The Wine development release 1.1.42 is now available.
What's new in this release:
Reader Platinrabe sent over his concept for how best to use the free space on window borders that we’ve seen so much of recently: from gesture based controls and intelligent helpers to workflow-enhancing menu-thingy-majiggies)
Read more »This tutorial will explain how to install ATI Radeon HD 2600 in Ubuntu
Read more »Making music on Linux used to be something for masochists. Luckily this is long something of the past, as nowadays lot's of cool Linux software and compatible hardware is available to musicians.
Read more »I couldn't get PulseAudio to work on one of my computers no matter what I do. But removing PulseAudio can be tricky and besides, there is a very easy way to "fix" it (if you're using GStreamer as a backend for music and videos). This is very useful for applications which use GStreamer but do not let you select the sound output module like: Rhythmbox, Totem and so on.
Read more »In a previous MTE article, you learned how to create a unified desktop using the KDE 4 Oxygen themes for KDE, GTK, and Firefox. Oxygen is clean, simple, and visually pleasing, but some people want a little more flexibility. QtCurve is a theming system that gives you the configuring power to have varieties of themes, from downright plain to shiny eye candy.
Read more »Red Hat has announced the release of version 5.5 of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) a distribution aimed at enterprise customers. In addition to bug fixes released since RHEL 5.4, the latest release of RHEL includes enhancements to the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor
Read more »The WordPress developers have released version 1.1 of their WordPress for Android application. The first major point update features user interface improvements and changes to the home and comments view
Read more »The digiKam developers have released version 1.2.0 of their open source advanced digital photo management application and Kipi plug-ins for digiKam
Read more »This time around I'll focus more on Samba and how it is installed and configured to allow for the sharing of files and folders. For this article, we will look at the smb.conf configuration file and how it is set up and how to create new shares and even share printers.
Read more »Mozilla has released updates for its Thunderbird email client, the SeaMonkey "all-in-one internet application suite" and older versions of its Firefox web browser - addressing a number of critical security vulnerabilities
Read more »Gnome 2.30 was released a few days ago which means the next version will be (or should be) Gnome 3 (which will come with Gnome Shell). I recently came across some Notification Area mockups which might become reality.
Gnome 3 might start using monochrome colors in the System Status Area - Ubuntu style (or we could call it Mac OSX style):
Read more »Thunar and Rox Filer are different from the average file manager, and different from each other too. Both are powerful and flexible, offering features unavailable in other Linux file managers.
Read more »Makagiga is a free, easy-to-use, cross-platform application for doing a variety of tasks, such as text editing, todo listing, RSS reading, and simple image viewing. Plugins are used to implement its various capabilities. It can perform file import/export, backing up files, Internet searching (Google, Wikipedia), and more.
Read more »Believe or not Sony playstation is not supporting Linux anymore, as announced on the Playstation blog, they droped the support for Linux based operating systems, by removing the "Other OS" option from XMB (XrossMediaBar) in its PlayStation 3 gaming console. This started the 1st of april after their latest firmware update.
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