People who enjoy digital photography as a creative outlet are very familiar with software products from companies like Adobe, Corel, etc. Most of them are also likely familiar with what until recently was the premier open source photo editor, the Gimp.
Read more »Open Source Photo Processing Comes of Age
Bordeaux 1.8.4 for Linux Released
The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 1.8.4 for Linux today. Bordeaux 1.8.4 fixes a critical bug in our wget implementation. If you have had problems with Bordeaux 1.8.2 not installing a application we recommend you update to 1.8.4 and the problem should now be resolved. There has also been a couple other small bug fixes and tweaks.
Bordeaux 1.8.4 was tested against Wine 1.1.26
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How To: Install A Line6 GuitarPort or TonePort UX1 or GX
How to install a Line6 Guitar Port (and the toneport With a very big thanks to Myhrman from Source Forge for helping me get this thing working and a big thanks to Grabner for providing the drivers for something that seems to be non existant for linux! This is to get the Guitar Port to work as a basic USB sound device so you will get a dry signal in and out that will work under OSS and Jack.
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A great Blender tutorial: back to school with Blender
One of my projects this fall is to take advantage of online "Open Courseware" classes, for personal and professional development. In setting up my own curriculum, I came across a very nice find: a class on 3D modelling based on the (free software) Blender 3D modelling application.
Read more »My Favorite Brain Games
I wanted to take a few minutes and share a couple of games that I enjoy quite often. I've never been one for the shoot-em-up games, rather I prefer games that put my brain to work solving problems. There are many "brain games" available for Linux, but I would like to let you know about two games that I use to feed my puzzling addiction.
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Fedora, good and bad
In the past few days, since I’ve been spending time at my sister’s house, I’ve used as single system the laptop I bought a few months ago, with runs Fedora 11.
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A Quick and Subtle Introduction to Emacs
Emacs is a feature-rich, powerful, and highly extensible traditional text editor that is popular among hardcore programmers and veteran UNIX/Linux users.
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winetricks 20090902 released
Another week, another winetricks, winetricks 20090902 has been released .
The only interesting changes are new verbs vc2005trial and python26. These are only of interest to developers.
Read more »Wine 1.1.29 Released
The Wine development release 1.1.29 is now available.
What's new in this release:
* Improved Gecko integration by using Wine's network layers.
* Use of external libmpg123 for mp3 decoding.
* Support for JPEG and PNG formats in WindowsCodecs.
* Many regression test fixes for Win64 and Windows 7.
* Various bug fixes.
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New Look for Ubuntu Network Installs
In our LoCo team (Ubuntu Massachusetts LoCo) we’ve been configuring a lovely tftp/pxe boot installer system that allows refurbished computers to be installed ridiculously easily via PXE booting. I’ve just completed a redesign of how it looks...
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First Test Images of LXDE Lubuntu Available
The LXDE team is working on a lite variant of Ubuntu that will run on PCs with less than 265 MB. First images are now ready to test.
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My Favorite Firefox Extensions
I've been using Firefox for years and have collected what I feel are the best extensions for this wonderful browser.
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openSUSE-LXDE live CD now ready
Yes, that’s true! After some develop and tests i finally completed the openSUSE-LXDE live installable iso based on openSUSE 11.1 made with SUSE-STUDIO.
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10 Linux file managers worth checking out
If you’ve never given your file manager much thought, maybe it’s time to look at the wide range of features offered by Linux file management tools.
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Amarok 2.2 -- Reloaded, revamped, rethinked, reeverything!
Are you curious to what incredible and life changing goodies it will bring to your life? Do you? Then keep on reading...
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