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.
Read more »Taking a look at variable scope, pipes and while-loops in various Linux and Unix shells.
Read more »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.
Read more »How to make the distinction between open file descriptors and open files, and report on them, using the proc filesystem on Linux or Unix.
Read more »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.
Read more »If you’re just starting out with using Linux then chances are you’ve probably seen or heard a few Linux terms that you don’t recognize. It’s typical that when you ask, or search, for help on the Internet for Linux, you’ll see some of the following terms. I’ve put them in one place for you so that the next time you see a Linux vocabulary word you don’t know, you can check back here.
Read more »How to use the basic LVM commands to monitor and check on your LVM configuration.
Read more »"...Emacs is a text editor. And it’s a lot more — sometimes too much. I know of a number of Emacs users who practically live in the editor. As I pointed out in a previous post, some users go a little overboard with the way in which they use Emacs — as a personal information manager, as a mail client, and even as a Web browser.
Read more »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.
Read more »How to use chkconfig to manage Linux services and work with the run levels you need them turned on and off for.
Read more »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.
Read more »How to use ntysyv, rather than chkconfig, to manage Linux services at specific run levels.
Read more »Iconic logos from the GNU/Linux world (GNU, Debian, Tux, Ubuntu, Fedora, Slackware, OpenSuSE etc)
Read more »If you don’t want to wait until Banshee 1.0 is added to Gutsy/Hardy repositories, just add this to your software sources (System > Administration > Software Sources -> Third-Party Software and click Add), for Hardy:
Read more »"Here's a short tutorial i wrote up today that is a basic collection of Emacs Lisp Idioms..." -- via http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emacs/browse_thread/thread/08f20f99f...
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