Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Simple Screen Recorder is a screen recorder application, with support for X11 and OpenGL. Having a simple and intuitive GUI built by using the Qt libraries, it enables the users to easily record both the entire screen (having multi-monitor support also) or parts of it only, or OpenGL applications.
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How To Install Simple Screen Recorder 0.3.0 On Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 12.04 And Derivative Systems (LinuxG.net)
A couple of months ago, we have described an awesome tool called TimeShift that can be used to restore your Linux desktop to the previous working state in Unixmen. In the same series, today I introduce a new tool named systemback.
Systemback is an open source, system backup and restore application. Using Systemback, we can easily create backups of system and users configuration files. In case of problems, we can easily restore the previous state of the system. There are extra features like system copying, system installation and Live system creation.
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Systemback: Restore Your Linux System To Previous State (Unixmen)
Windows command-line tools have advanced a lot with PowerShell, but Linux has had a much more usable terminal for many years. Here’s how you can get the best of both worlds with Cygwin, a ‘nix-style terminal for Windows PCs.
In today’s lesson, we’ll explain how to get Cygwin running, but stay tuned for future articles where we’ll explain how to use it for all sorts of different things.
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How to Use Linux Commands in Windows with Cygwin (How-To Geek)
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Most of you know about rdesktop which is used to view and access Windows desktops remotely from any GNU Linux systems. rdesktop is an open source client for Windows Remote Desktop Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user’s Windows desktop. rdesktop is known to work with Windows versions such as NT 4 Terminal Server, 2000, XP, 2003, 2003 R2, Vista, 2008, 7, and 2008 R2. Be mindful that you can use rdesktop only on Linux systems which has X window system.
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Rdesktop: Access Windows Desktops Remotely From Linux [Quick Tip] (Unixmen)
The Fedora project has announced that the “yum” package manager will be replaced by “Dandified Yum” (dnf). Work started on dnf package manager back in January 2012 when it was forked from yum. It was made available for experimental use in Fedora 18, and work is underway to make it the default package manager for Fedora 22.
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Everything You Need to Know About the DNF Package Manager (Make Tech Easier)
This article shows examples and proper syntax for sending email from the Linux command line or terminal using Mutt, Mail or Telnet.
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Send E-mails from linux command line or terminal using Mutt, Mail & Telnet (KBTECHWORLD)
Virtual Hosts are used to setup more than one domain or websites using a single IP address. This is very useful if anybody wants to run multiple websites using a single IP address on single VPS.
In this tutorial, let me show how to setup virtual hosts in Apache web server on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Be mindful that this tutorial is only tested On Ubuntu 14.04 32bit edition. I may not issue any assurance that this will work on all other Ubuntu lower versions and Ubuntu derivatives.
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Setup Virtual Hosts In Apache On Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Unixmen)
Last year I wrote an article called “Linux Podcasts and Magazines” which listed some of the best magazines and podcasts about Linux. Having looked back at that article I am aware that it could have gone a lot further as there are loads of podcasts that could have been named.
The following is a list of my favourite Linux based podcasts. This list is in no particular order as I think they are all good in their own way.
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Top 9 Linux Podcasts (Everyday Linux User)
Linux command line offers various commands to kill a process. For example, the ‘kill’ command can be used to kill a process by passing its PID as an argument, the ‘pkill’ command takes a pattern as an input and all the matching running processes are killed. But there exists a command ‘killall’, which exactly matches the argument name by default, and kills the matching process. In this article, we will discuss this command with some practical examples.
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What Options you use for Linux killall Command ? I have 5 Options (LinOxide)
Guake Indicator is an Ubuntu AppIndicator for Guake terminal users, useful for those who need to connect to multiple SSH hosts frequently: the indicator lets you easily manage your favorite SSH hosts and establish new SSH connections via Guake.
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Easily Manage / Connect To SSH Hosts With Guake Indicator (Web Upd8)
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