Linux For The Rest Of Us #66 – Door Is The Show

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A Linux podcast for anyone even remotely interested in Linux! With Steve Cherubino and Steve McLaughlin, the Door to Door Geek

Episode 66 Show Notes

[0:3:31] Basic Basic.
One truth – on today’s Linux you never ever need to use the command line.

[09:28] 10 things you must teach new Linux users.
(http://m.zdnetasia.com/10-things-you-must-teach-new-linux-users-62302951.htm)

[18:21] Barnes & Noble takes on Microsoft’s Android patents – Barnes & Noble strikes back in legal filing with 46 pages of examples attacking Microsoft’s Android patents as trivial and insignificant.
(http://www.infoworld.com/t/android/barnes-noble-takes-microsofts-android-patents-179648)

[24:09] Linux kernel patch slashes power hunger – Linux users working on laptops and other portable devices may soon have cause to rejoice thanks to a new kernel patch that finally promises to fix power regression problems associated with recent versions of the software.
(http://mobile.techworld.com/news/green-it/3319690/linux-kernel-patch-slashes-power-hunger/)

[26:30] Performance Hacks & Tweaks for Linux.
(http://www.businessinsider.com/performance-hacks-and-tweaks-for-linux-2011-11)

[32:46] Free Tools for Getting Started with the Mighty GIMP Graphics Editor – If you’ve spent any time working with graphics–whether you favor open source software or not–you’re probably familiar with the power of GIMP, one of the very best open source graphics applications.
(http://ostatic.com/blog/free-tools-for-getting-started-with-the-mighty-gimp-graphics-editor)

[35:18] How To Use pfSense To Load Balance Your Web Servers – In this HowTo I will show you how to configure pfSense 2.0 as a load balancer for your web servers. This HowTo assumes that you already have a pfSense box and at least 2 Apache servers installed and running on your network, and that you have some pfSense knowledge.
(http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-use-pfsense-to-load-balance-your-web-servers)

[39:45] Ardour: An Audio Editor That’s Hard to Master and Tough to Beat – Ardour is a serious digital audio workstation. Those who want a casual, easy-to-use sound editor probably won’t be well-served by it. But for those willing to put in the time to explore its many options and wade through long help documents, Ardour can be a sophisticated, powerful audio editing and mixing tool.
(http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/73760.html?wlc=1321882716)

[44:48] ‘Steel Storm’ Sequel To Land on Linux First, Will Be First-Person Shooter – A sequel to the hugely successful game ‘Steel Storm’ is in the works – and it’s coming to Linux first
(http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/11/steel-storm-sequel-to-land-on-linux-first-be-first-person-shooter/)

[46:02] Gaming on Linux, Now a Reality with Desura – Desura is a community driven digital distribution service for gamers, putting the best games, mods and downloadable content from developers at gamers fingertips, ready to buy and play.
(http://www.desura.com/games)

[48:52] Kdenlive Part 1: Introduction to Kdenlive – GNU/Linux has infamously been wanting for a good, solid, professional-level free video editor for years. There have been glimpses of hope here and there, but mostly the editors that have the look and feel of a professional application are prone to blockbuster-worthy crashes, and those that have been stable have mostly been stable because they don’t actually do anything beyond very basic editing. Kdenlive changes all of that.
(http://opensource.com/life/11/11/introduction-kdenlive)

[52:57] LiveUSB Install – Not Just Another Live USB Creator for #Linux – USB pendrives – those little things in your pocket that can sometimes save your skin. They are so small, yet they can be so extremely useful. So what happens if you want to try out a GNU/Linux distro, but you don’t want or can’t use a CD/DVD – the answer is pretty simple – you make a LiveUSB.
(http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/11/liveusb-install-not-just-another-live-usb-creator-for-linux/)

[54:56] Penguin in the Pew (Download Edition).
(http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/penguin-in-the-pew-%28download-edition%29/17542003)

[57:34] Intrusion detection systems : Using tripwire on Linux- Intrusion Detection Systems, are software applications that monitor a network for any suspicious activity, the keyword here being “monitor”. The difference between an IDS and a firewall is that while the former usually just reports any unusual activity, a firewall is an application created to stop said activity.
(http://how-to.linuxcareer.com/intrusion-detection-systems–using-tripwire-on-linux)

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