Linux Tutorials on the topic “Linux”
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Sound Recording and Editing with Audacity on Ubuntu
Author: Bill Toulas •
Tags: desktop, linux, ubuntu •
Comments: 4 In all the years I have been dealing with both Linux and sound recordings, I have never found a simplest and more powerful tool than Audacity to get the job done. This open source sound recorder, editor, analyzer, generator and effect applicator is surely one of the most useful and important tools ever to be produced by the free software community.
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How to defrag your Linux system
Author: Bill Toulas •
Tags: arch linux, debian, fedora, linux, ubuntu •
Comments: 21 There is a common misconception among GNU/Linux users that our systems never ever need to be defragmented. This stems from the success of the journalized filesystems used by most distributions including EXT2,3 and 4, JFS, ZFS, XFS, ReiserFS and BTRFS. Fragmentation though can still be an issue though, especially for users that use space limited disks that may not offer many file allocation options.
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How to use Avidemux for Video Editing
Author: Bill Toulas •
Tags: desktop, linux, other •
Comments: 3 Thankfully, the open source world offers many good choices when it comes to video editing. Some of the most popular choices are the PiTiVi, OpenShot, Kdenlive and Blender. Avidemux is another one - maybe the one with the worst name, but being one of the oldest (five years old) it is now quite mature and stable as well as relatively feature rich.
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Get to know your System (using the command line)
Author: Bill Toulas •
Tags: linux, shell •
Comments: 4 Knowing the details of your system is essential for being able to address issues that arise and make the right hardware and software choices to ensure the compatibility and a good performance of your system. To get to know yous system a bit better we will use the command line.
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Installing and Configuring Scientific Software in Ubuntu 15.04. Case: Scilab 5.5.1
Author: David Duarte •
Tags: linux, other, ubuntu •
Comments: 1 Scilab is a free and Open Source software for numerical computation providing a powerful computing environment for engineering and scientific applications.
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How to install and configure VSFTPD
Author: Gurujyot_singh •
Tags: ftp, linux, ubuntu •
Comments: 6 As the name suggest 'Very Secure File Transfer Protocol Deamon' (VSFTPD) is one of the most secure FTP daemons available, vsftpd is used as the default FTP server in the Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, NimbleX, Slackware and RHEL Linux distributions.
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How to Install nginx and google pagespeed on Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet)
Author: Muhammad Arul •
Tags: linux, nginx, server, ubuntu, web server •
Comments: 7 Nginx (engine-x) is a open source and high performance HTTP server, reverse proxy and IMAP/POP3 proxy server. The outstanding features of Nginx are: stability, rich feature set, simple configuration and low resource consumption. Nginx is being used by some of the largest websites on the internet and is gaining more and more popularity in the webmaster community. This tutorials shows how to build a nginx .deb package for Ubuntu 15.04 from source that has Google pagespeed module compiled in.
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Installing and Configuring Speech Recognition Software on Ubuntu 15.04
Author: David Duarte •
Tags: desktop, linux, ubuntu •
Comments: 6 The main motivation for installing voice commands and speech recognition software is to aid in the management of the operating system, in this case, Ubuntu 15.04. For many people with disabilities is also very useful to use the voice as the main enforcer when it comes to the operating system, ie, whether the disabilities were are motor or even visual, software commands via voice is the perfect solution.
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Shell Scripting Part V: Functions in Bash
Author: jonilyn2730 •
Tags: arch linux, debian, fedora, freebsd, linux, mandriva, opensuse, shell, suse, ubuntu •
Comments: 8 Welcome to part 5 of HowToForge's shell scripting tutorial series. In this part, you will learn how to efficiently structure your scripts by creating functions. By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to know how to create functions in the Linux Bash Shell, pass parameters to your functions and return some values from a function to your main code.
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How to Install a Microscope Camera Imager in Ubuntu 15.04
Author: David Duarte •
Tags: desktop, linux, ubuntu •
Comments: 8 The camera treated in this tutorial is a Celestron®, model 44421, monocular, to be installed in amicroscope Globe ®, type of binoculars. This camera comes with a universal adapter for the lens holder and a USB 2.0 connector. The camera will beinstalled on a Netbook Lenovo, model S10-3C, running Linux Ubuntu 15.04. Needless to say, this device does not offer manufacturer support of any Linux version,which is the reason for this tutorial.
