Google’s Chrome OS isn’t the first operating system to challenge Microsoft Windows’ commanding lead. But it’s got an advantage that other rivals such as Linux lacked: the Web.
Read more »What Chrome OS has on Windows that Linux doesn’t
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Trauma – Flash Based Point-and-Click Adventure
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Trauma is a point-and-click adventure game where the game world is a huge collection of photos which create the world, the player can zoom in (thus revealing new closer photos and details) or out, move to different directions and even draw symbols which do stuff.
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The CinelerraCV Project
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Continuing my tour of Linux-based video editors this week I've profiled Cinelerra. Specifically I've reviewed the community-supported version produced by the CinelerraCV project.
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openSUSE 11.2 – For New Users and Pros Alike
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openSUSE is a commercially-backed Open Source Linux distribution with origins in Germany. Novell bought SuSE in November 2004 and has been releasing a freely downloadable community-based Linux desktop since August 2005.
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KDE Plasma Netbook Preview
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With the growing popularity of netbooks, it is no surprise that many Linux distributions and software developers have created customized versions of their software to run on them. Not to be counted out, KDE now has a version of their desktop environment designed for netbooks.
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Fedora 12 LXDE Spin Screenshots
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Fedora 12 LXDE spin available for download. LXDE, the 'Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment', is an extremely fast and energy-saving desktop environment. It is maintained by an international community of developers and comes with a beautiful interface, multi-language support, standard keyboard shortcuts and additional features like tabbed file browsing.
Read more »How to install and Configure compiz Fusion in Ubuntu 9.10(Karmic)
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Compiz is a compositing window manager that uses 3D graphics acceleration via OpenGL. It provides various new graphical effects and features on any desktop environment, including Gnome and KDE. Compiz Fusion is a collection of plugins and a configuration system for the Compiz compositing window manager. It was created from the remerging of Beryl into Compiz.
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Source Games and Wine
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Many a day on the Ubuntu Forums I stumble upon posts like Program X doesnt work under ubuntu Im leaving. As it turns out some of these posts are for the Source games mainly the multiplayer ones Counter Strike Source Day of Defeat Source Half Life 2 Deathmatch Team Fortress 2. For that purpose Im gonna make a short guide just to show how I had luck getting the Source games to work.
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Sugar on a Stick v2 - a.k.a. Blueberry - released
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Sugar Labs, the organisation behind the One Laptop Per Child's XO laptop software, has released Sugar on a Stick version 2.0 - a.k.a. Blueberry.
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Booting and networking problems in Kubuntu Karmic 9.10
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I thought of trying out Kubuntu (KDE based) this time as I had heard that its doing a lot of interesting things (Akonadi/Nepomuk etc) and that with 4.3.1 it is stable as well. The installation went fine, all over within less than half an hour and then the problems started.
Read more »Mozilla lights fire under Thunderbird
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Mozilla will step up the pace of on its Thunderbird mail and communications platform next year, to re-invigorate a "stagnant" email client scene.
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Google Goggles Gives Android Users Bragging Rights
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Google Goggles is not only intriguing technology that moves visual search a huge leap forward, it's only available for Android Phone users, giving them one up on their iPhone-wielding buddies.
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Tech Tip: Using Twitter and Facebook from Pidgin
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In the vast world of communication, instant messaging is along-standing medium.Facebook has entered the scene relatively recently, as has Twitter.If you use these newer mediums of communication and you're aPidgin user then youmay want to look at the Pidgin plugins for accessing them.
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Avoiding Mono
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Mono is a trap. It is a divisive topic if ever there was one in the Linux community. There are anti-Mono and anti-Novell sites and there is no shortage of strong opinion. This distracts us from what we have traditionally done which is to lead and set our own course.
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Monitoring Notebook Battery with IBAM
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While KDE, Gnome, and Xfce come with dedicated graphical utilities for monitoring notebook battery, you might still want to use IBAM to keep an eye on the battery parameters directly from the command line.
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