If you use IEs4Linux 2.99.0 and Wine 0.9.52 or newer there is a bug that causes the toolbar to disappear. IEs4Linux 2.99.0.1 fixes the blank screen bug, and other display bugs. I have also uploaded a couple screenshots of the new IEs4Linux User Interface (UI)
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Canonical distributes Parallels via desktop update
Canonical, the commercial sponsor of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, will on Thursday begin making commercial applications available to Ubuntu users directly through the desktop, in a step designed to simplify software installation.
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Ubuntu Tweak - Get Under the Hood With This Configuration Tool
Ubuntu Tweak is a utility created to make it easier for users to configure and change a variety of system settings. You can use it to quickly adjust settings for GNOME Panel, Compiz, and Nautilus, along with some more advanced security settings.
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Virtualization in Linux: A Review of Four Software Choices
Virtualization is the technique of running a "guest" operating system inside an already-running OS; for example, Windows inside Linux, or visa-versa. This article compares four virtualization products available for Ubuntu Linux: the free, open source Qemu; the closed-but-free versions of VirtualBox and VMware-Server, and the newly-available, commercial Parallels.
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KDE 4.0.1 : A shot preview
The first bugfix edition of KDE4 was released out in the wild, yesterday, as the KDE Community announced.
KDE 4.0.1 brings you a lot of stability and performance improvements and many updated translations for most of its components. It is already translated into 48 languages and more are coming soon.
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Zen Gift of Education
Many distributions have special releases around Christmas and New Year. I was planning to look at some of these this month like last year's Ubuntu Christmas Edition. But instead I found a release that's useful enough to maintain all year around. ZenEdu is a Live distribution that packs a whole bunch of educational tools on top of the Slackware-based light-weight and zippy Zenwalk Linux.
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The eyeOS: A Review
The eyeOS has been making ripples among enthusiasts of “cloud” computing. It intends to serve as an Operating System which can be accessed anywhere through a web browser.
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Linux: We Got Game
Linux has games. I'm not just talking about solitaire, chess and mines; I'm talking about the dozens of great 3D first person shooters, puzzle games, role-playing games, community games, simulators, and more.
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Asus Eee PC Can Run CloudBook gOS
Yes, we know that the Everex CloudBook subnotebook has been delayed from arriving at the shelves of Walmart, but that doesn't mean that you can't get in on the hot gOS experience right now. As it turns out, it's perfectly possible to grab the gOS from the CloudBook and load it up on the Asus Eee PC, which so happens to be the CloudBook's direct competitor.
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New winetricks: msxml6, riched30
Dan Kegal sent this to the Wine-Devel mailing list today.
Johan Dahlin sent in a patch to add msxml6, and said "It's enough to make msi2xml.exe to at least start-up (before failing in msi later)."
Tom Wickline some time ago sent in a suggestion for
adding riched30. I didn't know any apps it helped, but apparantly Novell thinks it helps Groupwise a bit.
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Wine-Doors 0.2 first look
So, the last two days I’ve been hard at work coding on the 0.2 structure and user interface, the application layout is a lot simpler and I’ve completely decoupled the user interface from the core functionality, so you’ll be able to use wine-doors on the command line or qt or whatever, osx is being looked into and if you’d like to help out please get in touch. So this is a first look at 0.2, and it wouldn’t be complete without the obligatory screen shot. So here you go…
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Fedora 9 Alpha Preview Codename “Sulphur”
Jesse Keating has announced the availability of Fedora 9 Alpha, the first development release of Fedora 9.The Alpha release provides the first opportunity for the wider community to become involved with the testing of Rawhide
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Need for Speed Most Wanted on Linux with Wine
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Three photo mosaic apps compared
Photo mosaics are recreations of one large image composed of tiny tiles of other smaller images. They can be a fun project and make good use of the hundreds of less-than-extraordinary photos on your hard drive. We compared three easy-to-use Linux-based utilities for generating photo mosaics -- Pixelize, Metapixel, and Imosaic -- on speed, quality, and other factors.
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The Evolution of an Ubuntu EeePC
It’s officially been a week since I purchased an Asus EeePC. I’ve been reading a lot about them since they were released last year and now that I’ve got it setup and tweaked to my liking I’m very pleased with my purchase. Over the last week of usage, my EeePC has morphed and evolved quite a bit.
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