The motive in part was to seek out a few ultralight systems that might start up nice with the Mebius, although it was clear after a few seconds that some of them weren’t “light” in the way I need “light” to be.
Read more »Five distros for “fast” machines
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Linux Mint 9 LXDE released
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cdck – Tool for verifying the quality of written CDs/DVDs
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cdck (CD/DVD check tools) is a simple console program to verify CD/DVD quality. The known fact is that even if all files on the disc are readable, some sectors having bad timing can easily turn into unreadable ones in the future.
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FreeCiv 2.2.2 released
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Freeciv is a free and open source empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization. The game commences in prehistory and your mission is to lead your tribe from the stone age to the space age...
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Using Compiz As A Windows Management Tool
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You’ve seen the wobbly windows, you’ve seen the cube, you’ve seen the raindrops. Compiz is just a bunch of useless eye candy right? Wrong.
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Zenwalk 6.4: Simple yet Awesome
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It’s been a long time since I last took a look at Zenwalk. I’ve always had a sweet spot for it, though I haven’t had a chance to really give it a full spin in quite some time. Although I am primarily a KDE user, there’s something about Zenwalk that always keeps my attention: It’s simple, fast, and gets the job done.
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Alternative desktops: Fvwm
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This time around, in our Alternative desktops series, we’re going seriously old-school Linux with Fvwm. Although using Fvwm will make you feel like you’ve gone back in time, it still has it’s place in today’s world.
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openSUSE 11.3 final released
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The openSUSE Project has released the final version of openSUSE 11.3, the latest release of their popular Linux distribution, adding a number of package updates and new features
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Phonik – A music player for big collections lovers
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Android 2.2 (FroYo) review
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Among the many exciting announcements in their annual I/O conference, Google released the Android 2.2 SDK (FroYo) to developers. This highly anticipated platform upgrade brings with it exciting improvements and features for users and new tools for application developers and publishers. Here's what we made of it…
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nstall 0 A.D. (Age Of Empires Open Source Clone) Pre Alpha 3 In Ubuntu, Now With Multiplayer Support
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0 A.D. is a historical real-time strategy open source game focused on the years between 500 BC and 500 AD. 0 A.D, which will remind you of Age of Empires.
0 A.D. Pre Alpha 3 finally brings multiplayer support so you can now play 0 A.D. with your friends. They don't even have to use Linux since 0 A.D. also runs on Windows and Mac OSX.
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Usenet Resource Downloader (URD)
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URD is a program to download binaries from usenet (newsgroups) through a web interface.
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Super Nintendo emulators for Ubuntu 10.04
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Do you want to relive your youth with some of those classic SNES games of yesteryear? In this article we take a look at some of the Super Nintendo emulators that are available in Ubuntu.
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Redo Backup and Recovery 0.9.3 Screenshots
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Redo Backup and Recovery is an easy-to-use, complete disaster recovery solution. It allows bare-metal restore, which means that even if your hard drive melts or gets completely erased by a virus, you can have a completely-functional system back up and running in as little as 10 minutes. Redo Backup and Recovery is just a GPLv3 Perl script built with a GTK2+ interface designed in Glade.
Read more »Music sharing app sounds out Linux
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Spotify yesterday released a preview version of its peer-to-peer (P2P) music application for desktop Linux, packaged as Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 10.04. The software shares most of the features of the Windows and Mac OS X versions of Spotify, but requires Spotify Premium membership.
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