Linux and Open Source

Archive: 04-2012

• Ubuntu 12.04: Desktop perfection within reach

  Jack Wallen is wowed by Ubuntu 12.04. Just how close to perfection is this latest release from Ubuntu? Read Jack’s take and find out if it’s enough to make you want to give Precise...

  Posted by Jack Wallen | April 30, 2012, 9:06 AM PDT

• How to automatically find and download videos from YouTube (or anywhere else)

  Marco Fioretti shows you how to install two free SW utilities and supplies a sample script to use with them that will allow you automatically search for and download online videos matching the...

  Posted by Marco Fioretti | April 24, 2012, 6:00 AM PDT

• Record and share your terminal session with shelr.tv

  Jack Wallen stumbles across an incredibly handy command line tool for recording your command-fu. If you’re looking for interesting ways to train users on the Linux (or Mac) command line...

  Posted by Jack Wallen | April 23, 2012, 9:50 AM PDT

• Using iwconfig to configure settings on wireless cards

  Scott Reeves shows you a command that allows you to set and change parameters of a wireless card, including changing the bitrate.

  Posted by Scott Reeves | April 17, 2012, 6:00 AM PDT

• Microsoft's new open source initiative

  Microsoft has formed the Microsoft Open Technologies arm and is ready to help facilitate the relationship between open source and MS. Are you ready to don your tinfoil cap? Here is Jack...

  Posted by Jack Wallen | April 16, 2012, 8:24 AM PDT

• How and why to use KAlarm from the command line

  Marco Fioretti describes ways of using KAlarm to automate and customize alerts on your desktop from the command line.

  Posted by Marco Fioretti | April 9, 2012, 12:23 PM PDT

• How Canonical's next moves could repaint the Linux landscape

  Jack Wallen highlights how Canonical and Ubuntu are going to totally revolutionize the Linux landscape in the upcoming months. Will mass acceptance follow?

  Posted by Jack Wallen | April 9, 2012, 8:23 AM PDT

• How to set up web filtering solution on Squid Proxy

  Guest contributor Rafael Akchurin of QuintoLabs presents this how-to article on setting up web content filtering on Squid Proxy.

  Posted by Guest Contributor | April 5, 2012, 10:21 AM PDT

• Ubuntu's HUD: Light-years beyond any menu system

  Ubuntu continues to take Unity into the future of desktops, and with its new HUD system, the desktop has now gone boldly where none has gone before. Jack Wallen introduces the Head-Up Display.

  Posted by Jack Wallen | April 2, 2012, 8:31 AM PDT