Cardinal Quest, an Indie dungeon-exploration game
Thanks to http://www.gamingonlinux.com/ i’ve discovered that Cardinal Quest was released freely for a limited time from Gameolith, (not free anymore sorry, i hope you have read my tweet on this offer),...
View ArticleHow to convert from .deb to .rpm and viceversa
As many of you know the most used packages on GNU/Linux are deb and rpm. deb is the extension of the Debian software package format and the most often used name for such binary packages. Debian...
View ArticleCheckinstall, install from the source in the best way
Recently I’ve discovered this great program that helps a lot to avoid one of my worst nightmare, to have a lot of packages installed from the sources, and lose track of them in my system, how ?...
View ArticleNew computer, new distro or goodbye Ubuntu, welcome Mint
In the last 2 days I’ve been busy with my new desktop, I’ll use it as my home computer where i browse, write office documents do some gaming everything on Linux of course. With my requirements more or...
View ArticleHow to stop packages from being updated in Linux
Sometimes it’s useful to tell to our GNU/Linux system that we want to keep some packages on Hold or that we do not want to update them , for example you could have added a custom kernel and you don’t...
View ArticleHow to install a single package from Debian SID or Debian Testing
Today I was in need to install 1 single package from the unstable release of Debian in a server installed with the stable release, so what’s the best way to get this done ? For this example I’ll use...
View ArticleZFS is ready for your Linux desktop
As first thing a small lesson about what’s ZFS: ZFS is a combined file system and logical volume manager designed by Sun Microsystems. The features of ZFS include protection against data corruption,...
View ArticleHow to convert YouTube Video to MP3 easily on GNU/Linux
While looking at the top 10 download of Ubuntu app center for the month of April 2013 I’ve discovered a new software available for Ubuntu : YouTube to MP3. It’s not a secret that on youtube there are...
View ArticleFlareget a great download manager for Linux
flareGet is a full featured, advanced, multi-threaded, multi-segment download manager and accelerator for Linux, It allows user to pause, resume or monitor the download speed. The application is free...
View Articlespringseed – A simple program to take notes on Linux
To taking my short notes so far I’ve always used Tomboy, it’s a good small software and in the past I choose it because it could sync notes on Ubuntu one, but this supported has been dropped some...
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