The open-source Wine project is less a solution and more a workaround when it comes to the issue of running Windows applications on Linux.
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Running World of Warcraft in Ubuntu Linux
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Over my Christmas break I decided to try out the latest version of Wine with my most frequently used Windows application which is called World of Warcraft or WoW. Just so that its clear that I am not antisocial this didnt take away much time spending with friends and family as it actually took me less than an hour to do the whole thing.
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Install Latest Banshee 1.5.2 with iTunes Importer functionality in Ubuntu
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Banshee is a popular music management tool for Linux. The default version of Banshee in Ubuntu Karmic is Banshee 1.5.1. Banshee has already reached version Banshee 1.5.2. This is what you need to do to get the latest version of banshee in Ubuntu.
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Canonical To Bring Closed Source Apps Like iTunes And Photoshop To Ubuntu?!?!
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A recent official post on the Ubuntu Forums asks users to complete a survey with the applications they would like to see in upcoming version of Ubuntu...
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How to Run Enlightenment (E17) On Ubuntu Karmic
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Every once in a while we here at MakeTechEasier like to take a look at where things stand with the notoriously still-in-development Enlightenment window manager. I say “notorious” because version 0.17 (hereafter called E17) has been in development almost 10 years, long enough to invite a fair share of Duke Nukem Forever analogies.
Read more »Ubuntu 9.10 at 120Mhz, 80Mb
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After tinkering with the Thinkpad 560e for a while and learning some of the eccentricities of it, I swapped the 64Mb memory stick. With a total of 80Mb to work with, the playing field changes instantaneously.
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The difference between Linux and windows settings
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Linux and windows have very different ways of storing their installed program settings. Before windows 95 came along they used to be very similar.
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Ubuntu 10.04 alpha 2 brings Pitivi, panel changes
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The Ubuntu development community announced today the availability of Ubuntu 10.04 alpha 2, a new prerelease of the next major version of the Ubuntu Linux distribution. This alpha is the first Ubuntu release to completely omit HAL, a Linux hardware abstraction layer that is being deprecated in favor of DeviceKit.
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Prevent Accidental Shutdown/Reboot in Ubuntu
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Molly-Guard is a command line script which prevents you from accidentally shutting down or rebooting your Ubuntu system.
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20 (More) Awesome GIMP Brush Sets
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Since the collection of awesome GIMP brushes that I showcased a few months ago was quite popular, I decided to put together another wonderful list of brush sets that I'm going to share once again to all of you.Without further ado, here's an additional compilation of high-quality and stunning GIMP brushes ...
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Firefox 3.7 dumped in favour of feature updates
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Mozilla has dumped Firefox 3.7 from the release schedule, replacing it with regular features updates for version 3.6 of the browser.
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5 Linux music players you did not know about
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Below are 5 music players for the Linux platform (Ubuntu being my base) you probably did not know about.
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Konqueror kicking ass again
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Recently I found a site with HTTP Content-Disposition header tests and their results. First that was only tested with Konqueror 3.5.8 from an ancient Knoppix CD, which the author quickly updated after I pointed him to the openSUSE 11.2 KDE Live CD.
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Why aren’t Linux phones using SyncML?
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There’s one thing about the Nokia N900’s Debian-based Maemo OS that I find bewildering and infuriating at the same time. It’s the lack of full support for SyncML — and in its place, Microsoft Exchange.
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Web Based Ubuntu And Debian Custom Installation / Live CD Creation Service
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One of the most mentioned ideas at Ubuntu Brainstorm is creating a custom installation/live cd website-as-service which would allow users to customize their install/live cd, in the spirit of Linux and open-source in general. A service like this already exists: Reconstructor, a web based GNU/Linux distribution customization and creation toolkit.
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