wine-1.0rc1 was released on Friday, May 9th, 2008. Wine is now in a code freeze in preparation for the 1.0 release.
According to the Wine Release Plan, wine-1.0.0-rc2 will be due out Friday, May 23rd, 2008. It will be something like be the next to last release candidate for 1.0.
Read more »I was just setting up Evolution again and went through the steps of setting up my personal account and my Ubuntu account. I’ve heard some people run into problems doing this considering the Ubuntu account, on the incoming side, is bound to your default address in Launchpad, but you still need to send mail out. Here is how I did it.
Read more »"I am pleased to announce the release of Planner version 3.42. The NEWS items for this release are available here..."
Read more »Over the past few months, the software and themes I used have enabled me to reach an absolutely fantastic looking desktop, using a combination of natural green wallpapers and themes which fit well together.
Read more »If there is one area where the Linux desktop has done very well, it has to be the variety of solutions for subscribing to RSS feeds that has been made available to us. In this piece, I will be sharing some of these applications and my thoughts on them.
Read more »This previous Christmas, I asked for and was given a brand new Eee PC (701). When I opened it, the comments around the room came quickly, “That’s a computer?” and “It’s so small” and “What a neat toy.” Well, that Toy has been on quite a Linux journey in recent months. And I’m now running eeeXbuntu on the Eee PC.
Read more »Congratulations to NPR Wbur for supporting Ogg :) -- via http://www.fsf.org/news/wbur-streams-ogg-vorbis
Read more »The Helix Player is an audio and video player based on the Helix DNA Client engine. It includes a Mozilla browser plug-in and supports local file playback and streaming over RTSP/RTP and HTTP. It supports video zoom in original, double size, and full screen...
Read more »Greetings Linux fans from around the world. We are here again to witness the clash of two ultra-lightweight distributions. As you may know, these two distros have collided in the past and have fought until the end. One ended up victorious, while the other one was not as fortunate. So today, we shall give the losing distro a chance to even the score.
Read more »Everyone who surfs the Net is eminently trackable. Internet data packets include not only the actual data being sent, but also headers with routing information that is used to guide the packages to their destinations.
Read more »A new beta of the open-source office suite brings a new Start Centre and some added features
Read more »For those who are a crazy fan of the Mac OSX dock, you can now install Avant Window Navigator to achieve the similar dock-like effect in Ubuntu Hardy Heron.
Read more »Josh Stewart loves MythTV -- so much so that he is building his own front-end app for it as a drop-in replacement for MythTV's default. The replacement is called Gloss, and although it isn't ready for prime time yet (no pun intended), its OpenGL effects and GStreamer bindings show plenty of promise.
Read more »It's hard to believe, but It's was exactly six months ago this week that I picked up a black ASUS Eee PC 700 laptop. At just 4GB of internal storage and a 900MHz Celeron processor, the little book-sized laptop definitely has its limitations, but I'm not looking to replace it with anything soon, except maybe a newer model of the same laptop.
Read more »Linspire has announced that its "one-click" software installation service for Linux desktops now supports Transgaming's Cedega 6.0 emulator. Released about a year ago, the emulator lets Linux users play Windows games full-screen or in a window, while simultaneously web browsing or doing other computing activities.
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