The Linux Operating System has a awesome network architecture but for some people who are new to it may just be overwhelmed just by seeing a terminal to configure the network, so what i present to you is a GUI firewall for linux that even allows you to share your internet easily. Its called Firestarter, the key features of it include:
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Connecting to multiple computers via a ssh session can be a pain sometimes you have to remember the IP address and or the relevant user name and password but luckily i found a gnome applet that makes the task extremely easy. The applet is called SSHMenu.
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Sharing files whether on the Internet or on your local network is extremely easy these days with a multitude of methods available which are both easy to use and equally good performace wise. But for me personally my preferred method is with the use of the ago old and mature FTP protocol. The reason why I like FTP so much is that there’s almost zero configuration on the client side, I mean most Operating systems today have a browser which has some FTP client capabilities.
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I had been mostly using Nautilus as my primary file manager and i was a bit sick to be honest from using it, Nautilus is very basic and a bit heavy file manager. So I was searching for a file manager that was both light weight, had a simple interface and loads of features, Konqueror fitted the bill but there were 2 things holding me back from using it. The first is because of that Konqueror is mainly meant for KDE and the second being that Konqueror has a web browser built in, but I was just looking for a simple file manager. Upon further googling i found out about PCMan which fitted the bill perfectly for what i needed.
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I was searching the web for a way that i could change the default boot-up screen of Ubuntu, because lets face it Ubuntu’s boot up screen isn’t the most pretty thing. I came across an application called Start-up manager, which not only allows me to change my boot-up screen but allows me to do a ton of other things.
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Have you ever wanted to know what your lan card is communicating with or which computer is it transferring more data from, monitoring stuff is really but you would like a way that you could see all of this in a nice and easy manner, that is what i am going to tell you about using an application called lanmap.
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There are many reasons for why you would to want to monitor your computers temperature. One might be that you are overclocking your processor and you would like to check if its temperature is stable or not or that the conditions of the room your computer is in are hot and you want to check if your computer is fine or not. To monitor the temperature all computers these days come with sensors on the motherboard or the processor which can monitor the temperature.
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Most linux distros these days come with very basic network managers and though they work fine they are not too good for doing advanced tasks such as managing multiple wireless network. To face these criticisms Wlcd was created, it is designed to be a nice and simple network manager.
The main features of Wlcd include the following:
- No Gnome dependencies (although it does require GTK), so it is easy to use in XFCE, Fluxbox, Openbox, Enlightenment, etc.
- Ability to connect to wired and wireless networks at the same time
- Different Profiles for each wireless network and wired network
- Many different encryption schemes , some of which include WEP/WPA/WPA2
- Remains compatible with wireless-tools
- Tray icon showing network activity and signal strength
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If your are someone like me and have a huge music library and hate manually going and playing each track then Amarok is the tool for you. Amarok is a KDE application which is used to manage your music collection in different ways. Installing Amarok isn’t a hassle because it either comes by default in most linux distros or is present in their repositories.
When you first load up AmaroK it loads up in your panel with an icon of a wolf over a blue circle
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Firefox is no doubt a kick ass browser there is no debate on that. But their is a divide in the linux world when it comes to its stylings and default theme. Firefox on the Linux side uses the GTK library which although works under KDE but doesnt look as good as GNOME becuase GTk is native to GNOME. Now finally Mozilla has relased a Qt frontend for Firefox to please all the KDE enthusiasts. BEWARE!, before installing the Qt frontend backup all your bookmarks and saved passwords because the Qt frontend is in Alpha Stage.
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