Lately I have described ok_defrag — a simple tool for defragmenting Linux file systems. Today, I want to describe a specialized program designed to defrag the new Ext4 file system.

It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but no one has ever thought about how much an animation could be worth If you really want to examine it yourself, you can try to work with screencasts. Recording them in Ubuntu is really simple. However, making a technically advanced screencast can be [...]

Hothead Games together with Penny Arcade released a very interesting game called “Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness”. It can be purchased at $20 in Greenhouse Internet store, which is a counterpart of more known Steam Games. Nothing peculiar, you say? And you’d be right if not for one small detail: the [...]

Amarok multimedia player is one of the best programs of its kind not only for Linux but for any operating system nowadays. It has been created as a KDE component. Most people hoped to have Amarok 2.0 included in KDE 4.0, which hasn’t happened. It’s hard to predict if it finds its way into KDE [...]

There is a myth that “linux filesystems don’t need to be defragmented.” As it may be truth in general, it still can be dispelled by a simple script, which creates a certain number of directories and in each of them creates and deletes a certain number of files – in, let’s say, two passes. So, [...]

War§ow is an FPS computer game, aimed at network gaming; it is characterized by specific graphics and an emphasis on tricks and good fun.

Linux From Scratch is a Live-CD and a collection of books on how to create your own GNU/Linux distribution. In this article you won’t learn how to create your own LFS. You’ll learn however why you might want to do it.

I was patient this time. I let all alpha and beta releases past. I took a deep breath when RC got to the surface, I even downloaded it… but it landed on a shelf in the end. This time I decided I want to install a ready product, supposedly working out-of-the-box. I’ve had enough problems [...]