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[Ubuntu] Brief Interview with Mark Shuttleworth, Founder of Ubuntu

This is a very nice video featuring Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu Linux. He goes into some of the reasons he started the Ubuntu project, and where he hopes to take it. Enjoy.

2 comments May 27th, 2009

[Ubuntu] Must Have Apps for Ubuntu Users

These are apps every Ubuntu user should look into. They make life on Linux so much more pleasant and easy. As a new Ubuntu user, I don’t know how I would go on without them:

1. AllTray – Allows you to minimize apps to the alltray system tray.
2. amaroK – Music player
3. Automatix2 – Makes it easy to install common applications
4. Beagle – A search tool
5. Beryl – an OpenGL accelerated desktop with a combined window manager and composite manager.
6. CheckGmail – Gmail notifier clone
7. Cinlerra – Capture, composite, and edit audio and video.
8. Deluge – Bittorrent client
9. Flash – Can’t surf the web without it.
10. GIMP – Repeat after me. Photoshop is over priced and bloated.
11. Gnomebaker – burn CDs and DVDs
12. Gnome Deskbar Applet – An app launcher that is a cross between Mac’s Spotlight and Quicksilver
13. KMyMoney – Quicken without the suckiness
14. MythTV – TiVo for Ubuntu.
15. Opera 9 – I love Firefox but sometimes a site won’t work in it but works in Opera.
16. Scribes – Note taking application
17. Thunderbird – You’ll never miss Outlook!
18. Vim – Text editor
19. VLC – media player that can play nearly everything.
20. Wine – Allows you to run (some) Windows programs

(list by usrbingeek)

Add comment May 26th, 2009