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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 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot is here! Below you can find some helpful tutorials for old and new users!

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Post-Installation Guide
How to install Gnome Shell on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot
Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Post-Installation Guide
Best Gnome Shell Extensions
How to install Ubuntu Linux on Windows using VirtualBox

Fedora 16 Installation Guide

Fedora 16, codename Verne, is available for download and it comes with a lot of new features and bleeding edge software. It comes with the new Gnome Shell 3.2 and KDE Plasma Workspace 4.7 along with Linux kernel 3.1. Grub2 is now used by default and HAL has been completely removed. BTRFS is still not the default file system but you can of course select it during the installation. If you haven't done already download Fedora, install it and let's continue with the post installation guide to configure some basic stuff for Fedora.

Fedora 16 Post Installation Guide
Fedora 15 Post Installation Guide
Fedora 14 Post Installation Guide
Fedora 12 Installation and Post-Installation Guide

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 searched for a few good books. Here they are. Happy reading!

Linux Books

Linux DVD/Video

Here you can find some tutorials and guides on how to author a DVD, rip a DVD, convert a video etc. using open source software on Linux.

How to author a DVD using Bombono DVD
How to convert a video to Xvid/x264 using Avidemux
How to author a DVD using 2ManDVD
How to rip a DVD to DivX/XviD/H264 using DVD::Rip
How to create a photo DVD slideshow in Linux



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12. IRC Clients

* Konversation

A Qt based IRC client for KDE users

su -c 'yum install konversation'

* xchat

A gtk+ based IRC client for GNOME users

su -c 'yum install xchat'
You will find it under Applications -> Internet -> IRC

13. MSN Messenger Clients

Use an Instant Messenger to communicate with your friends. Ok, you all know what Instant Messengers are. Aparth from those above you can also read my 6 Best Linux Instant Messengers tutorial.

* Empathy

Empathy is the default Instant Messenger of Fedora 10. It supports many different networks such as Jabber, Salut, Google Talk, AIM, Gadu Gadu, GroupWise, ICQ, MSN, QQ and Yahoo. It's in Applications -> Internet -> Empathy Instant Messenger. If it's not there install it by typing:

su -c 'yum install empathy empathy-libs'

* Pidgin

Pidgin was the default IM client of Fedora 9. If you like it better than empathy install it by typing:

su -c 'yum install pidgin'

* Kopete

Kopete is KDE's IM client. If you are a Gnome user it will download a lot of KDE packages and other utilities so be prepared. Install it by typing:

su -c 'yum install kdenetwork'

* aMSN

Another pretty good IM is amsn. It has plugin support also.

su -c 'yum install amsn amsn-plugins'
You will find it under Applications -> Internet -> aMSN

14. Author, Burn and BackUp CD/DVDs

* Sound-Juicer

Sound Juicer is a CD ripping tool. It supports flac, oga, mp3, wav and spx output formats. It is installed by default and you can find it under Applications -> Sound & Video -> Audio CD Extractor. If it's not there install it with:

su -c 'yum install sound-juicer'

* GnomeBaker

A CD/DVD burning utility for GNOME.

su -c 'yum install gnomebaker'
It's under Applications -> Sound & Video -> CD/DVD Writer GnomeBaker.

* k3b

Probably the best Linux CD/DVD burning program. It comes along with a lot of KDE dependencies if you are using GNOME.

su -c 'yum install k3b'
To enable all encoding features and programs for k3b type:

su -c 'yum install k3b-extras-freeworld vcdimager normalize transcode lame lame-libs'

* Brasero

Brasero is a CD/DVD disc authoring tool for the Gnome desktop.

su -c 'yum install brasero'

* k9copy

K9copy is the linux version of DVDshrink.

su -c 'yum install k9copy'
su -c 'yum install libdvdread libdvdnav lsdvd'

* DeVeDe

DeVeDe is a very good dvd authoring tool. It allows you to convert any type of video format to DVD so that you can watch it in any player you like.

su -c 'yum install devede'
For those who would like more info I have written a guide on How to create a custom DVD using DeVeDe .


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