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Yesterday, I needed to determine the runtime of a Linux process for a monitoring script. Cos the format for start_time of the ps command may change if the process was not started in the same year, I decided to take the neccessary informations from the /proc/<PID>/stat file.

User's ability to attach a priority value to its own process upon execution determines whether you are being nice to your fellow users on the same system. Are you being nice or you simply abuse system resources for no apparent reason? In this article you will learn how to manage your processes in terms of how much processing power they consume and how to change a priority value of your processes using nice & renice Linux command. We will start with some basic theory about what is process, process scheduling, how to fork new process and then we move to nice command and explain how to change process priority value.

Welcome to the 193rd issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 13 of 2012. It features small articles bundeling (important) open source related news in one page. This week includes a lot of releases, including XMBC, Linux Mint Debian Edition Update Pack 4, Red Hat hits $1 billion and more.

Having recently converted to Android from my iPhone 4, I have been very happy with the range of apps to replace what I had on iOS. In many cases, I’m finding the apps better. The Android ethos seems to be more about function, rather than design and aesthetics. However, one area where I’ve found the Android to be lacking is in respect of the “todo” category.

There are plenty of things that you can do when you have plenty of money. Mark Shuttleworth, for example, spent some of his fortune for the privilege of being one of the first space tourists. Another part of his capital is involved in the company named Canonical, which works on the famous Linux distribution, Ubuntu.

Almost exactly one year ago, GNOME 3 was released with much fanfare. But to the surprise of many, it was not warmly welcomed. Indeed, it has polarized the Linux community, mainly because it was such a radical departure from the familiar and popular GNOME 2. Although some praised the new interface, it seemed that many more geeks were not impressed, leading to a rather bitter war of words on various online community forums.

Multiuser systems such as Unix should never be just “shut off”. Active users connected to the system are rightfully miffed if their terminals die without warning. Even if the users have all logged out and gone home, there may be background jobs and daemons ticking away. Daemons get mad if their processes are suddenly curtailed.

A less obvious danger lays in the way the Unix file system works.

I just discovered that today it’s the world backup day, and with the slogan on the webpage: “DON’T BE AN APRIL FOOL. BACKUP YOUR FILES. CHECK YOUR RESTORES.” they remember that is always a good habit to have 1 (or more) backup of our important data.

But in the days of social network, cloud computing and emails always left on remote servers, where are all our information and how we can save them securely ?

The Ubuntu Recoll Lens is an amazing Unity Launcher plugin that uses the Recoll full text search tool to easily search text in local documents. It also has support for embedded documents.

You will be able to filter the results by Text, Spreadsheet, Presentation, Media, Message, and Other.

I don't do a lot of bad reviews about ubuntu, but this time around since I want the next release to be absolutely bug free (90% fixed) I have something to say about nuisances I found in Ubuntu 12.04 beta 2.

After making massive neckbeards a universal style statement, Richard Stallman, revered software freedom activist and computer programmer, has turned to the world of fashion. His new collection, titled RMS, is a luxury line of clothing specially designed for geeks and programmers. The launch follows on the success of GNU, a fragrance which he created and distributed for free.

GNU find is a powerful command-line utility that lets you search for files and folders in a hierarchical tree directory structure. It is the backend for all those utilities out there like the graphical searching in KDE or GNOME. However, find can be a little hard to handle at first by beginners. In this tutorial I will try to explain some of the capabilities of find, show some useful one-liners and provide more explanations regarding this command.

Adobe has released Flash Player version 11.2 with many new features. This is last and final Flash Player release for Linux platform and now onward there will be only security and bug fix updates. Last month Adobe announced that it is withdrawing Flash Player support for Linux platform. All the future newer Flash releases will be bundled with Google Chrome using its Pepper API and for everything else, 11.2 will be the last release.

0 A.D. is a strategy game that has been around for quite some time now, and it reached a decent level of completeness despite the fact that Wildfire Games are releasing only alpha versions. It’s free, open-source and available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X and the latest alpha, codenamed ‘Ides of March’, comes with a whole bunch of new features and fixes.

DamnVid is an apps video downloader and converter from popular videos sharing website such as YouTube, Dailymotion, Veoh, Metacafe, Blip Tv, iTuneS Podcast and More. DamnVid is cross-platform Apps that available for Linux Distribution,Mac OSX and Windows. DamVid is currently available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Norwegian.

Speech synthesizers are text-to-speech systems used with computers. This type of software is programmed to include phonemes and the grammatical rules of a language, so that words are pronounced correctly.

After spending some time messing with it, I can say very confidently that it is just about the best feature in GNOME 3.4, and if you combine it with Deepin Linux‘s built-in screen grabber and image editing tool, you have two very good reason to consider using a distribution that ships with a modified GNOME 3 desktop.

The Wine development release 1.5.1 is now available.

It’s been a long time since a desktop environment has caused so much controversy in the FOSS universe. How long? It is really hard to say, since the last time I can recall any kind of user backlash and retreat was over half a decade ago when the KDE project announced KDE 4.0.