The Linux Alternative Project. 17 Essential Linux Resources That You Shouldn’t Miss. Technology, Software, Tips and Tricks, Downloads and a bit of fun A New Morning 17 Essential Linux Resources That You Shouldn’t Miss by Umar on May 25th, 2009 · 11 Comments Linux is one of our favorite topics, have covered some nifty topics on linux in the past.
Today, we are covering a Wide Collection of Linux Apps which include Image Viewers, Video Editors, News Aggregators, Backup Tools & Guides etc. Top 10 Free Video Editors for Ubuntu Linux 20 Must Read HOWTOs and Guides for Linux 10 Free Linux Ebooks For Beginners 21 of the Best Free Linux Backup Tools Top 5 Gmail Notifiers for Linux 11 Free Windows Programs Alternatives For Linux 10 Best Image Viewers for Linux 10 Must-Have Linux Web-Based tools Top 10 KDE4 Applications 5 Best Linux Distributions 7 Awesome 3D Graphic Design Applications for Linux 13 Of the Best Linux Tutorials and OpenCourseWare on the Web 12 of the Best Free Linux News Aggregators 10 Best Linux Audio players 23 Useful System Applications for Linux 42 of the Best Free Linux Games.
Build a Killer Customized Arch Linux Installation (and Learn All About Linux in the Process) Don't like Windows 8's new interface? Sick of Ubuntu Unity and the new ads that come along with it? Maybe it's time to create your own, ideal operating system with just the features you want. Arch Linux can make it happen: it lets you build your own personal, killer Linux distro from the ground up. If this article looks familiar, it's because we've posted it before! However, Arch recently changed its installation process quite a bit, making our old guide outdated. Due to the popularity of this guide, we've updated it to work with Arch's new process, so we can all keep getting our Arch fix (and hopefully introduce a few new users to the OS of their dreams). Here's why you may want to use Arch Linux, followed by how to set it up. Who Is Arch Linux Good For? Linux is popular for a number of reasons, but high on that list is the fact that, with Linux, you have a lot more power to tweak your OS to your liking.
The key part of this explanation is "intermediate users. " This guide has two parts. Pinguy OS. Welcome to Linux From Scratch! Core Linux - Free Computer, Programming, Engineering, Mathematics, Technical Books, Lecture Notes and Tutorials. LinuxInsider: Linux News & Information from Around the World. Restart/reset USB in Ubuntu 12.04 without rebooting. Either my Dell Optiplex 990 computer or my Linux install has an issue: occasionally, when I re-plug a USB device into the system, it’ll cause a fault in the USB module in the kernel and USB goes dark. I’m unsure as to whether this is a hardware or software issue, but I’d simply like to restart my USB subsystem and continue working. When searching the web for ‘restart USB in Linux’ and ‘reload USB kernel module’, you get a plethora of results and none of which will work (seemingly due to how the Ubuntu standard kernel is compiled), at least for me within Ubuntu 12.04, Precise Pangolin.
Until now, I’ve had no success and had to hard reset. No longer. You’ll need root/sudo access to the machine to be able to run commands. Echo -n "0000:00:1a.0" | tee /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ehci_hcd/unbind echo -n "0000:00:1d.0" | tee /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ehci_hcd/unbind echo -n "0000:00:1a.0" | tee /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ehci_hcd/bind echo -n "0000:00:1d.0" | tee /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ehci_hcd/bind. Linux Newbie Guide: Shortcuts And Commands. [an error occurred while processing this directive] Linux Shortcuts and Commands: Linux Newbie Administrator Guideby Stan and Peter Klimas This is a practical selection of the commands we use most often.
Press <Tab> to see the listing of all available command (on your PATH). On my small home system, it says there are 2595 executables on my PATH. Many of these "commands" can be accessed from your favourite GUI front-end (probably KDE or Gnome) by clicking on the right menu or button. Legend:<> = single special or function key on the keyboard.
Notes for the UNIX Clueless:1. 7.1 Linux essential shortcuts and sanity commands <Ctrl><Alt><F1>Switch to the first text terminal. <Ctrl><Alt><Fn> (n=1..6) Switch to the nth text terminal. ttyPrint the name of the terminal in which you are typing this command. <Ctrl><Alt><F7>Switch to the first GUI terminal (if X-windows is running on this terminal). <Ctrl><Alt><Fn> (n=7..12) Switch to the nth GUI terminal (if a GUI terminal is running on screen n-1). . .. 7 Tasks You Shouldn’t Use a GUI For. Sometimes the GUI is just too slow. Learn how to resize images, add drop shadows, splice mp3s, clone hard drives and more with the command line. Here are a few tasks that you might want to consider using the command line for. 1. Resizing images Unless you are doing some sort of cropping there is no reason to load up Photoshop or the Gimp.
Convert -resize 300 image.jpg image-small.jpg If you finding yourself doing lots of image resizing during the day, this command could potentially save you a LOT of time. 2. I found myself spending a ton of time adding drop shadows to images. Convert screenshot.jpg \( +clone -background black -shadow 60×5+0+5 \) +swap -background white -layers merge +repage shadow.jpg Note: You must have Imagemagick installed for this command to work.
Obviously, I don’t expect you to memorize this command. 3. If you want simple MP3 splicing this command has your back: cat 1.mp3 2.mp3 > combined.mp3 4. DD is one the most simplistic and powerful image applications out there. 5. Linux Directory Structure (File System Structure) Explained with Examples. By Ramesh Natarajan on September 8, 2010 Have you wondered why certain programs are located under /bin, or /sbin, or /usr/bin, or /usr/sbin? For example, less command is located under /usr/bin directory. Why not /bin, or /sbin, or /usr/sbin? What is the different between all these directories? In this article, let us review the Linux filesystem structures and understand the meaning of individual high-level directories. 1. / – Root Every single file and directory starts from the root directory.Only root user has write privilege under this directory.Please note that /root is root user’s home directory, which is not same as /. 2.
Contains binary executables.Common linux commands you need to use in single-user modes are located under this directory.Commands used by all the users of the system are located here.For example: ps, ls, ping, grep, cp. 3. 4. 5. Contains device files.These include terminal devices, usb, or any device attached to the system.For example: /dev/tty1, /dev/usbmon0 6. 7. 8. 9. Linux: Install a million games in one click! Linux: Install a million games in one click! Updated: December 16, 2009 Well, not really a million, but how about tens or hundreds? Good enough for you? Today, we will talk about two extremely useful applications that allow to you search for hundreds of games that run on Linux, sorted by category, popularity, license, or price, read game synopses, check out the screenshots, and then, should you decide that you like some of them, install them with a single mouse click.
Do you know what this means? Djl homepage djl is an open-source game manager for Linux, written in Python and inspired by Steam Valve for Windows. Get djl The first thing you will have to do is download the installer script from the website. Tar zxvf <archive-name> cd <extracted-archive-dir> chmod +x djl.sh . When you run the script the first time, if you do not have the Python framework installed, you'll get an error. Run djl Once you have everything in place, run the application. Using djl Now comes the really cool part. Plugins.