Dec

9

Is There Any Good Screencasting in Ubuntu?

December 9, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 10 Comments
Posted in Applications

One of the things I’ve personally found frustrating in Linux is the development status of screencasting applications, or lack thereof. Some projects remain in beta, never coming to fruition, and eventually being abandoned. Others have quirks that seem to cause different issues based on what system they’re installed on. Why am I posting about this? [...]

May

21

Top 10 Linux Video Applications – NOT!

May 21, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 8 Comments
Posted in Applications, Experiences

I recently read a Digg post “10 Free Apps that Turn your Ubuntu into a Video Studio” and it annoyed the heck out of me! Maybe I’m being too critical, but I don’t see 10 top video applications in Linux (I’m an Ubuntu user). In fact, I don’t even see ten productive, functional, Linux based [...]

Mar

16

Build a Web Developer PC and Enable Most Media Playback Using Ubuntu Linux

March 16, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 11 Comments
Posted in Applications, How to..., Linux Projects - Hands On

For those of you who follow my other blog, you’ll know that my last Windows PC had a major failure again. You can read some of the specifics in the “When Disaster Strikes – Again” post. At that point I decided to install Ubuntu (effectively removing Windows based PC’s from the network). In some ways [...]

Feb

28

Top 100 of the Best (Useful) OpenSource Applications

February 28, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 155 Comments
Posted in Applications, Experiences, News

The following is a list of about 100 of the best OpenSource Applications, that actually help make Linux more usable for people. It is my hope that this list shows potential Linux users that there really is a large, effective, productive and usable range of free, OpenSource applications. For existing Linux users (like myself), I think this will provide a great resource in finding applications that may better suit your needs, or just for fun! Needless to say, this is just some of the thousands of applications available! I develop web sites, so this list tends to focus on applications which support that type of work.

Aug

15

The Simple Way to Get 5.1 Surround Sound Audio Working in Ubuntu

August 15, 2007 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 22 Comments
Posted in How to..., Installation

I recently upgraded the audio card on my Ubuntu (7.10) system, which was an “issue” simply because I created it (instead of looking at the issue and jumping to conclusions instead of analyzing possible causes). Suffice it to say, a word to the wise… If your motherboard comes with a soundcard embedded and you want [...]

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