Upon reading responses to my previous post, I decided to put some of the community’s suggestions to the test and examine some of the other options out there. Of the suggestions given, I primarily focused my attention on Debian (Lenny), Damn Small Linux and the wattOS beta.
Read more »q4wine 0.113 has been released
Finally, after many months of development, testing and bugfixing a new version of q4wine has been released. q4wine is a wine configuration and management utility written in QT.
New features avalible in the 0.113 release are:
Added:
* Added q4wine-cli console utility for wine applications and prefixes management.
* Added libq4wine implementation;
7 cool VLC features worth knowing
For most people, VLC is the favorite media player because it plays everything they throw at it without hiccups. No hunting for codec. But VLC can do a lot of other things as well.
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My Upgrade to Karmic Koala [Ubuntu]
I've upgraded ever since Gutsy: to Hardy, Intrepid and Jaunty. But this time, I did a fresh install of Karmic Koala, given the new Grub, ext4 and so on. Here are some things (bugs I mean - with potential fixes) I've experienced running Ubuntu Karmic Koala as my main OS (for about 2 days now):
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Trisquel hackers promised to make ext4 default in next release
"Our next release will use ext4 as default, to achieve the same performance without this downside. I'll create a "next release features" wiki page starting with this one, so I'm closing the bug now."
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Amarok 2.2 "Sunjammer" released
The Amarok team is excited to announce the release of Amarok 2.2. In three and a half months, Amarok has made a huge leap forward, gaining many new features and a lot of old features from 1.4 have returned.
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Emacs: Org-mode release 6.31
"Hi, I have released Org-mode 6.31. Biggest news is the inclusion of Org-babel. Thanks to Eric Schulte and Dan Davison for their work on this..."
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Remotely Accessing Your Linux Computer: Part 1
This is the first part in a four part series coving remote access to Linux machines using SSH.
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Tux in Free Gaming
Tux is the offical mascot of the Linux kernel and is a widely known symbol among the Linux and free software community. He is short, fat, and has yellow duck-like flippers and a beak. He was designed by Larry Ewing based on a suggestion by Alan Cox and he was named by James Hughes. He represents no known penguin, but he most looks the most like a little/fairy penguin.
Read more »7 Steps to Better Tables of Contents in OpenOffice.org Writer
Like other word processes, OpenOffice.org Writer makes creating tables of contents (ToCs) quick and easy. Unfortunately, it also works with unaesthetic defaults and allows you to make choices that complicate your work flow rather than improving it.
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gzip-1.3.13 released [major]
"gzip is a software application used for file compression. gzip is short for GNU zip; the program is a free software replacement for the compress program used in early Unix systems, intended for use by the GNU Project..." — via wikepedia, the free encyclopedia —
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Evince: Speed and Functionality Combined
In the heterogeneous computing world of today, documents are encapsulated in a variety of formats, from the mundane PDF to the high-resolution tiffs needed in typography. To be able to view all of them you could use four or five different applications, or you could just employ Evince.
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Openshot Video Editor Gets HUGE Update
OpenShot - one of the best video editor available for Linux - finally has a PPA! That's news enough in-itself as it means pain free installation but the even better news is it now comes complete with effects!
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The Laptop Renovation Project
At my office, we have a pair of old laptops purchased back in 2003 or 2004, which are terribly slow, woefully underpowered and horribly outdated, but which we still use periodically. In other words, they made a perfect target for an OS makeover.
Read more »There Are Now NO POVRay Modelers For Linux?
NONE? Zero, zip, swabbo, nothing? Empty, the opposite of full?
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