Category: Linux

As the Moblin Project continues forging ahead with their sleek, fast-booting Linux remix for netbooks the gang at Canonical continues to keep pace. There's a new GUI for the Ubuntu Netbook Remix which premiered over the weekend. While it's not yet on public display at the UNR web page, there are plenty of images of the restyled interface over at Ubuntu Mini. It's much less cluttered than the ...

I haven't owned a Rubik's Cube for ages, and the last one I had was in pretty rough shape. Like a lot of young kids in the 80s I sometimes got myself out of a jam by peeling off the stickers and rearranging them. So as I was looking around for a Time Waster to share with you all today, I came across XCube. It's a 3D Rubik's Cube simulator written in Java, so it will run on any system with the ...

Linux-powered netbook users that have been missing their doctors' appointments and kids' school plays because operating a calendar application on their tiny portable is, at best, clunky and painful, can finally breathe an accurately-scheduled sigh of relief. Srinivasa Ragavan, who is one of the user interface developers for the open-source Evolution personal information manager project, has ...

Update: Slashdot is reporting that CentOS co-founder, Lance Davis has reappeared and that the domain, trademarks and artwork are now under the stewardship of the CentOS Project. Let's hope they file the proper legal forms ASAP. For users or businesses that want to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) but don't feel like ponying up the required subscription fee to get the binary, CentOS has been ...

Arora is an open source web browser that uses the same WebKit rendering engine found in Safari and Google Chrome. But unlike those browsers, Arora is already capable of running on Windows, Linux, and OS X, as well as a few other platforms including FreeBSD. That's because Arora is built to work on any platform that supports the Qt toolkit. I first noticed Arora's existence when the folks at ...

The next major version of Ubuntu Linux isn't due out until October 29th. But the neat thing about open source projects is that development happens in public, and anyone willing to risk tackling a few bugs is welcome to download the recently released Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Alpha 3. The latest build features a number of updates including updated versions of the GNOME desktop environment and the ...

While you might not be able to play all the latest major release games on Linux, there are still plenty of excellent games that will work on the OS. I ran down 25 cross-platform titles a while back, many of which began as Linux-only games. Want an easy way to try out a whole slew of 'em? Take the Supreme SuperGamer distro for a spin. It's built on top of Vector Linux, a speedy little ...

The latest version of Mozilla's email client, Thunderbird 3, is now in beta and available to preview. Thunderbird 3 packs a ton of new features, including tabbed browsing and improved Gmail integration. It also includes some fixes specifically for extension developers. You can now open a message in a new tab by double-clicking it or hitting enter, and Thunderbird saves your open tabs when you ...

About two weeks after launching Miro 2.5 RC 1, the folks behind the open source internet media browser and player have taken off the release candidate label. The program lets you find, download, and view media from a number of sources. That covers RSS feeds for audio and video podcasts, BitTorrent downloads, and web video from sites like Hulu. Version 2.5 includes a ton of updates, including: ...

Once upon a time, before there was a Firefox web browser or Thunderbird email client, there was the Mozilla Suite which packed a browser, email app, and other internet utilities into one tidy package. While the primary development at Mozilla is now focused on Firefox and Thunderbird, there is still an all-in-one internet application from Mozilla, and it's called SeaMonkey. And yesterday, the ...

LiveCDs are a great way to experiment with Linux without making any changes to your system, but they're so dang wasteful. I never remember to sleeve my discs and they end up with more scratches than a guy juggling feral cats. USB flash drives are great, because they're a lot more rugged and they can be reused again and again. They're also totally silent, something I can't say the same for the ...

I really wish the folks behind open source, cross-platform audio editing utility Audacity would take the beta label off the Audacity 1.3 branch. It's so much better than the last stable release, Audacity 1.2.6 it's not even funny. But it's still considered beta software because it's still under construction and doesn't come with complete documentation or translation into languages besides ...

Though you can now enable Flash on Google Chrome for Mac, the Linux still doesn't have support. However, if you're willing to run Chromium instead of the official Google build, you're in luck. Using a current version of Chromium from Launchpad, adding Flash to the speedy browser is a breeze. As detailed here, a couple minutes in terminal is all it takes. Follow the steps, and at long last you'll ...

The folks behind the Opera web browser continue their march toward Opera 10 today with the release of Opera 10 beta 2. The latest version of the browser includes a ton of bug fixes and a number of tweaks including: A "Synchronize Opera" button in the speed dial page A context menu to reload images in high quality Password manager with context-menu support Speed dial can have a custom ...

While it seems that task managers are everywhere these days, there's a good reason for it. Task management is all about working out a process for getting your tasks done, and there are a million different work flows. If you're not one for a regimented methodology like Getting Things Done, but need to implement a tool that allows a team to collaborate, check out Colabolo. Unlike many collaboration ...