Who is Installing gbrainy?

While I was flicking through the metrics from installion.co.uk last night I was shocked by just how many hits the Debian and Ubuntu installation pages for gbrainy had had. It seems that from virtually out of nowhere a while back, an increasing number of people are trying to install it on a linux box and it made me wonder why.

The way I look at it there can only be two reasons:

1. It's just really good and so is spreading virally.
2. Everyone is being asked to install it by some educational or training body - maybe it's on some curriculum somewhere.

Having Goggled around and wasted more time than I really should have I came up with nothing except that Edubuntu comes with it installed (and surely schools are using that?)

Anyway, if you have any ideas then let me know. Meanwhile I'm just sitting here playingr gbrainy like the rest of them.

There's a neat article here. 

Fastest Way to Burn an ISO to a USB Flash Drive

If your using Linux:

Installing Git and Virtualenv on Linux or Mac

For Debian/Ubuntu Linux:

sudo apt-get install git python-setuptools

For Redhat/Fedora Linux:

sudo yum install git python-setuptools

For Mac:

Install MacPorts and then:

sudo port install git python-setuptools

Continuing on for all of the above

sudo easy_install pip
sudo pip install virtualenv virtualenvwrapper

Now, you may want to set some defaults in your ~/.bashrc. My relevant entries look like this:

export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/Projects
export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_HOOK_DIR=$HOME/.virtualenvs
export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_LOG_DIR=$HOME/.virtualenvs
source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

git config --global user.name "Terse Col"
git config --global user.email myemail@gmail.com
git config --global http.sslVerify false

Now away you go:

mkdir $HOME/.virtualenvs
source $HOME/.bashrc
mkvirtualenv mynewproject 
cdvirtualenv