Chakra GNU/Linux 0.2.0 (Jaz) has been released

The Chakra development team has announced release of version 0.2.0, code-named Jaz.

This is his first live-image available from their stable repositories.

Chakra, is based on ArchLinux and already contains over 5670 new packages.

Cinstall have created a multi-tool to create and manage packages.

Arch user feel at home from start, as most things go on like ArchLinux.

It has its own kernel

Tiling windows in Ubuntu 10.04

As we saw windows are tiling windows managers that automatically fit windows occupying entire screen. In KDE 4.5 was very simple Gnome theme but we have to use one of several programs is to achieve this effect such as x-tile, xmonad and others.

This time we'll talk about Bluetile is based manager xmonad. It has feature that you do not have to log in again but simply run Bluetile

Activate tiling function in KDE 4.5

The tiling windows is something I've been in love. These environments where each fits one window and use all space on screen. While there are several environments that are ready for use as dwm, also you can reach this function in other settings, in this case explain how to get it in KDE 4.5

It's simple, go to following menus:

System Settings> Window Behavior> Window Behavior>

Audacious 2.4.0 now available for download

Audacious audio player is available as free software for Unix family. It is a branch or fork of Beep Media Player and is based on GTK2.

Its advanced audio playback engine is considerably more potent than GStreamer.

Play MP3, OGG, WAV, Flac and Monkey's Audio, among others, and has support for skins or skins of Winamp 2.

The latest version is 2.4.0, which comes with GTKUI default, it does

Installing Firefox 4 beta on Fedora 13 and 14

Firefox 4 is currently in beta 4 for Linux and today we will install it on Fedora, either 13 or 14.

First we will backup your Firefox profile and its board, to keep it ebres nada.para a terminal and type:$ tar cvzf firefox-backup.tar.gz ~/.mozilla
This will create a file with all your Firefox settings and save it to your home directory as firefox-backup.tar.gz
Repositories for Firefox 4 are two

Trimage, pressure and improve images

If you have many images, and wants to put these pictures in a book, for example PDF or ODT, or you want to upload these images to Internet ,such as social networking sites or sites to store and share files
To do what I have said, you definitely need this program, so as to ensure that size of book is less what can be

Trimage: is a program (tool) to compress and improve size of images
Image

Firefox 4 Beta 4 with synchronization preferences and tabs

The Mozilla Foundation staff continue working hard in order to meet launch schedule of next version of Firefox. Today was released over a Beta version of browser - fourth so far - with confirmation of news very interesting. Especially for those who do not use Chrome, which already has most of them.

Among novelties, a new way to synchronize adjustments made in browser. If you want to have same

Google Docs Edit documents directly on Linux

One of advantages of Linux is that every now and then appear simple tools and solutions for problems you never knew you had. For example, editing a file in Google Docs: You can opt for direct publishing on web interface, which limits a little editing file, or use an offline editor (like gedit or OpenOffice) and then have all the work of export file saved to GDocs.

It is a matter of choice, but

Version of Gnash promises to run all videos from YouTube

The project Gnash, a free Flash Player developed by GNU just got to version 0.8.8, and now developers say software runs perfectly 100% of videos on YouTube without problems or catch sound.

"But for what I'll install a Flash Player different if Adobe has already created a version for Linux?", You must be wondering. Gnash is totally free, meaning you can download source code, make changes, join

Turpial 1.3.4, new stable version

Turpial, native twitter client for Linux that I never tire of recommending announced arrival of new stable version 1.3.4 with new features among which are following:Support for languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Taiwanese, French and German)
Option 'Reply All' in tweets
Spelling checker
Dialog to add friends from a list
Support for services Yfrog, img.ly, Mobypicture

How to install VLC on Ubuntu

Was recently released a new version of VLC, one of best players for linux. Some of features of new version are:Fixed bug with Taglib
Fixes for FTP
Corrections and modular DVD Podcast
Updated Add-ons and scripts
Several fixes in interface
Updated translations
Many other bugs fixed
To install on Ubuntu using PPA are three simple commands in console:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:

Install KDE 4.5 in Ubuntu/Kubuntu 10.04

I recently came out of KDE SC 4.5 version with these developments:Major changes in notification area. Monochromatic icons are now used to provide visual clarity and redesigned pop-up notifications.
The window manager Kwin now supports Tilling mode, allowing to organize windows on desktop without overlapping. Besides, now you can move windows by dragging a blank area of same (currently only works

Fedora 14 Alpha released

With a week late, but completely ready, has been released Alpha for Fedora 14, codenamed "Laughlin."

