Summary: In this episode we will discuss GParted, XMMS and PDFtk. Great Open Source software, all GNU GPL Licensed. most of this software is available on Linux, BSD, MacOSX and Microsoft Windows. I. system tools : GParted GParted is an industrial-strength package for creating, destroying, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the filesystems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging). gparted.sourceforge.net II. multimedia applications : XMMS XMMS is a multimedia player for unix systems. XMMS stands for X MultiMedia System and can play media files such as MP3, MOD's, WAV and others with the use of Input plugins. XMMS is mainly targeted at music playback, but through thirdparty plugins some rudimentary video capabilities exists, but there are much better systems other than XMMS for video support. www.xmms.org III. the little extra : PDFtk If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses. Pdftk is a command-line tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents. www.accesspdf.com/pdftk
