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Linux Books

Of course the Internet along with the help of Google is a great source of information. You can answer almost any question you have about Linux and find many tutorials, guides and help. However many people prefer reading this information on a printed book accesssible even when they are not online or don't have a computer in front of them. I've received many e-mails asking me to propose them a few good books regarding Linux commands, administration and for specific distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora etc. So, I've search for a few good books. Here they are. Happy reading!

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Ubuntu guides

Ubuntu is a free Operating System based on Debian GNU/Linux. It has been rated as the most popular Linux distribution amongst Linux users according to Distrowatch. As it happens every six months a new version of Ubuntu has been released. Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx is here! Below you can find some helpful tutorials for old and new users!

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Post Installation Guide
Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Post Installation Guide
Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Post Installation Guide
How to install Ubuntu Linux on Windows using VirtualBox

Fedora 12 Installation Guide

Fedora 12, codenamed Constantine, is released! Just for the info, Fedora is an RPM based Linux Distribution, an Operating system in other words, developed by the community supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. Fedora contains only free and Open Source software. Some of Fedora's 12 new features are Gnome 2.28, KDE 4.3, better web cam support!, and many others.

Fedora 12 Installation and Post-Installation Guide
Fedora 11 Installation and Post-Installation Guide
Fedora 11 Installation and Post-Installation Guide in Chinese

ubuntuTo be honest I never liked the default Gnome themes used by Ubuntu. Maybe it is because I don't like orange/brown/black colors for my desktop or maybe because I use KDE?! Nevertheless here comes Bisigi project which aims to improve the visualization of Gnome desktop. Bisigi provides a ppa repository for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 which allows you to easily install complete Gnome themes. The themes come with wallpaper, GDM theme, GTK theme, Metacity theme, Emerald theme and of course icons. Here it is how to install them.

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avirecomp-logoIn one of my previous guides I have shown you How to embed/hardcode subtitles in your videos using VirtualDub. The disadvantage of this method is that you have to reencode your original video thus leading to a quality loss. In this tutorial I will describe you how to hardcode your subtitles to an AVI video file without recompression using Avi ReComp. Why would you want to embed subtitles to a movie file? If you want to watch your favorite movie or TV show in a handheld device (such as iPhone, iPod Touch, PSP, your mobiled phone etc.) you have no other option but to embed the subtitles file since those devices don't support external .srt files. So, download Avi ReComp, its freeware, install it and let's get started.

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matroska-logoIn this guide I will describe you the steps on how to easily convert MKV video files to  AVI. Of course someone would ask why to do this, MKV along with the H.264 codec has better quality. Well a simple answer is in order to reproduce the video file on a standalone divx player and watch it in your TV or in any other portable device that doesn't support mkv files. Just for the record MKV stands for Matroska Multimedia Container and it is an open standard free container format, in other words it's a file format that can hold video, audio and subtitles in a single file.

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ubuntu.jpgUbuntu 10.04 codenamed Lucid Lynx is released! Once again Canonical and Ubuntu developers have done their best to improved Ubuntu. Just for the record Ubuntu is a Linux Operating System. The new version loads faster than Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, is more social, allows you to easily manage and edit your photos, videos and documents and of course has a lot of bug fixes and software updates. If you haven't done it already download Ubuntu 10.04 and install it or upgrade from the previous Ubuntu 9.10 and let's get started.

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media-center-master-logoIf you are using Media Center software such as Windows Media Center (WMC), XBMC or Boxee you will know that it looks awesome when apart from the video files you keep movie's metadata, backdrops, posters, trailers, story plot etc. In this guide I will show you a freeware program which makes the job of collecting and organizing metadata fast and easy. Download Media Center Master install it and let's get started.

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iphone_3gs_logoIt is well known that Apple does its best to keep its mobile devices (iPhone , iPod touch and the new arrival iPad ) locked. Of course most Linux users don't like those practices  but for one reason or another they might have an iPhone 3GS for example. If you want to synchronize your iPhone 3GS with your computer for Windows and Mac OS there is iTunes available. However for Linux iPhone support was a very big problem. Until know! Libmobiledevice aims to change that and from what you will see in the video below they are doing a very good job!

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