Linux VTMs!!!!!!!

[martinco]

Hi Guys,

Having been around here for a few years now, the following thread got me thinking:

http://3dbuzz.com/vbforum/showthread.php?t=135512

Having waited around to see what people came up with, it seemed like a good plan was in order, but unfortunately not too much came as commitments came up and the project ground to a halt.

I finally had some time available on a long bank holiday weekend to sit down and pretty much use some of swoop and rshadow's plans, and move this forward a little bit. Again thanks must go out to these guys for giving me something to work off!

so far i have created just over 2 hours of Linux VTMs!

I've tried to keep everything and will continue to do so as cross distribution as i can - so if your using ubuntu/slacks/fedora you can still follow 99% of the things, with the exception of maybe the install of course!

EDIT: I would just like to reiterate just what i mentioned in the 1st VTM that it doesn't matter which distrobution you use, i am using RHEL 5, but Centos/Fedora/Ubuntu/Slackware/Debian will all work for probably over 90% of the VTM's i wish to make. You do not need to get a subscription, and can use any of the aforementioned items for free.

Please follow the link to get to a little download section:

http://www.hatchlane.com/blog/?p=8

The rest of my ideas are already in other blog posts on my site. Please feel free to post back here anything about them, good, bad and ugly, all criticism is more than welcome.

I can also be found in the 3dbuzz IRC in #3dbuzz and #linux

Cheers,
Martin

[mr_charisma]

Groovy, I'll check them out when I get home

[martinco]

Also...

I will get a libtheroa/Ogg vorbis encoded ones at some point too so that you should be able to just open them right up from most Linux Distros straight out of the box as it were!

Now i think its bed time!

[pokpo]

Thanks very much,

[EvilNando]

ill give it a try

[martinco]

Whooops!

In VTM 4 there is a slight mistake, which i will fix later.

For those who are watching it, the

find . -type f -iname 'file.*.ext'

will actually find all files in the current directory and ALL directories below - It will be recursive!

It will therefore in the example, any files called file.*.ext down the tree will be renamed to newfile. The only good thing however, is that it will be in the correct folder at least!

What you will actually want though is

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname 'file.*.ext'

This will only recurse to a depth of 1, in other words the current directory!

[Swoop]

Great collection of videos there my friend. Keep them comming as long as you have the time

[TF242]

As I am a complete Linux noob technically, (do now UNIX ) thanks Martin. Watched the installation vtm and I think one of my old desktops will be my testbed.

[Frankie V]

As someone who uses Windows considering using Linux I would be interested in seeing videos that demonstrated simple and basic comparisons and procedures between the two. For example how to install programs and hardware drivers.

[martinco]

Hi Guys, thank you for the comments.

Frankie V:

Yes, I do indent to do more about package management, installing programs and the like. I will show how to install shake, maya, etc, and also work out how to solve any issues you might have, such as dependencies (shake has some of these if you use the standard image) - its very much like a missing codec, so you just got to figure out what you need and then go get it and bobs your uncle. Nothing too scary!

The First installation vid is just a quick get started guide, and by no means comprehensive, As i said in the VTM, I do plan on a more in depth one later on.

A busy time is coming up, but i will hopefully write up a new vtm or 2 over the week and record on the weekend. Moving jobs in 2 weeks, and probably moving house in 4 should everything go well - but will try and keep these moving forward!

The 4th one so far is by far the most useful as far as i can really tell, its where we have started to get more hands on and get into the CLI in more detail and begin writing some scripts!

If you take a look over at the following post on my blog, you should see whats comming up:

http://www.hatchlane.com/blog/?p=5

4 and 5 were actually combined to create 5, but apart from that we shall see what happens

Cheers for the input guys,
Martin