Linux Mint is an operating system that is used on PCs for production of elegant, up to date and comfortable GNU/Linux desktop distribution. It is quite easy to use compared to other operating systems.
When Linux Mint was originally launched, it was a version of Ubuntu that offered integrated media codecs. Founded and developed by [...]

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Categories: Linux, Operating Systems

How many ways can you install Linux? Quite a few. You can install via:

CD
DVD
Flash Drive
Network Installation

or…

InstaLinux

Technically InstaLinux is really just another way of doing a network installation. InstaLinux is a web-based service that allows you to choose some of the specifics of what you want on your installation and then it creates an ISO image [...]

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Categories: Advice, Linux, Online Services, Open Source, Operating Systems, The Web, Tutorials Basic, software

If you are learning about the stars in school, an amateur sky watcher, or a meteorologist in the making you need to know your stars. To really see the stars you can visit a real planetarium, you can break out your serious telescope, or you can install and fire up a desktop application like Stellarium.
Stellarium [...]

Tags: constellations, education software, Linux, planetarium, stars
Categories: Linux, Open Source, software

If you’re new to Linux chances are you know about Ubuntu. Ubuntu has done a great job making a distribution of Linux new-user friendly. One of the ways they have done this is by making the root user (the super user) somewhat transparent. The user can not log in as the root user in a [...]

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So you’ve been reading about Linux on ghacks for a few months now and you’ve  noticed plenty of screenshots or images of applications in action. Now it’s time you found out just how those images are taken. No it’s not magic, but in one instance it’s ImageMagick. Actually there are a few ways to take [...]

Tags: ImageMagick, images, Linux, screenshots, The GIMP
Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

I remember, way back, when I first started using Linux either was either in full-on command line only Linux or I was using Fvwm95. Executing commands in command line meant I had to know the name of the command. And when I was in the Fvwm95 desktop, if there wasn’t a menu entry for an [...]

Tags: executables, icons, Linux, menus, run dialog, starting applications
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I am a child of the 80s (born in 1967), so I remember well the likes of Tempest, Zaxon, Galaga, Zap, Centipede, and many more games that stole my quarters over the years. These games helped to define my generation as the first to stare, glassy-eyed at a screen in hopes of having their name [...]

Tags: action games, Linux, linux games, scrolling games, shooters
Categories: Games, Linux, Open Source, software