Screencasting Linux

Screencasts are short narrated video screen captures of your computer screen. They are usually shared on the web and used heavily by tutorial websites. They make tutorials a lot more lively and at times can be more effective than tutorials that use only text and images. You can create a screencast quite easily and share it with others on your website or over a video sharing service such as YouTube or Vimeo. Let’s look at how you can create a screencast using free software on your Linux desktop or laptop. We’ll set up the software recordMyDesktop through Ubuntu and then create a simple screencast so that you can see how the entire cycle works.