Linux Tutorials on the topic “desktop”
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General Maintenance of Arch Linux Systems
Author: Jonathan DeMasi •
Tags: arch linux, desktop, server •
Comments: 12 Maintaing an Arch Linux installation is actually extremely simple and straightforward, as long as you keep a few things in mind. The rolling release nature of the distribution means we never have to worry about major version upgrades like other distributions (Ubuntu and Debian to name a few..).
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Installing and Using the Scientific Software GNU Octave on Ubuntu 15.04
Author: David Duarte •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 4 GNU Octave is a scientific application that uses a Matlab like interpreted high level language for numerical computations and simulations. It offers functions to solve linear and nonlinear problems, can plot the results as graphics and offers capabilitis for data manipulation and visualisation.
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How to edit Movie Subtitles on the Linux Desktop
Author: Bill Toulas •
Tags: centos, debian, desktop, suse, ubuntu •
Comments: 0 Here's is a quick guide on how to load and edit subtitles on GNOME Subtitles and Subtitle Editor. The movie that I will be using for this tutorial is a documentary called “The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard” released in 2013 under a Creative Commons (CC) license.
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How to use Dropbox Cloud Storage in Ubuntu 15.04
Author: David Duarte •
Tags: cloud, desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 2 Dropbox synchronizes folders in your PC with a virtual hard disk in the cloud. This tutorial shows the installation of Dropbox on Ubuntu 15.04
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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 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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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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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.
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How to theme GNOME Shell 3.16 (in five simple steps)
Author: Bill Toulas •
Tags: arch linux, centos, desktop, fedora, linux, opensuse, ubuntu •
Comments: 9 So, you have installed your brand new GNOME Shell desktop environment and it certainly looks indisputably cool as it is. Using it for quite some time though may make this sexy top panel look dull and your icon set look dusty. These are signs that it is time for a change, so here's a guide on how to quickly (and easily) change the appearance of your GNOME Shell desktop using refreshing theming.
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How to Handle ISO Files on Linux with Mount, AcetoneISO and Furious
Author: Bill Toulas •
Tags: linux, desktop, ubuntu, centos, opensuse, fedora, arch linux •
Comments: 1 ISO files are basically archive files that represent the contents written in every sector of an optical disk. This way you can have a CD or DVD image handy any time in your hard drive and use it accordingly (either mount it to access the data, or burn it on an actual physical disk). Linux users are very font of ISO files as this is the most common format that Linux distributions come in.
