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When someone wants to switch to Linux, one of his concerns is that he has to give up his favorite applications in the old platform. To solve this problem, Wine was developed to help the former Windows users be able to use Windows apps on Linux. Unfortunately there isnt any such tool for former Mac users.

UnetBootin is very useful for creating a bootable USB for your favorite Linux distro. What some peopme may not know is that it can be used to create a bootable USB for Windows 7 as well.

How to use mencoder to add subtitles to videos

Apple always loves to do weird things. When MacOS Lion was released, the mouse scrolling direction is reversed and called "natural scrolling". It means you will have to scroll up the middle wheel to read the lower part of the page and vice versa. And Pear Linux adopt this feature too to make it behave like Mac OS.

All in all, Pear Linux 6 is a quite nice distro. In my opinion, it is very suitable for those who are new to Linux and just want a simple, good-looking distro. I just installed it for my little sister and she really loves it.

MBR (Master boot record) is the default bootloader of Windows. After you install a Linux distro alongside with Windows, MBR will be replaced by the bootloader of the Linux distro (usually Grub or Grub2). If you want to remove the Linux distro out of your computer, the first thing you need to do is to restore MBR.

Vector Linux is a distro that has been around for quite a long time. It is based on Slackware, with Xcfe, KDE and LXDE as the available desktop environments. According to the official website, the aim of Vector is to keep the distro simple and small and let the end user decide what their operating system is going to be.

When people want to try Linux, it is very likely that their first distro is either Ubuntu, Mint or Zorin. But after using Linux for a while, most users will know about and want to try Arch Linux, a lightweight, flexible and highly customizable distro. You will gain a lot of benefits from trying and using Arch Linux. One week of messing around with Arch Linux will teach you more about Linux than one year of using Ubuntu. There are several things you need to prepare before installing Arch Linux the first time to save time and get the best experience with Arch Linux.

After running a command in the terminal, you can re-call it by simply hitting the up arrow button. Another way to recall the previous command you can use is to type the double exclamation marks ("!!"). In other words, when you run the double exclamation marks in the terminal, the previous command will be executed. This tip can be quite handy when you want to re-run the previous command as root.

There are many commands to view text files. The most used one is "cat" which is the most suitable to read small text files, "more" and "less" can be good options for large files. But if you are just interested in the beginning or the end of a large file, "head" and "tail" may be very handy for you.

How to create a simple text image with Imagemagick

A digital clock is actually nothing special, most distros include one by default. However, in this article, I will show you how to get a continuous digital clock in the terminal. The basic command you can use to display date and time in the terminal is "date". When you open the terminal and run "date", you will have an output of the current date and time. To abbreviate the output to display the time only, you can add a tag (like "+%r" or "+%T") to the "date" command.

How to mount partitions without authentication in Fuduntu. In Fuduntu, if you have other internal partitions ( when you use dual boot with Windows, for example), you will see this dialog box asking for the root password when you try to mount these partitions..

10 things to do after installing Fuduntu

A full review for Fuduntu 2012 with many screenshots

Use location entry in Nautilus in Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon

SING is the first distro released by Todd Robinson for his 31 Flavors of Fun ( there are 4 available distros already). Here is a quick review for SING with some screenshots of this distro in live CD mode.

Todd Robinson from On-Disk.com is trying to create and release 31 different usable and complete Linux distros everyday in August 2012. Three distros have been released, they are named SING, SOHO and Debian_live_VTWM.

In Linux Mint 13 MATE, the file manager Caja is set to use the path bar instead of the location entry for the directory path. Using the location entry has some advantages over the path bar, such as when you want to copy paste the directory path into the terminal, or when you want to access to a folder quickly by typing the path instead of searching and clicking.

Normally, when you right click on the Gnome terminal, there will be the option to turn on/ off the Menubar. When you click on this option, the menubar in the Gnome terminal will disappear. However, if you close this terminal and start another one, the menubar will appear again and you will have to turn it off once more.