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27 Jul 2019 3 minute read 1 comment uthus2000
I was going to reply to TrekJunk's article I'm a strong proponent of Linux but realized the reply was more of a story and would be fairly long so I linked the article. Getting Started About 20 years ago I was working in the dining facility of a priva...
27 Jul 2019 1 minute read 1 comment TrekJunky
Thousands of free programs some of which are better than the programs you pay for. I have a plan to convert a business to Linux and save the company Hundreds of dollars. Linux is here to stay and you have the option to pay for support even though the...
23 Jul 2019 1 minute read 0 comments TrekJunky
You can use youtube-dl to download youtube videos or from other places as well. With Audacity, you can extract the audio and then convert it to .wav format to create a CD, or convert to .mp3 format to create a DVD. The use a DVD burner of your choice...
23 Jul 2019 1 minute read 6 comments TrekJunky
Most Linux flavors are free. Free as in Free Beer, but also so much more like Free Speech or Free to use. All Linux flavors come with about 500 or more free AKA Open Source software programs WITH the option to download THOUSANDS more FREE You can do...
23 Jul 2019 1 minute read 0 comments TrekJunky
If you don't mind change AND you want to try something more than Zorin OS, may I recommend OpenSuSE Leap 15.1 (the latest at this writing). OpenSuSE Leap is made for the newbie, the amateur, the expert, the engineer, and the developer. All of us c...
20 Jul 2019 1 minute read 0 comments TrekJunky
For almost ANY Video, with almost any Linux flavor, you can download this software called DeVeDeNG. The NG stands for Next Generation. You may need to install what is NOT Open Source Software to get it to work, but it does work fabulously. You may ne...
19 Jul 2019 1 minute read 0 comments TrekJunky
For some people, leaving Windows behind can be scary and daunting. Linux or Mac. Mac is expensive so you would be trading one bill for another. But MOST Linux is free. After you get your feet wet with free Linux OSes you still have the choice to pay...
19 Jul 2019 1 minute read 0 comments TrekJunky
Open Source Software gives you the freedom to run the software, the freedom to study and modify the software, the freedom to redistribute the software, and the freedom to distribute your modifications. Items marked with (w) have Windows Versions. E...
19 Jul 2019 1 minute read 1 comment TrekJunky
LibreOffice is a suite of software that includes Writer, Base, Draw, Calc, and others which replaces MS Office's Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access etc. The best part is that LibreOffice saves in MS Office format so you can still share your documents wi...
12 Jul 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Jared York
In this guide, we will learn how to work with the file system. Let's cut to the chase. We can start by opening the terminal. Now by default, your shell is looking in the home directory. A shell is a program that processes commands and returns outp...
