Today you constantly see people looking for alternatives to Skype, Gizmo, or another service. One that users frequently overlook is Ekiga. It comes with a standard GNOME desktop, but many users never realize its existence. Ekiga has most of the features of Skype and Gizmo, but with the added videoconferencing feature.
Read more »
Avant Window Navigator
http://fosswire.com –
There are many different Dock-like launchers available for Linux these days, some of them better than others. One such program is Avant Window Navigator.
Read more »- Login to post comments
id's "Tech 5": a Linux no-go?
http://www.linux-gamers.net –
id-Software's next graphics-engine "Tech 5" could possibly have no Linux support. This would go hand in hand with no Linux version of Rage - the new id-software game based on "Tech 5".
Read more »
- Login to post comments
I’m LOVING Vector Linux!
http://tuxtoday.wordpress.com –
So I had some issues getting USB-drives to work in both SUSE and Ubuntu.I actually had HUGE issues! So, in the search for another distro, someone on IRC recommended Vector Linux.
Read more »
- Login to post comments
Create flashy graphs in minutes with Graph Gear
http://nothickmanuals.info –
Turning plain data into shiny graphs similar to Visual Thesaurus and Visuwords doesn't only make them look good: it also allows you to visualize connections between different data bits and makes it more fun to explore them. The problem is that creating such graphs can often require three things not all of us have: programming knowledge, time, and money.
Read more »
Five cool open-source sleeper apps
http://www.itwire.com –
For a computer, software content is king. Programmable computers began the home computer revolution over 20 years ago. The modern revolution is Open Source software, giving immeasurable utility with no cost or risk. Sadly a lot goes under the radar but here are five sleeper apps really worth checking out.
Read more »
- Login to post comments
Sun runs virtual Linux inside Solaris Containers
http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com –
When Solaris Containers for Linux Applications is released into the source code with Update 4 on Aug. 27, Sun customers will be able to run unmodified Linux binaries made for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS.
Read more »
- Login to post comments
A weekend with fluxbox
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com –
Over the weekend I got into a mood to try out another window manager besides my beloved KDE. Warning! There may be some prejudice here :) I thought that if I could find a good WM to run on my aging flaky computer I might be able to squeak by until I get a new motherboard.
Read more »
- Login to post comments
Top 100 Open-Source Linux Apps
http://ubuntuforums.org –
I made this list because I realized how long it took, for me, to discover even a small portion of these apps when I first started using Linux. Hopefully someone new to Linux or looking for programs they have never used finds this helpful.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Ubuntu's displayconfig-gtk
http://www.phoronix.com –
The new displayconfig-gtk planned for the Gutsy Gibbon release.
Read more »- Login to post comments
QEMU: Virtualization the easy way
http://blog.thedebianuser.org –
If you run a modern Linux distribution, chances are that you already have all the necessary tools to run other distributions or even proprietary operating systems as well, all at the same time. You don’t have to be a kernel hacker to do this - just follow some simple steps explained here to get going.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Skype Linux Reads Password and Firefox Profile
http://forum.skype.com –
"Users of Skype for Linux have just found out that it reads the files /etc/passwd, firefox profile, plugins, addons, etc, and many other unnecessary files in /etc. This fact was originally discovered by using AppArmor
Read more »
- Login to post comments
Firefox Campus Edition Features Bundled Tools For Students
http://blog.wired.com –
Continuing its string of branded versions of Firefox, Mozilla is set to release a “Campus Edition” aimed at students headed back to school.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Skype Linux Reads Password and Firefox Profile
http://yro.slashdot.org –
""Users of Skype for Linux have just found out that it reads the files /etc/passwd, firefox profile, plugins, addons, etc, and many other unnecessary files in /etc..."
Read more »
- Login to post comments
Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 10.3: New Package Management
http://news.opensuse.org –
openSUSE 10.3 is set to contain a new, significantly improved and more mature package management stack by default. ZMD, the package management component causing problems in SUSE Linux 10.1 and to a lesser extent in openSUSE 10.2, has been completely removed and is now replaced by the new libzypp and its tools.
Read more »
