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ashar_oz Monday, May 17, 2010 at 13:05

10 Usefull free/opensource portable application for USB flash drive

Free/opensource application is closed to linux or other application running under linux, this statement maybe not one hundred right cause lot of application (same application) can run both linux or windows operating system take OpenOffice from Oracle as an example. Every application need to be installed to colaborate with their parent system operation except application called "portable application". A portable application (portable app) is a computer software program that is able to run independently without the need to install files to the system it is run upon. They are commonly used on a removable storage device such as a CD, USB flash drive, flash card, or floppy disk, A portable application does not leave its files or settings on the host computer (wikipedia). 

There are many portable application has been shared in internet, many website like www.portableapps.com provide many prortable application can be download and place to our pendrive/flashdisk, here you are 10 usefull free/opensource portable application most frequently used.

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Ade Malsasa Akbar Monday, January 13, 2020 at 17:05

Convert MP4 to MP3 with FFmpeg


This tutorial covers a handy command line to convert MP4 video to MP3 audio. That command is called FFmpeg that is available in most GNU/Linux distros including Ubuntu and Trisquel. Although we know VLC can do conversion as well, but I figured out that FFmpeg does converting faster and better. By this, you can make an MP4 video playable as audio in your phone, portable player, and other devices other than computer. To do it, you should be able to do at least basic command lines as you can learn by the beginner's guide. I write this tutorial so I can refer to next time I write about multimedia. Enjoy!


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ashar_oz Saturday, May 28, 2011 at 09:16

How to Fix : Skype Failed to Start, Shared.xml Problem issue

Since Skype has been brought by Microsoft many OpenSource user afraid if there is no longer support/available skype for opensource, What happens then, some blog say's that "Some user failed to start their skype in the last 24 hours, is this Microsoft effect ?", may many people would think it,  hehe ... it's not true guys 'it is not the fault of Microsoft, it's fault of skype it self', it's write on their twitter here. Skype still have problem regarding to shared.xml issue and periodically happen in some skype platform. How to fix skype "Failed to start"  regarding to shared.xml ?, just delete shared.xml, it will be recreated then when Skype launch, check this tips :
 
How to Fix Skype on Ubuntu / Linux ?
Delete or move Skype configuration (shared.xml) in ~/.Skype/shared.xml, then lauch again your skype, do as following :

rm -rf  ~/.Skype/shared.xml
How to Fix Skype on Windows ?
do as following :
Skype is aware that a select number of users are experiencing problems. They have identified a manual fix so people can follow these instructions if they continue to have issues logging on:

Windows Vista and Windows 7
1. Close Skype.
  • Right-click the Skype icon in the system tray (at the bottom right of the screen)
  • Choose Quit.
2. Ensure that "Show hidden files and folders" is switched on.
  • Click Start, type run and press Enter.
  • Type control folders and click OK.
  • Select the View tab and ensure relevant entry is enabled.
3. Locate the shared.xml file.
  • Click Start, type run and press Enter.
  • Type %appdata%\skype and click OK.
  • Delete the shared.xml file.
4. Restart Skype. The shared.xml file will be recreated.

Windows XP
1. Close Skype.
  • Right-click the Skype icon in the system tray (at the bottom right of the screen)
  • Choose Quit.
2. Ensure that "Show hidden files and folders" is switched on.
  • Click Start and then Run...
  • Type control folders and click OK.
  • Select the View tab and ensure relevant entry is enabled.
3. Locate the shared.xml file.
  • Click Start and then Run...
  • Type %appdata%\skype and click OK.
  • Delete the shared.xml file.
4. Restart Skype. The shared.xml file will be recreated

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ashar_oz Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 07:31

Ubuntu Professionals CAD Application: Create, Open, and View 'AutoCAD' *.dwg files on Ubuntu

Draftsight is Professionals 2D CAD application which run in Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE) or other OpenSource software platform. As we know, we never had software (in Linux) which can Create, Open and View AutoCAD (*.dwg) before, but try this, this is an answer for engginering who appreciate of using OpenSource software or run all kind of Linux Operating system in their desktop. DraftSight professionals 2D CAD released beta version for linux lovers around the world as an alternative of AutoCAD. With this application we can also allows to create, open, and view  *.dwg files. that produced by Autodesk the software company.

