Saturday, July 31, 2010

Minitunes: a music player for Linux that is worth knowing

I found a page listing author of a bill that did not even have a downloadable version, but pledged: Minitunes.

And behold, returning to site find that there is already a version of Minitunes for download, and even in version 0.1.1 it's probably one of best music players that have arisen in Linux.


Presented as a music player with same simplicity of MiniTube , Minitunes is extremely lightweight

Friday, July 30, 2010

Repositories PPA for Jupiter


Jupiter is application for hardware management and power consumption that is included in Aurora distribution formerly Eeebuntu.

Jupiter allows to quickly switch such as screen resolution, turn on or turn off wifi and other common option in netbooks equipped with Intel Atom CPU , is Linux equivalent of Super Hybrid Engine that comes with EeePC from Asus.

In WebUpd8 have prepared packages for

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Firefox 4 Beta 2 Released:Download now


With a few days late,Mozilla Foundation has launched yet another beta version of Firefox 4 for testing by brave people who are not afraid of losing one or other document if browser crashes. Performance improvements have been recorded
as well as :better rendering transitions in CSS3
On Mac, the browser now has tabs at top (like in Chrome)
For Windows, Linux and Mac OS: Download here.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

GNOME 3.0 delayed until March 2011




In a decision that will alter plans of more than a distribution based on this desktop, GNOME developers announced under its current GUADEC conference, which is taking place until next 30 July in Hague, that very Advance version 3.0 of its graphical desktop environment for nix systems will be delayed until March 2011 in September due to "quality issues in code."

The new time gained would also

Create shortcut to open Nautilus as root in Ubuntu

I would like a shortcut in applications menu of Nautilus with root privileges for when you need to avoid having to open terminal and typing sudo nautilus, or Alt + F2 gksudo nautilus (backbreaking how few)?

task is simple, we must type in a terminal followingsudo gedit /usr/share/applications/Nautilus-root.desktop
Within paste following text file[Desktop Entry]
Name=File Browser (Root)
Comment=

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Presented new theme for Lubuntu 10.10





After release of first official version 10.04 distribution based on Ubuntu, the project is working very slight LXDE desktop for next big update will arrive with his Lubuntu version 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" this October.

And the most important development so far is the renewal of graphic art for all visual themes, from wallpaper, the theme for OpenBox, even logo Lubuntu all received an update

Linux Mint 10 is called "Julia"



The next version of Linux Mint, number 10, which is based on Ubuntu Maverick meerkat, is named Julia.

According to Linux Mint Blog, new version will be released this November.

Linux Mint is a distribution based on Ubuntu, compatible with Ubuntu software repositories.

Ubuntu was based on their interface, looking for human aspects and improvements, it also runs faster.

The purpose of Linux