We Linux enthusiasts love to use Linux everywhere possible, even at work, where Microsoft rules the roots! For the last 3 years I have tried and tested various combinations which has helped me replace almost all Microsoft Windows applications which need to run in most office environments. My desktop of choice is Ubuntu. More adventurous […]
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Ubuntu developers seem to be working hard to make the Ubuntu experience with Unity as smooth as possible. After yesterday’s update to my Ubuntu 12.04 daily alpha build, I noticed that my Microsoft Office applications installed via Crossover 10, are being correctly recognized on the Unity launcher and also the Unity dash. It came as
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Search giant Google released version 17 of its popular multi-platform web browser, Google Chrome. The latest version boasts a range of features. Notable of them are new extensions APIs, updated Omnibox prerendering, download scanning protection and lots of security fixes and bug fixes. The new feature introduced, a “preemptive rendering” feature, that will automatically begin loading
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This may sound shocking however, according to the latest live statistics from The Humble Bundle, an average Linux gamer is spending the most (at the time of writing), a high of $8.01 against the average of $5.94 spending. The Mac OS X users are spending an average of $6.81. Windows users, shockingly are spending a paltry $5.38, the
Linux gamers spending the most … Windows users the least!! Read More »
The DRM free Humble Bundle project has been relaunched, now for Android! This time, four games, Anomaly: Warzone Earth, Osmos, and EDGE are being bundled together. The incentive? If you pay more than the average price, you also get the indie classic World of Goo! Also, you will get the games for all four platforms! Android, Mac,
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You might come across numerous posts which tell you how to share files between windows and linux. This is one of them but in quick and easy steps. 1. Install samba sudo apt-get install samba 2. Edit samba gksudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf 3. Add the required details workgroup = Homegroup usershare owner only = false server
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World’s second largest PC maker has gone on record to say Ubuntu is safer than Microsoft Windows. While browsing through Dell’s US website, I stumbled upon this section. Read point number six. Although, this is an actual fact, it is very rare to see PC makers comparing Windows to Linux(Ubuntu) and showing its positive side.
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Sun’s own virtalmachine, Virtualbox has become a little older and matured! Its turned to version 3.0 now! It is available for Windows,Linux,Intel Macs and Sun Solaris. Since 2.24 virtualbox supports OpenGL 2.0. A lot of improvements have been made in this release. A lot of bugfixes have been made as well. Here’s a list of
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Die hard fans of Mozilla Firefox have a reason to celebrate. Firefox 3 has been released today after much delay and name changes. Firefox has been released for all major platforms , Windows, Linux & Mac OS X. It is available in over 60 different languages! Download a copy of it from here
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The other day I was reading a blog at tech republic, where the author talks about .Net Framework SP1 update released in February 2009. In his report he says that the release documents goes on ranting about all the changes it brings on this update with the exception of one very big important security vulnerability.
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