21,000 closed bugs later, the KDE team has announced the new KDE 4.4 and I simply had to take a look. After all, the last time I took KDE 4 Series for a spin was back when I still thought open source was one word.
Read more »KDE 4.4 Review, Screenshot Tour (and KDE 4.0 Comparison)
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Use Live USB Creator to install Fedora 12 from a USB stick
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Vincent Danen walks you through the use of the Live USB Creator tool to install or boot Fedora 12 from a USB drive.
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Boxee Beta Updates with Over 500 of Squashed Bugs
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If you've been using the recently released Boxee Beta media center but found it to be a bit on unusable side of buggy (at least one Lifehacker writer felt that way), good news: Boxee just released an update to Boxee Beta, and while the update doesn't have any new features, it's overflowing with bug fixes (over 500 resolved issues in total).
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10 Best Linux Distributions in 2010
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Before telling you about the Best Linux Distributions or Distros available for 2010, you have to tell me what kind of user you are. There are several types of Distributions meant a particular working condition and there are also several types of Distros that are created for certain type of users.
Read more »Has Linux Mint Killed Distrohopping?
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Back in the old days, Linux used to be a tough cookie to get installed. These days, it's more or less a snap to get Linux working on your computer. Perhaps a little too simple.
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Making a videoloop with Kino and Audacity
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In my recent article on QDVDAuthor, I skipped over the task of making a videoloop for the main DVD menu. Here I’m going to show you how I did it. The goal is a short loop of video that smoothly transitions through five different video segments and back to the beginning again.
Read more »Five nice and useful plugins for Gimp
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One of the big advantages of The GIMP is the fact that it can be easily extended with new functionality. So with sufficient addons (particularly plugins), you can achieve a lot of functionality found in other editors.
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Ubuntu One Music Store Pushed In Rhythmbox
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One of the features that was talked about and proposed a few months back was a music store for Ubuntu. Plans were laid out for an Ubuntu One Music Store and the first packages to support this in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS are now available.
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Chrome OS vs Ubuntu Netbook Remix
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Although Chrome OS is based on Ubuntu, Google has no intention right now of targeting the mass market. Instead, Chrome OS will be certified to run on specific hardware, which at the very least will need either an x86 or ARM CPU and a solid-state drive (SSD) for storage. Most SSDs are faster than hard drives, which enables Google to squeeze the boot time as low as possible.
Read more »Comparing Browsers on Linux
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Recently I decided to make a screencast comparing some of the more popular browsers that are currently available for Linux: Firefox, Epiphany, Konqueror, Opera, and Google-Chrome. Included is the screencast posted with the new HTML 5 video tag, a video download option, and for those that prefer reading, a short synopsis of the scenario.
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openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 2 Has Linux Kernel 2.6.33 and KDE SC 4.4
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The openSUSE development team, through Henne Vogelsang, announced last evening (February 17th) the immediate availability for testing of the openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 2 operating system.
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LXDE - the cure for what ails our older PCs
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It’s been a while since Ubuntu could be called a leaner alternative to Windows. However, one of the nicer features of Linux (at least for the end user) is the ability to choose the windowing environment with which we interact with the underlying OS.
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Wine 1.1.39 Released
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The Wine development release 1.1.39 is now available.
What's new in this release:
* Support for registry symbolic links.
* Many MSI fixes.
* Build process improvements.
* MSXML cleanups and fixes.
* A number of MSHTML improvements.
* Various bug fixes.
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Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04 To Get A 2D EFL Based Launcher
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In an attempt to get Ubuntu working on any ARM based device (as long as there is hardware available), Ubuntu Netbook Edition (UNE) 10.04 will ship with a new 2D launcher which is a direct clone of the UI found in the Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix, although this one is based on EFL (Enlightenment Foundation Libraries) meaning that its fast on non-accelerated platforms.
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OpenOffice back in Ubuntu
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A decision to remove OpenOffice.org from the next Ubuntu Netbook Remix release has been retracted
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