Check the wide support for scripts as below:

An inside view to script.

Elinks if of-course not fully fledged browser like the others I mean for the script support terms, but its good platform to have fun and learn in your terminal window. I said learn because you can customize it to really a great extent whether its up to code part or attribute replacement.
Some scripts like Lua come up with dummy values which need to be replaced with original values depending on the platform. For e.g. PLAT=”platform”
Replace with your platform there.

For most of scripts installment is simple like go into directory where is config file and write

$ ./configure && make && make install

Of-course most of ‘em have INSTALL directions in packages.
See TUXCRUX on Elinks:

TUXCRUX on Elinks

These are few of keyboard shortcuts that I have collected and indeed are very useful while using Elinks:

Shift+E                 Open URL
Shift+A                 Bookmark
Shift+D                 Download manager
Shift+F                  History
Shift+K                 Cookie manager
Shift+l                  Right click option
Shift+T                For opening new tab
Left and Right    For next and previous tabs
Enter                    To enter text
It has all other options like checking history , configuration setup, Download manager, bookmarking.
But it has some cons too. It doesn’t support some of the secured sites like Facebook.
See below as download prompt comes.

May God it happens soon and we would be chatting in our terminal Windows sitting in our offices looking working to our bosses.
This is a download window in continuum.

But after all it is a good thing to learn.

Here are some tips for using VI or VIM editor:

* For opening vi editor first open terminal and write:

vi filename

Now hit i for insert.

* For exiting writing mode hit escape.

* Write man vi any time for help pages for vi.

Shift+G will take you to the last line.

* If finished with your work you can save your work by hitting :w or Esc+Z+Z.

* If you don’t want to save the work and simply quit then

:q

* For quick save and exit:

:wq

* yy is used for copying and p for pasting.

* :n moves to nth line.

*This is the pattern for searching and replacing, the string s is for searching:

:s/search_string/replacement_string/

Line number can also be specified after colon for the replacement.
%s will do the same purpose.

* :g will search whatever specified and commit specified action

Pattern is:

:g/search pattern/command

* Contrary to above

:v/string/d

This will delete every line which does not contain specified string, d deletes the string.

*It deletes every empty line.

:g/^$/d

Ain’t it enough for a beginner!

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01. APT- Advanced Package Tool

02. BSD – Berkeley Software Distribution

03. bash – Bourne again shell

04. cc - C compiler

05. csh – C shell

06. FOSS - Free and Open Source Software

07. GIMP – GNU Image Manipulation Program

08. GNU - GNU is Not UNIX

09. GNOME – Gnu Network Object Modeling Environment

10. GTK - GIMP Toolkit

11. GPL – GNU General Public License

12. grep - Global regular expression print

13. GCC - GNU C Compiler

14. Grub- Grand Unified Bootloader

15. ksh – Korn shell

17. KDE – K Desktop Environment

18. LILO - Linux Loader

19. LINUX – Linus Torvald’s UNIX  ;Linux Is Not Unix; Linus’s MINIX

20. LUG – Linux users group

21. LFS - Linux From Scratch

22. lex - Lexical analyser

23. MD5 – Message digest 5

24. man - Manual

25. POSIX – Portable operating system interface

26. pwd – Print working directory

27. RHCE - Red Hat Certified Engineer

28. RPM – Red Hat package manager

29. sed - Stream editor

30. SUSE – Software- und System-Entwicklung(Software and system development)

31. tar – Tape archive

32. telnet - Terminal over network

33. UNIX - UNIpleX information and computer services

34. VimVi - Improved

35. WINE - WINE is not an emulator

36. X – X Window System

37. YaST - Yet another Setup Tool

38. yacc – Yet another compiler compiler

The crux of matter is that if you don’t want to involve in hard issues of Linux and just want a simple desktop machine with pleasant environment which is not Windows, Mint is for you. It is considered media-OS because of its wide support to play media files.
Lets begin installation procedure.
Download ISO file from Mint’s website and burn it over DVD/CD depending over the size and version.

Insert disc and you’ll have menu consisting of installation options.
The one saying install Mint inside Windows is something new on Linux distros. What it does that it allocates suitable space inside Windows without making a new partition, and install Mint in it. Also booting preferences are also given to host OS.

For the normal installation boot your system with disc inserted into it.
Choose appropriate option from menu and wait for next window.
Choose language setup.
Choose your zone for time. Enter the keyboard config for yourself.

