Summary: I recently bought a DVD burner, and I’ve been experimenting with the different software for video conversion, mastering, and burning in Linux.

Summary: Why stick with the standard boring shell prompt when you can easily make it colorful and more informative? In this tip, Daniel Robbins will show you how to get your shell prompt just the way you like it, as well as how to dynamically update your X terminal's title bar.

Summary: To view these short demonstrations, you need to have a video player capable of showing MS AVI DivX files (mpeg4) such as ffplay from ffmpeg, mplayer or xinelib based players.

Summary: gHamachi client attemps to replicate some of the ease and functionality found in the Hamachi Windows client.

Summary: Kadischi is an application for Fedora-based LiveCD generation. It is still in the early stage of development, but has basic functionality and can be run successfully.

Summary: Bonfire is yet another application to burn CD/DVD for the gnome desktop. It is designed to be as simple as possible and has some unique features to enable users to create their discs easily and quickly.

Summary: David Carney, subscriber to the ubuntu-users mailing list had shared the following script to enable mounting ISO cd images from within the Nautilus File Manager, by right-clicking on the iso file to be mounted. You have to create a /media/ISO directory before you can use the script. For more details on how to install scripts for Nautilus, read the How to Install a Script part of the g-scripts faq.

Summary: Wine doors is an application designed to assist users in obtaining, installing, uninstalling and working around the caveats associated with wine applications. Although wine doors is intended to be a replacement for winetools it is not limited to release cycles for the applications available to install, instead a web service will be provided, this web service will serve XML Pack Lists and Application Packs as well as various other resources.

Summary: Drop this file in your home directory renamed to ".fonts.conf" and log out and in again. It turns on auto hinting and makes your fonts sexy smooth.

Summary: OpenVZ is an Operating System-level server virtualization solution, built on Linux. OpenVZ creates isolated, secure virtual private servers — VPSs (otherwise known as virtual environments — VE) on a single physical server enabling better server utilization and ensuring that applications do not conflict. Each VPS performs and executes exactly like a stand-alone server; VPSs can be rebooted independently and have root access, users, IP addresses, memory, processes, files, applications, system libraries and configuration files. See Documentation » Technology for more information.

Summary: Everyone wants a quick boot time, from the beginner user to the advanced user, this is a issue that bothers us all. As Linux has advanced it has increasingly become slower to boot. I have tested on my machine 4 Linux distributions: Linspire, Fedora 3 & 4, Suse 9.2 & 9.3, and Debian. And on average between all these distributions Linux needs around a minute to 1 and half minutes to go from boot loader to graphical login screen. So I decided to look into reducing the time it takes to boot my current setup, which is Fedora 4. In doing so I was able to reduce the boot time of my Fedora 4 installation to less than 25 seconds (just above 24 seconds on average). Below I have documented what I did, and what you can use to potentially reduce your boot up time for Linux.

Summary: Harddisk Image Cloning for PCs

Summary: Metisse [1, 2] is an X-based window system designed with two goals in mind. First, it should make it easy for HCI researchers to design and implement innovative window management techniques Second, it should conform to existing standards and be robust and efficient enough to be used on a daily basis, making it a suitable platform for the evaluation of the proposed techniques.