Meego is an operating system framework which is collaborated by both Nokia and Intel, combining their efforts from Maemo and Moblin respectively.
It is opensource and a large part of this framework focuses on the user interface, which is mainly large icons with an easy point & click user navigation interface. The outlook of the interface resembles most of what Intel have had for Moblin.
For linux users whom have been drooling over Apple’s video editor, Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premier Pro on the Windows platform, there is now an opensource video editor out on Linux!
Introducing the OpenShot Video Editor for Linux!
Easy to use “drag & drop” graphical user interface
Combine video clips and insert in nice transitions between the scenes.
Videos can be in 4:3 or 16:9 format.
Tuxarena posted an easy to follow guide to allow “twitting” from command-line without the need of any graphical GUI manager.
Now who says you can’t do anything without a graphical desktop manager?
The full article/tutorial here at TuxArena ” How to Post to Twitter from Command-line “
Once you have set it up, try the command below..
twitter.sh SGLNX:Singapore's Local Linux News Matters : http://bit.ly/7LNiua
Much to linux users’ frustrations, many hardware and its specification’s labels do not endorse any support for linux.
While the folks at Kernel.org tries their best to include common and popular hardware drivers into the kernel, there are bound to be some left out. One of these hardware is wireless 802.11 wifi adapters. Due the various chipsets used by different vendors and manufacturers, some of them may not be supported by current kernels and thus causing distress to linux users whom have purchased these wifi cards and usb adapters.
There is a tool available that can make use of the Windows drivers that come with the wifi adapter and make the wireless adapter work in linux.
Enter NDISWRAPPER
This tool is present on most popular linux distro repositories. Some distros even have a graphical user interface for this tool.
More info here
Using Ubuntu NDISGTK GUI to activate wireless cards : Kimbriggs.com
SGLNX recommends noobs to learn how to use ndiswrapper.
For new linux users, installation of new packages/applications can be quite a breeze. Each distribution has its own graphical front-end package installers. eg Synaptic Package Manager for Ubuntu, PackageKit for Fedora, YaST for openSUSE.
The popular distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE have their own software repositories where users can use the grahical front end package manager to install their desired application softwares (packages). However, there are always new open source applications being developed and not all make it to be included in these repositories.
