While LinuxHaters (a linux hating blog, ran on a linux) is grabbing a bunch of attention lately and while the atmosphere on certain social sites are becoming extremely anti, it’s time for a rather extensive but to-the-point reminder why Linux, may not be the most popular, but is the most flexible, secure, fast, free, well supported OS there is.

Several major distributions like Debian or Slackware dumped support for XMMS and no longer include it in their repositories due to the fact that it's old, hasn't been updated for some time and uses the GTK 1.x libraries. XMMS was replaced by the newer Audacious, which uses the newer GTK 2.x libraries. To install Audacious, just type as root apt-get install audacious.

How to use the basic LVM commands to monitor and check on your LVM configuration.

In this tutorial I will explain how to create a torrent file using KTorrent and how to put it out there in the wild, for everyone to share.

Not long ago, there were several discussions on UbuntuForums regarding a malicious command which was deliberately posted in the forums in order to make users damage their system if they typed it in a terminal using root privileges. The command is 'sudo rm -rf /' and means 'use root privileges to recursively remove, without asking for permission, the root directory / and its entire contents.

2. XVidCap Screen Capture - second best screen capture software:

sudo apt-get install xvidcap

4. Cinelerra - Probably the best video editing software for linux, but harder to use than Avidemux:

6. PyTube - Apply audio into video, merge, rotate, resize videos, make ringtones, download youtube videos and local multimedia encoding.

Simple shell script to do disk monitoring across multiple OS's. Emphasis placed on simple design.