We are just a few days away from the release of GNOME 2.30 and as such there is a slew of packages being checked in for this final release prior to GNOME 2.32, which will be known as GNOME 3.0.
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FatRat Is An Amazing Linux Download Manager
FatRat comes with many very interesting options. For one, it can download from HTTP(S)/FTP, RapidShare free and even YouTube. But FatRat can also download torrents, (it has BitTorrent support) has RSS feed support + special functions for TV shows and podcasts, support for SOCKS5 and HTTP proxies and even remote control via Jabber and a web interface and of course, a scheduler.
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Radio Tray gives “light listening” a whole new meaning!
I don’t consider myself a “power user” when it comes to how I listen to music in general, and most of the time I’ll use whatever media player is installed by default with my distribution. I just want listen to my music! That is why I was truly excited when I learned about Radio Tray the other day.
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Virtualization With KVM On A Mandriva 2010.0 Server
This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on a Mandriva 2010.0 server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a logical volume (LVM). KVM is short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine and makes use of hardware virtualization, i.e., you need a CPU that supports hardware virtualization, e.g.
Read more »Development GIMP Version 2.7 Review
"`Single Window` mode in the current development version of GIMP is so named because it allows you to attach GIMP's Docks to the main window. It does not force you to have one singular window, as you can have Docks attached and detached in single-window mode"...
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Now You Can Say: "Linux Supports iPhone / iPod Touch Out Of The Box"
libimobiledevice is a FOSS software library that talks the protocols to support iPhone ® and iPod Touch ® devices on Linux. Unlike other projects, it does not depend on using any existing proprietary libraries and does not require jailbreaking.
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Gnome And KDE Might Collaborate Into Creating A FLOSS Alternative To Dropbox
There is an ongoing discussion on a Gnome mailing list which points out that Gnome and KDE might collaborate for a new project: a FLOSS alternative to Dropbox.
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Firefox 3.7 Alpha 4 Pre
"Apart from many performance improvements and an official 64bit version, "Firefox 3.7 Alpha 4 Pre" doesn't have many new features that 3.6 doesn't already have." ... "Another new thing we noticed is the ability to resize text boxes (textarea tags.) The video below shows the feature being used on the InaTux.com forms..."
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grep-2.6 released
grep is a tool to search for strings inside a file. This release fixes an unexpectedly large number of flaws, from outright bugs (surprisingly many, considering this is "grep") to some occasionally debilitating performance problems. Special thanks to Paolo Bonzini for doing most of the heavy lifting.
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Must-have Open Source Applications for Writers
Although OpenOffice.org Writer and AbiWord top the list of open source software for those who write for work or fun, they are not the be-all-and-end-all of writing tools. In fact, there are quite a few other nifty applications that can help you to collect ideas, manage notes, edit documents, and even improve your writing.
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FreeBSD 7.3 release
FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE is out! Updates to ZFS, bootloader, amdsbwd, alc, cas and hwpmc drivers, DRM's videoadapters, ISC BIND, sendmail, GNOME, KDE and huge quantity of various bugfixes and other drivers.
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Distributed Replicated Storage Across Four Nodes With GlusterFS (CentOS 5.4)
This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running CentOS 5.4) to a distributed replicated storage with GlusterFS. Nodes 1 and 2 (replication1) as well as 3 and 4 (replication2) will mirror each other, and replication1 and replication2 will be combined to one larger storage server (distribution).
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NetworkManager vs wicd vs wpa_gui
Here's a quick comparison between a few network control tools for Linux. These tools all give you some sort of network control from the Desktop - a service traditionally provided by daemons and initialization scripts.
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CrunchBang Linux 10 "Alpha 1" Released, Ditches Ubuntu
Philip Newborough has announced the development release (Alpha 1) version of CrunchBang Linux 10 code-named "Statler" just moments after the release of Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" Beta 1. For the first time ever, the distro is being built using Debian sources, instead of Ubuntu.
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Subtitle Editor 0.36.1 Released [w/ Ubuntu PPA]
Subtitle Editor is a GTK+2 tool to edit subtitles for GNU/Linux/*BSD. It can be used for new subtitles or as a tool to transform, edit, correct and refine existing subtitle. This program also shows sound waves, which makes it easier to synchronise subtitles to voices.
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