As you know is not a stable version, so installation is not recommended unless you are going to use it as a developer or testing.

Puesde download it via torrent from : here

Or through mirrors : here

The following releases are:Fedora 14 Beta (28 September, 2010)
Fedora 14 Final

Speed up Openoffice

We all suffer from slow running programs OpenOffice, and this looks like a nightmare for those who used on a daily basis and lasting

In this theme we will modify some default settings to get desired result :

Open program (openoffice writer)
Go to (Tools - Options)
And choose from contextual menu (Memory)
And adjust following values:Number Of Steps: 20
Use for OpenOffice.org:

Where to download images. VDI to use in Virtualbox

Virtualbox is perhaps most famous existing virtualization software.

Thanks to him, you can try operating systems within your own system, for example, people who use Windows and have virtualized a Linux distro. Or vice versa.

To install an operating system you can download an image virtualbox. Iso and burn to a CD or DVD or you can be. Iso saved, but perhaps one of best ways is to have an image

Ubuntu One in Kubuntu 10.10

KDE developer Harald Sitter did a front-end Ubuntu for Kubuntu 10.10 One is a first version in alpha state, and probably an improved version of that which we had already spoken, who are testing next version of Kubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat may install application by adding PPA repository.sudo add-apt-repository ppa:apachelogger/ubuntuone-kde
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install

Android 3.2 Honeycomb will continue to Android Gingerbread

Android mobile operating system from Google is released, and when not out yet version 3.1, to be called Gingerbread, we already know name of version 3.2.

Apparently, the version that will follow "Gingerbread" will be released later this year, called Honeycomb, "Honeycomb" and "Beehive"

Even when it is starting to digest newly released Android 2.2 or Froy, included on smartphones Droid 2 and

McAfee is bought by Intel for $ 7.68 billion

Upon waking this morning, Intel CEO Paul Otellini must be thinking "Today is a good day for acquisitions.". The drawn was McAfee, which will begin operating as a subsidiary of Intel. Otellini said that "security is one of pillars that people will demand in all computing experiences." The purchase must be approved by table of shareholders of both companies.

Google enables chat in audio and video for Linux users

Gmail has several interesting features. For some reason, the chat client it is more powerful than Google Talk, IM desktop application for Google. And from now Linux users can access some of those functions that previously were only available for Windows users and Mac OS X. Through a plugin released by Google, users of Ubuntu and other distros can chat with audio and video not only for Gmail but

FoxTophone, send URLs to your mobile Android from Firefox

FoxToPhone is a Firefox extension that lets you send URLs in your computer to your mobile Android a very simple way.

Formerly called SendToPhone, this extension is designed so that when you are visiting a website, you can send address with touch of a button puts you in address bar of your browser.
Also you can send any address, image or page with just click on it, and selecting from drop down "

Gimp: Plugins from extras repository

This is an application that adds 170 script/plugins for Gimp in one go and without adding repositories, adding many extra features to image editor

To install just type in a terminal mustsudo apt-get install gimp-plugin-registry
Remember that Gimp is not installed by default in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, if you want to install:sudo apt-get install gimp

Debian complete 17 years

By way Internet Explorer is not only famous birthday today and bit field data. The Debian-based operating system Linux, is also celebrating. Is 17 years since it was announced by Ian Murdock in 1993. The project has had 14 releases, 11 conferences focusing on it and only has 873 developers and over 40 000 packages. And now his most famous distribution is Ubuntu, which is gaining more popularity

Ubuntu 10.10 will feature multi-touch

New for fans of Ubuntu: from version 10.10, system will support multi-touch, allowing developers to create interfaces with support for ringtones and screen movements and presenting a whole new method of navigation for users.

Right at launch of distro, many applications will already have GTK support enabling touch, among other things, lateral or horizontal scroll directly on screen of equipment.

