Category: cool tested GNU Linux Apps

there is no menu-manager installed per default. it was named „alacarte“ now it is named „mozo“ easy MATE menu editing tool Mozo is an easy-to-use menu editor for MATE that can add and edit new entries and menus. It works […]

ps while being only two letters is a massively complex, complicated and powerful tool. per default it outputs all running processes sorted for Process ID (PID) but you can change that sorting. here are the „ps info page/man“ ps.info.txt ps […]

The really great thing about open source there is always a hacker stripping out the bad stuff, leaving in the good stuff and releasing it to the public. thank you! there is even a mobile version of it. BE AWARE! […]

under Debian / Ubuntu it is quiet easy. All GUI programs are based on streamripper. StreamRipper + RipStar GUI on Centos7 there is no pre compiled package for Centos7 / Redhat, so you will have to compile it yourself, but […]

UPDATE! Debian 9 supports Compiz super fancy 3D Accelerated Desktop!? UNTESTED! (it will probably only work with limit amounts of GPU, like 1 out of 3 laptops will support it, this was true for compiz under Knoppix 7.2) how to […]

apt-get update; apt-get install –only-upgrade <packagename>; # update only this package

please see: https://dwaves.org/2017/04/24/linux-batch-rename-multiple-files-at-once-remove-chars-in-the-middle-of-filename-how-to-mass-rename-disable-wordpress-xmlrpc-php/

usually iphones/smartphones take pictures with 2-3-4-5MByte which can fill your harddisk/webserver pretty fast. It is wiser to shrink them down before upload. While under Windows i would recommend you http://www.irfanview.com/ Under Linux you can do that with ease 😀 apt-get […]

echo "deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian wheezy main non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update && apt-get install rar rar RAR 4.00 beta 3   Copyright (c) 1993-2010 Alexander Roshal   17 Dec 2010 Shareware version         Type RAR -? for help […]

a simple, sleak, efficient Gnome2 based desktop system, adding printers worked like a charm 🙂 keep up the good work. MARCO(1)                                       […]

i am impressed. i did not know there is such a cool chart 😀

If you insert an copy-protected DVD into Linux Debian, it won’t play. if you run: dmesg [ 23.698945] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE [ 23.698948] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] [ 23.698950] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current] [ 23.698955] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] [ […]

installing ffmpeg on debian is rather tricky (you will need to compile from source). under CentOS7 it is easy yum install ffmpeg and you can substitute avconv command with ffmpeg and the script just works the same. thanks to all […]

You can not include links to pics – you will have to embed the Base64-encoded-version of your pic in the /etc/mumble-server.ini 1. open a picture in GIMP e.g. 2. shrink it down to like 100-300px in width. 3. ramp up […]

It’s as simple as cool as linux… the „player“ software VLC is also a recorder or a streaming-station 😀 you can try to automate this process: This one-liner worked for me, with audio and video: cvlc v4l2:// :input-slave=alsa:// :v4l-vdev="/dev/video0" :v4l-norm=3 […]

tested on: Linux laptop 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u2 (2016-01-02) i686 GNU/Linux update: 2019-01: also tested on hostnamectl # Operating System: CentOS Linux 7 (Core) # CPE OS Name: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7 # Architecture: x86-64 if using one core is enough: # […]

tested and works on: Linux laptop 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u2 (2016-01-02) i686 GNU/Linux it is a little confusing… but you can set the default wired or wireless connection profile that the machine should chose like that: 1. you start […]

for easy network management under gnome apt-get update; apt-get install network-manager-gnome; # install the network manager tool # optional: apt-get install gnome-nettool; # install network debugging tool network-manager-gnome nice tool to manage your weird wired and wireless networks if it […]

sudo apt-get install calibre To actually convert the EPUB file you can use the following command: ebook-convert file.epub file.pdf (For details, check this other answer)

gnome-maps is a nice openstreetmap based application under gnome3. tested under Linux laptop 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u3 (2016-01-17) i686 GNU/Linux https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Maps

„So it appears that the unexpected (putting it mildly) disappearance of TrueCrypt.org and the startling disavowal of TrueCrypt’s bullet proof security will turn out to be a brief disturbance in the force. We should know much more about a trustworthy […]

Checkout: IceCat QupZilla 1.6.6 on Debian-Gnome3 install debian linux apt-get update; # you know what this does apt-get install qupzilla; # install qupzilla Screenshots Import Bookmarks.html it’s nice that Arora and QupZilla (the naming is terrible 2 remember :-D) allow […]

update: 2018.04 PaleMoon (Mozilla code base) was just updated and released https://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml It is based on Firefox 27.9 (?) and pretty fast UserAgent from header Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.9) Gecko/20100101 Goanna/3.4 Firefox/52.9 PaleMoon/27.9.0 youtube works uBlock works and comes […]

Checkout: IceCat it’s always a good idea to try out alternatives. 🙂 Welcome to Arora: (under Debian-Gnome3) Arora is a lightweight, cross-platform, free and open-source web browser developed by Benjamin C. Meyer.[2][3][4][5]  Benjamin C Meyer (icefox) Waltham, MA benÄTmeyerhomePUNKTnet http://benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com/ Joined on […]

… some aptitude command deinstalled a bunch of programs so i could not unzip anything under gnome desktop. (love it… sleak fast beautiful… maybe 50MByte of RAM usage) sudo bash; # become root apt-get update; # update package def apt-get […]

what is great about mumble: clients exist for Windows, OSX, (at least Debian/Ubuntu) Linux and even Android and IPhone. the audio quality is SUPERB (better than phone) if you use good headphones like sennheiser a disadvantage is the reverb that […]

Source & Creditz: https://l3net.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/a-memory-comparison-of-light-linux-desktops if you are running Debian Linux on a Laptop with only 1GB of RAM and want to use things as Virtualization… lightweight is important. There are Linux-Desktops out there consuming less than Windows 98!

tested under: Linux laptop 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1 (2015-05-24) i686 GNU/Linux vim /etc/apt/sources.list; # open software package repository list # and add at the end deb http://apt.jenslody.de/stable jessie main deb-src http://apt.jenslody.de/stable jessie main apt-get update; # you will get […]

get a terminal-bash-shell… apt-get install libgtk-3-dev; # install gnome3 header files mkdir -p /projects/c/guigtk+; # create project directory cd /projects/c/guigtk+; # enter project directory vim gnome3gui.c; # create new file # fill it with that content #include <gtk/gtk.h> static void […]