Recently I installed the amazing desktop Elive Compiz. After getting it up and running I decided I needed to get some screencasts of the desktop in order to show off what it could do. I thought the task would be simple. It wasn’t. Although there are plenty of applications to handle capturing videos of a [...]

Tags: Debian, elive, Elive Compiz, Enlightenment, gtk-recordmydesktop, screen casts
Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tools, Tutorials Basic

If you’ve been reading me long enough you know I am a fan of Enlightenment. I’ve always loved the melding of a clean desktop and all of the eye candy you could want. But recently I came across something quite special. The developers of Elive have pushed the boundaries of the desktop beyond anything I [...]

Tags: Compiz, Coolest Desktop, E17, Ecomorph, Elive Compiz, Enlightenment, Linux, linux desktop, unetbootin
Categories: Linux, Operating Systems

Normally you will hear me professing to always install using your Linux distributions’ package management system. This is true for most cases. There is one case, however, that defies that philosophy: Installing Firefox. I have, on many occasions, installed Firefox using the distributions package management system only to have issue with either plugins or updates. [...]

Tags: bunzip2, firefox, flash, flash plugin, Linux, source, tar
Categories: Advice, Browsing, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, firefox

I have mentioned, many times, various Live CDs to use for giving Linux a try or installing Linux. I have had some feedback asking to explain just what a Live CD is. Some users are hesitent to use a Live CD for fear of deleting their data or damaging their hard drive. My hope is [...]

Tags: elive, Fedora, flash drive, inquisitor, Linux, live cd, m0n0wall, Mandriva, opensuse, systemrescuecd, ubuntu
Categories: Advice, Hardware, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, software

There are many excellent tools to tag a music collection. Tools like the excellent mp3 tag can be used to tag an entire collection thoroughly. If you are more a command line junkie who likes to tag music from the command line or build his own scripts to tag his music collection you might like [...]

Tags: command-line, id3 mass tagger, id3 tagger, id3v1, id3v2, linux software, lyrics 3, mp3, mp3 tagger, music, Open Source, portable software, tag mp3, windows software
Categories: Linux, Windows, software

While most Linux operating systems come with their graphical user interface it sometimes is still important to work from the command line, especially if that is the only way to access a Linux server. Linux Command Line Fu is a Digg-like website that lives of its user contributions. Users can submit and vote for Linux [...]

Tags: command line fu, command-line, Linux, linux command, linux commands, linux shell
Categories: Linux, Operating Systems

If you spend enough time with Linux at some point you are going to want (or need) to log on to a remote machine. And logging on to a remote machine is something you want to do in a secure enviroment. To gain security when having to do any remote administration, your best bet is [...]

Tags: Linux, port 22, secure shell, ssh, sshd, x tunneling
Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Security, Tutorials Basic