Archive for September, 2009

News: Want To Impress Your Friends? Run Chrome OS 0.4.206

We have all read the news that Google is planning to enter the operating system market with their soon to be released Google Chrome OS which is initially targeting the netbook market. Google Chrome OS is based on Google’s web browser Google Chrome and a Linux kernel. Little information are know as of yet. The ones that are available state that Google Chrome OS will be released as Open Source, that it will use a minimalistic design and that it will likely be released in the second half of 2010.

Fake videos showcasing the new Google Chrome OS have been making their rounds on the Internet in the last months. There have not been on the other hand lots of attempts to turn an existing Linux distribution into something that resembles the Google Chrome OS. Continue Reading »

News: KDuXP – The advantages of Linux with the look of XP!

KDuXP is an Ubuntu-based Brazilian Linux distribution with a user interface resembling Windows XP. The project’s web site is in Portuguese.

KDuXP – is one Remaster Based on Ubuntu, but with several features pre-installed to facilitate both day-to-day and its assimilation with what you already know in a visually close to the Desktop Desktop XP.

It offers ease of acceptance, ease of operation, offers resources of the Linux easier to use with command keys, as on-line terminal yakuake, now detects and installs ATI, NVidia, Intel Wireless card, devices mounted on the Desktop hundreds of applications, games, resources, etc … Continue Reading »

News: Wine 1.1.30 released

The Wine development release 1.1.30 is now available. With Wine it’s possible to run Windows applications on top of Linux.

What’s new in this release:

- Support for OpenAL.
- Many improvements in HTML and JavaScript support.
- Many common controls fixes and improvements.
- More Direct3D 10 work.
- Better MAPI support.
- Various bug fixes.

The source is available from the following locations:

http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-1.1.30.tar.bz2

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.1.30.tar.bz2

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:

http://www.winehq.org/site/download

You will find documentation on http://www.winehq.org/site/documentation

You can also get the current source directly from the git
repository. Check http://www.winehq.org/site/git for details.

You can read the complete release info of the 1.1.30 release.

News: Upcoming Releases of Ubuntu 10.04

The infrastructure around the recently announced Ubuntu 10.04, code name “Lucid Lynx” and scheduled for release in April 2010, is being set up at a rapid pace. The first alpha release of the new LTS (long-term support) Ubuntu is now just two months away, scheduled for 3 December 2009. But the entire development cycle has been altered; instead of six alpha releases, one beta and one release candidate (as is the case with Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala“), the new version will have only three alphas, two betas and one quick release candidate – a total of six (rather than eight) development releases. The final build of Ubuntu 10.04 is scheduled for 29 April 2010. For further details please see the Lucid Release Schedule page on Ubuntu Wiki.

News: Birthday Facts About Google

San Francisco – When Google displays the logo usually associated with special events taking place around this time, Google put the unique Google logo to celebrate a special day for himself.

Right on this day, September 27, 2009 Google celebrates anniversary to-11 years. To celebrate, Google in particular to replace the letter “L” on the Google logo to be number 11, according to the number of years to the day was Google. Continue Reading »

News: Jaangle Music Player

I have been trying to get Teen Spirit to work for quite some time but never succeeded. The developers have in the meantime renamed their application to Jaangle and surprise, surprise: the music player does not crash anymore on my computer system. Windows users have lots of choice when it comes to music players from the popular Winamp to resource friendly players like AIMP2 or highly configurable ones like Foobar. Jaangle does offer a few features out of the box that might make it the prime choice for some users.

Probably the most noteworthy is the automatic recognition of music that gets added to the music player. It is possible to scan folders on the local hard drive for music. Album art and additional information are automatically retrieved by Jaangle and displayed in the player. This does include band and artist information which are usually not provided by many music players. Continue Reading »

News: Google said 'Welcome to the Google Summer of CodeTM 2009 site!'

Google Summer of Code has again been a huge success. Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects. We have worked with several open source, free software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund several projects over a three month period. Since its inception in 2005, the program has brought together nearly 2500 successful student participants and 2500 mentors from 98 countries worldwide, all for the love of code. Through Google Summer of Code, accepted student applicants are paired with a mentor or mentors from the participating projects, thus gaining exposure to real-world software development scenarios and the opportunity for employment in areas related to their academic pursuits. In turn, the participating projects are able to more easily identify and bring in new developers. Best of all, more source code is created and released for the use and benefit of all.

Google Summer of Code has wrapped up for 2009. We are pleased to announce that more than 85% of our 1,000 participating students passed their final evaluations.  You can find more information about the projects completed as part of the 2009 Google Summer of Code, including links to actual source code produced during the program, by visiting the list of mentoring organizations for 2009 and visiting their linked organization’s home pages.

Folks interested in news about the program may want to subscribe to the Google Open Source Blog for regular updates. We will be publishing wrap up reports about Google Summer of Code 2009 for the next several weeks on the the blog, as well as showcasing stories from our upcoming Mentor Summit in late October 2009.

News: CD2USB 0.5 Portable (with GUI)

Cd2usb (formerly “ULUMFW”) is a windows program, designed to make Live USBs of Ubuntu (also works with Super Ubuntu). I added a GUI for this program i think awesome.
Download CD2USB 0.5 Development Test 1 [1.3MB download / 3MB installed]

News: Today's 'Trending Topics' on YouTube

CALIFORNIA – video sharing site to make updates by presenting features layananya ‘trending topics’ such as the already adopted Twitter site and other sites.

Through features ‘trending topics’ visitors can sort the YouTube video that most or popular views within days, weeks, months, or all of them as you wish.

“When there are spikes in searches on a particular topic, for pages of our site to help you see what the world now watch on any given day,” explained YouTube via its official blog, which quoted Mashable, Saturday (26/9/2009). Continue Reading »

News: Hacking site Facebook Account Found

CALIFORNIA – security company Panda Labs have discovered a site that offers to hack a Facebook account with the cost USD100.

Sites listed in Moscow, this Russian claim to be able to hack the Facebook account with a success rate up to 99 percent. Sites that this domain is not known well enough done, since proven to have walked up to four years. Continue Reading »