By the time you read this Karmic Koala will have been released to a waiting world, but I couldn't wait. A felicitous combination of a desire to do a distribution upgrade to the release candidate and a Twitter arriving on my laptop giving me a link to Raindrop kept me busy for the day.
Read more »Open messaging for the Open Web: Installing and configuring Mozilla Raindrop on Ubuntu 9.10
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Kubuntu Netbook Edition Preview
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Desktop developers are starting to understand that netbooks need different interfaces than workstations -- or even notebooks. The smaller screens on netbooks are a usability challenge, comparable to designing a business card when you're used to creating full-page ads. A case in point is KDE's Plasma Netbook interface, now available in a preview in Kubuntu 9.10.
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List of Audio/Video players available for GNOME/KDE Users
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This is list of Audio/Video players available for GNOME/KDE Users
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Elive 1.9.51 Unstable - Review and Commentary
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Elive is a debian based linux live cd that runs the beautiful Enlightenment window manager. Today we're going to take you on a visual tour of the cd and discuss how it's progressing.
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GNOME Office: Is it a viable office suite?
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When you think about office suites, two names come to mind: Microsoft Office and OpenOffice. Although the vast majority of Linux users depend upon OpenOffice for their office needs, the alternatives should not be overlooked.
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Humanity Icons Pack
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Humanity Panel Icons for the following are included: Printing, Shutter, Tomboy, Banshee, File Operations, Rhythmbox, Deluge, Fusion-Icon, Transmission, Gwibber, Emesene, Lifera, PolicyKit/Seahorse, Exaile, gPodder, Gwget, CellWriter, Gnome-Do, Specto, HPLIP, Brasero, Weather. More to come!
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How To Compile Amarok 2 From Git On Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic
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Amarok is a great music player for linux. In the current release of Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic also the current stable version of Amarok was introduced into the repositories. However Amarok is under heavy development and updates won't be included in the official repos. If you want to be up-to-date and have the latest Amarok version available, you'll need to compile it yourself.
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TV Mythos Renewed: MythTV 0.22 with Many Improvements
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The MythTV hard disk recorder software is available in a new version that is based on Qt4 and supports new hardware and the VDPAU decoder.
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Media PC on Linux
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As an experiment I decided to build Media PC based on Linux. First of all I was wondering, how much did the Linux distributions evolve in the past few years.
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Free and Open Source Screencasting Software Applications for Linux
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A screencast (also known as video screen capture) is a digital recording of computer screen output that usually contains audio narrations. So basically, an application that records a user's screen activities and then saved them in video format is called screencasting software.
Read more »Ubuntu One: Not the Holy Cloud Grail but useful enough and with a lot of potential
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Canonical has been touting its Ubuntu One cloud-storage solution, which allows you to mirror up to 2 GB of files for free and up to 50 GB for $10/month. The service also allows you to sync Tomboy Notes and Evolution contacts across multiple Ubuntu installations.
Read more »Top 5 iPod Alternatives for Linux Users
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The iPod is not supported officially by Apple on Linux. Why support them when there are better alternatives?
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Learning with Gcompris
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Today, I'm going to discuss the Gcompris education suite. Gcompris is meant for younger children from 2 to 10 years old, though it seems to focus on the younger part of this range.
Read more »Mandriva Linux 2010 – Perhaps The Best Linux Release All Year
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Mandriva Linux 2010 was recently released and brings lots of nice improvements to an already nice system. The best two so far have been the increase stability and performance.
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September 2010 for GNOME 3.0, official
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The GNOME release team have confirmed that GNOME 3.0 will be released in September 2010, with a GNOME 2.30 release in March 2010. The announcement came from Vincet Untz and the GNOME release team and is a result of feeedback from the GNOME development community.
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