Note Mint generally comes with Gnome as desktop environment but you can install others also if available.
Now this step is the most critical step. Giving disc space to OS.

If you want to dedicate the entire Hard disc to Mint, then you can do so by automaticoption which is the default setting. If not then choose manual from list.

I advise you to allocate free space for Linux pre installation. You can do it by visiting Disc manager on Windows and deleting the drives and merging them.
Now it will create partition on it ext3(Linux’s partition). Give it the mount point and it will ask for swap partition.

If you think you don’t have enough RAM then you can allocate double of your RAM size to Swap partition. Now go ahead and take a cup of coffee and after finishing coffee you’ll find that Mint’s installation is finished.
You can couple Windows with it.

This is what a boot menu look like:

The customize setting is very similar to that of Ubuntu. Even the package manager is also same(Synaptic).
See the customize tutorial for help. Both are Debian package based.

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GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a free software for photo retouching, image composition and authoring. It can act as a simple paint application and at the same time expert quality photo retouching software.
It can do anything with plug-ins and extensions.
GIMP is the biggest source of confrontation ahead very costly Adobe Photoshop. It has all the features that are essential for head to head comparison with Photoshop.
It has all painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc. It has very powerful gradient editor and blend tool with support of custom brushes and patterns.
It has also Advanced Manipulation options like full alpha channel support, layers and channels(You must’ve known that if you have used Photoshop),Undo/Redo options,text layers, transformation tools like rotate, scale, shear and flip, selection tools like rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy.
Now something which is unusual in Photoshop, it contains GIMP animation package which consists of hell lot of options.
Don’t you think that these endless features are enough to prompt you to try this once. Also due to open source backup team numbers of new features are added to this time by time.
GIMP is distributed with almost all Linux packages, also it has support over Windows and MAC.

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2) GIMPShop:

It is modified version of GIMP designed to replicate the Adobe Photoshop. It is intended for the open source users which have been using Adobe Photoshop and just have shifted to open source. It has very similar interface to the users as compared to photoshop. Like GIMP it is very portable and supports almost all platforms.

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3)Krita:

It is just another Image Editing software like above based on KDE. It is generally distributed with Koffice. It is enormously flexible which gives full scope to your creativity relating to images.
Krita is rally fun. It has very easy-to-use features like guided painting, and advanced features like colorspaces, layer groups or tonemapping. Krita is free software so is improving day by day.

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4) Panorama Tools:

It has multiple utilities like PTOptimizer, for optimizing control points, Panoinfo, PTmender, PTblender, PTtiff2psd and PTuncrop ion.
The Panorama has Gimp plug-ins. The gimp-plugins are rearranged and updated regularly. A fully 16bit color depth compatible version of the Panorama Tools Photoshop plugins.

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5)Hugin

It is very very interesting Image stitching software based on Panorama. It can stitch any set of overlapping pictures. Use this software some of the greatest mosaics. Softwares like Hugin are few in numbers.
You can take multiple images from different angles and stitch them into a beautiful panoramic view.
You must try this.

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Click here to see one mosaic effect of some simple pics.

(1) su
su stands for superuser. Linux has limited user access that is why it is considered and de facto is secure. It asks for administrative password at every gateway.
Switching user to administrator is a lot simple than windows.
Type su in terminal window and it’ll ask for password.

su

(2) mv
Its like cut and paste

cp ~$ mv /home/ashish/Desktop/1.png /home/ashish/Desktop/picsr/1.png

(3) rm

Its like delete in windows.

rm files

(4) gzip
Compresses the file and give it a extension .gzip or .gz. Winrar/Winzip do the same job over windows.

gzip filename

(5) cat
It displays the content of file right there.

cat [Options] [File]

(6) mount
It mounts the CD/DVD and other external devices.

mount | column -t

(7) pkill/pkillall
Its like pressing ctrl+alt+delete and forcefully terminating a humpy process. Actually its better than classic kill and killall which requires pid number.

pkill [-signal]

(8) passwd
Its for changing the password.

passwd [options...]

(9) halt
In case of emergency for avoiding loss of data forcefully shutting down.

halt [-d | -f | -h | -n | -i | -p | -w]

(10) reboot
Simply restart the system

reboot [-d | -f | -i | -n | -w]

(11) clear
It clears visible area of console.

clear

(12) vi
It is like notepad editor in Windows. It can be used inside terminal.

(13) man

It is used to read information, help and other details about command, information or process.

man commandname [options]

(14) gcc

It invokes C/C++ compiler.

