In one of my earlier postings I did a compare and contrast of the various different features Cedega and Codeweavers offer. Today I am going to try leave my opinions aside and stick strictly to the numbers. Source Engine games are some of the most popular played today so I feel it is only fitting I use them to test the Wine software we have today.
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Visual Tour of GNOME 3 Shell in Ubuntu
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GNOME 3 is the much talked about next generation GNOME that was supposed to come in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. It introduces a radical shift from the interface found in GNOME 2.x. In this article we will give you a quick visual tour of GNOME 3 in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Kola.
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Installing Google's Go Language on Ubuntu
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GO language promoted by google is a new system programming language said to be expressive, concurrent, garbage-collected. The language is still very young and there is no ready made package available for ubuntu. You can install it and try out the features from the version control repository of go .
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SpiderOak: Cross Platform Cloud Back-up Solution
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We already covered SpiderOak, but only on a quick test, because back then, I didn't see the need for another tool like Dropbox. Read on to see why Dropbox might actually not be enough!
Read more »Multiple Dropbox Instances In The Same Time
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Firstly, in case you don't know, Dropbox is a cross-platform service for file sharing, synchronizing and backup. And now, about using Multiple Dropbox instances (and obviously, multiple accounts) in the same time. Yes, there is a way to run multiple Dropbox instances on the same computer. Here is how:
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Office 2007 in Ubuntu 9.10 with Wine 1.1.32
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This is a tutorial to guide in the install of Microsoft Office 2007 on Linux and Mac systems with Wine 1.1.32 Microsoft Office 2007 officially called "2007 Microsoft Office system" is the most recent version of Microsofts productivity suite. This howto should also work on FreeBSD 7.0 or later.
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tnote: Simple is good
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Simple is good. For a console note-taker, tnote is extremely simple.
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How to lock package versions from Synaptic package manager
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If you want to keep a specific package at a specific version on your machine you can try this tutorial.This is very useful if you want to lock specific version of kernel,drivers,application versions
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Color Management in digiKam
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First of all, what’s color management? Color management is a process that allows you to achieve consistent color representations across different devices, such as digital cameras, scanners, printers, and monitors. The key concept in color management is color space -- a model that describes the way colors can be represented as numbers.
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Banshee Gets "Digital Library" integration
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If you use the Banshee Daily PPA you may have recently noticed* a new entry in the left hand menu panel: Internet Archive.
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PCLinuxOS 2009.2 Installation Review
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In the days when Ubuntu 9.10, Mandriva 2010 and openSUSE 11.2 are having their releases, installing PCLinuxOS 2009.2 seems like taking a step backwards. But how could I refuse to try what I had considered to be my favourite Linux distro?
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6 of the Best Free Linux Collection Managers
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For many individuals collection managers are an important type of software. It is human nature to collect objects, in part because people derive pleasure from the simple ownership of objects. The things that we collect change over time, partly as a result of technological improvements, and partly because our wants and desires do not remain static.
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Aptlinex – Web browser addon to install Ubuntu packages with a click
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This addon allows installing ubuntu packages from iceweasel, firefox, galeon or konqueror just clicking on a web link. For this to work, links need to have an url beginning with apt://
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Plugins aren't always a good choice
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I used to be an enthusiast about plugin interfaces; with time, though, I started having more and more doubts about their actual usefulness.
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Like GetDeb? Now you can get their packages from a repo
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One of the best ways to get updated software for Debian-based distros, is from GetDeb.net. They’ve recently launched an updated site for users of Ubuntu 9.04 and newer, and one of the great new benefits is that they now have a repository you can add to your sources.list.
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