Google’s own Web browser chrome which was and is liked by many geeks for it’s speed and simplicity is now available on Mac and Linux platforms too . So , you can just download it and enjoy Chrome browser in your own Operating system be it Linux Mac or Windows.
For Linux and Mac only beta version is available right now, which can be downloaded from links given below ,
Newbie’s to Linux often face the dilemma of where to install or put the binaries of any software app they wish to run on their Linux. If that app comes with a installer it’s ok but if not then It’s tough time , well here I would recommend some important points to consider while choosing the directories for installation of your Apps etc.
Most of us have a old Computer or laptop that we wish to revive but modern day OS like Windows Xp, Vista and even Ubuntu are too much demanding in terms of resources ( including processor and RAM ) . After looking on various forums and Blog articles, I have selected Vector Linux and Puppy Linux as my choice , My friends system is a 500Mhz celeron with 256 MB RAM and 10GB of hard Disk .
I chose puppy Linux and vector linux as both of them are far better in terms of looks and applications that come bundled with both of them , another very strong contender is Damn small linux ( but believe me Guys it’s so damn small , that it barely is good for a average user , leave it for Geeks ) , both Vector linux and Puppy linux come with GUI environments with Web browser Mp3 and audio/video playback support and Drivers for your hardware and are well suited for the average linux user or even a novice.
This is for newbies in Linux who are trying to learn Linux and in the meantime require to install several apps most of them are available in the repository ( Ubuntu,Suse,Fedora etc .) , installing from repository is very easy but if you download a tarball or a compressed archive of the software package source code then you can easily install it using these commands at your terminal ( command interpreter )
Assuming ,
tar -zxvf mytarball.tar.gz
./configure
make
sudo make install
assuming that you are in the directory where you downloaded the tar.gz file, for more details on this and how it works, you can read a well written article by Joshua Price here, I dont think it would be worthwhile to repeat the same steps and explanation here .
Linux is ultimately the most versatile and Powerful OS ever built and that is why it attracts hackers and tech savvy guys lot, now I have collected some Special linux commands that will help you do complex things easy and will also help you save your precious time
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080
This Command will serve the current directory tree at http://$HOSTNAME:8080/
So if you wished to share some files with your friend over the Internet streaming them right from your pc then just run this script, check your IP using whatismyip.com and then ask your friend to open,
http://Your IP:8080/ for example http://123.34.56.12:8080/ and he/she can copy your files immediately
echo “ls -l” | at midnight
OR
echo “ls -l” | at 10am Jul 21
Now , the first command will do a “ls -l” at midnight , and to run any other command at a specific time just type in the command then the pipe operator(|) follwed by “at time”
Like the second command will do a “ls -l” at 10 am on july 21st
Ever wished to have a Yahoo Webcam chat in your Linux but all you could get was a text chat using pidgin , well for those who did not knew this there is a special multi protocol IM client ( these are those that support multiple chat networks like aol,msn,yahoo,gtalk etc .) it’s name is KOPETE and believe me it is a wonderful. It comes already installed with KDE version of Ubuntu ie. Kubuntu but you can get it installed on Ubuntu Gnome from your Synaptic package manager
Using Kopete, you can easily have a Webcam chat with your friends inside Linux .
Have you ever Googled the Internet for a software to Download complete website for you , but you only found a Windows software or maybe a Linux one too , but did you ever knew that your Linux box has a nifty command to make all your troubles go away and download a full website with just a single command , Yes ! wget does it and here is the command just copy paste it in the shell and edit the website details at the bottom .
$ wget \
–recursive \
–no-clobber \
–page-requisites \
–html-extension \
–convert-links \
–restrict-file-names=windows \
–domains techstroke.com \
–no-parent \
www.techstroke.com/Windows/
We all know that windows has a lot of Download accelerators for it, but same is not true with Linux and Mac , although their are alternatives like Kget and wget in Linux , but still they are not that effective as they can not be integrated with Firefox, do not have multi-threaded download feature etc.
wxDownload Fast (also known as wxDFast) is an open source download manager. It is multi-platform and builds on Windows(2k,XP), Linux and Mac OS X. Besides that, it is a multi-threaded download manager. This means that it can split a file into several pieces and download the pieces simultaneously.