(15) ifconfig
Its Linux counterpart for Windows’ ipconfig.

ifconfig [options]

(16) lock
It temporarily locks the terminal.

(17) pwd
It prints present working path.

pwd [options]

(18) cksum

Checksums and count the bytes in file specified. Prints CRC check-sum and byte counts of each FILE.

cksum filename

(19) gunzip

It un-compresses file.

gunzip [-Z]

(20) installpkg
It is used to install one of the packages from the program sets.

installpkg [options]



(1) Ubuntu

If you have just switched over to Linux from Windows, this is the right choice for you. Working environment is very identical to Windows, and software packages are also easily available because of its Debian backup. Adding and removing any application is also quite simple. Synaptic manager is the name of utility. Well codecs is not very much the issue. You can play mp3s seconds after installation. Codecs are also easily available for downloads.
Well the negative side is that Gnomeis the only desktop environment available.

(2) openSuse

It is Novell backed distribution which has gained a lot of fame in recent time. Firstly it was not free but later Suse came with free verison named openSuse. open Suse has very cool graphical interface. Well it has multiple desktop environment support also with Gnome and KDE. Name of application manager is Yast Yet Another Setup Tool. It is much simpler and easy to use than Ubuntu’s Synaptic manager. Downloading packages and software is not the biggest issue. Updates are available every time you connect your system with internet.
But the codecs are really an issue in openSuse. You have to download dozens of codecs to play your all media files. Second is the installment, installation is confusing and complex.

(3) Debian

If you’ve used Ubuntu you’ll have deja vu feeling. It has biggest resources/applications collection that is whopping 25000. Debian is the biggest package center in entire Linux community. Interface is much like Ubuntu. It has XFCE, KDE and Gnome as desktop environments. The full version of Debian come in 4DVDs or 10 CDs. Its quite a big distribution and requires a large hard disc space.

(4) Mint

Its said the lightest Linux distro. It is very simple to use. I reckon its the best media playing distro of Linux with a wide media playing support. It has both Debian and RPMs support as package downloading option. Its also a very good option for playing games.
Its the best option for a beginner who just want to drench its leg in LINUX pool.

(5 ) Slackware

If you are just getting your feet wet with Linux its time to try something geeky. Slackware has simple and straight principle of KISS (Keep It Simple and Stupid). Its not for you if you still feel you are armature. The thing is that its one the oldest distribution. Even you have to write down the commands for starting the booting process.
The best desktop environment is KDE. The software and packages comes with .tgz(.tar.gz) extension. Use installpkg to install these files. You must take one time experience with Slackware.

(6) Mandriva

Earlier name was Mandrake but after a legal war they had to replace the name. It is one of the prime face of Linux. It do have the paid version too. It is the French face of open source in France. It is quite consistent in its fan following and a good choice for newbies.

1) Totem Media Player

Totem is movie player for the Gnome desktop based on xine and . It plays any Xine or GStreamer supported file. It support 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, stereo and AC3 pass-through audio output.
From user-experience it can be easily rated as best place to play your media even when there are plenty of players available. make it as a default player. It is definitely better audio player as audio is much more pronounced and clear and lastly detailed.
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2) VLC

VLC does not need any introduction. Its same classic media player that has magical power to play any yes almost any media file.
VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, avi, xvid, mp3, ogg and many new formats like mkv) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It has almost all functions which are there in its Window’s brother.
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3) Amarok

It is the best option if you are fond of playing long playlists.
"Easily the best media-player for Linux at the moment. Install it now!" from Linux Format Magazine
It has variety of impressive addons like wiki-page of artist and lyrics and many more contemporary features.
So what are you waiting for.
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4) MPlayer

It is specialized media player for Linux. It gives maximum space to you for playing video files.
MPlayer plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. Even you can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and WMV movies.
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5) Xine

It might look like 10 years older than present time, but heart is younger. Xine is a free (gpl-licensed) high-performance, portable and reusable multimedia playback engine. Xine is faster than its companions.
Xine is one of the most supportive media package in LINUX OS environments. It has its own codec packs which can be easily be updated
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Remember Window’s run , a very good launchpad or window to search or launch various programs, the counterpart in Linux is available Remastersys. Shortcut is ‘Alt + F2′. You know the most important tool for a user is control panel from where he/she can customize settings like installing software. In Linux there is no control panel, all settings are distributive under administrative settings.