Brightside is a little known package that allows you to launch custom commands when you put your mouse into various parts of the screen. This may be a little difficult to understand, but the screenshot shown below should help clarify quite a bit. Brightside is widely available in most repositories (apt-get install brightside) […]
If you’re unaware, “Man” is short for “manual” and is the help/usage file for pretty much all applications in Linux. Give man a try by typing the following into a terminal:
man firefox
Now for the most interesting part…I found the manual extremely difficult to exit. The “typical” CTRL+C command to exit the terminal application […]
When you first make the switch to the Linux environment you will be greeted by a fantastic photo editor known as The GIMP. When I first switched to Linux I didn’t do any research, I just dove head first, and The GIMP was a fantastic surprise I had never heard about. The GIMP […]
Bruno Linux has a list of over 200 articles designed to help the new Linux user migrate away from Windows and get comfortable with the Linux environment. The tips are categorized based on the following: the first things to know, the terminal/console, installing software, file system, configuring your system, fine tuning your system, […]
Arsgeek has a great tutorial on how to setup surround sound in Ubuntu using ALSA. The process is really simple and I will explain it below. Note: Surround sound can (obviously) only be used on computers with the hardware to support it.
Open a terminal and type the following:
gksudo gedit .asoundrc
After gedit opens, copy […]
Beryl has once again outdone itself. This update of Beryl allows you to view all desktops from one view, and it has drag and drop capability. I know this might sound a little difficult to comprehend, but the effects are incredible. I pose this question to Microsoft and Apple: Who is leading […]
The dude abides recently published some mock ups of Awn a “Desktop 2.0.” You should head over to his site and see the “screenshots” they look very impressive. This is how he describes Awn:
Awn and the desktop
I have been thinking about Awn for a very long time. Although it is young in terms […]
An interesting article at Desktop Linux says that Ubuntu and Freespire will soon be more closely integrated with each other. It will be interesting to see how this joining of forces will play out in the next release of Ubuntu/Freespire.
Over the past few years, Linspire has refined their e-commerce and software delivery technology with […]
As long as we’re on the topic of running Windows applications, the Ubuntu wiki has an excellent post about how to run Windows as a virtual machine in Linux using QEmu. According to the Ubuntu Wiki, “QEmu uses kqemu, an acceleration driver, to run Windows at usable speed.” The wiki demonstrates how to […]
This article has been bouncing around for a few days so I thought I’d mention it. The Open Source Advocate recently published a list of five ways to use Windows applications in Linux. For the beginning Linux user it can often be difficult to break away from Windows completely — this list should […]
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