Draftsight running on Ubuntu 
 Try DraftSight professionals 2D CAD for Ubuntu by download the package from link bellow :
  • Download Draftsight (66.8MB)
  • sudo apt-get install libdirectfb-extra libxcb-render-util0  
  • sudo dpkg -i DraftSight.deb 
Draftsight for 64-bit users : The beta version of DraftSight is provided in 32-bit Operating System. To get DraftSight run on 64-bit Operating System (Ubuntu and all kind of linux) you need to install following missing library:
  • sudo apt-get install libdirectfb-extra libxcb-render-util0 sudo apt-get install libdirectfb extra libxcb-render-util0
if you have installed all required libraries above, install the draftsight deb package through the terminal using 'force architecture' option, copy and paste the command above to install draftsight for 64-Bit Operating System  :
  • sudo dpkg --force-architecture –i DraftSight.deb
To get more option and screenshoot you can visit the draftsight official website.

ashar_oz Monday, May 2, 2011 at 12:19

Keroyokan - OpenSource Render Farm Engine for Blender

Keroyokan is OpenSource distributed rendering engine that works on Blender, the name of keroyokan is taken from javanese language that mean working together without any rasial issue. Keroyokan has release their first version with codename "kuniran" which tested and running well on both Linux and windows as node or master.

A render farm is a computer cluster built to render computer-generated imagery (CGI), typically for film and television visual effects, using off-line batch processing. This is different from a render wall, which is a networked, tiled display used for real-time rendering. The rendering of images is a highly parallelizable activity, as each frame usually can be calculated independently of the others, with the main communication between processors being the upload of the initial source material, such as models and textures, and the download of the finished images.

Interested in using it,  you can download the source here:
Detail of Folder KEROYOKAN_KUNIRAN_001.zip
If you have download and unzip the source above, you will see some config file and folder, Here following description of file/folder you've downloaded the above :

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Ade Malsasa Akbar Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at 19:28

List of RSS Feeds of GNU/Linux & Free Software/Open Source Related Websites


There are so many websites, planets, or blogs related to Free Software/Open Source (FLOSS) and GNU/Linux in English. It is difficult for someone to grabs many of their RSS feeds one by one. To solve this, I try to collect many URL of RSS feeds of them here. This is not complete by now (November 15th 2016) but I planned to complete the missing links below as soon as possible. I hope this list helps anyone in free software community worldwide.
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Ade Malsasa Akbar Sunday, February 16, 2020 at 23:15

Academic Writing Tools on GNU/Linux - Free Software Only


This is my list of GNU/Linux tools for academic, educational, and research purposes which all are free software. I tried to pick up choices as simple as possible here just to represent every basic category and further I hope you could see more alternatives if you want. I also listed several specific tools like GNU Octave and Parallel which are proven to be useful for certain researches. On the other hand, I deliberately did not list LaTeX tools here as I already chosen LibreOffice for that category. I made every proprietary software name italicized here so you can spot them on easier. Happy researching!

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Ade Malsasa Akbar Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at 21:53

Collection of System76 Laptop Reviews 2015-2019

This is a list of reviews of System76 laptop and desktop computers by various authors for five years from 2015 to 2019. This continues the 1st part we published last February. We hope this helps you choose the best branded GNU/Linux workstation for your daily life. Enjoy!

 

2015

Meerkat by Betanews

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This review is written by Brian Fagioli. Meerkat is not a laptop but a mini PC, that is, just a small desktop computer without monitor, mouse and keyboard. It is an i3 8GB 32GB-SSD with Intel HD 55000 Graphics and Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" preinstalled. He stated that " Out of the box, all of the hardware works -- including Wi-Fi -- making it a superb Linux experience."


*) Note that the name meerkat coincidentally was the same as Ubuntu 10.10 codename "Maverick Meerkat".

Oryx Pro by Beta News

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This review is also written by Brian. Oryx Pro is a gaming model of System76 laptops. It is an i7 32GB 256GB-SSD with NVIDIA 980M and preinstalled with Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf". The author stated the battery life is about 2 hours. He concluded "if you crave raw power and beautiful design -- portability be damned -- this is the Linux laptop for you. Very much recommended."


