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FLHL 015 4-16-09 - Linux Networking

mail@freelinuxhelpline.net — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:08:01 GMT

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FLHL 014 4-9-09 - Linux Gaming

mail@freelinuxhelpline.net — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:06:02 GMT

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FLHL 013 4/2/09 WINE and Windows Software in LInux

mail@freelinuxhelpline.net — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:57:59 GMT

WINE is a way to get Windows software to work in Linux. Today we talk about that as well as handle emails, voicemails and a live caller all while showhosts are dropping like flies!

Cedega - http://www.cedega.com - Cedega is a paid subscription support service with a specialized version of WINE that simplifies installation of Windows PC games on Linux.

WineHQ - http://www.winehq.com Run Windows applications on Linux, BSD and Mac OS X! Open Source Software for running Windows applications on other operating systems.

AppDB - http://appdb.winehq.org/ Wine Application Database. Here you can get information on application compatibility with Wine.

Winetools - http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/ WineTools is a menu driven installer for installing about 90 Windows programs under the x86 (Athlon or Intel PC) processor architecture with the Linux operating system using Wine such as:
* IE6
* Windows Core Fonts
* Windows System Software
* Office & Office Viewer
* Adobe Photoshop 7, Illustrator 9
* many other programs

Displaying media player info in Conky
http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=41938

***Package of the week***
Will: GIMP - http://www.gimp.org - GNU Image Manipulation Project - GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

Jeff: ElectricSheep - http://electricsheep.org - Electric Sheep is a free, open source screen saver created by Scott Draves. It's run by thousands of people all over the world, and can be installed on any ordinary PC or Mac. When these computers "sleep", the screen saver comes on and the computers communicate with each other by the internet to share the work of creating morphing abstract animations known as "sheep". The result is a collective "android dream", an homage to Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.

FLHL 012 3/26/09 - Common Linux Myths and Misconceptions

mail@freelinuxhelpline.net — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:55:53 GMT

This week we'll be talking about common misconceptions surrounding Linux. We do grumble a bit, but its only because we're defending our own.

WineHQ - http://www.winehq.org Open Source Software for running Windows applications on other operating systems. For more info, listen to the next show!

Cron - http://www.linuxhelp.net/guides/cron/ An extremely useful program, Cron is a utility that can help with automating certain tasks in Linux. It is the quintessential scheduling program in Linux.

Further reading on the topic:

Five Common Misconceptions About Linux
http://www.mi80.com/node/1760

This is a list of common misconceptions in the Linux advocacy discussion.
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Linux_PR/linux-misconceptions.html

**Package of the Week**

Jeff: Alien - http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien/ Alien is a program that converts between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, and slackware tgz file formats. If you want to use a package from another distribution than the one you have installed on your system, you can use alien to convert it to your preferred package format and install it. You can find instructions for converting RPMs to DEBs at http://www.howtoforge.com/converting_rpm_to_deb_with_alien

Justin: Mplayer - http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems. It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5, WMV and even H.264 movies.

murphnj: fennec - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec Fennec is the name of the build of the Mozilla Firefox web browser for mobile phones and smaller non-PC devices. While Fennec is based on Firefox, the user interface is completely redesigned and introduces a number of new paradigms. It uses touchscreen interaction methods (or the cursor keys, for non-touchscreen handsets) in place of dragging actions with a mouse. Some of the add-ons and plug-ins available for Mozilla Firefox are available for Fennec.

will: Geany - http://www.geany.org/ Geany is a text editor using the GTK2 toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. It supports many filetypes and has some nice features.

pegwole: htop - http://htop.sourceforge.net This is htop, an interactive process viewer for Linux. It is a text-mode application (for console or X terminals) and requires ncurses. It is one of many ways to kill a running process in Linux.

FLHL 011 3/20/09 - Software installation in Linux

mail@freelinuxhelpline.net — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:15:55 GMT

This week we talk about every way we can think of to install software on a Linux machine... Also, a caller calls in with a problem and we need your help to fix it!

www.linux-laptop.net This is a great site where users post their experiences installing Linux on specific models of laptops. If you're having trouble getting Linux on your laptop, this is great resource!

digitaldragonslair.net digital picture frame

Midori (緑 ?, Japanese for green)http://www.twotoasts.de is a web browser that aims to be lightweight and fast. It uses the WebKit rendering engine and the GTK+ 2 interface. Midori is part of the Xfce desktop environment's Goodies component.[2] As of February 2009, the project is still at alpha status.

SourceFORGE www.SourceForge.net is a source code repository. It acts as a centralized location for software developers to control and manage open source software development.

