Category: Linux Nuxlin

Delete everything in a folder in the terminal~

I had this problem that I had an undeletable file – when I pressed “delete” or “rename”, it would say “file does not exist”
I got rid of one in the terminal, but the other had a “!” in the filename and so terminal thought it was some other command…

Delete everything in a folder in the terminal:

sudo rm -rf ~/Folder/*

`Warning – files deleted this way can’t be recovered.

Kubuntu Shared folder in Virtual Box Windows XP

If you want to have a shared folder linking you Kubuntu desktop to a virtual XP – click Settings -> Shared Folders (in Virtual Box pane)

fill in all the info for your folder you want to share,

then in Windows,

Run (command) -> type in “net use x: \\vboxsvr\Folder" (no quotes) where folder is a folder in your home directory.

This will mount your shared folder into Windows.

ubuntu-shared-folder-vbox

Adobe Creative Suite on Ubuntu Linux

One of the things that really bugs me about operating systems is that I want to use Ubuntu Linux, but I also want to use Adobe Creative Suite. Read my article about operating systems in general.

Here are some replacements that have been recommended:

Photoshop

http://gimp.org/

http://krita.org/

http://digikam.org/

http://rawtherapee.com/

http://darktable.org/

InDesign

http://scribus.net/canvas/Scribus

http://software.viva.de/english/products/vivadesigner/

 Illustrator

http://inkscape.org/

An old article I wrote on the topic

I was so happy to be using Ubuntu – everything was working out, it was so smooth and quick, but then just as everything was settling down, I was thrust back into the cold dark world of Windows.

It seemed that all around me from all directions I needed some Adobe Suite applications, InDesign for designing posters, flyers, a book, resume etc.etc. and some powerful video editing software, and photoshop’s powerful batch processing…

I wish Adobe would open its software to Ubuntu… Though they probably wouldn’t get much business… It’s silly to get an open operating system and then a huge paid application suite…

I’m comforted by the fact that I can use Chrome on Windows, and now that it’s behaving more like an operating system, I can forget that I’m using windows at all…

Since Chrome has the capabilities of using hardware exceleration, using the graphics/video card, it would be amazing if Google or someone else could make a Chrome app set that could replace Adobe applications…