New Installer for Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat With Pictures

The live daily Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Alpha 3 is now available new version of installer to see when final version becomes available on 10 October.
The new and renovated installer offer users ability to download software updates and/or installation of proprietary drivers for wireless cards, support for MP3 files, Adobe Flash Player, Java and support for DVD playback.
Here are some pictures

Synchronization Troubleshooting Rhythmbox - iPhone or iPod

Recently Rhythmbox is music player and multimedia in general better known and used in Ubuntu. But many people buy an iPhone or an iPod of any kind with eyes closed without measuring their level of compatibility with any operating system and just when we synchronize our music and our videos to Rhythmbox appears problem of synchronization. Ubuntu does not have an official version of iTunes,

Fedora 14 will be delayed until November

Jared Smith, new Fedora project leader, announced yesterday that will suffer delayed release of Fedora 14, codenamed Laughlin.

According to comments in a meeting with representatives of Development, Release Engineering, and quality control equipment, scheduled Alpha evaluate to what conditions have made is development and decided they did not pass quality criteria.

The delay of a week launch

KDE 4.5 released

The KDE development team has submitted its launch six months, bringing new versions of Plasma Desktop, Netbook workspaces, and a large number of applications available in version 4.5.0.

One of them is support for KDE webkit browser Konqueror.

The development team has focused on this version in stability and integrity of desktop experience.

More than 16,000 errors were corrected and result is

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.2 released

Mozilla developers have released version 3.1.2 of your mail client and news, Thunderbird, code-named "Lanikai.

The most important part of this release is to improve user experience and stability of applications.

In total from previous release, bugs have been fixed in July, plus a failure that had regard to indexing systems and upgrade several problems due to lack of notification messages from

Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" frozen

As had been suggested two months ago and finally was announced during conference in New York DebConf10 administrators of Debian project releases decided to freeze development cycle of next version 6.0 "Squeeze" from his hugely popular GNU/Linux.

This means that from now on no new features will be added and that all work will focus on correcting errors and refine current state of "Squeeze" to

Google surrenders with Wave

Google has announced on his blog, which will paralyze development of Wave.

Platform, presented last year in the I/O, which at first was at express invitation, has not proved how Google expected.

Perhaps too ambitious for time they appeared and too complicated for what users were accustomed.

Just as Buzz, Google also, it looked to stagnate and has followed a line up of users and usage, Wave

11 Options to optimize images in Linux

With passage of time and many theme changes I made in my various blogs I've noticed that are 3 things that make a site load slow: poor hosting some javascript scripts and images that are very heavy.

The first 2 are easiest solution (a good hosting and godaddy and remove unneeded scripts.) But deal with images sometimes do not do it for simple laziness, or may not know program that does it or

Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Alpha 3

The road to Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat that will see its final version on October 10, 2010 if all goes well and meets schedule took a further step today with launch of Alpha 3, you can see the new in this version at this link.

You know and I know but I tell them, is a development version, released for testing and reporting bugs and not suitable for installation in production environments.

Canonical might want to buy openSUSE (rumor)

We woke up today with news that if it be true would be quite a hit.

According to one rumor, Canonical, was thinking of buying openSUSE.

Apparently, a developer of Canonical, is one who made comment, but has not been able to confirm the news.

Novell, what is known is openSUSE still for sale and may even sell it in parts.

Recently, Novell, Jos Poortvliet hired to lead openSUSE community, and an

Google docs from nautilus

I found an excellent entry where we can see how to assemble documents google docs in a unit as if it were another disk but with only our documents google docs.

I found it excellent because I really hate google file manager, is more comfortable to have it in a file full with icons

The application that will allow us to do this is Google Doc Mount, we will install Ubuntu Lucid typing following

Visualize bar paths in Ubuntu Linux

Gnome User That has same problem Windows users and Mac, with Respect to display bar paths in file browser. Thinking about it, hitched a ride on post To show how to display bar paths in Ubuntu Linux (or in Any environment with Gnome).

First, We Have A situation like this, Where Each directory is a "button":

Obviously, if you like to directly enter directory path, it is very annoying to keep

Updating and configure Gimp mono-window

Since I started using Ubuntu version 9.04, I have been learning and learning many techniques tutorials photo retouching, I even gave me a return for similar one from Photoshop to Gimp.
One of things that I sometimes harmed when working, was window system, and a few days ago I found that apart from having a new version (2.7.1), this can be configured to let mono-window.

Everything is really quite

Dell expands offer computers with Linux

After catching everyone by surprise and remove computers with Linux operating system's online store, Dell has backtracked again and created a new page with new equipment. Dell's online store in U.S. you can find several models with Ubuntu being sold as Inspiron Mini for $ 299.00.


Coincidentally, same model with Windows 7 Starter Edition can be found at same price, and other equipment such as