Many people use BitTorrent clients to download popular movies, music, and television shows for free...In order to download the files associated with torrents, you need a BitTorrent client. KTorrent, a KDE project, is a feature-rich client that is completely self-contained from the moment you start searching for torrents until the last chunk finishes downloading.
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Guayadeque - Nice music player
Music Player with the aims to be intuitive, easy to use and fast even for huge music collections. Developed for Linux with wxWidgets for GTK under Gnome.
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Anjal: GNOME's Evolution for Netbooks
One unforeseen benefit of the rise of netbooks is the rethinking of desktop interfaces. Compared to workstations, netbooks have smaller screens and less memory, and developers generally assume that users do less demanding tasks on them. Few netbook interfaces illustrate this re-examination better than Anjal.
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MultiCD Builds a Multi-boot CD / DVD With Many Different Linux Distributions And / Or Utilities
multicd.sh is a shell script designed to build a multiboot CD / DVD image containing many different Linux distributions and/or utilities.
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Power Up Linux GUI Apps
One big disadvantage of GUI apps is that you’re mostly limited to whatever the interface lets you do — unless you want to re-code the interface yourself, that is. For instance, how can you use a photo viewer to see all of the photos you put in various places on your disk this past Monday?
Read more »Never reboot again with Ksplice
If you use Linux, you don't reboot very often. In my case, the only time I reboot is when I upgrade a system. But suppose, just suppose you didn't have to do that. Suppose you could even make major updates and never have to reboot your system? You don't have to imagine it anymore. Ksplice delivers the goods.
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Krusader Conquers Linux Files
Linux offers users numerous separate apps to manage files and handle system-related computing chores, but Krusader packages these functions in its own tool sets.
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Xfce Desktop: Less Lard, Less Bling, More Usability
KDE and GNOME pile on the eye candy and grow ever-larger and hungrier of system resources. Thankfully, Linux users who prefer a lightweight desktop environment have a number of great choices. Today Juliet Kemp takes us on a tour of the attractive, nimble, and functional Xfce desktop.
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Life with Linux: Adding a Mac-like dock
One of the nice things about using a Mac is the dock, the area on the bottom of the screen that contains the Finder (file and directory lister) and other applications you use. By default, Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Gnome-based user interfaces do not come with a dock, but it is easy to add.
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KDE SC 4.4: Fresh breeze for KDE
The latest 4.4 release of the KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC) offers far more than just stability and bug fixes: The developers have added a special new desktop for netbooks, as well as more program options. They have also made major structural changes.
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Reminder-ng - A reminder application for GNOME
Reminder-ng it is a reminder application for GNOME which allows you to manage reminders, and alerts the user when they expire.
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The Linux Desktop Evolves With KDE 4.4
The latest KDE4 desktop release sports thousands of new features and bugfixes, and includes the best integration yet of semantic technology.
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KDE Software Compilation 4.4.0 (Codename: "Caikaku") Released
Today KDE announces the immediate availability of the KDE Software Compilation 4.4, "Caikaku", bringing an innovative collection of applications to Free Software users. Major new technologies have been introduced, including social networking and online collaboration features, a new netbook-oriented interface and infrastructural innovations such as the KAuth authentication framework.
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The needs of the one
When Cryptic offered an opportunity to beta test Star Trek Online I jumped at the chance. With a lot of hard work the team here and some help from Cryptic we were just able to get it running in Wine. You can also receive a 25% discount on CX Games or Pro with ComeToTheLight promo code.
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NTFS Disk Recovery
Mary, the daughter of a friend is in college: her Windows XP laptop constantly reboots and, we suspect, has a bad hard drive. The system will boot a live CD (Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Desktop), and data on the hard drive can be read. During boot, the live CD identifies disk errors and tries unsuccessfully to repair them.
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