Linux For The Rest Of Us 1: Intro To The Show

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A podcast for those of you wanting to learn about LINUX but need a little push.  Hosted by Steve McLaughlin and Steve Cherubino.

Introduction to the first episode by Steve Cherubino and Steve McLaughlin.

[07:21] Steve M talks about an officially sponsored site (http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com) were anyone can go in and vote on ideas and submit ideas how to make Ubuntu better.

[08:30] Steve M explains why the show will be using Ubuntu as there main distribution, and why people like Linux Mint.

[10:50] Steve C explains about the Distro’s.

[13:30] Steve M explains the difference between the free and paid versions of Linux.

[17:00] Steve M talks about a podcast on (http://hackerpublicradio.org/) were a guy takes old computers and some scripts and makes his own version of Carbonite were he can backup to a friends house.

[19:30] Steve M talks about Wine (www.winehq.org)

[25:55] Steve gives a plug to a tremendous Wine application called “Play On Linux”  (http://www.playonlinux.com).

[29:57] Steve C asks how are the multimedia programs like audio editing and video editing in Linux.

Audio
Audacity – http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Video
PiTiVi (pre-installed on Ubuntu) – http://www.pitivi.org/
Kdenlive – http://www.kdenlive.org/
VLMC – http://trac.videolan.org/vlmc/

[33:18] Steve M talks about VLC video player.

[35:06] Steve M talks about the menu configuration between Linux and Windows.

[36:50] Steve C asks Steve M how did he get into Linux.

[43:40] The flow of how to get things on your computer.

[53:11] To find applications on the net try:

Apt-url – (http://apturl.net/).
PlayDeb – (http://www.playdeb.net/welcome/)
AllMyApps – (http://ubuntu.allmyapps.com/install-pc)

[58:23] Quick caveat for downloading.

[59:57] Last words before wrapping up.

[1:00:07] Don’t hesitate to ask questions.