CodeWeavers, developer of software that makes it possible to run Windows applications on Mac and Linux operating systems, yesterday announced CrossOver Games.
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Creating a Home Inventory with F-Spot (video)
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With fires, thefts, and natural disasters it is a good idea to have a home inventory. In this video I am going to show you how to inventory your house using a digital camera and F-Spot on a Linux desktop.
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Home automation system gains Linux-based controller
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Control4 has added to its line of Linux-based, ZigBee-compatible home automation/media networking products with a new controller. The Control4 Home Controller HC-500 interfaces with home theater appliances, multi-room music access, lighting, thermostats, and security systems, and comes with a Linux software development kit (SDK).
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Filing US federal taxes under Linux
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Filling out tax returns has traditionally been an area where Linux comes up short compared to the proprietary platforms, but you actually have several options for using commercial income tax products on a Linux platform.
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Getting Started With Quantum GIS
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James Gray continues his review of desktop Geographic Information System (GIS) applications with an introduction to the concepts needed to get started with the user-friendly, open-source Quantum GIS.
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Texmaker tames LaTeX
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Texmaker is an editor for the document markup language LaTeX. It lets you concentrate on the content of a document, while the underlying LaTeX engine takes care of the layout. Whether you are experienced with LaTeX or just starting out, Texmaker makes LaTeX easier to tame. It is GPL-licensed, cross-platform (running on Linux, Unix, Windows, and Mac OS X), and extremely stable.
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Battle of the Beasts: Wolvix vs. Pardus
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Another exciting month has almost passed. So far, I tried and tested two equally fantastic and capable Linux distributions. Wolvix 1.1.0 and Pardus 2007.3 are well-crafted distros that truly deserve some attention. Some might ask which one is better between the two. There’s only one way to find out. Let’s put Wolvix and Pardus on stage and start a distrowar.
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Doing the splits - splitting audio files with mp3splt
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I've recently been converting a bunch of old spoken-word cassette tapes to digital format. The Audacity audio editor (also available for Windows and Mac users) is the ideal tool. At the end of my transfer sessions I had a number of very large MP3 files.
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No matter how hard you try, unless you've committed yourself to giving up any and all Windows based applications, you tend to find yourself stuck in a situation where you must emulate at least one of these applications inside of Linux. This is where emulators such as Virtual Box and Wine come in handy to help you bridge that divide.
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Bit Torrent Solutions For Linux
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Utorrent has been indisputably the best Bit-Torrent client for Windows due to it's light-weight resource friendly interface and simple usability almost since the 1.5.0 release, or perhaps since even much before. When it comes to linux, selecting the "best" Bit-Torrent client has always been a n-sided affair.
Read more »Aren’t UNIX and Linux the same thing? Yes and no.
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The “What’s the difference between UNIX and Linux?” question can be answered similar to the analogy section that many of us had to complete on the SAT test: UNIX is to DOS as Linux is to Windows.
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Teenage Clicks: TEENpup 2008, the kids’ Linux OS with adult undertones
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COMPUTER hardware manufacturers obviously feel there’s a large untapped market among the world’s young: Witness, the Eee, the Cloudbook, the One. These mini-laptops – and there’s a new one announced every week – have three major things in common: They’re cheap, they’re aimed at schoolkids and students, and they run Linux operating systems.
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Office 2007 on Linux with Wine install guide
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This is a guide with code samples, screenshots, and two screencast of how to install Microsoft Office 2007 on Linux with Wine. Microsoft Office 2007 (officially called 2007 Microsoft Office system) is the most recent version of Microsoft's productivity suite.
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Yet another Eee rival arrives
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Yet another manufacturer has unveiled an Eee PC rival, further crowding the emerging Linux-powered micro-notebook market.
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Linux Docks - 5 Mac OS X Docks for Ubuntu and Other Linux Distros
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Why is the Dock becoming more and more popular? It’s probably got something to do with clever window management, doesn’t it? Well, in my opinion it’s just the eye candy, though I’m sure that people appreciate the psychological trick; every tried to open 2 instances of a program with a Dock? ;) Now here’s a list of 5 different Docks you can use on Linux.
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