Linus Torvalts Teling the Philosophy Behind Linux

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In a interview with TED Talk Curator Chris Anderson, Linux Torvalds explain then philosophy of life, coding, engineering and working for Linux. He created Linux kernel back on 1991 and it changed the technology world. He also created Git, which is a source code management system for developers.

In this video Linus Torvalds said "I am not a visionary, I'm an engineer," He says. "I'm perfectly happy with all the people who are walking around and just staring at the clouds ... but I'm looking at the ground, and I want to fix the pothole that's right in front of me before I fall in." 
Video lenth: 21.30 minutes.

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Screen Saver in Linux

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We may not know that there is a huge collection of screen saver available for Linux. Most of them are colorful, attractive and aesthetically beautiful. It's name is 'xscreensaver'.

This jaigantic collection could be used in any Linux distribution. All Linux variants could download this bunch with their corresponding software or application download center.

Debian based Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Linuxmint, Peppermint, Bodhilinux, AntiX, LXLE etc. could download it via 'Synaptic Package Manager'. Other Linux users could found it in 'YaST Software Management' or their own 'Software Center' or 'Package installation Center'.

xscreen saver and its screensavers packages in synaptic package manager

What they have?

According to supplied information XScreenSaver is a modular screen saver and locker for X11 desktop. This package has capability to only blank and lock computer's screen. But this screen saver could contain more than 200 screen savers with some extra download.

Install 'xscreensaver-data' to get two non-GL screensavers 'Fiberlamp' and 'Fuzzyflakes'.

Fiberlamp xscreen saver

Fuzzyflakes screensaver

Install "xscreensaver-data-extra" to get more screen savers. This package include a set of non-GL screensavers ant, anemone, anemotaxis, apollonian, apple2, attraction, barcode, blaster, blitspin, bouboule, boxfit, braid, bsod, bubbles, bumps, ccurve, celtic, cloudlife, compass, coral, critical, crystal, cynosure, deco, decayscreen, deluxe, demon, discrete, distort, drift, epicycle, eruption, euler2d, fadeplot, fireworkx, flag, flame, flow, fluidballs, fontglide, forest, galaxy, goop, grav, greynetic, halftone, halo, helix, hopalong, hyperball, hypercube, ifs, imsmap, interaggregate, interference, intermomentary, jigsqw, juggle, julia, memscroller, metaballs, mismunch, moire, moire2, mountain, munch, nerverot, noseguy, pacman, pedal, penrose, penetrate, petry, phosphor, piecewise, polyominoes, pong, pyro, qiz, rd-bomb, rocks, rorschach, rotor, rotzoomer, ripples, shadebobs, slidescreen, sonar, sierpinski, slip, speedmine, sphere, spiral, spotlight, squiral, starfish, strange, substrate, swirl, t3d, thornbird, triangle, truchet, twang, vermiculate, vidwhacker, vines, wander, whirlwindwarp, whirlygig, worm, wormhole, xanalogtv, xflame, xjack, xmatrix, xrayswarm, xspirograph and zoom.

I am going to show some of them with this xscreensaver image/photo/screenshot gallery below.

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Booklet printing in Linux [Solved]

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I always love to print files as booklet which has many pages. Yes, official files can not be print as a booklet, but unofficial files like ebooks, journals, articles, web pages etc. could be printed as booklet. It save paper and toner ink. So, today we will learn how to print files as booklet in Linux operating system.

Most of the printer driver support booklet printing in windows platform, but what about Linux? Yes there are some method. Though company did not provide any tweaks, you can still print booklet in Linux OS. There are several tweaks can be found on internet, but I discovered the easiest method. Printing a file in a booklet style can be done easily with acrobat reader in any linux platform.

I am using LinuxMint13 to do this job in this moment. Please follow me to enable booklet print option in your linux machine.
At first, search 'acroread' in synaptic package manager. Tick it and press apply to download. You should download this file with 'acroread-common' dependency file. 'acroread' file size is 60.1 MB. So, take some time in your hand before start the download.

'acroread' downloading via synaptic

 After completing the download,  you could open a pdf file with Acrobat Reader instantly. Click on Print. A dialogue box will open. You could see 'Booklet' option in 'Page scaling'.

Booklet printing option in Linux Acrobat Reader

I wish now you can save pages and toner ink with this booklet printing method in Linux. There is a file called 'acroread-fonts' you could download via 'Synaptic package manager'. If you install this file in your machine, you could view Acrobat fonts without any hesitation. Remember that this dependency file is larger then 40 MB.

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Create 'Documents' 'Desktop' 'Downloads' 'Music' 'Video' folder shortcut icon on LXDE desktop

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'Documents' folder icon in desktop of LXDE Lubuntu

In this post I will tell you how to create 'Documents' shortcut icon or launcher in desktop on LXDE based Linux distribution like Lubuntu, Salix, Peppermint ,Archlinux, Opensuse, Fedora, Gentoo, Vectorlinux, Zorin, Porteus etc. Here is the simplest method.

Open terminal from Main menu or pressing "Alt+Ctrl+t". Run the command below. No need to use 'sudo'.

cd Desktop ln -s ~/ Documents 

Press Enter. A 'Documents' folder shortcut icon/ launcher has been created in your LXDE desktop.

In this way you can create  'Desktop' 'Downloads' 'Music' 'Video' folder shortcut icon on any LXDE desktop.

To know 'How to create 'Home' and 'Trash' shortcut icon/ launcher in any LXDE based operating systems desktop, please read "Home Documents Desktop Icon on Lubuntu LXDE".

If you quite more curious then you may read this page titled "Adding Applications, Internet Links to the Desktop, .Desktop Files, On The Path".

To explore the world of LXDE you may visit the greate Distrowatch.

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Home Documents Desktop Icon on Lubuntu LXDE

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Home Documents Desktop Icon on Lubuntu LXDE

Creating a Home or Documents desktop  shortcut icon in LXDE based os is very easy. Just create an empty file in desktop and put some code their and save. It's done! You have created Home and Documents desktop icon in LXDE based os like Lubuntu, Peppermint, Salix, LinuxMint Lxde etc.

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Kaspersky using linux to rescue windows os

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Kaspersky antivirus using linux to rescue windows pc

Famous Russian antivirus company Kaspersky using Gentoo Linux based live cd  to rescue Windows pc from critical virus infection. This linux based KDE live cd can remove viruses, trojans and malwares from infected Windows PC.

Unixmen said in their site that:

Linux is not only the most secure operating system, but also the best antivirus too!

Do you know as like Kaspersky Rescue Disk, AVG, Avira, and BitDefender also created Live CD rescue-disks which were based on Linux.

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Check md5sum of ISO on Linux

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After downloading a Linux ISO file it is wise to check it's md5 value. The result will show you that the file is not corrupted and it is safe to use. The MD5 calculation gives a checksum result should be equal with the supplied number. It confirm both file integrity and authenticity. I am writing a simple method to check MD5 (Message Digest algorithm 5) using Ubuntu. This method is same in most linux operating system.

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Tool to graphically display hard drive size in Ubuntu

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If you want to know your hard drive size and other information about your disk usage then 'Baobab' is a perfect tool for you. You can view or analyze disk usage in various graphical style. It will shows graphical tree map of harddisks and directories.

Baobab

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