In the previous post, we discussed how to install Linux, now we are going to talk about the most powerful features in Linux which is Linux commands or shell commands. For the whole documentation of Linux Commands, you can check Linux Documentation. If you will use Linux, you should know that the power of Linux resides in its…
This is a podcast presentation from the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group on the topic of Saltstack, XMPP published on June 5th 2017. You can find the original Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group post here. To subscribe to the podcast add the feed here or listen to this episode by clicking here or choose from one of the following direct links: FLAC MP3 OGG You can…
SoundConverter is an excellent little utility that makes it super simple to convert from one audio format to another. As an example case I had some WAV files that were taking up far too much space and so I wanted to convert them to FLAC files instead. After firing up SoundConverter I clicked Preferences and selected…
What Is Linux File System? As we’ve talked about Linux on the previous post and we have chosen the best Linux distro already and also we learn how to install Linux not it is the time to dig down and understand Linux from inside and we will start with what we’ve mentioned on load post which is…
This is a podcast presentation from the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group on the topic of Functional Programming and Haskell published on May 1st 2017. You can find the original Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group post here. To subscribe to the podcast add the feed here or listen to this episode by clicking here or choose from…
This is a podcast presentation from the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group on the topic of OSSIM, A Brief History of Linux and Open Source published on April 3rd 2017. You can find the original Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group post here. To subscribe to the podcast add the feed here or listen to this episode by clicking…
Linux – The open-source OS we’ve all come to use and love and then use some more. I’ve been using Linux since 2009 at least and I have got to say, it’s capabilities have always managed to one-up my expectations. This is one operating system where I learn something new every other day. Across the…
I’m back at it, looking for the latest open source alternative software gem. This time around I’m trying out the QupZilla web browser. Never heard of QupZilla before? Well it’s another alternative web browser but this one is built on top of Qt WebEngine, comes with a built in ad blocker and strives to have…
How To Install Linux? By Video Before we dig into how to install Linux lets review what We’ve talked about choosing the best Linux distro that fits your need on this post Best Linux Distro and hope you choose the one that is suitable for you If you want to install Linux there are 2 ways…
This post was originally published on December 8, 2010. The original can be found here. Note that while you can still write GTK+ applications on Linux using Objective-C as outlined in this post you may want to check out my little project CoreGTK which makes the whole experience a lot nicer 🙂 As sort of follow-up-in-spirit…
This post was originally published on June 15, 2014. The original can be found here. Note that there are other direct, compatible, alternatives and proper successors to TrueCrypt these days, including VeraCrypt. This post is simply about a different option available to Linux users. With the recent questions surrounding the security of TrueCrypt there has…
What Is The Best Linux Distro For 2017? So what is the best Linux distro? If you know Linux you may know that there are a lot and a lot of Linux distros out there and you can check most of them from distro watch website https://distrowatch.com/ You may try few of them so…
Historically linux distributions have created a dedicated partition to be used as swap space and while this does come with some advantages there are other issues with it as well. Being a fixed size partition means it is relatively difficult to later change your mind about how much swap your system actually needs. Thankfully there is another…
This is a podcast presentation from the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group on the topic of Roundtable published on March 6th 2017. You can find the original Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group post here. To subscribe to the podcast add the feed here or listen to this episode by clicking here or choose from one of the…
This post was originally published on October 6, 2010. The original can be found here. Lately, I’ve been doing some audio recording. In addition to a couple of podcasts that I work on, I occasionally like to record my own musical compositions. While there seems to be no shortage of high-end audio editing applications on either…
This post was originally published on October 6, 2010. The original can be found here. Open source software (OSS) is great. It’s powerful, community focused and, lets face it, free. There is not a single day that goes by that I don’t use OSS. Between Firefox, Linux Mint, Thunderbird, Pidgin, Pinta, Deluge, FileZilla and many, many…
This post was originally published on October 29, 2010. The original can be found here. Overview and Introduction I’ve been dabbling with managing a VOIP server for the past year or so, using CentOS, Asterisk and FreePBX on a co-located server. Recently Dave and I needed to move to our own machine, and decided to use…
This post was originally published on September 26, 2010. The original can be found here. Windows?? *GASP!* Sometimes you just have to compile Windows programs from the comfort of your Linux install. This is a relatively simple process that basically requires you to only install the following (Ubuntu) packages: To compile 32-bit programs mingw32 (swap out…
This post was originally published on July 4, 2010. The original can be found here. Recently I decided to try out PowerTOP, a Linux power saving application built by Intel. I am extremely impressed by how easy it was to use and the power savings I am now basking in. PowerTOP is a terminal application…
This post was originally published on April 21, 2010. The original can be found here. Recently I have started to mess around with the Vorbis audio codec, commonly found within the Ogg media container. Unlike Theora, which I had also experimented with but won’t post the results for fear of a backlash, I must say…
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