This document explains how to set up the VMware Tools in the following guest operating systems: Ubuntu 7.04, Fedora 7, PCLinuxOS 2007 and Debian Etch. Installing VMware Tools in your guest operating systems will help maximize performance, provide mouse synchronization and copy & paste functionality.
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Open Source: TinyMe
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If you are interested in getting that really old machine up and running again, with as little as ~32MB of ram, then there is a shiny new competitor to PuppyLinux and Damn Small Linux: TinyMe.
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First Ubuntu 7.10 ('Gutsy Gibbon') beta arrives
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"...Under the hood, users will find the Linux 2.6.22 kernel powering up both the client (desktop) and server versions. This is supported by GCC 4.1.2 and glibc 2.6..."
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Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon (beta)
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"Let's take a look at the newly released Gutsy Gibbon Beta to see quite how big a splash the Gibbon is going to make."
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Review of Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy) new features and changes
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"...As always, new version of Ubuntu is better than previous. But probably this version did the most powerful step forward than any other. I will strongly recommend my friend, who is using another operating system, to settle on the Ubuntu gutsy now, because most of the major barriers for newbies are gone..."
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Patch for HTML Video element support in Firefox
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"Version 5 of the patch to add Video element support to Firefox is up. This version rewrites a lot of the code to match the pseudocode in the WHATWG specification..."
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Desktop tune-up. Four cool Linux tricks
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Kick-start your week with four easy (but still cool) tricks on your Linux desktop. Install the media server you've always wanted but never got around to doing, or fine-tune your hardware to squeeze out a few more hours of battery power ... All this an more in this week's How To Roundup. Oh, and send us your favourite Linux tricks.
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IBM Accessibility Internet Browser for Multimedia
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This new multimedia browsing accessibility tool provides people with visual impairments a level of control more comparable to a sighted person using a mouse...Future plans for extending this technology include enabling flexible audio speed control and contributing this work to an open-source development project.
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Onions, Kubuntu Gutsy Beta
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Introducing Onion 75! It’s a very amusing and funny emoticon theme for Kopete.
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Showstoppers list for KDE’s 4.0 Beta 3 release
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The KDE 4.0 Beta 3 release was shifted to October 10. Additionally the release team specified the KDE parts which have to be ready at the beta release date or which might otherwise be a showstopper.
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Using PDFedit in Kubuntu
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At the moment PDFedit has to come from the getdeb site, but when Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon comes out in October, PDFedit will be included in the repositories.
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Amarok: Playing with the Playlist
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Since the new playlist for Amarok 2 is basically built using a QGraphicsView, we can do some realy interesting stuff with it. One of the things I have been thinking about was a way to group tracks from the same albums together to take up less space and avoid having the same cover shown over and over again.
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Change Ctrl+Enter Behavior in Firefox
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My good friend Daniel asked me yesterday how to change Firefox so that Shift+Enter auto-completes *.org instead of *.net. After about a 2 minute google session, I had the answer to share with everybody.
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Songbird audio player has potential, needs work
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Songbird is a cross-platform, Mozilla-based music player with high ambitions. The app is still undergoing heavy development, but it has come a long way since we looked at the 0.1 release in 2006. Songbird today can sing a pretty sweet tune, but to push its way into the big leagues, it needs to get over its own interface.
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WebRunner
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"A new piece of software has come to my attention today, a Mozilla project called WebRunner that aims to provide an easy way to create site-specific browsers (SSBs). The project is basically an extension on the XULRunner software, which itself is standalone version of the XUL engine that underpins the big Mozilla projects (Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird, Seamonkey)..."
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