If you use Windows than the three-finger salute Ctrl-Alt-Delete means quite a bit to you. You use it and, in some instances, you use it frequently. But if you are new to Linux you will notice that the Ctrl-Alt-Delete might actually reboot your machine (If you’re in console mode that is for certain. Some desktop [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Software, Tutorials Basic

There are many reasons why you would want to employee the aid of an application to clean up after yourself (or your users). Following this advice can save space, retain your privacy, clean up your clipboard, and clear your histories (from various applications.), and deletes cookies. Sweeper is a KDE utility included with KDE 4.2, [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

Ever since the inception of GNOME and KDE there has been confusion among new Linux users which is which and which is best to use. The former question is fairly simple to answer. The latter question, however, is a bit more complex due to user-specific needs/wants. With that in mind let us begin by illustrating [...]

Categories: Advice, Knowledge, Linux, Open Source

For those of you considering a migration from Windows to Linux I have a very simple piece of advice that will make the migration much easier. That advice: Choose the right distribution. Let me begin at the begining, or at least the best starting point. The Linux operating system is built with a number pieces. [...]

Categories: Advice, ghacks, Linux, Open Source, Windows

In my last post about everyone’s preferred music player, I mentioned that I was dying to try out the Linux player Amarok because I’d heard great things about. There’s just one problem: I’m a Windows user. Luckily, the guys at Amarok have decided to give the Windows users a taste of what this music player [...]

Categories: Entertainment, Linux, Music and Video, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Advanced, Windows