; because before nobody at GNOME really cared to make applications ready for tabbed interfaces. I have used some tabbed window managers in the past and found the whole idea great &#8211; just that I dod not want to switch to tabbed only &#8211; and did not want to configure those managers by hand. Regards to Microsoft who just did, what GNOME thought was too innovative for their users. When MS does it, or Apple GNOME follows, but never leads the way. Just my impression. I still love my current interface because it remindes me still (but less and less) of my old Mac OS 7.x interface. I hat that they removed the application switcher applet at the default place on the right side of the panel (just where it was in the Mac Finder). Now what is dominant is that I need to shut down the computer, switch users or change my status. I really do all those things not more than 1-2 times a day &#8211; so I have removed Ubuntus &#8220;great&#8221; FUSA (fast user switch applet). And I constantly ask myself why all the things I need are removed while at the same time more and ore crap is added.</p>
<p>Sorry for not sounding nice. You see I have not written a lot of stuff in this blog for a while. I have watched things develop and have written more  in german in other blogs about other stuff.</p>
<p>I am in the mood to switch to a distribution with  a clean layout &#8211; that does not do experiments (hey, where did they dump the whole default desktop search thing?) other than Ubuntu. I need a work environment right now. Fedora is trying to be innovative too &#8211; there is currently no distributions which tries to bring you the best of open source on a stable basis. Maybe there is some Ubuntu clone I havent tried yet? I am ok if a distribution adds some innovative new desktop as an option and allows me to test it. But what I hate is when GNOME and Ubuntu make experiments and use us users as a testbed.</p>
<p>And I would love to have a defauilt mail program based on GNOME which does not such. Currently Evolutions sucks big time. Its absolutely unusable &#8211; I am currently using Thunderbird 3 beta4 and its really, really nice. Why does Ubuntu continue to suggest Evolution as the default option? At the same time I currently do not use Epiphany instead of Firefox because I always had some stability issues in the Ubuntu packages &#8211; and I was waiting for Epiphany-Webkit becoming ready. Currently that did not work out for me and I also found out that Firefox was not a second slower than Epiphany.</p>
<p>I still think Epi is the cooles browser, but it lacks integration and support from GNOME, same is still true for Gnumeric and Abiword. Some days ago I witnessed how Gnumeric taking just a few seconds opening a 1.5 MB Excel file, while OO.orgs calc took 4 minutes.</p>
<p>There is so much good in GNOME, but thinks do not work out well. Other applications do get more money and attention and now get more ahead of GNOMEs applications. There comes the day where OO.orgs Calc will open that file faster than Gnumeric. And then having GNOME not supporting Gnumeric because of it lacks behind OO.org will become the self fulfilling prophecy.</p>
<p>What I would like to see is a new GNOME initiative outside the old GNOME community but which like to bring money and attention back to all the good GNOME stuff &#8211; and not running after some mobile devices and the newest hype.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[L'ottimizzazione con Gnumeric]]></title>
<link>http://andyspiros.wordpress.com/2009/07/25/ottimizzazione-con-gnumeric/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>andyspiros</dc:creator>
<guid>http://andyspiros.wordpress.com/2009/07/25/ottimizzazione-con-gnumeric/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Si può fare - meglio - anche con Gnumeric Avevo anticipato sfuggevolmente che ne avrei riparlato. Ed]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><div id="attachment_126" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 727px"><a href="http://andyspiros.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/gnumeric_1.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-126" title="Gnumeric_1" src="http://andyspiros.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/gnumeric_1.png" alt="Si può fare - meglio - anche con Gnumeric" width="717" height="498" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Si può fare - meglio - anche con Gnumeric</p></div>
<p>Avevo anticipato sfuggevolmente che ne avrei riparlato. Ed effettivamente ne vale assolutamente la pena. Nell&#8217;articolo sull&#8217;ottimizzazione con Openoffice avevo citato le lacune del risolutore che ne precludevano l&#8217;uso per scopi professionali. Ebbene Gnumeric, contro le mie aspettative, si dimostra uno strumento molto avanzato per problemi di ottimizzazione lineari o quadratici. A dir la verità comprende tutta una serie di strumenti per l&#8217;analisi statistica o per numerica di cui non ero a conoscenza; esiste persino uno strumento per l&#8217;analisi di Fourier!</p>
