Linux and Open Source

Archive: 02-2012

• Multimedia: A Linux Achilles' heel

  Jack Wallen takes on one of the problems with Linux as a desktop environment — multimedia. His most recent experiences collide with his past to conclude the Linux desktop does have an...

  Posted by Jack Wallen | February 27, 2012, 7:23 AM PST

• How to tag all your audio files in the fastest possible way

  Marco Fioretti shows you his method for tagging MP3 files with as much automation as possible so that you can impose a little order on music or other audio collections.

  Posted by Marco Fioretti | February 23, 2012, 9:00 AM PST

• Using jperf to check network performance

  Scott Reeves explains how to use the GUI version of iperf for network monitoring and testing.

  Posted by Scott Reeves | February 21, 2012, 9:19 AM PST

• Ubuntu 12.04: Three new features sneak in to make things interesting

  Jack Wallen highlights the three features in the next Ubuntu release that he thinks are the most compelling. Are they enough to win over Unity-haters?

  Posted by Jack Wallen | February 21, 2012, 6:30 AM PST

• How the open source community is doing with accessibility issues

  Is the open source community doing enough for people with accessibility issues? Read this run-down of some leaders in this area, and let us know of any other projects that are designing with...

  Posted by Selena Frye | February 17, 2012, 1:52 PM PST

• How to automatically rename and reorder MP3 files

  If you need to impose some order on your collection of music or other audio files, Marco Fioretti shares a script that uses ID3 tags to rename your files in a uniform system.

  Posted by Marco Fioretti | February 16, 2012, 11:54 AM PST

• Ubuntu pulls the 'official' plug on Kubuntu

  The news that Canonical has dropped Kubuntu as an official distribution hits the KDE desktop where it counts. Jack Wallen offers up his take on this developing situation.

  Posted by Jack Wallen | February 13, 2012, 8:22 AM PST

• Gentoo-based Sabayon Linux 8 available for download

  Gentoo-based Sabayon Linux version 8 is available. Check out some of the features.

  Posted by Selena Frye | February 10, 2012, 12:35 PM PST

• How to make backup files that never exceed a predefined size

  Marco Fioretti offers a script that you can use to create backups that don’t exceed a certain file size, making it easier to spread backups across various storage media or services.

  Posted by Marco Fioretti | February 7, 2012, 12:20 PM PST

• RIP Compiz

  Jack Wallen bids a fond farewell to the Compiz desktop compositor, which looks all but dead now that Fedora is dropping it from its upcoming release.

  Posted by Jack Wallen | February 6, 2012, 8:34 AM PST