By contrast, GNOME has favored a System menu of separate items. The exact contents of the System menu depends on the distribution, but usually it is divided into Personal and Administration sub-menus. This division can sometimes cause confusion, especially when similar items are in both menus, or where an item belongs is unclear. For instance, network configuration tools can be found in both sub-menus, while printer configuration could be justified as belonging in either.

This tutorial series steps you through the process of creating a 3D shoot'em'up game using the popular and powerful Ogre 3D engine. The tutorials compile on both Windows and Linux.

Earlier today I decided to upgrade the firmware on my SOHO’s Linksys WRT54G v5 router. I usually do such things on the weekends in case something breaks. It is a good thing I waited until the weekend this time. My Linksys WRT45G is now “bricked”. For some unknown reason the firmware update never finished although I waited for over an hour for it to complete. Of course no internet access was happening during this time and I could not get to any web sites to try to discover what I could do to fix the router.

Enter an old Dell Dimension XPS R400 PC that has been gathering dust in the closet.

decided to put up this guide which shows how to install the latest Wine release in Ubuntu 9.04 using 3 different methods. The default Jaunty repositories come with Wine 1.0.1, but the latest release is 1.1.24 and a new version is available every two weeks, so here is a tutorial which explains how to get the last Wine release in Ubuntu or Kubuntu Jaunty.

In this article, let us review 15 examples for Linux top command that will be helpful for both newbies and experts.

1. Show Processes Sorted by any Top Output Column – Press O

By default top command displays the processes in the order of CPU usage. When the top command is running, press M (upper-case) to display processes sorted by memory usage as shown below.

The default software and codec selection is very nice, it's probably the first time ever that I didn't have to install any codecs. Some examples of the smart choices made by the Mint team are Tomboy, Gimp, Thunderbird, Pidgin, and Gnome Mplayer. Another GREAT decision was the removal of games. These aren't needed by everyone and shouldn't have been installed by default anyway.

The hardware we are using for benchmarking this time was a Lenovo ThinkPad T61 notebook with an Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 processor, 2GB of system memory, a 100GB Hitachi HTS72201 7200RPM SATA HDD, and a NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M graphics processor powering a 1680 x 1050 LVDS panel.

This article selects 6 of our favourite office suites which run under Linux. Please be aware that three of the entries (Google Docs, Zoho Office Suite and Lotus Symphony) are released under proprietary software licenses, but all of the software listed below is available to download for no charge. Large software corporations recognise the importance of challenging Microsoft's dominance over the office suite. We have software developed by Sun Microsystems, Google Inc, and IBM.

What we want to concentrate on right now is the first bit, drwxr-xr-x. This string of characters lists the full permissions of the file or directory. It is also important to know the next two strings (in this case both are jlwallen) are the user and group associated with the file.

Let’s go back to the permissions string. The first character, d, means the listing is a directory. Now, instead of looking at the next portion of the string as a single group, think of it as three groups:

KShutdown allows you to set the exact date and time or "time from now" which is what I and likely you will want. Just set the time in hours or minutes and click ok. You can also set it to initiate when a certain application you select closes which may come in handy sometimes as well.

In an operating system such as Ubuntu or openSUSE, your data is stored on your hard disk, in the Google operating system, everything is stored somewhere out there on the internet. Chrome is not like other operating systems and is being aimed at netbooks. The early netbooks, such as the Eee PC 701, did not arrive with a great deal of RAM or disk space, however, more recent netbooks have something like 64GB or 160GB of disk space and at least 1 or 2GB of RAM. You can install a full version of GNU/Linux into any of these.
Some design goals for the Google Chrome OS user interface include using minimal screen space by combining applications and standard webpages into a single tab rather than separating the two.

The gnome shell desktop can be separated in two parts: the desktop view (where you see either your desktop, or one or more applications open where you can work on them), and the Activities overview (where you have a panel with several functions and an overview of you active workspaces and open applications organized so that you see each application equally inside a workspace, and where you can only drag them between workspaces and select one as the active one). There's innovation in both these parts, but I believe most of it comes in the Activities overview.

Before you can rip audio and video, there are a few things you will need. Audio encoding is fairly straightforward; there is no encryption to break but you will need the codec(s) that translate the source medium into the digital file format you want. For music, you will need a MP3 coder like LAME (or OGG Vorbis, if you prefer using that instead) for lossy audio and/or FLAC for lossless. For video file encoding, you will need libdvdcss2 to break the encryption on retail discs and a video codec like XVID or H.264 to reconvert the original MPEG2 DVD video format into a digital file. (the DVD audio track is handled by the same codecs used to rip music CDs)

1. Remastersys

This tool has a newbie-proof GUI and works on both Ubuntu and Debian distros and any of their derivatives.

Remastersys works by transferring the distro you're running into an ISO image. You can choose to include your settings and personal data too, which makes it ideal for backups.

You may think that word processing is all about WYSIWYG and GUI, but WordGrinder is living proof that a word processor that runs in a terminal does make sense. Thanks to its small and efficient code base containing only 6300 lines of code, WordGrinder will happily run on older machines, and you can even use it on GUI-less setups.

Besides multiplayer, Nexuiz also includes support for bots and a singleplayer campaign. It comes with 15 player models, 13 weapons and 24 official maps, music and original character and weapon sounds.

Nexuiz will run smoothly on older machines at 1024x768, but you will need a decent video card to enjoy it on higher resolutions at a steady framerate. However, lowering texture details and particle details will help if you have an older video card and CPU.

Gentoo, as you may already be aware, has long had a reputation for not being particularly friendly to folks new to it. Although it has shined as a distribution for Linux power users, it has sometimes scared away less tech-savvy users that might have found it somewhat intimidating to deal with.

Sabayon Linux aims to tame Gentoo and make it more accessible to non-power users and it largely succeeds at this goal in this release.

I want to preface this by saying all three of these calcs can be found in your basic software repositories. So installing any one of these pieces of software is just a matter of searching for them in your package management front end (such as Synaptic) or just issuing the command line equivalent for installation. Now, let’s take a look at the tools.