Showing posts with label GNU/Linux. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GNU/Linux. Show all posts

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Fedora 14 will use Upstart instead of systemdir


If one of important news of release of Fedora 14 Alpha, had been beginning to use Upstart instead of systemd as session manager, today we finally heard that Fedora 14 will not.

One of great benefits of systemdir to launch system, was possibility of offering a faster boot.

The Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCO), in a discussion through IRC, took decision not to

Monday, September 13, 2010

Gnash 0.8.8 has been included in Debian Squeeze


Gnash, the alternative within free software Adobe Flash player, reached version 0.8.8 on 23 August.

Towards a couple of weeks that Debian Squeeze, had entered freezing, but has applied derogation has been included to be in new version of Debian.

The new version of Gnash, which is already in 0.8.8-2, offers many good features.They can be 100% of videos you have a problem

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Install Shotwell 0.7.2 in Ubuntu


Shotwell, manager and editor of graphics that come by default in Ubuntu 10.10 has been updated to version 0.7.2

To have this new version need to have their PPA added to our list of sources. So open a Terminal and run to install following lines:sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yorba/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install shotwell
If you already have PPA Shotwell added and

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Install Wine 1.3.2 in Ubuntu


For several days, which is available version 1.3.2 of Wine, an application that allows execution of Windows programs on GNU/Linux

Public input now because just yesterday were added to PPA packages.

To install or upgrade to this version of Lucid, first add PPA repository and validated by opening a Terminal and typing:sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get

Gnome Integration, Add-ons for Thunderbird


Gnome Integration is a Firefox add-ons for better integration of Thunderbird mail client.

Get it using libnotify integration and supports:Custom text (title and message)
Level of urgency (based on priority of messages)
Sound (No more "device or resource busy)
Icon or state.
If you want to install you can do from here

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Linux Mint Debian Edition


If you two days ago here on blog announcing release of Linux Mint 9 Fluxbox, yesterday, in Linux Mint Blog brought us a surprise.

This is release of Linux Mint Debian Edition, a new division, now based on Debian.

According to announcement of Linux Mint team, promises to be faster and more sensitive and be less dependent on primary components.

Perhaps a little harder to use than other issues,

F-Spot 0.7.3 released


It was announced launch of F-spot 0.7.3, this is a release candidate, who after a couple of bug fixes this weekend will become F-Spot 0.8.0.

F-Spot is a photo management application for GNOME desktop personal that simplifies digital photography with intuitive tools to help you share, edit, find and organize your images.

This version is based on more bug fixes and some small improvements, but

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Linux Mint 9 Fluxbox released

Linux Mint team has announced immediate availability Linux Mint 9 Fluxbox.
On basis of Lubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, Linux 2.6.32, Fluxbox 1.1.2 and Xorg 7.6, this edition has a lot of improvements and latest software Open Source.
These are features you'll find install:Tint2 Panel.
New Thunar options, move to trash and delete.
New manager software.
New backup tool.
Best visual appearance.
System

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Debian 7.0 will be called Wheezy

When version 6.0 of Debian is still in a frozen state, has released code name for next version.

Debian 7.0 will be called Wheezy

Since beginning of Debian, all names have been for that movie characters, Buzz, Rex, Bo, Hamm, Slink, Potato, Woody, Sarge, Etch, Lenny and Squeeze's to come.

As for release of version 7.0 does not have data, because Debian 6.0 Squeeze, which had to be entered in a

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Kiwi Linux 10.08 has arrived with new features

Kiwi Linux, a distribution based on Ubuntu, mainly aimed at Romanians and Hungarians who start Linux, has now come in English, after nearly a year of development.

Version 10.08 is based on Ubuntu LTS and 10.04.1 and as always, and only comes with GNOME and x86 Desktop Edition.

The purpose of distribution is to provide much of software that often need conveniently installed by default.

Some of

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

KDE 4.5.1 released

KDE Project announced release of first version of bug fix since version 4.5

This version comes in several improvements, including:
Improve stability of some components of interface, and engine KHTML.
Improve capability transfer software in plasma.
Reform program weather and news, to be able to work after return of uninterrupted contact.

Xfce4 Power Manager 1.0.1


We have available for download, version 1.0.1 xfce4 Power Manager, which is a power manager for Xfce desktop.

Power manager is responsible for managing computer power supplies and devices that can be controlled to reduce their energy consumption, such as brightness control, monitor off, frequency scaling of CPU, etc ...

It also provides a set of DBus freedesktop compatible interfaces with

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

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

Sunday, August 29, 2010

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

Saturday, August 28, 2010

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

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

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

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

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

Friday, August 20, 2010

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

Sunday, August 15, 2010

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

Thursday, August 12, 2010

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