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"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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<H1><font color="maroon">Linux Site O' The Month: Portico.org</font></H1>
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<H4>By <a href="mailto:slambo@linuxstart.com">Sean Lamb</a></H4>
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<H2>What's This?</H2>
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<P> This article is the the current installment in an ongoing series of site
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reviews for the Linux community. Each month, I will highlight a Linux-related
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site and tell you all about it. The intent of these articles is to let you
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know about sites that you might not have been to before, but they will all have
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to do with some aspect of Linux. Now, on with the story...
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<H2>Errata</H2>
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<P> Before I start into the LSOTM for this month, a reader of the premiere
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LSOTM wrote in a correction for last month's article. Linuxnewbie.org (LNO)
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does have a search engine, just one that isn't the most obvious to spot. When
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you are in the Discussion area, there is a Search link at the top of each of
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the pages that make up the bulletin board. This search is limited to the
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Discussion area, and is included as part of the Ultimate Bulletin Board
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software that powers the Discussion area. Thanks to Keith Johnson for the tip.
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<H2>Portico.org - "The source for Linux tips"</H2>
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<P> So you've got Linux installed and playing nice with all your hardware. The
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problem is that there are all these little things that are getting in the way
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of truly using Linux the way that you want to; little things like not being
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able to use the tab key to autocomplete the subject of a man query, or that you
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want to rename your current workspace in WindowMaker.
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<P> You could spend hours scouring countless HOWTOs, man pages, newsgroups and
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mailing lists, but try Portico first. While the number of tips and tricks here
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isn't overwhelming (yet!), there are enough there for it to be a useful
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resource. Each of the tips presented here is reduced to only as much
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information as is necessary to convey the tip, making reading and using the
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tips very easy.
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<P> The tips available on this site run the gamut of useful information and
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applications. The default page view shows the 15 most recently added tips on
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the start page. Each tip is categorized with a link to the tip's category,
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which will display the 15 most recently added tips for that category. You can
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also get a list of all the categories through the Categories link at the bottom
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of the page.
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<P> A nice feature of this page (albeit one that still needs a little refining)
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is the Random Tip link. At the bottom of each page is a Random link that will
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present one of the tips out of the database at random. This random tip feature
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is also available as a link that can be incorporated into other web pages at
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<A HREF=http://portico.org/random/>portico.org/random/</A> and
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<A HREF=http://portico.org/random/ascii.php3>portico.org/random/ascii.php3</A>.
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The first link will present the tip alone on a page that looks like Portico's
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main page, the second will present the tip as a plain text file. The only
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problem that I've found with this feature is that the randomizer isn't very
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random. When I tried these links, each of the three links presented exactly
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one tip regardless of how many times I clicked on them.
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<P> This site does have a search engine on each page. Searching on "vi", for
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example, produced 129 results, and searching on "kde" produced 1 result. At
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the time of this writing, there are 306 tips in Portico's database. But, the
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Add Tip link at the bottom of each page makes increasing this number relatively
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painless.
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<P> Portico may be a small site compared to other Linux sites, but the
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information is valuable. With more users adding tips and tricks, the site can
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only become more valuable.
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Copyright © 2000, Sean Lamb<BR>
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Published in Issue 49 of <i>Linux Gazette</i>, January 2000</H5>
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