In the following video Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth delivers his keynote speech at the Ubuntu Developer Summit for the Maverick Meerkat 10.10 release of Ubuntu. Their goal: get every PC bundled to dualboot with Ubuntu. Their new product: Ubuntu Light - a light weight version of Ubuntu for netbooks that gets you on the web in 7 seconds.

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"KDirStat is a graphical disk usage utility, very much like the Unix "du" command. In addition to that, it comes with some cleanup facilities to reclaim disk space."

I was actually looking for a Linux alternative for WinDirStat when to my surprise I found out that WinDirStat was actually based on this Linux app!

"Déjà Dup is a simple backup tool. It hides the complexity of doing backups the 'right way' (encrypted, incremental, off-site) and uses duplicity as the backend."

I had tried a couple including Back In Time, SBackup, etc, but none did remote backup right. This one works and it's simple.

"RecordMyDesktop solves the screencasting problem Linux users have faced for a long time. RecordMyDesktop creates high quality recordings of your screen with or without sound. While it is a terminal application, when paired with gtk-recordMyDesktop, a graphical frontend for recordMyDesktop, recordMyDesktop becomes a robust tool for easily creating screencasts. RecordMyDesktop can be tweaked to your heart's content by changing the sound and video quality, frames captured per second, mouse cursor style, compression, and whether to record the current window or the entire desktop."

First heard this on Floss Weekly. Dynamic DNS, File-sharing, iTunes Streaming, VPN and over 260 one-click install apps (such as Wordpress, Drupal, Torrents, Jinzora, phpMyAdmin and more).

Interview with Ubuntu Founder, Mark Shuttleworth, recorded at the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDC) in November 2009. Mark talks about upcoming release Ubuntu 10.04 codenamed "Lucid Lynx", Ubuntu's strengths in both the desktop and server environment, and future focuses of the project.

This has got to be one of the coolest guitars around if you're not a rock star - the Misa Digital Guitar which boasts its very own touchpad. Lovingly constructed by Sydney-based designer Michael, the Misa Digital Guitar relies on your right hand to control the sound that you want instead of plucking strings. Here's what he says about it in brief.

KTorrent has been always the most popular client on linux (atleast on KDE), it comes closest to the features & functionality Windows users enjoy with uTorrent. Although uTorrent can be run on wine, it can be quirky, sometimes not starting up and the RSS downloader won't auto-download. The next version of Deluge (1.2) might be better performance on GNOME once the 64 bit version finally comes out. Although it's annoying that the RSS downloader (FlexRSS) has to be downloaded separately and installed.

"Meld is a visual diff and merge tool. You can compare two or three files and edit them in place (diffs update dynamically)."

An introductory video that briefly explains how the Ubuntu release schedule works.

An Alternative to Window's Convertx2dvd -

"DeVeDe is a program to create video DVDs and CDs (VCD, sVCD or CVD), suitables for home players, from any number of video files, in any of the formats supported by Mplayer."

"A simple mission: To create an simple open-source, non-linear video editor for Linux."

One of the simplest linux video editing apps I've come across. Render time seems to be far greater than kdenlive's.

"Given the richness and variety of the Linux platform, programming on Linux should be easy and fun. Quickly strives to make programming easy and fun by bringing opinionated choices about how to write different kinds of programs to developers." Check out an intro video here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=dx93U10Kkro

"Windows/Linux: One of the most irritating things about reinstalling your operating system is installing all the non-OS applications you love. Allmyapps lets you select all your favorite apps and roll them into a bulk installer to make rebuilding easy."

"Clonezilla is an open source, Linux-based alternative to commercial disk cloning tools like Symantec Ghost and Acronis True Image."

"ffmpeg is a multiplatform, open-source library for video and audio files. It is usualy available in your distribution repositories, so search for it and install it."

"Back In Time is a simple backup tool for Linux inspired from “flyback project” and “TimeVault”. The backup is done by taking snapshots of a specified set of directories."

"Windows only: Free application uSbuntu Live Creator installs a Live CD from an ISO image onto your USB flash drive—much more useful, portable, and easy to deal with than carrying around a CD."