Watch All Your Videos & Music With Totem Movie Player [Linux]

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Everyone likes a good media player, no matter what system they’re using. While I still highly recommendVLC media player as one of the best for any system because of its wide range of playable formats and open source nature, it certainly isn’t the only media player worthy of your time. In fact, most of the popular Linux distributions [...]

6 Different Ways To Kill Unresponsive Programs in Linux

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Most Windows users know about the utility of the Ctrl + Alt + Del keys when dealing with an unresponsive application. A program is said to be unresponsive when it doesn’t respond to any user interaction and neither does it perform its intended actions. There are plenty of jokes surrounding the whole Ctrl + Alt [...]

Fedora 12 – A Visually-Pleasing, Highly-Configurable Linux Distro You Might Want To Try

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Rounding out the fall releases from the big cheeses in Linux comes Fedora 12. Fedora is a popular Linux distribution funded by Red Hat, the most profitable Linux corporation active today. Fedora usually sits within the top three or four most popular distributions at distrowatch.com. Much of the company and community work that goes into [...]

Two Minimalist Linux Text Editors That Make Writing Easy

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It took decades of writing, but I’ve come to a realisation: word processors do way more than what I need. Programs like Microsoft Office and Open Office are intended for laying out content visually to be printed on sheets of paper. You can use them to format text in your desired font, to add tables [...]