Linux For All Is Inaugurated

May4th
2008 1 Comment

Written by Sathya

It gives me great pleasure to announce that my good friend, Kunal Gautam has launched a blog on Linux, “Linux For All – Making Linux usable for all from newbies to techies“. Kunal is a gem of a person, is well versed in all the latest techonologic trends and I’m proud to say that he is one of the persons who I’ve convinced to make a shift from Windows to Linux and is extremely happy with it. Kunal, now is doing a course in RHCE and aims to be a Linux System Admin in due course of time.

So for those people who drop by my blog, do pay a visit to his blog.

Thanks

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KDE 4.1 Alpha 1 Preview

May4th
2008 Leave a Comment

Written by Sathya

KDE 4.1 Alpha 1 was just released, and it looks very promising indeed! Here’s what bastion of PolishLinux had to say:

Desktop

First thing worth noticing is the new looks of KRunner. Unfortunately, on the current stage, it behaves in an unpredictable manner. In some cases after typing one letter I had to wait a few seconds for KRunner to catch it and prompt me with a list of available choices. What is more, it randomly hung up completely, exceeding the maximum response time, forcing KWin to kindly ask me to kill it.

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A Comprehensive List of Twitter Clients For Linux

May3rd
2008 13 Comments

Written by Sathya

Ever since being introduced to Twitter by Preshit, I’ve been addicted to twitter. While I prefer tweeting via IM or Twitter’s homepage, Few of you would love to use a twitter client. Here’s a list of some twitter clients for Linux

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Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Chronicles – A Look At Installation and First Glance

May1st
2008 13 Comments

Written by Sathya

Quite a lot of people have been waiting for the latest release of Ubuntu, version 8.04 dubbed the “Hardy Heron” – primarily because it’s a LTS release. So how does the Hardy Heron stack up? I decided to jump into the Hardy Heron brigade and have a look. Is it worth the upgrade?

Read on to find out more!

System Specifications

I used my beloved Dell Inspiron 1520(Intel Core2Duo T5250 @ 1.5 Ghz, 2 GB DDR2 667 RAM, nVidia 8600m GT, Intel 3945 Pro/Wireless) for testing out the Hardy Heron.

I had a pretty bad time with Gutsy – no sound despite the sound card being detected, LCD brightness varying as if its possessed etc – these resulted with me removing Gutsy and going back to openSUSE 10.3.

Also, generally I’ve always tested the 32-bit versions of most distros. This time I decided to break the tradition and go with the 64-bit version.

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Test OpenSUSE 11.0: feature by feature

Apr29th
2008 1 Comment

Written by Sathya

Now that the first beta is out for openSUSE 11.0, you can start to dig in and really start banging on the release to catch bugs before the release candidates and final release. If you’re wondering where to start, Holger Sickenberg has put together an excellent resouce to help guide testing.

Holger has compiled a list of new features in openSUSE 11.0 that it would be a good idea to test to ensure that each and every feature works as planned and is as bug-free as possible. Holger has also included directions for testers, so it’s as easy as loading up openSUSE 11.0 and following the steps.

Any test that’s marked “idle” is fair game — so feel free to jump in and start beating up on the new features.

If you do find any bugs, be sure to check the Bug reporting FAQ and report the bug in Bugzilla.

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Announcing OpenSUSE 11 Beta 1

Apr29th
2008 2 Comments

Written by Sathya

Last week, the openSUSE team announced the first Beta release of openSUSE 11.0! Some of the many enhancements and features in the new release include the incredibly fast package management (libzypp), KDE 3.5.9 and 4.0.3, GNOME 2.22.1, a beautiful new installer, live CDs and much more.

What’s New

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Countdown to Ubuntu 8.04: The Hardy Heron

Apr20th
2008 6 Comments

Written by Sathya

It’s that time of the year. Everyone’s excited and looking forward to it. Ofcourse it’s the release of the next LTS version of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 8.04, aka Hardy Heron. So what’re new features expected in Hardy Heron you ask? Well here are some of them
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Compiz Fusion Gets New Effect – Presenting the Cylinder

Apr13th
2008 2 Comments

Written by Sathya

Unless you have been living under a stone, you should be knowing that Compiz Fusion transforms your Linux 2D desktop, with virtual desktops into a 3D one, complete with Cube plugin(amongst others) which transforms the virtual desktops into a cube.

Developer Dennis Kasprzyk has finally finished his idea to implement a cylinder deformation for the cube plugin. The result is that Cubereflex plugin has now been rename to Cubeaddon, and it comes with a new effect, “CYLINDER”. Here’s a screen shot of the plugin in action

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Linux Gets Adobe AIR, Flex

Apr1st
2008 1 Comment

Written by Sathya

People had been demanding for a Linux version of Adobe AIR. Now now finally, Adobe has joined Linux Foundation and has announced the pre-release alpha version of Adobe AIR for Linux. The pre-release alpha version can be downloaded from Adobe Labs.

Adobe Labs also updated an alpha version of Adobe Flex Builder 3 for Linux software is also available on Adobe Labs today, which adds support for creating applications that run on Adobe AIR. The combination of Flex, Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash Player 9 for Linux comprises a well supported, and enables developers to build, debug and deploy RIAs entirely on Linux, and across browsers and desktops.

Flex, Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash Player are key elements of the Adobe technology platform. Flex is a free, open source framework for building highly interactive, expressive RIAs that can be deployed on the desktop with Adobe AIR, or in the browser with Adobe Flash Player.

The pre-release alpha version of Adobe AIR for Linux is available immediately in English as a free download from Adobe Labs.

The final version of Adobe AIR for Linux is expected later this year and will be available in other languages.

Additionally, the update to Adobe Flex Builder 3 for Linux alpha is freely available in English from Adobe Labs.

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Jacascript based Terminal Emulator

Mar28th
2008 1 Comment

Written by Sathya

Want to try out some *NIX commands? But dont want to install *NIX ? Or cab’t install *NIX ? Then This site’s for you: CB.VU

CB.VU is a Unix-like virtual shell command line interface.
See “info” for the full credentials.

Try it out! It rocks!

PS: do type weather, matrix and whereiam You’ll like it!

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Linux For All Is Inaugurated

KDE 4.1 Alpha 1 Preview

Desktop

A Comprehensive List of Twitter Clients For Linux

Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Chronicles – A Look At Installation and First Glance

System Specifications

Test OpenSUSE 11.0: feature by feature

Announcing OpenSUSE 11 Beta 1

What’s New

Countdown to Ubuntu 8.04: The Hardy Heron

Compiz Fusion Gets New Effect – Presenting the Cylinder

Linux Gets Adobe AIR, Flex

Jacascript based Terminal Emulator

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