Author Archives: Chris Jones

About Chris Jones

Chris Jones is a Staff Writer and the Editor of Unixmen.com. He is a long time Linux user, tracing all the way back to SUSE Linux 8.0 from the early 2000's. Chris has worked for many different FOSS Projects and has founded many of his own in recent times, including several Linux distributions, programming languages and FOSS Licenses. chrisjones@unixmen.com

“Brand New” Unixmen Forum is Now Live!

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in Uncategorized

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The Unixmen Team is very proud to announce the latest addition to the growing Unixmen network, our new Technical Discussion Forum. You can view the Forum at www.unixmen.com/phpbb We chose to use phpBB for several reasons. It’s fast, secure and … Continue reading

Basic mplayer Usage from Command-Line

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in Fedora, Frequently Asked Questions, linux command, Linux distributions, Linux Mint, Linux tutorials, Software, Suse, Ubuntu, Unix Tutorials

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There are many ways to play media files from the command-line. In fact, in recent weeks past, here at Unixmen we’ve shown you how do it with a couple of different methods.

Command-Line Downloading Using aria2

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in Hosting, linux command, Linux distributions, Linux Mint, Linux tutorials, Linux webhosting, opensource, programming, Software, Ubuntu

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All Linux distributions come with wget pre-packaged by default. Sure, wget does do the job, but there is an alternative which I believe does a much better job at downloading from the command-line. aria2 is available in the repositories from … Continue reading

NetBSD 6.1 Released

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in News, opensource, Releases, Software

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While we’ve all been deluged with new Linux releases lately, there’s a particular Unix release that flew past almost without getting a brief look at. NetBSD 6.1 was released in mid-May. NetBSD is the Unix of today. And it’s probably … Continue reading

eStudio (Baseline) Code Preview

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in News, opensource, programming, Releases, Reviews, Software

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A couple of months ago, I got word of a project that an acquaintance of mine as working on. Information given to me was very vague at the time because the technical details of the project were still under wraps … Continue reading

First Look: Linux Mint 15 “Olivia”

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in Gnome, Linux distributions, Linux Mint, News, opensource, Releases, Reviews, Software

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I never had plans to test out Linux Mint 15 “Olivia”. But when word came about the office that it had gone stable and was now available, I decided to give it a try anyway. The release is quite bizarre … Continue reading

ElementaryOS Beta 1 and 2 Comparison and Review

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in Linux distributions, News, opensource, Releases, Reviews, Software

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Now I’m sure everyone knows that I love Bodhi Linux, very much. I rant on about it how good it is all the time. Well, here comes the shocking part; I reckon I have found something better. Or should I … Continue reading

Linux Kernel 3.10. It’s BIG!

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in Linux distributions, News, opensource, Releases, Software

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We have not really seen any large changes or updates in the Linux kernel for quite some time. This is actually a good thing as it shows that Linux has become a strong, robust and mature kernel. Development of the … Continue reading

Getting Debian 7.0 ‘Wheezy’ Up and Running

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in linux command, Linux distributions, Linux tutorials, opensource, Releases, Software

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Now that you have installed Debian 7.0 ‘Wheezy’ and got yourself comfortable with it, it’s now time to get some software installed on to your system system. The first things you’ll need to do is update the repository source list. … Continue reading

Debian 7.0 ‘Wheezy’ Review

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in Linux distributions, News, opensource, Releases, Reviews, Software

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Just short of two weeks after the big release of Ubuntu 13.04 ‘Raring Ringtail’, I had Debian 7.0 ‘Wheezy’ arrive on my desk for testing. I have a huge amount of respect for Debian, as do most other Linux users. … Continue reading