2016

Lemur by Wired

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This review is written by Scott Gilbertson. Lemur is a portable workstation model (low-end) of System76 laptops (however, it is still very configurable). It was an i7 8GB 120GB-SSD with Intel 520 Graphics. The author stated that the battery life was almost 5 hours. He concluded "Despite the dismal battery life, the Lemur is a solid laptop, [...]  it's plenty powerful enough for the average Linux user."


Oryx Pro by Ars Technica

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This review is also written by Scott Gilbertson (he wrote for both Wired and Ars Technica, see above). Oryx Pro is the powerful model of System76 laptops. It was an i7 32GB-RAM 256GB-SSD with NVIDIA GTX 1060 GPU preinstalled with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus". The author did not state clearly about battery life in general, but specifically stated "about 1.5 hours" when running a video editor.vHe concluded that "Excellent hardware support for Linux" but "It's big and it's heavy".


Oryx Pro

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This review is written by Swapnil Bhartiya. It was an i7 8GB (he didn't state the SSD capacity) with NVIDIA 970M. He stated it was preinstalled with Ubuntu but unfortunately the photos were already lost. He concluded "This is a perfect laptop for those who want a powerhouse computer []...at home, office or in a small businesses without having to deal with a bulky and messy desktop.[] Oryx Pro comes with Ubuntu, [...] If you are looking for a decent laptop that has desktop grade power then Oryx Pro is a great contender. "


2017

Galago Pro by Ars Technica

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This review is written by Scott Gilbertson again. Galago Pro is a lightweight powerful model of System76 laptops with similarity to MacBook Pro. It was an i7 8GB 250GB-SSD with Intel HD Graphics 620 preinstalled with 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus". He stated the battery life was about 3.5 hours. He concluded "Trouble-free Linux on good, lightweight hardware" but "Battery life could be better, much better".


Galago Pro by TechRadar

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This article is written by Chris Thornett. The same Galago Pro here was an i7 8GB 250GB-SSD with Intel HD Graphics 620 preinstalled with Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus". He confirmed the battery life was about 3:58 hours. He concluded "A high-end laptop that offers a stylish all-aluminium design, lots of processing power [...] Battery life is disappointing".


Galago Pro by CIO

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This article is written by Swapnil too. The same Galago Pro here was an i7 8GB 250GB-SSD (NVMe) with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus". The author once again didn't specify any battery life. He concluded "Galago Pro is a great option for a wide range of users [...] also a great choice for IT shops that offer Linux laptops to their developers".


Galago Pro by Beta News

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This article is written by Brian Fagioli. The same Galago pro here was an i7 8GB 250GB-SSD (NVMe) with Intel HD Graphics 620 but the author didn't state clearly which version of Ubuntu preinstalled in it. He stated the battery life was 5 hours "between charges". He concluded "Ultimately, the System76 Galago Pro is an excellent portable computer that Ubuntu Linux users will love" but "this is not a gaming machine" and "truly is the MacBook Pro alternative that the Linux community has been waiting for."

2018

Oryx Pro by Memin

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This review is Part 1 written by Memin.tk (it is still incomplete, with no Part 2 available until today). In this part, he reviewed about the physical aspects of the laptop. It was an i7 32GB 500GB-SSD (NVMe) with Pop!_Os 18.04 LTS. The author provided several photos comparing Oryx Pro with MacBook Pro and Dell Latitute physically. He did not state about the battery life, but initially conclude "It’s a supreme computer even by only its hardware and probably one of the best choice if you are looking for a GNU/Linux laptop.".


Oryx Pro by Linux Journal

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This review is written by Robert J. Hansen. Oryx Pro is the powerful, high-end model of System76 laptops (with dimensions very similar to MacBook Pro, that's why many reviewers often compare Oryx to that Apple model). It was an i7 32GB 500GB-SSD with dual-gpu NVIDIA GTX 1070 and Intel HD Graphics preinstalled with Pop!_Os 18.04 LTS. He stated the batter life lasted for about 3.5 hours. He concluded "If you've got the money, this is the best thing I've found for dedicated Linux laptops."


