Wineconf 2011 will be held in Minneapolis Minnesota this year and hosted by CodeWeavers Inc. If you would like to help support Wineconf 2011 this would be a good time to make a donation to the WPF or purchase a product from Codeweavers.
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Wine 1.3.22 Released
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The Wine development release 1.3.22 is now available. Whats new in this release. Support for Indic text shaping. Generation of stubless code in the IDL compiler. Support for X files in D3DX. 4 and 24 bit bitmap formats in the DIB engine. Listview performance improvements. Various bug fixes.
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Install Firefox 5 Beta in Ubuntu from the Firefox Next PPA
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Not long ago Mozilla changed the release cycle of Firefox, so that major new versions (Firefox 5, 6 and so on) will be released every 2-3 months. Currently, the latest alpha release is Firefox 6 Aurora, while the latest beta development version is Firefox Beta 5, which has made it into the Firefox Next PPA already. Installing this version should be very easy if you follow the next steps.
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KDE 4.6.4 Enters Kubuntu Updates PPA (Installation Instructions)
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The latest KDE security update, 4.6.4, is now available in the Kubuntu Updates PPA. This release brings several new features, including:
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Wineskin Pro 2.3 released
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The Bordeaux Technology Group released Wineskin Pro 2.3 today. Wineskin Pro 2.3 has file associations fixed, bug fixes for Custom Engines, confirm quit dialog option, bug fixes for the menubar, a small bug fix for the Advanced window. A full change log is provided in the new features section. This release also has a custom built Xquartz X11 server
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Dolphin Review - Kubuntu's Counterpart to Nautilus
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Those of you who are using Kubuntu are already familiar with Dolphin, the default file manager shipped in most KDE distributions. There are several very good file managers for KDE, and I must include here Konqueror or Krusader, however Dolphin’s goal is to offer as much as possible functionality while also keeping lightweight and fast.
Read more »Serving a Printer to Google Cloud Print from Linux
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Been waiting for Google Cloud Print to finally come to linux?
The wait is over!
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Gnac - Simple and Effective Audio Converter for GNOME
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Gnac is a graphical audio converter for GNOME with support for encoding/decoding to and from various formats, including the free formats FLAC and Ogg, WAV, MP3, M4A or SPX.
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20 Best KDE Applications
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It’s not easy to put up a list of “best” applications which do something, however there are some highlights in each category which really deserve to be mentioned. In this article I will overview 20 KDE applications which I believe are best in their niche, one application from each important category, in no particular order.
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15 Great Tools for the Terminal
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htop is an interactive process viewer tool using ncurses which has the great benefit that it allows to scroll up and down the list of processes, and it also uses graphs and colors. I think all these make htop a real gem for the Linux user.
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How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running LVM System (Debian Squeeze)
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This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running LVM system (Debian Squeeze). The GRUB2 bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails (no matter which one).
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Command Line Basics: View Image EXIF Data
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I've got a huge number of digital photos on my computer that need to be organized. What I would like to do is sort the pictures by the date they were taken. The first step to sorting the pictures is to know the date they were taken. As long as the clock is properly set on your camera, your pictures should have the correct date and time of the photo stored in the image's EXIF data.
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The racing simulator rFactor on Mac and Linux!
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Don't get left in the dust Mac and Linux users, play rFactor today with CrossOver Games! Arguably, one of the best computer racing simulators, rFactor aims at being one of the most accurate simulator of its time. Play with a computer steering wheel, joystick or even a keyboard.
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q4wine 0.121 released
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Here it is time for a new q4wine release tagged by the 0.121 version.
Changes since 0.120-r1 are:
Added:
* updated winetricks plugin;
* option to make Prefix view unexpanded at startup;
* Polish translation by Frank (nobange);
* interoperability of wineprefixes between q4wine, wibom, vineyard, and winetricks (and maybe playonlinux) BottleSpec.
TermKit is Terminal Reimagined, Install TermKit in Ubuntu 11.04 Easily
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TermKit by Steven Wittens is a refreshingly beautiful graphic replacement for terminal. If you are wondering, TermKit is not a flashy GUI for Terminal, instead its very much a command line based system made on top of WebKit, the rendering engine used in web browsers like Google Chrome and Chromium.
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