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<div id="attachment_127" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 158px"><a href="http://andyspiros.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/gnumeric_2.png"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-127" title="Gnumeric_2" src="http://andyspiros.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/gnumeric_2.png?w=148" alt="L'impostazione del problema" width="148" height="150" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">L&#39;impostazione</p></div>
<p>L&#8217;impostazione del problema rispecchia, come già detto <a href="http://andyspiros.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/ottimizzazione-lineare-su-openoffice-org/" target="_blank">nel caso di Openoffice</a>, ciò che noi ci aspetteremmo da un&#8217;impostazione di ottimizzazione e non da come il programma se lo aspetta; i riferimenti a Gnumeric verranno dati in un secondo momento. In questo caso ho optato per un uso dello spazio forse un po&#8217; più razionale ed ho aggiunto la numerazione delle condizioni in grigio sulla sinistra di esse e l&#8217;informazione sulla loro veridicità sulla destra. Per la precisione le condizioni occupano le righe 2-8, pertanto le celle C2:8 dovranno avere un contenuto minore di quello delle celle E2:8.</p>
<p>A questo punto si può aprire il <em>Risolutore</em> dal menu <em>Strumenti</em>. L&#8217;interfaccia del risolutore è più semplice e razionale rispetto all&#8217;equivalente di Openoffice, nonostante le possibilità di quello di Gnumeric siano maggiori.</p>
<div id="attachment_128" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://andyspiros.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/gnumeric_3.png"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-128" title="Gnumeric_3" src="http://andyspiros.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/gnumeric_3.png?w=150" alt="Scheda parametri" width="150" height="97" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Scheda parametri</p></div>
<p>Nella prima scheda, <em>Parametri</em>, dobbiamo specificare quale casella contiene il valore della funzione obiettivo (che dev&#8217;essere automaticamente aggiornata quando vengono cambiati i valori delle variabili); inoltre dobbiamo indicare quali celle contenono le variabili.</p>
<p>La scheda <em>Modello</em> consente di specificare se si tratta di un problema di massimo o di minimo; non esiste qui la scelta in realtà un po&#8217; discutibile, dell&#8217;avvicinamento ad un valore dato che invece esisteva in Openoffice. Si può inoltre scegliere il tipo di algoritmo tra il Simplex normale e il Redivised Simplex. Si può anche scegliere, invece di un problema lineare, un problema quadratico, ma non appena ci si clicca sopra compare una simpatica finestella &#8220;pubblicitaria&#8221;:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>In cerca di un buon argomento per la tua tesi? Che ne pensi di scrivere un risolutore quadratico per Gnumeric?</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Devo ammettere che l&#8217;idea mi alletta un po&#8217;&#8230;</p>
<div id="attachment_129" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://andyspiros.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/gnumeric_4.png"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-129" title="Gnumeric_4" src="http://andyspiros.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/gnumeric_4.png?w=150" alt="Scheda vincoli" width="150" height="137" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Scheda vincoli</p></div>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Passiamo oltre: la scheda <em>vincoli</em> permette di decidere le condizioni da rispettare. E qui, nulla di più comodo: se infatti si è scelto un modello come il mio in cui tutte le condizioni sono perfettamente allineate una sotto l&#8217;altra e tutti i segni sono orientati dalla stessa parte (tutti ≤, oppure tutti ≥), si può tranquillamente impostare, come ho fatto io:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">C2:C8 ≤ E2:E8</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Il programma capirà che si tratta di sette vincoli differenti. Si può inoltre decidere di avere un vincolo che imponga ad una cella di avere un valore intero oppure che imponga ad una cella di avere un contenuto booleano uguale a <em>TRUE</em>.</p>
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<div id="attachment_130" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://andyspiros.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/gnumeric_5.png"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-130" title="Gnumeric_5" src="http://andyspiros.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/gnumeric_5.png?w=150" alt="Scheda rapporti" width="150" height="137" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Scheda rapporti</p></div>