Galago Pro by Josh Tronic

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This review is written by Josh Sherman. Galago Pro is a lightweight model of System76 laptops (and is comparable to Apple MacBook Air). The author did not state the specifications of the laptop except the memory being 32GB, but he did state the battery life 5-6 hours. He concluded "So yeah, the System76 Galago Pro 14” model has been a great machine thus far. It looks sharp, runs quick and I can feel like I’ve done my part in helping to perpetuate Linux on the desktop by supporting a company that is putting Linux first."


Galago Pro by Linux Attorney

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This article is written by vforberger. The Galago Pro here was an i5 8GB 500GB-SSD 1TB-SSHD with Intel UHD Graphics 620 preinstalled with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" but tweaked internally to be Xubuntu (Xfce desktop) instead (the first and only review of such in this list). The author stated the battery life lasted for about 4 hours. He concluded "The Galago Pro is getting better and better the more I use it. After a couple of months now, my fingers are moving along the keyboard and the track-pad just like they used to with my MacBook Pro. [...] And, Xubuntu 18.04 on this device has been stellar."


Wild Dog Pro (PC) by Home Tech Hacker

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This article is written by HomeTechHacker. Wild Dog Pro is a desktop PC of System76 and not a laptop. It was an i7 24GB 250-SSD 2TB-HDD with Intel UHD Graphics 630. He concluded "The computer is blazing fast. I’ve had no lag in doing anything, and so I am extremely happy. [...] If you’re looking for a Linux laptop, desktop or server, I highly recommend you give System76 a try."


Serval WS by Adventures in Open Source

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This article is written by Tarus. The author is a computer training teacher. Serval WS is a large, high-end performance model of System76 laptops. It was an Intel Core i9 64GB (SSD capacity unspecified) with NVIDIA 1080 preinstalled with Ubuntu (with version number unspecified, too) but he did say it was post-Unity one. The experience and the customer service was not good and he concluded "When I found myself in the market for a beefy laptop, I immediately ordered the Serval WS from System76. I had always had a great experience dealing with them, but times have changed. It has been sent back."


2019

Thelio (PC)

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This review is written by Leonora Tindall. Thelio is a desktop PC of System76 and not a laptop. No detailed information about the specifications, but the author did state it was an AMD (model unclear) with Radeon RX580 16GB SSD (capacity unclear) preinstalled with Pop!_OS (version unclear). The author concluded "Thelio, System76’s new “open hardware” desktop, is a small, beautiful, and powerful desktop computer that hits every high point anyone could have expected, faltering only in the inherent limitations of its small size."


Darter Pro by OpenSource.com

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This review is written by Don Watkins, a well-known author of Red Hat's OpenSource.com news blog. Darter Pro is a lightweight model of System76 laptops which weighs 3.6 pounds (1.6 kg) and the author compared it with MacBook Pro. Darter Pro here was an i7 16GB 250GB-SSD with Intel HD Graphics. He benchmarked the performance and stated that it was "extremely well and outperformed the [Dell] XPS 13". He didn't state clearly about battery life but did say in the comments that " in my experience has been as advertised" of which System76 claimed by 10 hours. He concluded "If you are looking for a light laptop that's powerful enough to handle the challenges of your day-to-day operations, and you want it to come pre-installed with Linux, I recommend you consider the Darter Pro."  

 

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You've reached the end of this big list 2015-2019. Look forward for the next collection lists here at Ubuntu Buzz. We hope this big list will help everybody choose the best laptop preinstalled with Free Libre Open Source Software (FOSS). Happy reading!
 

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Ade Malsasa Akbar Friday, February 10, 2023 at 01:30

List of Websites About GNU/Linux News, Reviews and Tutorials 2023

This is a list of English websites you can read and subscribe to in 2023 whose topics are about news, reviews, buyer advices and tutorials of GNU/Linux and Free Libre Open Source Software (FOSS) and branded hardware devices around them. This list includes our beloved Ubuntu Buzz and of course along with many other similar and useful sources. You can subscribe to each news via web browser as well as news reader application such as Ubuntu built-in Thunderbird. Finally, we make this to help newcomers learn and old timers revisit again our community and we hope you will like it. Happy reading!


