ghacks

gHacks: How do I download Linux? That's a question that I hear fairly often.

gHacks: Of the various applications for creating bootable Windows or Linux drives, RMPrepUSB offers some unique features which may be appealing to many users.

Ghacks: "In my last article I introduced you to the open source OpenShot Video Editor (see my article “Create videos with OpenShot video editor.”).

In that article I alluded to OpenShot's ability to add transitions to your video"

ghacks: "I wanted to take that idea a little further and cover a similar tool that allows you to chat with fellow users on your LAN WITHOUT have to add them to a buddy list.

Giver is such a tool. Once started it will auto-discover users and allow you to chat away."

Ghacks: "In this article I am going to show you how to migrate your ext2 or ext3 partition to ext4. I will use a Ubuntu machine as an example.

I want to warn you that you could lose data by doing this so, following good administrative practices, back up your data!"

Ghacks: "Are you desperately searching for ways to finally reach that elusive 10 second boot time? You certainly heard that Ubuntu 10.04 has the capability of doing just that right?

It can…but you have to help it along."

Ghacks: "Say, for instance, you have a number of machines that serve as Web servers or Samba servers. Instead of having to scroll around to find them, you can group those machines together, by service, to make for much easier monitoring."

Ghacks: "On occasion I have a need for a tiny, lightning fast Linux distribution to boot into in order to check various issues on a machine.

Either that or I just don’t want to monkey around with someone else’ data. Either way, I will often grab for either a CD or flash drive containing my favorite “micro” distribution, Puppy Linux."

Ghacks: "In this tutorial you will see how simple it is to tether your Android phone to your Ubuntu laptop. Ha!

Got ya. There's nothing to install. Ubuntu and Android come with everything you need to pull this off."

Ghacks: "Is it really almost 2010? The first decade of 2k is nearly at an end, a decade that has been quite prosperous for the Linux operating system."