<p style="text-align:justify;">La scheda <em>Opzioni</em> permette di specificare alcuni parametri del programma, come le iterazioni massime o il tempo massimo impiegato.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">La scheda <em>Rapporti</em>, invece, è la più interessante: permette di scegliere quali rapporti si vuole che il programma generi una volta trovata la soluzione ottimale. I rapporti disponibili sono i seguenti:</p>
<ul>
<li><em>Valori</em>: riassume i valori delle variabili indipendenti nonché dei vincoli specificando inoltre quali condizioni sono effettivamente vincolanti (vedi prima figura sotto);</li>
<li><em>Sensibilità</em>: rapporto completo sulla sensibilità, sia delle variabili indipendenti, sia dei vincoli; vengono utilizzati i <em>costi ridotti</em> e i <em>prezzi ombra</em>, nonché gli incrementi e i decrementi consentiti (vedi seconda figura sotto);</li>
<li><em>Limiti</em>: quanto può salire o scendere il valore di una variabile facendo rimanere valide le condizioni specificate;</li>
<li><em>Prestazioni</em>: dati sul numero di iterazioni, sull&#8217;uso della CPU del tempo utilizzato e informazioni sul sistema;</li>
<li><em>Programma</em>: riformula l&#8217;intero problema.</li>
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<div id="attachment_131" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 727px"><a href="http://andyspiros.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/gnumeric_7.png"><img class="size-large wp-image-131" title="Gnumeric_7" src="http://andyspiros.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/gnumeric_7.png?w=1024" alt="Rapporto valori" width="717" height="448" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Rapporto valori</p></div>
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<title><![CDATA[¿Como armar un escritorio bajo en consumo?]]></title>
<link>http://tuxwarrior.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/%c2%bfcomo-armar-un-escritorio-bajo-en-consumo/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 23:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>tuxwarrior</dc:creator>
<guid>http://tuxwarrior.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/%c2%bfcomo-armar-un-escritorio-bajo-en-consumo/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Esto me lo he preguntado ya muchas veces y por muchas razones (la mayor es que soy un #tacaño de ram]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Esto me lo he preguntado ya muchas veces y por muchas razones (la mayor es que soy un #tacaño de ram :p), por eso un dia me puse a crear lo que me imagino que sera el mejor balance entre usabilidad (no se necesita ser tan taliban para hacer algo funcionar) y consumo.</p>
<p>Ingredientes:</p>
<p>-Una pc</p>
<p>-Internet o los CDs/DVDs de nuestra distro (si es posible la ultima versión)</p>
<p>-Una mesa (opcional, nos servirá para agarrar a patadas cuando algo no funcione)</p>
<p>Ok empezamos:</p>
<p>Primero hay que instalar el sistema sin entorno gráfico (publico en silencio como si hubieran descabezado un perro)&#8230;</p>
<p>Se hace esto por que la mayoría de las distribuciones orientadas a usuario final instalan un entorno por defecto (gnome o kde, openoffice, firefox, thunderbird, etc.) que suele ser algo pesado y que va pensado para que la mayoría de los usuarios no les cueste mucho utilizarlo, esto es la pauta que se usa para medir los &#8220;requerimientos minimos&#8221; de instalación de las distros.</p>
<p>Bueno en debian para instalar sin modo grafico se debe desmarcar la opción &#8220;Entorno de escritorio&#8221; que aparece despues del particionado:</p>
<div id="attachment_194" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://tuxwarrior.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/tasksel.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-194" title="tasksel" src="http://tuxwarrior.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/tasksel.jpg?w=150" alt="Tasksel sistema automatico de instalación" width="150" height="84" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Tasksel sistema automatico de instalación</p></div>
<p>En ubuntu se debe instalar el sistema con el instalador alternativo que no trae un live-cd, en otras distribuciones basadas en redhat y suse hay un paso similar al tasksel, otros como gentoo y slackware no tienen este problema.</p>
<p>Luego una ves estamos en el prompt de bash pasamos a modo de super usuario e instalamos un entorno gráfico que gasta menos recursos.</p>
<p>Las alternativas son:</p>
<p>-gnome-core: solo el entorno sin los plugins ni los extras, nos gasta menos pero no es un gran cambio</p>
<p>-xfce4: Es menos tragón que gnome y muy usable, esto nos ayudará</p>
<p>-lxde: me decidi por este ya que es mucho menor en consumo que xfce y no incluye tantas herramientas innecesarias</p>
<p>-Un gestor de ventanas: este solo para los que no les importe pasar horas tuneando un escritorio</p>
<p>Para instalar LXDE:</p>
<p><em>apt-get install xorg lxde gdm</em></p>
