Made by British based firm Canonical, Ubuntu TV is a free and open source interface that the company hopes manufacturers will build into forthcoming ‘smart TVs’.
It joins a slew of new smart TV announcements made at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that is being held in Las Vegas this week. …

This post has been boiling in the back of my brain for quite some time. It’s been one of those that I was never completely sure of, until 2011 saw the influx of emails coming in saying how out of touch the Linux desktop designers were with both reality and …

Nothing is sacred these days. In times of economic crisis, anything could go any way, at any time. Such is the case with Mandriva. By January 16, 2012 we could all see the end of a distribution that was just starting to make itself relevant again. After so many ups …

You may not have been familiar with wazzub, here I’ll discuss a little about wazzub.

“WAZZUB” is a candidate for a new competitor google/mozilla, etc. “which would give a portion of the profits obtained by the company to anyone who has joined the at wuzzub. It’s Free.
New launching WAZZUB on date 9 …

Run chkdsk

Hard disks are eventually going to contain errors. These errors can come in the shape of physical problems, software issues, partition table issues, and more. The Windows chkdsk program will attempt to handle any problems, such as bad sectors, lost clusters, cross-linked files, and/or directory errors. These errors can …

 Trinity Rescue Kit

Trinity Rescue Kit might leave you wondering, “Why isn’t this tool being developed faster and on a larger scale? Although TRK is rather slow to develop, what it offers is just short of amazing. Place it on a USB drive, boot your virus-laden machine, and scan the mounted …

I will assume that you already have the printer attached to the local machine and it is printing just fine. I will also assume the machine the printer is attached to is the Linux machine that will share the printer out. If that is all the case, you are ready …

Where do you start? How do you best manage a CUPS server? The following tips will help make your CUPS experience a smooth and simple one.

Make use of the Web interface

Point your Web browser to http://IP_TO_CUPS_SERVER:631 (where IP_TO_CUPS_SERVER is the IP address of your CUPS server) and you will find …

Make sure Samba is configured properly

One of the issues you will find is that if Samba isn’t configured properly, no amount of GUI will help. This is especially true in a mixed environment. If you do have a mixed environment (especially Windows and Linux), it will be crucial that Samba …

  Produce screencasts

For training purposes, there is no better tool than a screencast. And with a well-made screencast, you can build a superb training video with the help of OpenShot Video Editor. But what tools are best for grabbing screencasts in Linux? The best one I have found is gtk-recordmydesktop. …