Another week, another winetricks, winetricks 20090902 has been released .
The only interesting changes are new verbs vc2005trial and python26. These are only of interest to developers.
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A Quick and Subtle Introduction to Emacs
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Emacs is a feature-rich, powerful, and highly extensible traditional text editor that is popular among hardcore programmers and veteran UNIX/Linux users.
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Fedora, good and bad
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In the past few days, since I’ve been spending time at my sister’s house, I’ve used as single system the laptop I bought a few months ago, with runs Fedora 11.
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My Favorite Brain Games
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I wanted to take a few minutes and share a couple of games that I enjoy quite often. I've never been one for the shoot-em-up games, rather I prefer games that put my brain to work solving problems. There are many "brain games" available for Linux, but I would like to let you know about two games that I use to feed my puzzling addiction.
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A great Blender tutorial: back to school with Blender
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One of my projects this fall is to take advantage of online "Open Courseware" classes, for personal and professional development. In setting up my own curriculum, I came across a very nice find: a class on 3D modelling based on the (free software) Blender 3D modelling application.
Read more »How To: Install A Line6 GuitarPort or TonePort UX1 or GX
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How to install a Line6 Guitar Port (and the toneport With a very big thanks to Myhrman from Source Forge for helping me get this thing working and a big thanks to Grabner for providing the drivers for something that seems to be non existant for linux! This is to get the Guitar Port to work as a basic USB sound device so you will get a dry signal in and out that will work under OSS and Jack.
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Bordeaux 1.8.4 for Linux Released
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The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 1.8.4 for Linux today. Bordeaux 1.8.4 fixes a critical bug in our wget implementation. If you have had problems with Bordeaux 1.8.2 not installing a application we recommend you update to 1.8.4 and the problem should now be resolved. There has also been a couple other small bug fixes and tweaks.
Bordeaux 1.8.4 was tested against Wine 1.1.26
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Open Source Photo Processing Comes of Age
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People who enjoy digital photography as a creative outlet are very familiar with software products from companies like Adobe, Corel, etc. Most of them are also likely familiar with what until recently was the premier open source photo editor, the Gimp.
Read more »Ventrilo Compatible VOIP Client for Linux
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Gaming under Linux can be hard without the right tools. One problem many Linux gamers face frequently is the bugs associated from running ventrilo using WINE. But the answer is now here. Spux will allow users to connect and interact with ventrilo servers.
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Karmic Alpha 5 released
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Welcome to Karmic Koala Alpha 5, which will in time become Ubuntu 9.10.
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Mozilla to protect Adobe Flash users
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The upcoming Firefox 3.5.3 and Firefox 3.0.14 releases, currently in beta, will check the version of Adobe Flash plug-in installed in the browser and warn the user if that plug-in is out of date.
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Chrome 4.0 vs Opera 10 vs Firefox 3.5
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In a three-way cage match, LifeHacker threw Chrome 4, Firefox 3.5, and Opera 10 into the ring and let the three browsers duke it out to see which would emerge as the fastest app for surfing the web.
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AfterStep -Just another windows manager for Linux
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AfterStep is a window manager for the Unix X Window System. Originally based on the look and feel of the NeXTStep interface, it provides end users with a consistent, clean, and elegant desktop. The goal of AfterStep development is to provide for flexibility of desktop configuration, improving aestetics, and efficient use of system resources.
Read more »Best Google Desktop Applications for Linux
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Google has already released several desktop applications that works on different operating systems. As a Linux user, I'm grateful that all of my preferred Google desktop apps are well supported and can be easily installed on my favorite distro.I have here a list of some of the best Google-made desktop applications for Linux
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Repair Damaged Drives With Linux
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Has your OS installation gone bad? Grab a Live CD and follow our guide to rescuing rogue partitions
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