<p>Ahi puse GDM pero podemos usar XDM (muy feo, para esa gracia mejor startx XD) y una nueva alternativa que se llama SLIM.</p>
<p>Eso de apt funciona en debian y ubuntu, en otras usen su respectivo gestor de paquetes (zypper,YUM, urpmi, emerge, pacman,etc.), ahora que instalamos LXDE podemos iniciar nuestra sesion gráfica que se verá asi:</p>
<div id="attachment_195" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://tuxwarrior.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/desktop_full-preview.png"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-195" title="desktop_full.preview" src="http://tuxwarrior.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/desktop_full-preview.png?w=150" alt="LXDE crudo" width="150" height="112" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">LXDE crudo</p></div>
<p>Bueno ya tenemos un escritorio que en promedio nos gastara entre 60 y 100 M en ram pero o hay nada mas :p, ahora empezamos a instalar los componentes:</p>
<p>-Oficina:</p>
<p>Openoffice 3 es muy bueno y muy poderoso, yyyy tambien es muy pesado :p asi que debemos buscar algo que nos pueda ayudar a trabajar sin openoffice, lo mejor es optar por koffice o gnomeoffice, los componentes de gnomeoffice se pueden instalar solos, asi que solo con instalar abiword y gnumeric tenemos ya lo esencial.</p>
<p><em>apt-get install abiword gnumeric</em></p>
<p>-Web</p>
<p>Firefox es el mejor navegador web pero no es el mas ligero (antes de la version 2 si lo era) tenemos un par de alternativas que funcionan con el motor de renderizado webkit, uno es ya conocido el navegador por defecto de gnome epiphany-browser, pues hay una versión que utiliza webkit en lugar del pesado gecko llamada epiphany-webkit.</p>
<p>También extiste un navegador en desarrollo llamado arora que utiliza webkit para sus páginas.</p>
<p>Instalación:</p>
<p><em>apt-get install epiphany-webkit </em></p>
<p>o</p>
<p><em>apt-get install arora</em></p>
<div id="attachment_200" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://tuxwarrior.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/epiphanywebkitacid3.png"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-200" title="epiphanywebkitacid3" src="http://tuxwarrior.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/epiphanywebkitacid3.png?w=150" alt="Epiphany webkit" width="150" height="123" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Epiphany webkit</p></div>
<div id="attachment_201" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://tuxwarrior.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/acid3.png"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-201" title="acid3" src="http://tuxwarrior.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/acid3.png?w=150" alt="Arora" width="150" height="139" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Arora</p></div>
<p>-Correo</p>
<p>Para correo a menos que quieran pasar horas configurando un cliente de correo en modo consola hay una solución que cubre todas las expectativas y además gasta muy poca ram/CPU, se llama Claws-mail, un cliente de correos modular que podemos configurar con igual facilidad que thunderbird o evolution sin el enorme gasto de recursos.</p>
<p>Instalar:</p>
<p><em>apt-get install claws-mail claws-mail-plugins</em></p>
<p>Set up sencillo con gmail:</p>
<p>Primero veran la pantalla de bienvenida del asistente de cuentas, les preguntara por el nombre y la cuenta de correo, para POP3 usen estas instrucciones para llenar lo que pide el asistente:</p>
<p><a title="Gmail POP" href="http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13287">http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13287</a></p>
<p>Y para IMAP:</p>
<p><a title="Gmail IMAP" href="http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78799">http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78799</a></p>
<p>Ven en las instrucciones que ponen dirección:puerto?, pues veran tambien que al poner los parámetros de esa manera en claws-mail les dara error ya que en la especificación del servidor solo acepta su URL, pues pongan solo la URL en el campo y marquen las opciones &#8220;Usar SSL y Usar STARTTLS para iniciar sesión&#8221; ya que los puertos que usa Gmail son los usados por estos protocolos.</p>
<p>Si usan otra cuenta que no sea de Gmail usen los parámetros que les proporciona el ISP o el servidor de correos.</p>
<p>-Emulador de Terminal:</p>
<p>Hay muchas que son ligeras y veloces la LXterminal funciona bien (algunas aplicaciones de consola no se ven como yo quiero con ella :p) pero si no es lo que buscan o quieren una mas configurable se puede usar Eterm, Wterm, Xterm (es buena y casi siempre viene con Xorg), pero la que mejor se ha comportado una ves configurada es RXVT-Unicode, ligera y veloz, ademas permite transparencia y tabs.</p>
<p>instalar:</p>
<p><em>apt-get install rxvt-unicode</em></p>
<p>configuración:</p>
<p><a title="URXVT Leprosys" href="http://www.leprosys.info/2008/12/configurando-la-terminal-urxvt.html">http://www.leprosys.info/2008/12/configurando-la-terminal-urxvt.html</a></p>
