Install Cinnamon desktop on Ubuntu 12.10
Can’t stand the Unity desktop? Install Cinnamon on your Ubuntu 12.10 desktop. Add the cinnamon repo: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable Update apt: sudo apt-get update Install cinnamon: sudo apt-get install cinnamon The current version is Cinnamon 1.6.3 … Read entire article »
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Ubuntu 12.10 mirrors clogged up
So – i’ve been downloading ubuntu 12.10 all morning it seems like for a laptop I inherited . Kind of reminds me of the 90s when we’d download distributions on dialup :) … Read entire article »
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Insync solves Google Drive for the Linux Desktop
Insync announced late last night that their desktop application is now available for Linux users. This means you can have dropbox-like functionality on your Google Drive! It is in beta, but most users that have installed it already are raving about it so far. A user friendly operating system will help you navigate easily through your computer. So far it has been tested on Ubuntu 12.04 and LinuxMint 13. I’m using Fedora 17 and while it seemed to install, I received some errors when I went to run the desktop version. I’ll admit I haven’t looked into why it didn’t work yet, but i’ll post my findings on here if I come up with a fix. They did mention that future versions will include support for older versions and other Linux … Read entire article »
Chrome OS Linux 2.1.1145 Is Powered by Cinnamon 1.4
The Chrome OS developers announced today, July 27th, the immediate availability for download of the Chrome OS 2.1.1145 Live CD Linux operating system, which brings a lot of fresh software. Chrome OS 2.1.1145 is now powered by Linux kernel 3.4.2, and ... Read the full story here. … Read entire article »
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Help PC Pro write its Linux distro Labs
In the past couple of years, PC Pro has seen huge interest in the reviews they've published of the different versions of Ubuntu. "But what of the rest of the Linux landscape?" they ask. They've decided to start a user-supported Wiki (PC Pro Linux labs wiki) to let Linux users sign up and supplement their Linux distribution sections with their own thoughts and experiences for the upcoming Linux review issue of their magazine. The Linux distributions that they will be covering are: Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Debian, openSUSE, Fedora, FreeBSD, Gentoo Linux and Puppy Linux. We gotta ask... what about Slackware? What about RHEL or CentOS? Arch? Hopefully, they'll let the users suggest other distributions to add into the mix as well. For more information, view their announcement. Read the full story here. … Read entire article »
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Steam on Ubuntu
Naturally, I am delighted with the news of Steam coming to Ubuntu. While naturally everyone is happy about getting their favorite games on Ubuntu, I think there is another subtle yet important gem in this announcement. Creating a AAA title such as Left 4 Dead is an expensive and time consuming process. This expense is not only in the conceptualization, design, and development of the title, but also the associated support, community, marketing, and distribution services. This has got more and more complex in recent years with the abundance of platforms; it is not as simple as just creating a title for a particular platform…a studio now needs to bring cross-platform development in-house (with all the tool-chain and QA work required) to support these different platforms. While cross-platform development saves development … Read entire article »
Updating Linux Mint 12 to 13
Although, the ‘recommended’ way to upgrade within your system to Linux Mint 13 from 12 is to save your stuff and re-install, you could also run the following commands and get on with your life as long as you’re running the mate/cinnamon versions (not kde) sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.bak sudo sed -i ‘s/lisa/maya/g’ /etc/apt/sources.list sudo sed -i ‘s/oneiric/precise/g’ /etc/apt/sources.list sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade sudo apt-get autoremove sudo apt-get autoclean Stick around your PC as you’re upgrading because you’re going to have to make some choices (or just hit enter for the default answer) throughout the upgrade. Let us know how it goes! … Read entire article »
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Google Chrome Stable 20 for Linux released
