Christian Giordano has announced that Unity will get overlay scrollbars. This means the scrollbars will not be visible until you move your mouse over the side where the scrollbar used to be.
Read more »Wine 1.3.15 Released
The Wine development release 1.3.15 is now available. What's new in this release. Support for changing network passwords. Reflection support in shader compiler. Tests no longer attempt to cope with Win9x behavior. A number of MSHTML and MSXML improvements. Various bug fixes.
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Android App Build Environment (Eclipse/Android SDK/PhoneGap) On Debian Squeeze
This tutorial describes how you can set up an development environment for building Android apps on a Debian Squeeze desktop using Eclipse, the Android SDK, and PhoneGap. I will describe how to build Android apps from the command line with PhoneGap and from the GUI with Eclipse and PhoneGap and how to test them in an Android emulator and on a real Android device.
Read more »Ubuntu 10.10 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend
This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Ubuntu 10.10 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.
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Make Browsers Cache Static Files With mod_expires On Apache2 (Debian Squeeze)
This tutorial explains how you can configure Apache2 to set the Expires HTTP header and the max-age directive of the Cache-Control HTTP header of static files (such as images, CSS and Javascript files) to a date in the future so that these files will be cached by your visitors' browsers.
Read more »winetricks alpha 20110306 has been released
Dan Kegel has released WineTricks 20110306. Another fortnight, another Winetricks. Version 20110306-alpha has a slightly cleaned up gui, a handful of bugfixes and sha1sum updates, eight new games (crysis2_demo_mp, diablo2, dragonage, masseffect2_demo, penpenxmas, rayman2_demo, sammax301_demo, and secondlife), one new dll (dinput), and one new setting (vd=640x480).
Read more »PlayOnLinux 3.8.12 has been released
PlayOnLinux 3.8.12 has been released here is some of the changes since the 3.8.11 version.
The following installers have been updated:
- Borderlands (clean-up)
- Bulletstorm (Wine version update)
- Dead Rising 2 (clean-up)
- Dragon Age 2 Demo (Wine version update and bug fix)
- Fallout 3 (installer rewritten from scratch)
- Fallout 3 - DLC (clean-up)
Install Sparkleshare In Ubuntu Via PPA (Open Source Cloud Sync - Dropbox Alternative)
Sparkleshare is a tool to synchronize your files in the cloud - like Dropbox or SpiderOak - but unlike these, Sparkleshare is open source and allows you to use your own server. Sparkleshare uses GIT so if you delete/modify some files by accident, you can easily revert the changes. You can use it with your own server, GitHub or Gitorious.
Read more »All good things must end
Over the past year we have been letting our reader know about a special offer from CodeWeavers to save 25% off CrossOver Pro and Games for Linux and Mac. CrossOver also runs on FreeBSD B.T.W As the title says the 25% off "ComeToTheLight" dealcode, e.g coupon will expire on March 31st 2011.
Read more »Installing ASSP (Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy) On Ubuntu Server 10.04 / Debian 5.0
This How-To document guides you through installing ASSP (Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy) on an Ubuntu 10.04 (LTS) Server or Debian 5.0 in the simplest way possible. It *may* work on later versions but I have no way of knowing how these instructions will work for you.
Read more »Kraft: A No-Nonsense Office Assistant That Gets Straight to Work
Small-business users with a fondness for open source apps could get a lot of mileage out of Kraft, an application for creating, customizing and managing correspondence and planning. It settles into its job easily, then presents you with an intuitive and familiar interface. Its adherence to XML and PDF is good, but it could stand to learn a few other types of formats as well.
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The Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 11.4 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3]
This is a detailed description about how to set up an OpenSUSE 11.4 64bit (x86_64) server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable) with PHP, CGI and SSI support, Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH, TLS and virtual mail users, BIND DNS server, Pureftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.
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CrossOver Games 10.1.0 has been released
CodeWeavers has released CrossOver Games 10.1.0 for Linux and Mac. This release fixes many known issues with supported games and adds Rift to the list of games that now run with CrossOver Games. This release has also seen allot of fixes to cross tie support, RAR files are now fully supported.
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LibreOffice 3.3.2 is released! With installation instructions
Announced today by the Document fundation the release of LibreOffice3.3.2, this is an update release that comes to improve the stability of the software and sets the platform for the next release 3.4, due in mid May.
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The King of Linux Distros
The open source survives and thrives by the sheer number of distros available. Proprietary software is just a small pond compared to the enormous number of distros available for open source. Again, distros are qualitatively superior and robust give developers the powerful tools that inspire their creativity, which they crave. One of the most popular distros ever is the Debian distro.
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