<p>-Música:</p>
<p>Mi preferencia aunque no sea la de muchos es MOC (music on console), un cliente multimedia hecho en ncurses que utiliza menus en consola para escuchar carpetas completas y playlists, soporta los formatos de siempre: ogg, mp3, wma, wav.</p>
<p>instalar:</p>
<p><em>apt-get install moc</em></p>
<p>Ejecutar:</p>
<p><em>usuario@maquina:~/ $ mocp</em></p>
<div id="attachment_202" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://tuxwarrior.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/moc-2-4-preview.png"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-202" title="moc-2.4.preview" src="http://tuxwarrior.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/moc-2-4-preview.png?w=150" alt="MOC en acción" width="150" height="104" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">MOC en acción</p></div>
<p>Video:</p>
<p>Mplayer servira para este trabajo :p tanto en GUI como en consola usa poca memoria a comparación de programas como totem o kaffeine aunque el gasto de recursos de mplayer depende de lo que se este reproduciendo.</p>
<p>instalar:</p>
<p><em>apt-get install mplayer</em></p>
<p><em>&#8211;</em></p>
<p>Con esto debería ser suficiente para una maquina que necesite gastar poco para su funcionamiento (ej: una netbook) o que la pobre maquina tenga un dueño &#8220;tacaño de recursos XD&#8221; (/me), asimismo como la gente que les gustan los entornos minimalistas sin perder nada de usabilidad, aqui me centre en debian pero esto es funcional enla mayoría de las distribuciones, espero comentarios y sugerencias para mover o profundizar sobre los que se ha puesto aqui.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Word processing for Linux: not perfect yet]]></title>
<link>http://strehl.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/word-processing-for-linux-not-perfect-yet/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>strehl</dc:creator>
<guid>http://strehl.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/word-processing-for-linux-not-perfect-yet/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Um dos problemas para nós que usamos Linux é a questão dos processadores de texto. Open office é pad]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Um dos problemas para nós que usamos <a href="http://www.debian.org/">Linux</a> é a questão dos processadores de texto. <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/" target="_blank">Open office</a> é padrão, mas pode ser considerado pesado para máquinas mais antigas. Máquinas que se dão melhor com <a href="http://www1.appstate.edu/~clarkne/hatemicro.html">Word for Windows 97</a>, por exemplo&#8230; Mas não só! Há o <a href="http://www.abisource.com/" target="_blank">Abiword</a>, há o <a href="http://www.koffice.org/">K-Office</a>, excelentes opções para Linux. Eu, particularmente, gosto muito do Abiword. Mas, com tantas opções, onde está o problema? Bem, o problema é que Open-Office salva bem em odt e doc, Abiword salva bem em abw e doc, e K-Office salva bem em seu formato (não me lembro) e doc. Ou seja, o denominador comum é o formato nativo do <a href="http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS_1.html" target="_blank">MS-Word</a>. Já tentei abrir odt em K-Office e Abiword, e tive problemas, por exemplo. Felizmente, não há este problema entre Gnumeric e ods.</p>
<p><strong>English version</strong>. In my opinion, a drawback for linuxers is the word processor software. Open office has been regarded the standard word processor for linux, but it requires lots of processing and memory resources from old machines. For instance, <a href="http://www1.appstate.edu/~clarkne/hatemicro.html">Ms-Word 97</a> runs well on these machines&#8230; However, there are some other lighter options for Linux, such as Abiword, K-Office and so on. Particularly, I like Abiword a lot. But, with all these options, where is the problem? The problem is that when you use Open-Office you can save the file as odt and doc, when you use Abiword you can save as abw and doc, and when you use K-Office you can save as K-Office format and doc. Indeed, the only file format accepted by these three softwares is doc (and rtf). Once I tried to open an odt file with K-Office and it did not work. The same happened with Abiword. Fortunately, there is no such problem between Gnumeric and ods. (sorry for my poor English)</p>
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<title><![CDATA[[Updated] Gnumeric Portable 1.9.1]]></title>
<link>http://theguvnor.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/updated-gnumeric-portable-191/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Felix</dc:creator>
<guid>http://theguvnor.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/updated-gnumeric-portable-191/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Version: 1.9.1 License: Open Source Description: Gnumeric Portable is a spreadsheet that supports al]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[[New] Gnumeric Portable 1.7.10]]></title>