(Ubuntu Fridge, the Ubuntu weekly newsletter website everyone can subscribe to and read about many things about free & open source software community)

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Ade Malsasa Akbar Thursday, October 10, 2019 at 13:29

GNU/Linux Communities at Reddit

(Reddit forum of Ubuntu where many people participating and interacting)

Our GNU/Linux community information is naturally centralized at Reddit for news and discussion, it's not a secret. For instance, all big GNU/Linux distros have Reddits. Even often, news from a FLOSS project comes first at Reddit and being discussed a lot there rather than other social networks. See for example news of r/KDE and r/LibreOffice there (notice that unique Reddit IDs?). If you feel unfamiliar with this, you can think Reddit like Facebook or Twitter, but amazingly faster to browse, with greatly less picture and more text. With this list, after registering you can find your first community on Reddit for example r/Ubuntu and r/linux4noobs. Speaking personally, as an active GNU/Linux user I love Reddit and actually I use DNSCrypt just because I want to visit it. Also, if you're tired of other social networks you can give Reddit a try and I believe you will love it! I wish you will find nice people and friends there. Now let's go!

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ashar_oz Saturday, April 16, 2011 at 10:44

Blender 2.57 PPA Repository; Install Blender via apt-get and Synaptics

The Blender Fondation has launched new Blender 2.57 Stable. Based on their statement, this stable release is based on more than 1000 fixes and features completed/updated, changes made since Blender 2.5 BETA.

Here they are, what's new in Blender 2.57 Stable :
  • A new awesome clearer GUI layout with a new icon set
  • A new file browser
  • Blender 2.53's Python scripts are named "Add-ons" now (you can enable and disable it individually)
  • Drawing and editing performance have been increased significantly (as a result of sculpt mode being optimized)
  • SVG Vector Graphics import
  • Many more..
Blender 2.57 Support this Following Platform :
  •     Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7 (32, 64 bits)
  •     Mac OS X (PPC and Intel 32.64 bits)
  •     Linux (x86 32/64 bits)
  •     FreeBSD (AMD/Intel 64 bits)
Download and Install :
Blender 2.57 is the latest release from the Blender Foundation. You can taste it by download and install via self package installer here, otherways you can install Blender 2.57 via apt-get install or Synaptics Package Manager. do step below to Install Blender 2.57 Stable via apt-get using PPA repository,  this repository can be use in Ubuntu Karmic, Lucid, Maverick and Natty Narwhal.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cheleb/blender-svn
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install blender
Hope that it's work well on you, Discover the wide toolset available in Blender, for available features and gallery can be find in http://www.blender.org/features-gallery/.
 
See also :  OpenSource distributed rendering engine for blender here.

ashar_oz Friday, July 16, 2010 at 13:09

OpenSUSE 11.3 Stable Version is ready to Download

OpenSUSE which Free/OpenSource version of Linux SUSE Enterprise, is various version of linux distro developed (supported) by novell. Yesterday (07/15/2010)
openSUSE has release openSUSE 11.3 Stable with support for 32-bit and 64-bit system. The new openSUSE 11.3 bring bright application named spideroak which can perform an online backup and file syncronizing trough internet for free, to get latest version of openSUSE can be downloaded in here.

ashar_oz Saturday, November 26, 2011 at 07:02

Gwaei : English - Japanese Dictionary for Linux/Ubuntu

Hi Everyone,

Today i will introduce one of a dictionary application in Linux/Ubuntu that is Gwaei, Gwaei is OpenSource English - Japanese dictionary which translate English to Japanese word by word (sometime phrase). Gwaei provide some dictionary option that you can choose, some of them are English - Japanese Dictionary, Kanji Dictionary, Name and Place Dictionary.

