Linux History

Submitted by roemasa on Thu, 11/15/2007 - 16:56

The Unix operating system was conceived and implemented in the 1960s and first released in 1970. Its wide availability and portability meant that it was widely adopted, copied and modified by academic institutions and businesses, with its design being influential on authors of other systems.

VLC media player di ubuntu

Submitted by roemasa on Thu, 11/15/2007 - 13:44

VLC media player adalah sebuah media player open source, didistribusikan dibawah GNU General Public License. VLC adalah sebuah multimedia player yang cukup bagus yang mendukung banyak codec video dan audio, begitu juga mendukung banyak format file seperti DVD, VCD dan bermacam protokol streaming. Mampu berfungsi mengalirkan data melalui jaringan dan mengkonversi file multimedia dan menyimpannya dalam beragam format.
VLC termasuk salah satu player independen terbaik yang tersedia dalam versi Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, BSD, Windows CE dan Solaris.

Install VLC Media player di Ubuntu
Sebelum menginstall VLC, harus anda pastikan kalau anda memiliki mirror "universe" di /etc/apt/sources.list
# sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-esd

VLC media player in ubuntu

Submitted by roemasa on Thu, 11/15/2007 - 12:41

The VLC media player is an open source media player, distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is a highly portable multimedia player that supports many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs and various streaming protocols. It is able to stream over networks and to transcode multimedia files and save them into various different formats.

Ubuntu History

Submitted by roemasa on Thu, 11/15/2007 - 09:48

Ubuntu's first release was on October 20, 2004, which began by making a temporary fork of the Debian GNU/Linux project. This was done so that a new version of Ubuntu could be released every six months, resulting in a more frequently updated system. Ubuntu releases always include the most recent GNOME release, and are scheduled to be released about a month after GNOME.