Ubuntu Studio: A Multimedia Professional’s Dream Distro: Pictorial Walkthrough

Ubuntu Studio is a tailor made  multimedia creation flavor of Ubuntu aimed at audio/video, graphic editors, both enthusiasts and professionals. One could setup a decent studio, and connect midi devices, synthesizers, audio/video recording devices, additional sound cards and installing ubuntu studio on the system. Look and feel of ubuntu studio is very attractive. Folks who [...]

Setting up Reliance USB Modem ( Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E620 USB Modem ) on Ubuntu 8.4 LTS “Hardy Heron”

In this article I am going to provide you a simple and quick way to setup reliance data card on ubuntu hardy heron. Most of the tasks could be done with the script that I am attaching here.
1. Plugin Data Card

2. Download setup script from here. Open a terminal and run it as [...]

Miro : Watching YouTube Videos Made Offline and Simple

Are you tired of waiting till your favorite yououtube video stream is being buffered to avoid jitters?  Are you looking for an application to save youtube videos offline and watch them at your convenience
later? Do you want to save multiple parts of a video and watch it as a whole in one go? …. Try [...]

How to install Broadcom BCM94311MCG WiFi Card on OpenSuse 10.3 using NDISWrapper

Here is a howto to install Broadcom  wireless card drivers on opensuse 10.3  using ndiswrpper and windows drivers. I installed  Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI adapter on  Compaq Presario 3611AU. The process of Installing windows drivers on linux using ndiswrapper is more or less same for most of  the adapters.

Windows Drivers : You need to [...]

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ‘Hardy Heron’ – You’ll never go back

The much awaited version of ubuntu, named ‘Hardy Heron’ (ubuntu 8.04) is officially been launched today. “You’ll never go back” is what canonical says on their official website http://www.ubuntu.com . Ubuntu releases LTS (Long Term Support) every two years and provides 3 years and 5 years of support respectively for desktop and server editions. [...]

Convertig text, html, images to PDF format on Ubuntu Linux

Here is a procedure to create PDF files, convert from any format (html, text, doc ….) to PDF format.
This simple procedure involves adding PDF printer. I have tried it on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)

From the menu, go to System —> Administration —> Printing
Click on New Printner, let it search and come [...]

Restoring System Tray / Task Bar on Ubuntu Linux

I just removed my system tray from the gnome top panel in Ubuntu. I did right click on the panel, and selected add to panel option. I tried searching for System Tray / Task Bar / Launch Bar without any success. Finally searched through some docs and found out that they actually call it [...]

LPI (Linux Professional Institute) Certification Study Guides

LPIC ( Linux Professional Institute Certification )
LPIC is a vendor neutral linux certification which has three levels.
Here are some resources for the LPIC-1 aspirants.
LPIC-1 is divided into two exams, LPIC 101 and LPIC 102

Detailed Objectives for exam 101
Detailed Objectives for exam 102

Study guides available online

LPIC WikiBook
Linux Certification Documentation Project
Penguin Tutorials [...]

Linux Training Session II

Session II : Linux Training – Session II – Basic Linux Commands (Download PDF)
Topics

Command Line Basics

Shell Variables
Executing Commands
Command sequences
Command history
Applying commands recursively

Working with directories

Listing contents of the working directory
Creating directories
Moving in directories
Removing directories

File Manipulations

Display file – more, less, cat
Copy file – [...]