There are a lot of backup tools out there. From the overly simple to the overly complex. Many of those backup tools go unnoticed and unused. Some of them get recognized as the outstanding projects they are. One of those tools is Luckybackup.

Video editing under GNU/Linux is actually dirt simple, but too many people are scared off of video editing under GNU/Linux when they see the user interfaces for complex programs like Cinelerra or The Open Movie Editor or KDEnlive. Fortunately, Kino offers an easy solution, and this article steps you through the process of getting started.

OpenShot has too many great features to list them all here but here are a few of them:

* Support for many video, audio, and image formats (based on FFmpeg)
* Gnome integration (drag and drop support)
* Multiple tracks
* Clip resizing, trimming, snapping, and cutting
* Video transitions with real-time previews
* Compositing, image overlays, watermarks

Linux is known for a lot of great things, but you rarely see it listed as a platform of choice for multimedia production. Some of that poor reputation for multimedia has long been deserved, but in recent years the quality of Linux’s audio and video applications has been steadily increasing. One of the best loved of these is Hydrogen, a high quality drum machine application.

Informationweek continue their endless, "What's wrong with Linux" series. This week it's our security, among other things. As one of their long-suffering readers suggests, "How about articles on what Microsoft can do better?"

Although the theory behind the idea was simple, the execution made the idea overly complex.The concept of Activities isn’t the easiest to understand until you actually start working with it. But once you get the hang of it, you will certainly appreciate what it brings to the desktop.

Getting up and running and building your first very simple application Gambas is actually a very easy process, especially if you have used Visual Basic in the past. In this short video tutorial, I walk you through how to build a simple ‘Hello World’ project, featuring a graphical interface with a button, which, when clicked, displays a message box.

Scripts are files that contain shell commands which may be short or can be very complex. Scripts just make it easier because you can invoke one command to run all of the commands in the script. Here instead of using 8 separate commands you can use one command to execute all of them.

Consider 64 Studio, which packs a whole slew of free and open source multimedia (music and video) content-creation applications such as Ardour, Hydrogen, and JAMin into a 64-bit Debian-derived Linux distribution. The 64-bitness is pretty deliberate: With applications like audio and video creation, having unimpeded access to as much memory as you can is always a good idea.