GNU’s 25th Birthday Article by RMS

Read the English Version
Read the Malayalam Version translated by Santhish Thottingal

Useful bash commands

Here are some handy bash commands that are needed most.

Merging multiple PDF’s into one
gs -q -sPAPERSIZE=letter -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=Out.pdf file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf

Converting wav to mp3
lame -h -b 192 in.wav out.mp3

VCD Creation Script [DOWNLOAD]

DVD Creation Script [DOWNLOAD]
m4a to wav
mplayer -ao pcm in.m4a -aofile out.wav

No Font in GTK1.x applications

May be you’re experiencing this localization bug having no font in old GTK1.x applications such as XMMS, Audacity etc. This is because of the localization settings ie. you may be selected other languages other than en_US. Type locale in a terminal to find out the localization settings. en_IN (English India) is having some bugs and [...]