Google announced today that they released Chrome-Stable version 20 for Linux (and those others too.. Windows and Mac)… Looks like mostly bug fixes. Did you know that Google rewards devs that help patch chrome? They paid out $11,500 in ‘rewards’ for this release to 3 lucky devs: $7,000 – miaubiz $4,000 – Jüri Aedla $500 – Nicholas Gregoire See the fixes on their blogspot page.. … Read entire article »
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Linux Tycoon is the premier Linux Distro Building Simulator game
(Truth be told: It’s probably the only Linux Distro Building Simulation game in the universe.) So what exactly do you do in a Linux Distro Building game? So glad you asked! Here’s some examples of the thrilling challenges you’ll find in Linux Tycoon: Analyzing and selecting software packages. Fixing Bugs. Managing volunteers and paid staff. Keeping the total size (in MB) of your Distro at a reasonable level. And so much more! More info @ Lunduke.com … Read entire article »
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ARM supports National Electronics Week 2012
March 22nd 2012 – Under the theme of “ARM Scales Across Your Embedded World” – alluding to one of the company’s key differentiators – the wide range of Cortex™ processors which are currently being employed in embedded applications will be on display at this year’s National Electronics Week show, NEW:UK 2012: From the recently launched, ultra low-power Cortex-M0+ processor, up to high-performance Cortex-A9 processor. ARM will be demonstrating the latest features of the Keil MDK-ARM (Microcontroller Development Kit). MDK-Professional builds on the successful MDK-ARM development kit and adds the Keil TCP/IP networking suite, USB Host/Device, File System, and CAN drivers. Enhancements to the middleware libraries include USB Host stack supporting HID and MSC device classes, File System support for NAND Flash devices, and RTX Source code. Also on display will be the … Read entire article »
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Linux design needs to be out of the hands of developers – Zd Net Asia.com
Why does the Linux desktop suffer so much? Jack Wallen thinks he has the answer to this question that has been in play for a very long time. See if you agree with the conclusion he has drawn. This post has been boiling in the back of my brain for quite ... Read the full story here. … Read entire article »
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NolaPro Free Accounting for Linux – CNet
NolaPro Free Accounting for Linux is a free web-based Accounting suite that can be run from your PC. Refine and manage your business with its flexible customer tracking, billing, payables, general ledger and reporting features. Optional modules include ... Read the full story here. … Read entire article »
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LibreOffice Gets a Fresh Update
Just a month after the release of LibreOffice 3.5, the Document Foundation on Thursday announced an update to the software that's designed to increase the stability and security of the free office productivity suite. Targeting individual and business users alike, “LibreOffice 3.5.1 fixes the majority of the most-important bugs identified by users and is expected to be appealing for most enterprises,” the Document Foundation said in its official announcement. ... Read the full story here. … Read entire article »
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Anonymous Releases Its Own Linux-based Operating System
Anonymous has released an operating system based on Ubuntu 11.10 called Anonymous-OS. We "expect" Anonymous to launch coordinated DDoS attacks on sites that fall within their wrath. We "expect" Anonymous to be vocal about beliefs on political corruption ... NOTE: Anonymous has stated on their twitter channel (here) that this is fake and full of trojans.. so you know.. Also, this anon twitter account warns not to download it.. Read the full story here. … Read entire article »
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Disable annoying bell in Gnome Terminal, vim, xterm, etc…
We’ll hear it when we reach the end of a line, we’ll hear it when we hit tab to complete a word and there’s more than one choice, in about 2 minutes you won’t hear it anymore. It’s the simplest thing to do but we never look into it – because most of the time when the bell goes off we’re in the middle of something else. Silence the bell! 1. Open up a gnome terminal 2. Go to Edit –> Profile Prefrences 3. Untick “Terminal bell” 4. Click Close 5. Crank up the speakers and hit tab 3-4 times What if you just want to turn it off when you’re in vim? 1. Edit ~/.vimrc 2. Add the line: set vb Using xterm? 1. Edit ~/.xsession 2. Add the line: xset b off Bash shell? 1. Edit ~/.inputrc 2. Add the line: set bell-style none … Read entire article »