One of these glorious days the PC industry will standardize hardware. When that day comes the Linux community will rejoice because there will be no need for the many, varied applications used to configure different systems on Linux. For example: I have two laptops. One one laptop I have to use nm-applet to get wireless [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Mar 26th, 2009
- Comments: 3
Easy Debian Wireless Connections with Wifi-Wiz
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Mar 15th, 2009
- Comments: 10
Back Up Your DVDs with Acidrip
There are many naysayers out there who say Linux is not ready for the main stream desktop. For those naysayers I offer up for review one of the many applications that proves Linux is, in fact, ready for the main stream desktop. The application? Acidrip. What it does is rip DVDs (for backup purposes of [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Feb 23rd, 2009
- Comments: 6
Creating Screencasts in Linux with gtk-recordmydesktop
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 [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Feb 18th, 2009
- Comments: 6
Get To Know Linux: Live CD
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 [...]
