Alien, the Linux application that converts between Red Hat rpm, Debian deb, Stampede slp, Slackware tgz, and Solaris pkg file formats now has a front-end GUI to simplify the already simple process of converting packages from one format to the other with Alien. Alien is particularly useful in converting working .rpm packages to Debian/Ubuntu .deb […]
Solang is an open source photo manager for the Gnome Desktop that looks very similar to the Gnome in-built F-Spot. This similarity is simply due to the use of F-Spot icons in Solang. Many have also tagged the new-born Solang as a Mono-Free version and alternative to F-Spot. Well, that its Mono-Free is true, Solang […]
Boxee, the free cross-platform and open source media centre application with social networking features is now available for Windows users. Linux users especially those on Ubuntu have had the opportunity to test Boxee for months now. To download Boxee you need an account, if you already have one then just sign-in and download.
What do you call this? I call it bullshit propaganda. Microsoft pits up IE8 against Firefox and Google Chrome and in all ten cases, IE8 comes out victorious or almost. It seems the browser-war is driving Microsoft crazy. Howdid they come-up with blatant lies like Sure, Firefox may win in sheer number of add-ons, but […]
Pidgin, the GTK+ frontend to libpurple, has released Pidgin 2.5.7 for Ubuntu. This new release adds support for the latest Yahoo Protocol 16 to fix login problems the multi-protocol messaging client has had with Yahoo. Another major fix is; before, each time you blocked an MSN user not on your buddy list, Pidgin got disconnected. […]