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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
You can determine that from the Addons listing. I suspect it's EPUBReader |
Thanks Dennis. Yep the reader is EPUBReader. Lucifox sounds demonic.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I have Sigil here, and recommend it. Development has largely stopped, but what is there works. The Sigil foilks are pointing at Calibre now because Kovid is adding eBook editing features comparable to what Calibre does.
That's been discussed elsewhere, and isn't true. People have successfully created Mobi files in Calibre and uploaded to Amazon. Probably safest to use the Kindlegen app, but you can use Calibre.
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Yeah, I'll probably use Calibre's epub editor some day (when Sigil starts wigging). But for now I'm still a true-blue Sigil guy--I trust it.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Ubuntu also has gksudo, which does similar things from the GUI. If you try to do something that requires admin rights, it pops up the box asking for your password and gives you the required elevated permissions for the operation.
There's a flavor of Linux called Puppy Linux where you always run as root. Indeed, the ability to create and use non-root IDs has been removed.
It gets away with it because Puppy is explicitly a single-user system, intended for lower end hardware, and if you break something, you only shoot yourself in the foot. (And Puppy's design makes it relatively easy to recover if you do shoot yourself in the foot.) Having been an admin an machines that migh have a hundred or more users logged on and active at a time, the idea of always running as root gives me hives. I changed Ubuntu here to allow me to log on as root, but seldom do so. Easy enough to sudo when I need to, and I prefer to run as a normal user otherwise.
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Puppy. Love the name. Yeah, sudo works for me. And I'm finding more and more I don't really have much to do on the command line anyway.