Freshmeat www.freshmeat.net Freshmeat is a website that allows computer users to keep track of the latest software releases and updates as well as write/read reviews and articles, send or receive comments to or from the author, and many other features.

Google's software repository http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/ Google's Linux software repositories make it easier to download and stay up-to-date with current releases of Google Linux applications.

GetDeb - http://www.getdeb.net/ Getdeb is an Ubuntu software portal with ready-to-install applications in Ubuntu's default .deb package format. Getdeb.net was created to make it easy for Ubuntu users to install the latest versions of Free/Open Source applications quickly and easily.

Playdeb http://www.playdeb.net/ Playdeb is a gaming repository for Ubuntu - aimed to provide titles already available on getdeb.net in an easier to install and update format.

AptUrl https://launchpad.net/apturl is a simple graphical application that takes an URL (which follows the apt-protocol) as a command line option, parses it and carries out the operations that the URL describes (that is, it asks the user if he wants the indicated packages to be installed and if the answer is positive does so for him).

www.Linuxpackages.net This site is dedicated to the the enrichment and enhancement of the Slackware Linux operating system
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www.LinuxQuestions.org offers a free Linux forum where Linux newbies can ask questions and Linux experts can offer advice.

Gentoo Wiki http://en.gentoo-wiki.com Provides HowTos, tips and tricks and man-pages around Gentoo/Linux.

***Package of the Week***

Nido: GQview - http://gqview.sourceforge.net An image browser that features single click access to view images and move around the directory tree. It is for Unix operating systems (such as Linux). It's key features include single click file viewing, external editor support, thumbnail preview, and zoom features. Some image management features are also included.

Xoke: EasyTAG http://easytag.sourceforge.net EasyTAG is an utility for viewing, editing and writing tags of your MP3, MP2, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, MusePack and Monkey's Audio files.

jrullo: Emma http://www.fastflo.de/projects/emma Emma is a graphical toolkit for MySQL database developers and administrators
It provides dialogs to create or modify mysql databases, tables and
associated indexes. it has a built-in syntax highlighting sql editor with
table- and fieldname tab-completion and automatic sql statement formatting.

etank: Shutter - https://edge.launchpad.net/shutter Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program. You can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website - apply different effects to it, draw on it to highlight points, and then upload to an image hosting site, all within one window.

Lord_Drachenblut: Coccinella - http://www.getdeb.net/app/Coccinella is a free and open-source cross-platform instant messaging client with a built-in whiteboard.

Jeff: Blueman GTK+ Bluetooth Manager www.blueman-project.org This is a replacement for the Ubuntu Bluez utilities which provides much greater functionality and greatly improved setup options.

Will: abcde http://lly.org/~rcw/abcde/page/ A Better CD Encoder Abcde is a frontend command-line utility (actually, a shell script) that grabs tracks off a CD, encodes them to ogg or mp3 format, and tags them, all in one go.

FLHL 010 3/14/09 - Browser Extensions and Plugins

mail@freelinuxhelpline.net — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:25:27 GMT

This week we talk about all the things you can plug into a web browser to enhance your surfing experience. Also, we make the decision to move the show to Thursdays, so be sure to catch the live show on the new day, Thursday at 7pm US Central Time!

Greasemonkey - http://userscripts.org/ Power-ups for your browser. It allows you to change how your favorite pages behave and look. There are many scripts that have already been written, and if you know javascript you can easily create your own!

Java - http://java.sun.com/ Java is a programming language that can run on many different computers including mobile phones. It was originally developed by Sun Microsystems and released in 1995. There are small Java programs, called Applets. They often run inside web browsers. Java should not to be confused with JavaScript, a scripting language mainly used by web browsers.

Adobe Flash - http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/ Adobe Flash is a proprietary computer program created by Adobe Systems. Adobe Flash and Adobe Flash Player are used to create and view animated content that can be placed/viewed on web pages. Adobe Flash is used commonly on the Internet.

Moonlight - http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight Moonlight is an open source implementation of Silverlight (http://silverlight.net), primarily for Linux and other Unix/X11 based operating systems. In September of 2007, Microsoft and Novell announced a technical collaboration that includes access to Microsoft's test suites for Silverlight and the distribution of a Media Pack for Linux users that will contain licensed media codecs for video and audio.

Gnash - http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ Gnash is a GNU Flash movie player. Flash is an animation file format pioneered by Macromedia which continues to be supported by their successor company, Adobe. Flash has been extended to include audio and video content, and programs written in ActionScript, an ECMAScript-compatible language. Gnash is based on GameSWF, and supports most SWF v7 features and some SWF v8 and v9.

