Today let’s look at the following:

vi introduction
Upgrading to Alsa 1.0.20 on Ubuntu Jaunty
Quake Live to Support Linux

vi Introduction

Not all newbies know what vi is. vi happens to be a text editor in Linux and it’s available on the command line. This editor has modes and it could be quite confusing to those who are just starting out. But there are practical reasons for learning vi such as going mouse-less, editing files on a remote Linux machine, and chances are you need to know how to use vi and this will be tested when you take exams for …read more

So, yeah, thanks to Timelady I checked out the xkcd comic she was talking about. Some people would say that Emacs users are too fanatical about the text editor which has anything and everything but the kitchen sink. Though I prefer Emacs over other text editors it doesn’t mean that vi wouldn’t get any attention from me in this blog.
Things I remember the most about vi:

It is V-I. Yup. Two letters V and I. It’s not pronounced vi like the first syllable of the ‘visual’ though the name of the editor is derived from that.
There …read more