How to Install VLC 3.0 RC in Ubuntu 16.04, 17.10 The new major VLC media player 3.0 reached RC2 release. The VideoLAN team made it easy to test VLC 3.0 dev releases via Snap packages in Ubuntu. Changes in VLC 3.0 include: HTTP/2 support. Improved UPnP support. Adaptive streaming support. Early work on Wayland support […]
For anyone who wants to make installing Ubuntu, Linux Mint or any other Ubuntu 16.04 based Linux distribution a little easier, I present my script for adding third party programs to the system. Just copy and paste into your favorite text editor and change to suit your needs. ubuntu-16-3rd-party-install.sh #!/bin/bash # Script to install third […]
Samba File Sharing In Ubuntu 16.04
How to Install YouTube-DL GUI in Ubuntu 16.04, 17.04 Looking for a graphical front-end of youtube-dl, the popular cross-platform command-line YouTube downloading tool? Well, youtube-dlG is an open-source front-end GUI written in wxPython. The tool is quite simple, all you need to do is simply paste the video URLs (one URL per line) in the […]
Ubuntu 16.04 does not play a startup / login sound in my laptop, but it’s easy to play a sound at login and customize the sound file by adding a new startup program using Startup Applications utility. And below steps will show you how: 1. Launch Startup Applications utility from the Dash. 2. When it […]
Linux kernel is the essential part of any Linux operating system. It is responsible for resource allocation, low-level hardware interfaces, security, simple communications, basic file system management, and more. Written from scratch by Linus Torvalds (with help from various developers), Linux is a clone of the UNIX operating system. It is geared towards POSIX and […]
Linux Kernel 4.8.8 is Released, Improves IPv6 and IPv4 Support, Updates InfiniBand Drivers Linux kernel is the essential part of any Linux operating system. It is responsible for resource allocation, low-level hardware interfaces, security, simple communications, basic file system management, and more. Written from scratch by Linus Torvalds (with help from various developers), Linux is […]
Key highlights of Linux kernel 4.8.7 Looking at the appended shortlog and the diff from the previous point release, it looks like Linux kernel 4.8.7 is quite a big update that changes a total of 122 files, with 1096 insertions and 541 deletions. Most of the patch includes updated drivers for Intel i915 and Radeon […]
GNU GRUB has been the number one choice among the available system bootloaders for many years now, so replacing such a trusty piece of software for something else isn’t exactly common among Linux users. That is why I will suggest to replace it with a fork of GRUB that is called BURG. BURG is better […]
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