SWFDEC - http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/wiki/ Swfdec is a free/open source replacement to the Adobe Flash web multimedia player. It is currently compatible with Linux and FreeBSD and is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

NoScript - http://noscript.net/ NoScript for Firefox pre-emptively blocks malicious scripts and allows JavaScript, Java and other potentially dangerous content only from sites you trust.

DownThemAll - http://www.downthemall.net/ DownThemAll lets you download all the links or images contained in a webpage and much more: you can refine your downloads by fully customizable criteria to get only what you really want.

User Agent Switcher - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59 Adds a menu and a toolbar button to switch the user agent of the browser.

Joecartoon - http://joecartoon.atom.com/ Start your day with JoeCartoon and enjoy a dose of funny videos and cartoon characters in the humor filled site. Enjoy funny pics, games, videos & animation.

XPRA - http://partiwm.org/wiki/xpra Xpra gives you "persistent remote applications" for X. That is, unlike normal X applications, applications run with xpra are "persistent" -- you can run them remotely, and they don't die if your connection does. You can detach them, and reattach them later -- even from another computer -- with no loss of state. And unlike VNC or RDP, xpra is for remote applications, not remote desktops -- individual applications show up as individual windows on your screen, managed by your window manager. They're not trapped in a box.

Online Bookmark Manager - http://www.onlinebookmarkmanager.com/ OnlineBookmarkManager is a free bookmark-, favorite manager + Firefox plugin (extension) + import and export functions + a personal link list.

Firephorm - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7536 Firephorm is an extension for users of ISPs that deploy the Phorm Webwise (proxysense) system. It can add phorm opt-out cookies to web-page requests to avoid storing a phorm tracking cookie for each web site you visit, avoid phorm webwise.net redirects, and protect your preference to opt-out from being overriden.

WebDeveloper Firefox Extension - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60 Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.

**Package of the Week**

Justin: Internet Tablet OS 2008 codename Diablo for N800 and N810 - http://maemo.org/maemo_release_documentation/maemo4.1.x/

Xoke: Vega Strike http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/ Vega Strike is an Open Source 3D Action-Space-Sim that lets you trade, fight, and explore in a vast universe. Vega Strike is built on top of OpenGL and runs on Win/Lin/Mac platforms. Vega Strike (the game) is currently in a playable state, but both game engine and dataset are under continued development.

Will: Youshare//geexbox http://ushare.geexbox.org/ uShare is a UPnP (TM) A/V & DLNA Media Server. It implements the server component that provides UPnP media devices with information on available multimedia files. uShare uses the built-in http server of libupnp to stream the files to clients. GeeXboX uShare is able to provide access to both images, videos, music or playlists files (see below for a complete file format support list). It does not act as an UPnP Media Adaptor and thus, can't transcode streams to fit the client requirements.

Jeff: gmail-notify - http://gmail-notify.sourceforge.net/ The Gmail Notifier is an application that alerts you when you have new Gmail messages. It displays an icon in your system tray to let you know if you have unread Gmail messages, and shows you their subjects, senders and snippets, all without your having to open a web browser.

jrullo: openssl - http://www.openssl.org/ The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library.

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FLHL 009 3/7/09 - Upstream and Downstream

mail@freelinuxhelpline.net — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:47:43 GMT

In this installment we discuss the finer points of upstream and downstream and what those two terms mean in the realm of open source software. We also talk a little bit about the differences between desktop environments, take listener questions and email, and generally have a good time. Xoke's page on Conky http://xoke.org/node/58 LAGER game podcast http://www.thelinuxlink.net/lager Package of the Week Snacky:GMRun http://sourceforge.net/projects/gmrun A simple program which provides a "run program" window, featuring a bash-like TAB completion. It uses GTK+ interface. Also, supports CTRL-R / CTRL-S / "!" for searching through history. Running commands in a terminal with CTRL-Enter. URL handlers. Xoke: World of Goo by 2dboy http://2dboy.com/games.php World of Goo is a physics based puzzle / construction game. The millions of Goo Balls who live in the beautiful World of Goo don't know that they are in a game, or that they are extremely delicious. Jeff: TvTime http://tvtime.sourceforge.net tvtime is a high quality television application for use with video capture cards on Linux systems Will: midori http://www.twotoasts.de Midori is a lightweight web browser featuring: * Full integration with GTK+ 2 * Fast rendering with WebKit * Tabs, windows and session management * Flexibly configurable Web Search. * User scripts and user styles support. * Straightforward bookmark management. * Customizable and extensible interface. * Extensions written in C.