Gwai Screenshot

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ashar_oz Tuesday, June 15, 2010 at 08:14

Zekr Quran (digital qur'an for linux, machintos, windows)


Zekr Qur'an is the most special program among ubuntu repository for moeslem, zekr qur'an is free/opensource application for reading, listening, and studing of the holly qur'an. Trough zekr we can control the reading aya by aya, sura by sura, sajda by sadja or juz by juz. Using zekr we can translate qur'an to more than 10 language such us english, persia, russia, indonesia for another translation we can go to zekr web page http://zekr.org/quran/en/translations and download other translation. When i try this application i have one minus point, one point of zekr is to listen (pronounce) of qur'an we must connect to the internet, i think this reason happen because the huge mount of database.

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Damar Riyadi Saturday, January 26, 2013 at 08:39

How to Transfer Ebook to Kindle From Ubuntu

Recently, I bought a brand new Kindle Paperwhite and I am very surprised with it because it just works on Ubuntu in transferring ebooks. So far, I have three different methods to transfer ebook to kindle from Ubuntu, there are transfer via Calibre, direct transfer from file manager, and make use of send to kindle email service.

1. Transfer via Calibre
Calibre is a opensource ebook library management which has many abilities such as managing ebook collections, converting ebook, sync to ebook reader devices such as Amazon Kindle, download news from the Internet and convert it to ebook friendly format, and more.

To use Calibre to transfer ebook to your Kindle device, please install it from Ubuntu repository, "sudo apt-get install calibre" should do that for you. Once installed, run Calibre and plug the Kindle devices. Calibre will automatically detect the Kindle and you are ready to go!

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ashar_oz Friday, January 13, 2012 at 16:33

10 Usefull FFmpeg Command That Should be Known

FFmpeg is a complete solution for record, convert and stream audio and video in Linux.
 
FFmpeg is OpenSource multimedia framework which has ability to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter, and more of audio / video file. FFmpeg almost supports most audio/video format that currently exist, FFmpeg contains libavcodec, libavutil, libavformat, libavdevice, libswscale and libswresample and can be used by applications (3rd party application).

We pick up 10 usefull FFmpeg command that you should know, sometimes you will really need the following command when you want change/convert some audio/video format, or doing some other jobs that involve video or audio in Linux OS family.

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ashar_oz Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 18:45

Install TOra - ORACLE PL/SQL Toolkit for Ubuntu

A few years ago i work on software house where in develop some application which use ORACLE as their main DBMS, although i prefer work in computer network field than database programmer, but it's never hurts to try. When i work (create some database connection) in  ubuntu, I had a little trouble and very often left with my friend, the problem is i am not accustomed to working with some database management application in ubuntu, so i leave ubuntu for a while and use Bentics. Some friend suggest me to use navicat but i don't know why it's not running smoothly.
 
A few days ago my friend told me an appliation called TOra, TOra is Oracle (PL/SQL) Toolkit that works on ubuuntu, TOra is 'relatively' close to Bentics and practically substitute of TOAD that runs on Windows OS.


TOra is an open-source multi-platform database management GUI that supports accessing most of the common database platforms in use, including Oracle, MySQL, and Postgres, as well as limited support for any target that can be accessed through Qt's ODBC support. TOra has been built for various Linux distributions, Mac OS X, MS Windows, and UNIX platforms.

Use TOra give much advantages for database administrators and developers, TOra includes several additional tools useful for database administrators and developers some features are PL/SQL debugger, SQL worksheet with syntax highlighting, DB browser and a comprehensive set of DBA tools.

Download TOra (Oracle PL/SQL toolkits for Ubuntu)
TOra is Free OpenSource software, you can taste it free and download the package from it's official website here http://torasql.com/Download.

Screenshoot of Tora
Install TOra via APT from Repository
There is a package in universe repository but there are no additional info id it's available with Oracle support. If you're using Ubuntu, TOra could be install trough APT or Synaptics Package Manager, you can install TOra via APT through this command : 
$ sudo apt-get build-dep tora 
$ sudo apt-get install libqt4-sql-mysql
Not be denied that use the correct application could improve our performance much better,  i hope this will help. Good Luck !!

Aamir Mustafa Friday, March 16, 2012 at 20:51

Anonymous OS: Ubuntu based "malicious" OS pulled down amid panic

Earlier this week, someone created a Tumblr webpage for a new operating system called “Anonymous-OS Live.”. However Soon after the operating system became available, the @AnonOps a Twitter account that is believed to speak for Anonymous posted a message saying it was fake and "wrapped in trojans" but despite the warnings, more than 26,000 people still downloaded it.

