Auto-rotating space-themed backgrounds! Surely no geek can resist that? You can get them, in the October 2009 release of Ubuntu, nicknamed Karmic Koala, which made its debut last Friday.
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RealPlayer SP 1.0.2 on Linux with Wine
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RealPlayer SP 1.0.2 install on Linux with Wine. RealPlayer has always enabled you to play RealAudio ra and RealMedia ram files. Now, with RealPlayer, you can Download videos from thousands of Web sites with just one click. Build your own video library and playlists. Play all major audio and video formats.
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Ubuntu 9.10 Software Center: For better or worse
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One of the new features in Ubuntu 9.10 is the Ubuntu Software Center. In a rather bold move Canonical has migrated away from the standard Add/Remove Software tool and (in the future) plans to drop Synaptic and Gdebi as well. Is this a move just for “moves” sake?
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Review: Vector Linux 6 Standard
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It's been over two years since Vector Linux 5.8 was released, and a lot can happen in that time. But what specifically is that? And has all that extra time allowed Vector to improve and grow and become a distribution to be reckoned with? Let's find out.
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bringing theora to youtube (the hard way)
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Anyway, I decided to try and make it so that I could easily play Youtube videos without having to use Flash. (Flash - in many ways - is the weak link in the chain. In this case it's because I can't fix/hack it, although I'm happy to not have it because my browser is a lot more reliable.)"
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3 recent OpenOffice.org extensions
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Although I do most of my professional writing in Bluefish, I usually use OpenOffice.org at least once a day. Consequently, I keep a close eye on the OpenOffice.org Extensions page.
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Ubuntu 9.10 test drive
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UBUNTU LINUX 9.10 was released last Thursday. Codenamed 'Karmic Koala', it has been anticipated for months by the distribution's many fans. Out of curiosity, the INQUIRER installed it and played around with it to assess how it measures up.
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Do The Banshee Shuffle
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My family has a couple of those tiny little audio players called the iPod Shuffle. Of course we needed an iTunes replacement and Banshee turned out to have all the features we need.
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Moving to digiKam
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...when Google released Picasa 3.5 for Windows, leaving Linux users behind with the older 3.0 release, I decided that it was time to move on. After testing different photo editing and management applications for Linux, I settled for digiKam.
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Review: Red Hat's Fedora 12 Beta Operating System
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eWEEK Labs' tests show that Fedora 12 will provide the latest and greatest versions of popular open-source applications, as well as features that strengthen not only Fedora but also Linux distributions in general
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No open-source Skype... yet
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Still, Linux users really want Skype, so every now and again, another story starts that Skype is going to go open-source. In the latest Skype open-source rumor, it's claimed that "We are happy to be able to inform you that Skype will from now on be part of the open source community."
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Change themes in linux the easy way with Epidermis
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With Epidermis you can change the following themes by just a click ,Wallpapers, Metacity window border themes, GTK widget themes ,Icon sets ,GNOME splash images, Mouse cursor themes, Grub bootsplash screen,Usplash bootsplash screen,GDM login screen, Xsplash themes
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An overview of Ubuntu 9.10 variants
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The much-awaited Ubuntu 9.10 was released as scheduled last week. For the benefit of those readers who are new to the Linux world and who might be overwhelmed by the sheer number of available options, here is a brief recap of the official release line-up."
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Installing CentOS 5.4
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CentOS has not received much attention here on Ghacks, so I thought I would remedy that by introducing this outstanding flavor of Linux not by way of a Live CD (CentOS does have a Live CD, but you can not install from that CD), but by way of traditional means.
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GoblinX – An Alternative OS With 4 Different Flavors
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In today’s Ubuntu dominated Linux landscape, it’s refreshing to stumble upon an alternative linux software distribution choosing to follow its own path. GoblinX is one of these.
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