One of the cool features of Screenlets is the ability to display widgets from a wide range of tools, including Google Gadgets. With its simple conversion feature, Screenlets allows you to easily place Google Gadgets on your Gnome 3 desktop. The following instructions show you how this can be done.
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Ubuntu 11.10: Screenshot preview
Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 2 was recently released for the brave and adventuresome to test. I did not do much of a testing, but ran the system in a virtual environment to see what it looks like. Aside from the kernel, there is really no major change, as far as I could tell, from the last stable release, which is Ubuntu 11.04.
Talking about the kernel, Ubuntu 11.10 should be shipping with Kernel 3.0.
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CentOS 6.0
CentOS is a Linux distribution “derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor” (read Red Hat, Inc.). Version 6, released two days ago, is the latest stable release.
Read more »Linux on Vietnam Airlines
A photo sent from a friend showing an embedded Linux entertainment system on Vietnam Airlines.
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Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 5.6
Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a CentOS 5.6 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.
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Wine 1.3.24 Released
The Wine development release 1.3.24 is now available. Whats new in this release. Various DirectInput improvements. Support for line breaking in Uniscribe. More UI elements in builtin Shell Explorer. Some more D3DX9 functions. Improved support for shell known folders. Various bug fixes.
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Running the Tribler BitTorrent client in Fedora 15
Tribler is one of the more innovative BitTorrent clients available today. Tribler is developed at the Delft University of Technology and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and has introduced a number of impressive features such as truly decentralized BitTorrent downloading, and more recently algorithm changes that improve download speeds.
Read more »Enabling Compiz Fusion On An OpenSUSE GNOME 11.4 Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce 8100)
This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on an OpenSUSE 11.4 GNOME desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8100 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop.
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Installing the Linux Flash Player 11 64bit for Chrome and Chromium
Adobe has just released a beta of Flash Player 11, which includes native 64 bit clients. This is big news for Linux users, who are easily some of the most enthuastic adopters of 64 bit operating systems, and who may have been feeling a little left out after Adobe dumped AIR for Linux.
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Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 6.0 (LAMP)
LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a CentOS 6.0 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.
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PCLinuxOS 2011.6 KDE review
PCLinuxOS is a (Linux) distribution that was derived from Mandriva Linux. It is a rolling release distribution, and the project makes installation images available for all major desktop environments.
Read more »Version Control For Your /etc Directory With etckeeper/Bazaar On Debian Squeeze
This tutorial explains how you can store the contents of your /etc directory in a version control system (VCS) with the help of etckeeper on Debian Squeeze.
Read more »Gnome 3 Themes Explained
So, you want to pimp up your Gnome 3 desktop? The good news is that Gnome 3 is incredibly customizable. The appearance of the icons, mouse pointers, window decorations and the Gnome 3 Shell itself can all be altered to suit your tastes, and web sites like Deviant Art have a huge range of themes to choose from.
Read more »Responsible Bug Reporting and Triage
Which bugs should be fixed, why -- and who gets to decide? Matt Heusser explores the decisions involved in figuring out exactly what fixes go into a release - and who should make them.
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CrossOver 10.1.0 released and CrossOver Games 10.1.1 released
CodeWeavers, Inc., CodeWeavers, Inc., a leading developer of software products that turn Mac OS X and Linux into Windows-compatible operating systems, not surprisingly announced today the release of CrossOver 10.1 and CrossOver Games 10.1.1 for Mac with support for Lion OS. Both versions of CrossOver are available immediately.
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