Opensource

Vertu TI: A Titanium Open Source Phone

Vertu TI is a handmade phone crafted by single man in England and it is engineered to perfection. It has over ten years in...

Installing MATE Desktop on Fedora 18 / 19

The great thing about Linux is the choices we have available to us. One of the choices are many different Windows Managers. There are...

Cinnamon and Nemo File Manager in Ubuntu 13.04/13.10

Whats app guys? Do you know about Cinnamon Desktop Environment? Do you know anything about Nemo File Manager? I know that they are official on...

Run Android 4.3 “Jellybean” in VirtualBox

Hello Unixmen readers. It's been a long time since I have wrote an article for our website. Today we'll check out one of the...

Padre Review – Perl Scripting Environment

I am currently working on a personal programming project. Once completed, the eventual binaries will actually be launched by either running a Python or...

Pf vs iptables, Untangle, Pfsense – Why not both?

My name is Jacob Graham and I am a Junior Systems Administrator in Victoria, Canada. This will be my first writing for Unixmen and...

How to Extract Images from PDF Files with pdfimages

This article is going to be a bit different than other articles I have published previously. You guys have learned a lot about Linux...

How to Access Remote Linux and Windows Shares with Gigolo

If you are using Lightweight desktops like LXDE or XFCE, then you can't find the way to browse the network shares through their native...

WINE 1.6 Has Been Released! PPA Ubuntu 13.04 and Linux Mint...

Wine 1.6 has been released. According to the announcement, the new release is a result of 16 months of development efforts and comes with...

Tips to Make Ubuntu Look Cool

I am a cool geek (I think) and I want my Ubuntu box to be as cool as possible. Lately, Ubuntu is losing users...

Ubuntu 13.10 Wallpaper Contest Kicks Off

Hi geeks. Do you know about Ubuntu 13.10 wallpaper contest? This competition is open to everyone, so if you think you have the skills to...

Performance on Linux. Just how far *can* we go?

As the title suggests, Linux and performance in the same sentence makes for an interesting topic of discussion. Everyone knows there is a multitude...

Sandboxed Gentoo

Introduction This article is a guide on installing Gentoo in another Linux distribution (Arch, in this case). Look at it like a BSD Jail. It's...

Fedora 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat) Has Been Released

The new stable version of the Red Hat sponsored community Linux distribution Fedora 19 (Schrödinger's Cat) has been released today with many new features. It...

Install Moodle Learning Managment System on CentOS 6

Moodle is a Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a...

How to Autostart Compiz in Arch Linux

For all Compiz Lovers, here is the method of starting Compiz automatically in XFCE desktop environment on Arch Linux. Let's start with a small introduction...

State of OpenIndiana

When Oracle announced it was discontinuing the development of OpenSolaris, there was shock among the free Unix community. OpenSolaris was...

Upgrading to LibreOffice 4.0 on Fedora 18

LibreOffice 4.0 was recently released with many new features. Fedora 18 comes with 3.6 and does not have 4.0 available in the repositories for...