CrossOver for Solaris is a commercial variant of Wine released by CodeWeavers with (currently) limited support for many of todays most popular office application and games. CrossOver Office and Games for Solaris has been compiled on Solaris 10 and tested for performance and stability
Read more »An introduction to CrossOver Office and Games for Solaris
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Firefox 3.6.4 adds crash protection, fixes vulnerabilities
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Following several delays, Mozilla has released version 3.6.4 of its open source Firefox web browser, adding crash protection and addressing four critical vulnerabilities
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Introducing Your KDE Software Labels
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A while ago, the KDE promo team organized a competition to choose a design for labels that producers of software within our community can use to show that they are part of KDE. Today we are happy to announce the winning designs:
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An introduction to Peppermint OS
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Earlier this year a pair of developers put out a new distribution called Peppermint OS. The new distro, which has close family ties to Ubuntu, is an experiment in combining the traditional desktop computing model with cloud-based application
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How to Tether Using Your Android Phone
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Unless you are one of the few who have upgraded to Froyo, or you have rooted your Android phone, chances are, you are still not able to tether using your Android phone. Those who are seeking a solution, PdaNet is the easiest way available to provide tethering to your Mac or PC.
Read more »3 Amazing Firefox Hacks
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What good is a browser unless you can tweak it, hack it and bend it to your will? No good at all. The more you can hack it, the better it is. And that means that Firefox must be a great browser as when ever you feel that you know everything about it you come across a bunch of hidden (and some not-so-secret) tips and tricks available that will crank Firefox up and pimp your browser.
Read more »Jolicloud 1.0 netbook OS to include touchscreen support
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The Jolicloud developers have confirmed that the upcoming major 1.0 release of their Linux-based netbook operating system will include support for some touchscreen displays out of the box
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How-to solve the lack of video thumbs in Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop
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Since I installed Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop 64b some video files had no thumbs preview in Nautilus. After 3 months I decided to fix this, and it's a very easy and fast fix.
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VLC Media Player 1.1.0 released
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The VideoLAN Project developers have released version 1.1.0 of their of their popular VLC Media Player, a major update that includes a number of new features, such as support for GPU decoding on Windows and Linux
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How to make a photograph Lomographic in GIMP
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Lomography is most commonly recognised in old film photographs and is used aesthetically in photographs. I will show a quick process to achieve this "Lomo" effect in GIMP!
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Linuxables: Intro to Linux Command Line
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This is the first in a series of a "Linuxables," short, quickly consumable tutorials that can provide easy reference while at work or at home. We hope they're useful for you.
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WYSIWYG music app makes a score
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Musical inspiration may come from heaven, but once it arrives, you’d better record it or it’ll fly back to where it came from. MuseScore software lets you set down your music notation and compose (or at least create sheet music) on your computer.
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Photoshop brush support in Krita
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First I thought that let’s create new brush engine that mimics the Photoshop one and then load the presets into this one. But that would be waste of time.
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How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running LVM System (Ubuntu 10.04)
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This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running LVM system (Ubuntu 10.04). The GRUB2 bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails (no matter which one).
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8 Live and USB Distros For All Occasions
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If you're new to the Linux or open source community, you might not have heard of live disc or USB distributions yet. They let you run a operating system on PCs without installing anything on the hard drive. It loads directly from the CD/DVD disc or USB flash drive. Here we'll review several.
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