Welcome to part 3 of our Linux Media Player Roundup. Today we'll be covering even more media players that are available for Linux, and even touching on a couple that do more than just play music, they also play your movies and dvd's.
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Distribution Statistics- Ubuntu Tops again
Distrowatch has released some interesting stats about distribution popularity.
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Feature plans for Fedora 9
Fedora 8 is out now and plans for Fedora 9 are made. The feature list is already in place and contains several entries.
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Fix for Limewire blank beryl problem
If you are working limewire with beryl you might see blank beryl problem here is the solution for this...
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Easily Sudo-open that File
If you are using GNOME and a distribution that supports either sudo or su, then we have a quick tip for you.
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Flyback: Backup & recovey tool for Linux!
Flyback is a backup and recovery tool loosley modified by Apple’s “Time Machine”.. So here is a Linux implementation (built off of rsync, of course). No fancy OpenGL, but quite functional none-the-less.”
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How To Manage An iPod From A Linux Desktop With Songbird 0.3
This article shows how you can use an iPod on a Linux desktop with Songbird 0.3. It covers how you can upload MP3 files from your desktop to your iPod, download MP3 files from your iPod to your desktop, and how you can delete files on the iPod. Normally, Apple's iTunes software is needed to manage an iPod, but iTunes is not available for Linux.
Read more »dd: The Great Destroyer and Creator
Buried deep in the Linux man pages is a command called dd. You know how short commands like cat, ps, grep, rm or mv are really powerful? dd owns all of them. It copies data between block files- image files or device files. It's simple enough to use...
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A new look at fonts in Ubuntu
New Fonts for Old: I’ve been playing around with fonts in Gutsy recently, so I thought I would document on this blog.
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Add-ons: MozMapLayers, a XUL version of OpenLayers
"MozMapLayers is based on OpenLayers . OpenLayers is a Free Open Source JavaScript Library initialy developed by MetaCarta . OpenLayers is designed to put dynamic map in any Web page. MozMapLayers is an OpenLayers' adaptation to the XUL Environment. With the same JavaScript code you can put dynamic map in any XUL application window..."
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Fedora 8 Review
Fedora (previously called Fedora Core) is an RPM-based, general purpose Linux distribution, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. Fedora's mission statement is: "Fedora is about the rapid progress of Free and Open Source software."
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Google's Android: Separating the Sizzle From the Steak
While Google and its Open Handset Alliance partners would have us believe that it's all about the customer, the Android open source mobile platform is as much about preventing Microsoft, Symbian and Palm from taking up the top position in the mobile operating system space.
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Another Day Another Distro - Part 8 - SimplyMEPIS 7.0 Beta 6
This time around I decided to try out another distribution I'd never used before in the shape of MEPIS. I started off with simplyMEPIS 6.5 which seemed a bit dated but luckily it was pointed out to me that 7.0 is due out very soon.
Read more »2 Pound Mini PC Powered by Debian Linux
Manufactum, a German web retailer, has released a portable PC that is sure to delight Linux users. Weighing in at only 2 pounds, with dimensions of 7.1x4.4 x1.9 inches (180 x 112 x 48 mm), the "Manuscriptum" comes equipped with a 500MHz AMD Geode LX800 processor, 80GB hard drive, 1920 x 1400 graphics capability and 512MB DDR 400 RAM expandable to 1024MB.
Read more »Get even greater control of Firefox tabs
After a recent update of Firefox I found that the Tabs Open Relevant add-on (see review here) had ceased to work. Having grown used to this extension to the point of dependency, I was once again swamped with a vast number of confusingly sorted tabs.
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