Category Archives: Software

Terminal or shell command to shutdown or reboot Ubuntu Linux

So how do you shutdown or reboot Ubuntu Linux from a terminal or a shell prompt? If GUI is working you can always click on a Quit button. If GUI is not working or if you are working remotely over … Continue reading

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CVS server on Ubuntu

Install CVS files: sudo apt-get install cvs Install the CVS server: sudo apt-get install cvsd When prompted in the cvsd installation process for Repository, type in “/cvsrepo”. Now that the cvsd installation in complete goto /var/lib/cvsd or seeking for a … Continue reading

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HOWTO: Monitoring your desktop Linux the easy way

There are lots of programs that help us to monitor our personal computer. They provide us with memory consumption, cpu usage, network statistics and lots more. In this article I’m going to introduce gkrellm. I’ve always had gkrellm running in … Continue reading

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HOWTO: Recording audio cds with K3b

k3b cannot deal with mp3 files by default in Ubuntu Edgy Eft. If you need to produce an audio cd by adding mp3 files with k3b, you’ll need to install the following package: sudo apt-get install libk3b2-mp3 and you are … Continue reading

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Top 20 Linux Softwares

It seems like every blog on the internet has one of these, so here’s my picks for the top 20 Linux applications. I’ll be covering programs from all different categories that I think stand out and shine as true wonders … Continue reading

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