Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program. You can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website – apply different effects to it, draw on it to highlight points, and then upload to an image hosting site, all within one window. Shutter is free, open-source, and licensed under GPL v3.
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Wine 1.3.1 Released
The Wine development release 1.3.1 is now available.
Whats new in this release:
* Support for drag & drop between X11 and OLE.
* New ipconfig.exe builtin tool.
* Support for favorites in builtin Internet Explorer.
* Beginnings of a shell Explorer control.
* A number of DirectDraw code cleanups.
* Improvements to the calendar control.
* Various bug fixes.
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Gmail video chat is now available for Linux Users
Gmail video chat now supports Linux, but it supports Debian/Ubuntu systems for now. RPM version for Red Hat/Fedora will be available soon.
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Maverick Ubuntu
The release of Ubuntu 10.10 is getting closer and details of what will be included are starting to become clear
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Going Headless
I have one monitor on my desk, quite a nice one, but only one. Right now I want to install Ubuntu Lucid on another desktop I have in the office, but I still want to use my monitor for other stuff (like writing this blog post). No problem, Ubuntu has an accessible installer, I just plug in the speakers and keyboard and go through it with audio, lets see how it goes.
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Android surges, mobile Linux slides, in Gartner report
Gartner reports surging global handset sales in the second quarter, with Android taking second place over Apple's iPhone in smartphone OS market share. Meanwhile, the "partial fork" of Android from the Linux kernel has been debated at LinuxCon, with some claiming it's a temporary split, while others warn about the fork's long-term impact.
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Open source contributors
Unlike proprietary software, open source software is not developed by a single company or group of developers. Instead it is developed by many different companies, thousands of individual developers and hordes of hobbyists.
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LinuxCon grapples with challenges, from mobile to multicore
This week's LinuxCon featured some lively discussions over the fate of Linux, says eWEEK. Hosted by the Linux Foundation (LF), the event explored cloud computing, social networking, Android integration, GPL licensing, Linux kernel challenges such as multicore processing and code complexity, and MeeGo, among other issues.
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5 (More) Best Web eCommerce Software for Linux
I have already featured here some of the best web eCommerce software available for Linux. However, I've noticed that I left out several other high-quality web e-commerce solutions. So, I decided to give you another round of some of the best open-source web eCommerce software that you may find useful
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Replacing Ping with Nmap for Nagios
Sometimes a system administrator needs to get around a few rules that are in place for good (or not) reasons. One example is when networks have ICMP turned off (or even just a portion of it). With ICMP off it can be difficult to configure tools like Nagios for simple up and down checks. In this text getting around the no ICMP problem and a script to handle it for Nagios.
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Download Advanced Bash shell Scripting Guide (PDF)
An in-depth exploration of the art of shell scripting.This is really usefull shell Scripting tutorial guide for all users.
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google-maps.el --- Access Google Maps from Emacs on GNU Systems
«Today's fun idea was to put all my contacts stored into BBDB on a Google Maps' map, using my Google Maps extension for Emacs [...] It's really simplistic, but I did not need more to have fun. :-) This could be extended to set a specific marker and/or color for each contact, with a legend...»
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24 Addictive Free Linux Games (Part 3 of 3)
There are literally thousands of free games that run natively under Linux. This huge selection makes sifting through all of these games a mammoth task for any sane person.
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Finally Gmail enabled voice and video chat for Linux
Linux: Ever wanted to video chat inside gmail. Now you can
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Enlightenment Transform Utilty (etu) 0.1.8 Cut
A lot of changes with this release of the one and only graphics program I maintain. No remarkable user changes though so if your installation still uses the epeg library then there is no need to upgrade. That said, if you are tracking enlightenment then the current version will not deal with jpeg image formats at all and may be using legacy libraries (if it actually works).
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