<link>http://theguvnor.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/new-gnumeric-portable-1710/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Felix</dc:creator>
<guid>http://theguvnor.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/new-gnumeric-portable-1710/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Version: 1.7.10 License: Open Source Description: Gnumeric Portable is a spreadsheet that supports a]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Uninstall OpenOffice.org]]></title>
<link>http://the1337n00b.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/how-to-uninstall-openofficeorg/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bulletprooflama</dc:creator>
<guid>http://the1337n00b.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/how-to-uninstall-openofficeorg/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Why would I do that, you ask? Because of Abiword and Gnumeric. Abiword is a word-processor and Gnume]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Why would I do that, you ask? Because of Abiword and Gnumeric. Abiword is a word-processor and Gnumeric is a spreadsheet and they&#8217;re both far superior to OpenOffice.org&#8217;s offerings. Now if you do presentations regularly, then this is not for you, but if you don&#8217;t you have no excuse. This frees up 200 MB on your hard drive, as well as bringing the added benefits of less memory usage and faster app start up times.</p>
<p>First, we have to uninstall OpenOffice.org. The best way to do this is to type this command into the Terminal (Applications&#62;Accesories&#62;Terminal):</p>
<p><code>sudo apt-get remove openoffice*</code></p>
<p>The &#8220;sudo apt-get remove&#8221; part of the code is the generic code to uninstall any program. &#8220;openoffice*&#8221; Means that any packages that start with &#8220;openoffice&#8221; should be targeted by the command.</p>
<p>And to install abiword and gnumeric:</p>
<p><code>sudo apt-get install abiword</code></p>
<p>and then</p>
<p><code>sudo apt-get install gnumeric</code></p>
<p>And Voila!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[LapisLinux ve Favorilerim]]></title>
<link>http://eribol.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/lapislinux-ve-favorilerim/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>eribol</dc:creator>
<guid>http://eribol.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/lapislinux-ve-favorilerim/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Dün itibariyle compiz-fusion&#8216;un son sürümünü denemeye aldım. Çok şükür sorunsuzca derlendi. Ge]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Linux: i programmi che bisogna assolutamente installare]]></title>
<link>http://olatitant.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/linux-i-programmi-che-bisogna-assolutamente-installare/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>olatitant</dc:creator>
<guid>http://olatitant.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/linux-i-programmi-che-bisogna-assolutamente-installare/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Oggi voglio aprire un post sui programmi basilari che si ritengono indispensabili sul pinguino. Pers]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><img class="alignright" style="float:right;margin:5px 12px;" src="http://www.marcopingitore.it/temp/images/linux.jpg" alt="" width="207" height="154" />Oggi voglio aprire un post sui programmi basilari che si ritengono indispensabili sul pinguino. Personalmente penso che non si possa assolutamente fare a meno dei seguenti:</p>
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<li>suite d&#8217;ufficio: <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openoffice.org" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>OpenOffice</strong></span></a>, <a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">GNumeric</span></strong></a> (bel software, a volte m&#8217;è parso anche più compatibile con Excel)</li>
<li>lettore (magari anche editor) pdf: <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPDF" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Kpdf</strong></span></a> tutta la vita</li>
<li>masterizzazione: più <a class="zem_slink" title="GnomeBaker" rel="homepage" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnomebaker" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>GnomeBaker</strong></span></a>, con <a class="zem_slink" title="Brasero (software)" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/brasero/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Brasero</strong></span><strong></strong></a> a volte ho avuto problemi</li>
<li>gestore torrent: <a href="http://deluge-torrent.org/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Deluge</strong></span></a> tutta la vita</li>
