Thursday, January 23, 2014

About Linux: New Linux-Based Chinese Operating System

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New Linux-Based Chinese Operating System
There is now an official Chinese Operating System (COS), approved and funded by the Chinese government. Not surprisingly is it based on Linux, the Open Source Operating System, which forms the basis of Android, ChromeOS, and other popular operating systems... Read more

The bc Command Line Calculator
The bc calculator is a powerful command line tool that can be used interactively as well as in scripts. It includes all standard mathematical functions, including... Read more
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Bash Process Substitution and Named Pipes
One of the advantages of the command line is that it provides flexible ways to feed output from one program to another. The "pipe" and "redirection" methods enable this for the cases where there is just one data stream... Read more
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Thursday, January 16, 2014

About Linux: Media Player VLC 2.1.2

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Media Player VLC 2.1.2
One of the most popular open source media players, VLC, has been updated to version 2.1.2 fixing numerous bugs. VLC distinguishes itself through its robust support of a wide range of video and audio formats... Read more

Mad Skills Motocross
This is a fun motorcycle racing game, in which you try to finish the selected race course before your opponent, or you try to beat yourself in the time trial mode. Each of the five divisions... Read more

Pithos – Linux Client for Pandora Music
Pithos is a Linux client that connects to your Pandora account and provides a convenient interface for creating stations, listing to music, and refining criteria used to select the songs for each of your stations... Read more




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Thursday, January 9, 2014

About Linux: GnuCash 2.6 Avaliable

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GnuCash 2.6 Avaliable
The latest version of GnuCash brings various new features and improvements such as linking external document to transactions, saving custom reports with renaming, and using GSettings instead of GConf for preferences... Read more

Prevent Unauthorized File Access with TrueCrypt
The software package TrueCrypt offers easy to use functions for encrypting hard disk partitions, USB drives, and other external storage devices. Once a file system is encrypted... Read more

How to Write grep Queries
The Linux grep command can be viewed as a simplified or specialized database query, where the database consists of plain text files and each line represents a record. The grep command is used to retrieve those lines... Read more




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Thursday, January 2, 2014

About Linux: Ultimate Edition 3.8

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Ultimate Edition 3.8
The Linux distribution Ultimate Edition has been updated to version 3.8. Ultimate Edition aims to provide an easy to install OS with comprehensive functionality and a visually appealing user interface... Read more

Renaming Files with the find, sed, and sh commands
By combining the findsed, and sh commands using the pipe mechanism you can compose flexible and powerful command lines. For example, in one step you can .. Read more

How to Write Regular Expressions for Pattern Matching
The regular expression syntax allows you to do more complex searches than the simple "Find" searches typically available in software applications. For example... Read more




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