Google has released a platform for running their widget applications (Google Desktop Gadgets and web-based Universal Gadgets) on Linux. Google Gadgets for Linux is an open source project, and includes front-ends for GNOME and KDE environments.
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Vancouver Joomla!Day provides case study in community-building techniques
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As free software projects balloon in size, many struggle to create and maintain a sense of community. One of the projects that has been most successful in its community-building efforts is the content management system Joomla!
Read more »Darwine 1.0-rc5 for OS X released
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Instead of having to compile or run a script to set Wine or Darwine up fully (fonts stuff mostly), I've packaged everything into a .pkg that installs the latest version of Darwine, FontForge, FreeType, and symlinks fonts from /Library/Fonts to the proper directory for Darwine to use. Enjoy!
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my (not yet) package of the day - circular application menu
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(Not yet a package, but still interesting enough to tell and hey: bleeding edge.) Circular Application Menu for Gnome is a Google Code hosted project providing a different access method to your Gnome menu. Actually all it does, is displaying the menu as circles:
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Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.0: KDE with Stephan Binner
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With openSUSE 11.0 just a few days away, it’s time to look at one of the stars of the show: KDE. In openSUSE 11.0, you get two KDEs for the price of one. Here we’ll take a look at what’s coming in KDE, and talk to one of openSUSE’s KDE contributors, Stephan Binner.
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A virtual appliance primer
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Virtual machines are virtually taking over the world. By itself a virtual machine is just a container that describes various resources such as memory, disk space, processor, and network card, and allocates them from a physical machine. As with a physical machine, it's the software bits (the operating system and applications) that make a virtual machine usable.
Read more »Songbird 0.6 Released
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In this release you’ll notice significant performance improvements and many new features. Larger Library Support, Smoother Scrolling, Faster Filtering, Improved Memory Management, Sync Support for MTP Devices, SHOUTcast Radio, and more.
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How To Install Flock Browser v1.2 on Ubuntu 8.04
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It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about the Flock Browser, and after checking it out today I thought it was time for an update here at Ubuntu Tutorials. For all of you that are addicted to all of the social networking sites (Digg, Twitter, Facebook, del.icio.us, Flickr, etc) you get an integrated-into-the-browser experience with the Flock Browser.
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Sabayon Linux 3.5 Official Release: here we come :-)
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After months and months and months of hard work, I am happy to say that Sabayon Linux 3.5 final will enter the final beta testing stage within 48 hours and will stay there for a couple of weeks. All I can say is that the difference between 3.4 and 3.5 is REALLY REALLY huge.
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Monitor your hardware Temperature - Ubuntu
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Computer Temperature Monitor is a little applet for the GNOME desktop that shows the temperature of your computer CPU and disks on screen. It allows you to log temperatures to a file. You can set alarms to notify you when a tempertature is reached.
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Amarok 2 Alpha - An Early Review on What's Going On
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New interface - Currently, it's very obvious Amarok 2 is in the alpha phase. The major thing that changed is the interface, which looks nicer and more modern now. Currently, the collection browser is in the left and the playlist itself is located to the right side of Amarok's window.
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Firefox extensions to bring back the dead
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Don't you find it irritating when a Web page you bookmarked or favorited returns a 404 error on a subsequent visit? Or when a Web site is temporarily down? Firefox extensions Resurrect Pages and 404: Page is Not Found?
Read more »Processing RAW files in Linux
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In this article I’m going to show the benefits of storing the photos in RAW “format”. I’ll be also decribing GNU/Linux tools that can help you with processing such images.
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THE BORDEAUX GROUP FOUNDED, LAUNCHES BORDEAUX FOR LINUX FOR WINE 1.0
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THE BORDEAUX GROUP FOUNDED, LAUNCHES BORDEAUX FOR LINUX FOR WINE 1.0
The Bordeaux Group announces the release of Bordeaux for Linux 1.0 with support for Microsoft Office 2000, Adobe Photoshop CS, Adobe Photoshop CS2, Internet Explorer and the Steam gaming platform.
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PlayOnLinux 3.0.3 released
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The 3.0.3 version of PlayOnLinux has been released .
Here is what's new:
- Big improvement of integrated IRC client which now supports the OP, HALF-OP, VOICE and BAN commands with nice logos
- A copyright issue fixed: I had to hurry to release this version because I forgot to indicate "Icon Provided by Tango Desktop Project"
PlayOnLinux 3.0.2 was released June 11th 2008
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