<li>visualizzatore di immagini: <a class="zem_slink" title="GThumb" rel="homepage" href="http://gthumb.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>gThumb</strong></span><strong></strong></a> in genere va più che bene</li>
<li>lettore multimediale: <a class="zem_slink" title="Kaffeine" rel="homepage" href="http://kaffeine.kde.org" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Kaffeine</strong></span><strong></strong></a> è bellissimo, <a class="zem_slink" title="VLC media player" rel="homepage" href="http://www.videolan.org/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>VLC</strong></span><strong></strong></a> quando hai bisogno di aprire stream di rete,MPlayer per le emergenze, <a class="zem_slink" title="Totem (media player)" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/totem/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Totem</strong></span><strong></strong></a> per la maggior parte dei casi va più che bene</li>
<li>network manager: ASSOLUTAMENTE OBBLIGATORIO: <a class="zem_slink" title="Web Integration Compound Document" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Integration_Compound_Document" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>WICD</strong></span><strong></strong></a> al posto di network manager di Gnome&#8230; è mille volte meglio (senza scherzare)</li>
<li>mail reader: <a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Evolution</strong></span></a>, <a href="http://olatitant.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/tra-client-e-server-di-posta-elettronica-freepops/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>freepops</strong></span><strong></strong></a> (demone indispensabile per i pop su molti domini)</li>
<li>programmazione: <a title="KDevelop" rel="homepage" href="http://kdevelop.org/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">KDevelop</span></strong></a> è molto molto bello (mi piace più di <a class="zem_slink" title="Anjuta" rel="homepage" href="http://anjuta.org/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Anjuta</span></strong></a> per Gnome), Eclipse</li>
<li>lettura file immagini: <a title="KDevelop" rel="homepage" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AcetoneISO" target="_blank"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Acetone</span></strong></a> (ottimo clone di Daemon Tools per Linux)
<p style="text-align:justify;">Se vi ricordate qualche altra applicazione che potete consigliarmi perché l&#8217;avete trovato comoda, citatela.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Ubuntu with Xfce (Xubuntu)]]></title>
<link>http://lilserenity.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/ubuntu-with-xfce-xubuntu/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lilserenity</dc:creator>
<guid>http://lilserenity.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/ubuntu-with-xfce-xubuntu/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[After some experimentation with Zenwalk 5.0 I was very impressed with the distribution. The only pro]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>After some experimentation with Zenwalk 5.0 I was very impressed with the distribution. The only problem is that I am on Ubuntu and to migrate everything right away would be a problem. However I have seen some of the benefits of using Xfce and other applications in my experimentation with Zenwalk and/or Xfce.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t have a particularly &#8216;bad&#8217; notebook specification: Pentium M 1.5GHz (Banias), 1GB RAM and a 160GB hard disk. Ok it&#8217;s a five year old laptop but actually it&#8217;s very good in terms of speed. (Seriously &#8212; you do not need a dual processor to word process!) So it runs Gnome and KDE fine; but I really have fallen for Xfce and I&#8217;m not exactly sure why but it just works very well and my laptop now works a lot faster.</p>
<p>As such I have switched my Ubuntu 7.10 install to use Xfce (a bit like using Xubuntu in a way!) as the desktop system.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve also got rid of network-manager which whilst nice looking, is a horrendously buggy and problematic application in a few instances with Wicd. Wicd configures both wired and wireless connections but does so very well. Since switching to Wicd I have had <b>no problems</b> with reconnecting using the wireless interface after a suspend/hibernate cycle like I frequently encountered on Network Manager.  This is remarkable considering that the Intel Pro Wireless 2100B whilst a weak card in reality, I found it to be utterly useless on Windows but now on Linux it works as good as any other wireless card I have used.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve also been using Abiword and Gnumeric a bit more, not all the time as OpenOffice.org is seriously good in most respects.</p>
<p align="center"> <a href="http://lilserenity.wordpress.com/files/2008/02/screenshot.png" title="Ubuntu with Xfce"><img src="http://lilserenity.wordpress.com/files/2008/02/screenshot.thumbnail.png" alt="Ubuntu with Xfce" /></a></p>
