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19. November 2009 by admin.
Stuart Turton spends the second day of his one week odyssey with Linux, battling Fedora and DVD playback troubles, while trying valiantly not to go back to the relative ’safety’ of Vista, as frustrations start to boil over.
In day one of his seven day experiment with Linux, Stuart Turton handed his life over to the alternative OS, trying to ignore the spell of Microsoft and getting busy with his first ever Ubuntu install. Now on day two, Stuart learns a thing or two about playing DVDs on his new system, while learning to deal with Fedora.
But will Linux get the better of Stuart, before the week has even begun?
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19. November 2009 by admin.
Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, was officially released last month. In this comprehensive review, Ars takes you under the surface for an in-depth look at the new features and major architectural changes.
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19. November 2009 by admin.
GMPC is a GTK2 client for Music Player Daemon. I’m not going to talk about Music Player Daemon again, because we covered it when we talked about Sonata (including how to configure Music Player Daemon - MPD).
This time we will talk about GMPC, or Gnome Music Player Client, which is a lightweight client for MPD, extendable through plug-ins: alarm, album view, AWN applet, dynamic playlist, fullscreen info, jamendo, last.fm, libnotify, lirc, lyrdb, lyricsplugin, lyricwiki, magnatune, wikipedia info, taglib (for editing tags) and so on (in the latest version).
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19. November 2009 by admin.
The Fedora Project has announced the latest version of its popular open source Linux distribution. Nicknamed Constantine, Fedora 12 has quite a few impressive new features and demonstrates that the project has gained a renewed sense of direction.
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19. November 2009 by admin.
We’re here today to talk about Google Chrome OS. We aren’t launching it today and not beta today. But we’ve made progress. As of today the code will be completely open. We’re excited to announce this.
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19. November 2009 by admin.
Samsung may be sponsoring the Enlightenment window manager project and Enlightenment may be a component in Samsung’s bada mobile operating system. The Enlightenment project, which has been around since 1997, announced today that it was working with a “top-tier electronics maker” which “produces millions of mobile phones, televisions, sound systems and more”.
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19. November 2009 by admin.
Although Ubuntu 9.10 comes with pretty themes and a new set of icons, you might want to add your personal touch to your desktop. I will try to give you some ideas to add more beauty to Ubuntu 9.10.
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19. November 2009 by admin.
Even though it’s a point release, the latest Amarok comes with some major new features and all the benefits of the 2.2.0 release. Dubbed “Weightless,” the 2.2.1 release is full of bug fixes and polishing from 2.2.0 release as well as improvements to music management, podcasts, and the ability to update Amarok scripts.
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19. November 2009 by admin.
The twelfth version of Fedora is equipped with a current and comprehensive selection of software packages that offer a whole range of technological advancements. Several of the new features, which include extended hardware support for kernel-based mode setting (KMS), 3D support for recent Radeon graphics cards, and the emerging KSM (Kernel Samepage Merging), are also likely to turn up in other Linux distributions in the near future.
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19. November 2009 by admin.
Today Google released a number of early introduction/preview videos regarding their upcoming Chrome OS.
While the software does not currently appear to be in an easily installable state, requiring developers to build their own Chrome OS environments for the time being, the OS does look quite promising and Google’s “Stateless” objective where all user data resides in the cloud reflects an extremely modern concept in OS design.
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19. November 2009 by admin.
Fedora, and Redhat before it, has held a special place in my heart for years, being that Redhat Desktop was the very first Linux distribution I ever used, and the one I kept coming back to during my programming classes in college.
We’ve been estranged in recent years since I was seduced by the Debian-like crowd, and a spotty release record hasn’t helped me regain my confidence. In fact, so unimpressed was I with release 10 that I completely ignored release 11
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19. November 2009 by admin.
Here are the first images of the much awaited Google Chrome. Light and spartan, and it seems touch friendly. Enjoy.
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