Have you ever installed an application "manually" (not via Synaptic or Update-Manager, but by compiling it yourself and using some kind of installer-script for example)? And were you annoyed that only a generic icon was shown in Ubuntus' Applications-menu? If so, this tip is for you.
Read more »How to add an icon to apps in Ubuntus’ Application-menu that only show a generic icon
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Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 13 (LAMP)
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LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a Fedora 13 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.
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An introduction to CrossOver Office and Games for FreeBSD
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CrossOver for FreeBSD is a commercial variant of Wine released by CodeWeavers with (currently) limited support for many of today's most popular office application and games. CrossOver Office and Games for FreeBSD is tested for performance and stability with many of todays most popular games such as Guild Wars, Eve Online, and Steam games like Half-Life 2 and Portal.
Read more »Weekend Project: Configure Your Keyboard Into Submission
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Modern Linux desktop environments make the basic keyboard configuration process far simpler than it used to be, but it is still confusing.
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Tip of the YEAR for Fedora and Red Hat/CentOS users
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I'm calling this the tip of the year because it's easy to do and dramatically improves the Web-browsing experience in Firefox for users of Fedora, Red Hat and CentOS. I wish I had figured it out years ago because it's a simple way to increase your scrolling speed in the browser.
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Ubuntu v iTunes: the music playoff for Applephobes
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With Ubuntu 10.04, Canonical delivered a good-looking Linux distro that just works. Mark Shuttleworth's outfit has put together an impressive user interface to solve its famous bug number one - luring people away from Windows.
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Comparing Linux Photo Managers…Which Is The Best For Your Everyday Use?
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When you work with large amounts of photos, it can get tiresome to have to manually manage the file and directory structures. To help resolve this, many people use photo managers.
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Configure Conky with ConkyWizard
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If fiddling with configuration files is not your cup of tea, you'll appreciate the ConkyWizard utility which lets you configure Conky's settings using a user-friendly graphical interface.
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Zorin 3 - Distro Review
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I recently came across Zorin, an Ubuntu based distro that focuses on easing a Windows user's transition to Linux by theming it's interface to look like Microsoft's operating system.
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Install Brand New Wine 1.2 RC3 in Ubuntu Using PPA
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I don't know how vital is Wine software for you anymore. I mean, I haven't used it for ages. May be because I am not a gamer of sorts and I don't use iPod. In case of applications, I have good alternatives for most of the windows specific applications. But for those who still can't live without Wine, here is the good news. Wine 1.2 RC3 is released with a lot of major bug fixes and improvements.
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Editing PDFs On Ubuntu
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It would be great if all PDF files could be easily manipulated without relying on bloated, proprietary, update-obsessive applications (I'm looking at you, Adobe). But the fact that that's not the case doesn't mean Ubuntu users are out of luck when it comes to editing PDFs. Here's a look at some of the PDF editors available for Linux, and how well they work.
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Luckybackup 0.4.1 released
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New Post-Release Repository For New Applications Starting With Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat
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When a developer creates a new application, he must start writing it very early in the Ubuntu development stages to be able to get his application in the official Ubuntu repositories (Universe) or else the only way he can provide that application to the current Ubuntu release is through a PPA - which is not easy discoverable by the users.
Read more »VLC 1.1.0 (Final) Has Been Released!
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Quietly, VLC 1.1.0 final (stable) was posted to the VLC git a few minutes ago. VLC 1.1.0 brings extensions support as well as GPU and DSP decoding among many other new features.
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Q4Wine – Utility for automation and simplification of work with WINE
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Q4Wine is a qt4 GUI for W.I.N.E. It will help you manage wine prefixes and installed applications.
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