The creators of the OS denied it was infected with viruses arguing,


In our world, in Linux and opensource world, there are no viruses.

And If any user  believe that Anonymous-OS “is wrapped in trojans” or “backdoored OS by any Law enforcement Company or Hacker” please don’t download it!

But don’t mislead the world that Linux is dangerous and has trojans!

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Damar Riyadi Friday, March 23, 2012 at 13:34

Enemy Territory: Multiplayer First Person Shooter (FPS) Game for Linux

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is a First Person Shooter (FPS) game which can run native on Linux. It's a free and opensource online multiplayer game set during World War II and was originally planned to be released as a commercial expansion pack to the popular FPS game Return to Castle and later as a standalone game.


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ashar_oz Friday, April 22, 2011 at 08:52

Graphical FTP Client for Ubuntu


Ftp client is such us application that help people to perform upload and download file trough ftp protocol (port 21). FTP is built on a client-server architecture and utilizes separate control and data connections between the client and server. Using ftp is give own advantages, since it's a technology would able to make the management of website much easier as it provides with a way to upload and download new or updates a files to a web space in a few seconds without need anything else apart from the FTP password for the account which you wish to use to upload files from your local computer.  

How FTP Works ?
FTP works in the way that a direct connection is established between your local computer and web/ftp server via the internet using the FTP protocol. The connection is normally made on standard port for FTP that is Port 21. You can then make use of FTP to upload and download files from a web space, and in the case  while using an advanced FTP client we can also be able to carry out advanced tasks such as the setting of permissions. The connection is two-way to allow you the best flexiblity in manage your web space (http://blog.eukhost.com/webhosting/using-the-ftp-protocol/).


For ubuntu user which usually work as programer/other that familliar with upload or download from online media i think must be familiar with some FTP Client that works on ubuntu, and for the others here they are list  of Ftp Client that work well on ubuntu and other common linux.


GFTP
GFTP is Opensource application Graphical FTP Client that is used on Mac OS X, UNIX, EPLF, Novell, VMS, MVS and NT. There is support for the FTP, FTPS  (control connection only), HTTP, HTTPS, SFTP and FSP protocols, as well as FTP and HTTP proxy server support and FXP file transfers (transferring files between 2 remote servers via FTP)

  • Download: Links  gftp.seul.org 
  • Command line how to Install GFTP in Ubuntu via APT  is sudo apt-get install gftp

FileZilla
FileZilla is FTP application that  support of Client Server that has the GNU license, and supports SSL / TLS (FTPS), SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), can be used on Windows, Linux, * BSD, Mac OS X, IPv6, HTTP/1.1, SOCKS5. FieZilla Allows a user to create a list of FTP sites along with their connection data, such as the port number to use, the protocol to use, and whether to use anonymous or normal logon.
Kasablanca
Kasablanca is Graphical FTP applications are written using C + + language using the libraries from KDE. Has an features: encryption via AUTH TLS, fxp (direct server to server transfers), bookmarking system.
  • Download Links : kasablanca.berlios.de 
  • Command line how to Install Kasablanca on Ubuntu VIA APT is  sudo apt-get install Kasablanca
KFTPgrabber
KFTPgrabber is Graphical FTP client application that has the features: TLS / SSL, X509 certificates, One-time password (OTP), traffic graph. KFTPGrabber is a free and fast FTP client that can be easily integrated in KDE. 
GNOME Commander
GNOME Commander is a 'two pane' graphical file manager for GNOME. It is built using the GTK+ toolkit and GnomeVFS. GNOME Commander aims to fulfil the demands of more advanced users who like to focus on file management, their work through special applications and running smart commands (wikipedia). 
SiteCopy
Sitecopy is Graphical FTP Client that can be used to assist the webmaster in maintaining the website, upload files, and supports WebDAV. SuSE Linux, Fedora / RHEL, Debian GNU / Linux, Ubuntu, NetBSD, Mac OS X (Fink), Slackware.
  • Command how to Install SiteCopy on Ubuntu VIA APT is  sudo apt-get install sitecopy