<p>Finally, it&#8217;s pretty attractive as far as user interfaces go.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Puppy Linux : Portable USB Linux]]></title>
<link>http://geeketto.com/2007/10/05/puppy-linux-portable-usb-linux/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>geeketto</dc:creator>
<guid>http://geeketto.com/2007/10/05/puppy-linux-portable-usb-linux/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[E’ stata rilasciata la release 3 di Puppy Linux, mini distribuzione Linux Slackware compatibile e da]]></description>
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<p>E’ stata rilasciata la release 3 di Puppy Linux, mini distribuzione Linux Slackware compatibile e dal peso di appena 97MB con tempi di caricamento a dir poco eccezionali. Grazie alla compatibilità con Slackware , sarà possibile installare in Puppy pacchetti compatibili con questa distribuzione. Grazie alla sua ridotta dimensione, può essere facilmente installata su un CD-Rom bootable o una chiavetta USB. La distribuzione integra un desktop environment con la suite Mozilla Application, AbiWord, Sodipodi, Gnumeric, e Gxine/xine.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://puppylinux.org/user/downloads.php?cat_id=1&#38;download_id=60">Link per il download</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Using Spreadsheets to Create LaTeX Tables]]></title>
<link>http://librecono.wordpress.com/2006/12/27/using-spreadsheets-to-create-latex-tables/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>librecono</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Creating tables in LaTeX may become quite difficult and cumbersome, especially for big tables and ta]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Creating tables in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX" title="LaTeX on wikipedia">LaTeX</a>  may become quite difficult and cumbersome, especially for big tables and tables that have a more complicated structure. A spreadsheet can come in handy at this point. Indeed, there are tools that can translate spreadsheet tables into LaTeX code. Thus you can create the table in a nearly <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWIG" title="What You See Is What You Get">WYSIWIG</a> way and collect the LaTeX code at the end of the day. Here are three ways to create LaTeX tables by using a spreadsheet.</p>
<h3>Gnumeric</h3>
<p>In <a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/" title="Gnumeric Homepage">Gnumeric</a>, a table can directly be saved in LaTeX format (.tex). This option is availabe under the &#8220;File -&#62; Save As&#8221; Menu. There are two possibilities. First, you can save it as a standalone LaTeX document. With this option, the table&#8217;s formatting is preserved (bold text, merged cells, &#8230;). Second you can save the file as a &#8220;table fragment&#8221;. This gives only minimal LaTeX code to be insetrted into a &#8220;tabular&#8221; environment. If you decide to go this way, you will loose all the formatting you may have applied in Gnumeric.</p>
<h3>OpenOffice.org Calc</h3>
<p>As opposed to Gnumeric, there is no &#8220;Save As LaTeX&#8221; option in <a href="http://www.openoffice.org" title="ooo">OpenOffice.org</a> <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/calc.html" title="ooo calc">Calc</a>. However, there is a macro, <a href="http://calc2latex.sourceforge.net/" title="Calc2LaTeX Homepage">Calc2LaTeX</a>, that allows to convert a table into LaTeX code. The code can be copied to the clipboard or can be written into anew file. Calc2LaTeX preserves the formatting and makes available a dialogue box to customize the outputted LaTeX code. Installation and usage instructions can be found on the Calc2LaTeX homepage.</p>
<h3>Microsoft Excel</h3>
<p>If you are using MS Excel, you may be interested in the <a href="http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml#excel2latex">Excel2LaTeX</a> macro. It is quite similar to Calc2LaTeX, but less universal, as it is a &#8220;Microsoft only&#8221; solution &#8230;</p>
<h3>KSpread</h3>
<p>I am not aware if a similar tool exists in <a href="http://www.koffice.org/kspread/" title="Koffice">KSpread</a>, the spreadsheet appplication of <a href="http://www.koffice.org" title="KSpread">KOffice</a>. If you know more, just drop me a line.</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>/me starting the Gnumeric artwork: Icon, splash-screen and website.</p>
<p><a href='http://vdepizzol.wordpress.com/files/2006/12/gnumeric-more-changes2.png' title='Gnumeric icon'><img src='http://vdepizzol.wordpress.com/files/2006/12/gnumeric-more-changes2.png' alt='Gnumeric icon' /></a></p>
<p><a href='http://vdepizzol.wordpress.com/files/2006/12/gnumeric-splash-screen.png' title='Gnumeric splash-screen'><img src='http://vdepizzol.wordpress.com/files/2006/12/gnumeric-splash-screen.png' alt='Gnumeric splash-screen' /></a></p>
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