Komarix Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Hey I'm looking to get into tweaking Ubuntu. What are some good texts that I should pickup that are fairly cheap that will help me out? I'm experienced with C++ and Java so hopefully the syntax shouldn't be too bad heh. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T3hGamerDK Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 With "tweaking Ubuntu", do you mean starting up programming (since you mentioned C++ and Java) or just changing settings, visuals and things like that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supereater14 Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 well, learning bash and python scripting would be a good thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justapeon Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 If you are good at C++, you may love Mono on Unbuntu. Python is also big on Ubuntu. Lots of good free books out there. Too many potential legal hassels with qt and Mono for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komarix Posted February 9, 2011 Author Share Posted February 9, 2011 If you are good at C++, you may love Mono on Unbuntu. Python is also big on Ubuntu. Lots of good free books out there. Too many potential legal hassels with qt and Mono for me. I really don't know python too well but I am fairly good with java and C++. I'm really looking for books on bash and other ways to mess around with Ubuntu. Also I was reading about Blackbuntu and was wondering if that is a better learning distro of linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
commodo Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 When someone tells me about tweaking a Linux Distro/OS I always think about Gentoo, which is the mother of tweaking Linux. You may try to recompile your kernel with special compiler flags that enable the kernel to use special (and specific) features of the machine you're running it on. By default most distros don't make use of this because they try to cover as many architectures as possible, but even so, Linux is still faster than Windows when it comes to a lot of tasks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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