The Ubuntu havedecided to call Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex. In order to maintain the long going tradition of giving each new release version a two word name – an adjective followed by an animal theydecided to give it this rather queer name. Ibex – The goat with a head for heights; Ibex is a wild […]
Why not be grateful to VLC Media Player – because when it comes to video nothing is ever easy as it should be, yet this media player with an open source background is doing much to make it easy. It is constantly updated, improved, with new features coming up. It supports playback of most of […]
What about integrating your open source, multi-platform, multi-protocol instant messaging client Pidgin with Skype? Even though the outcome is not so overwhelming, using the Skype API Plugin gives you the possibility to add your Skype contacts to your Pidgin IM. The API also imports your regular in-out phone contact numbers – but not without a […]
The KDE Windows Project goes on and as earlier explained this project is to let you run KDE applications on Windows. The development team has recently made available Windows Binaries of Amarok 2. If you ever needed an alternative to the many music players out there like iTunes, Winamp or Windows Media Player and then […]
An easy way to install the new Firefox 3 beta 3 on Ubuntu is by using the terminal command below. But before jumping into it, you’re advised to backup your current user profile. This terminal command downloads and places a Firefox 3 folder in your home directory. wget -P ~ ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/3.0b3/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-3.0b3.tar.bz2 && tar xjf ~/firefox-3.0b3.tar.bz2 […]