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Gobuntu becomes an Installation Option in Ubuntu
After giving up the idea of being 100% Open Source, the Ubuntu team created Gobuntu, a derivative of Ubuntu – with the aim of providing a Linux distro that does not include any proprietary-ware. So Gobuntu “endeavors to adhere to the Free Software Foundation’s four freedoms and intends to provide a base for other free software platforms to build upon with minimal modification required. It will do this by “only including open-source non-restricted software. This means there will be no firmware, drivers, applications, or content included in Gobuntu”. More»
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Cheese is to Linux as Photo Booth is to Mac OS X – Give more value to your Webcam
Cheese is a simple open source, Linux, webcam application that can help you take snapshots and videos. Written as part of Google’s 2007 Summer of Code, Cheese is almost a carbon copy of Mac OS X’s Photobooth.
Cheese has as its foundation, the well known open source GStreamer library and GTK. Cheese gives an added value your webcams as most webcams don’t even have to be configured. You just need to attach your old USB webcams, kick-off the intuitive GUI picture/video taker. More»
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How to Setup a LAMP Server on Ubuntu - Locally run and test WordPress on LAMP Server
Many think that setting up a local Web Server is costly, and can be done by professionals only. It is not true. Nowadays it easy to setup one yourself, without spending a dime and without any headache. Why would a non professional or blogger need a Web Server? You can test new WordPress themes, plugins, and try to find solutions to issues before loading them on your main Server. More»
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AnyClient: a no install Browser-based FTP client
If you suddenly need an FTP client, maybe your friend needs a hand, and you don’t have your usb key with one of those portable FTP clients on it, then you’ll certainly go searching Google for one. Fortunately there are many out there, starting from Filezilla, the most renowned Open Source FTP client, to others like FireFTP – an extension of the Mozilla Firefox browser.
With these two free FTP clients, you’ll certainly have to go through the time consuming installation process; with AnyClient – a browser based FTP client, you just need to visit the web page to get started; provided you have Java installed on your Linux box. You can save your sites profile and revisit it later.
AnyClient is free and supports FTP, FTPS, SFTP and WebDAV clients. If you find it optimal, then download the free, installable version available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux/Solaris platforms.
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Switch between Desktop and Command-line with Dragbox
What could be the easiest way to move files and directories from our Desktop, to the Terminal - - Dragbox (could be the answer). Even though one can directly drag and drop lines from a webpage or files from the desktop directly on the Terminal, Dragbox can be used as a clipboard to momentarily keep text strings, or a list of files before dropping them into the Terminal to carry-out an operation.
This project is still in its initial phase, version 0.3.0, and certainly has bugs, but it runs well on Gnome Desktops and has a good margin for improvement.
Dragbox is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
Via [Linux.com]
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Ease your WiFi connections with WiFi Radar
If you are always on the move, then grasp Wifi Radar - a simple GUI utility for managing WiFi profiles and make easier wireless connections from one wireless access point (AP) to another. Install on Ubuntu with sudo apt-get install wifi-radar
When you run it, it displays all available wireless networks your Wi-Fi can grasp, all you need to do is choose an access point from the list hit “Connect” to get connected.
Before getting in, you’ll be asked if you want to configure that profile (you can do that later with “Edit”).
Here, Wifi Radar gets better than the in built wireless network utility in Ubuntu;
- If you often visit a Hotspot(a venue that offers Wi-Fi access) down_town then by tweaking the DHCP settings, WiFi Radar can save the profile and make it available next time you need it.
- You can as well run it in the background as a daemon with sudo wifi-radar -d As daemon it connects automatically to the first profile on the AP priority list or hangs up if it cannot connect within the configured scan period; then passes to the second and so on… You can drag and drop your preferred networks to arrange the profile priority.
WiFi Radar needs the python and pygtk2 packages for a correct functioning, it is available for Gentoo, openSuSE, Debian and Ubuntu distributions. WiFi Radar is released under the GPL license.
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