Moonlight 3.0 , which is aiming to bring Silverlight 3.0 functionalities to the opensource world, has just released its 7th preview version. The site warns the product to be treated as alpha quality. For the bold,experiemental and restless open-source fans, does it really matter? The good news for the testers is that, this plugin is […]
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A bugfix release of popular open-source cross-platform office-suite software, OpenOffice has been released and is available for download. The download is available for multiple languages and for all three major operating systems, Linux, Mac and Windows. Download links here Whats new in this bugfix release? Well, quite a few bug fixes for sure!. Read the
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First of all thanks to posts from Cappy in Ubuntu forums…. While running Alien Arena in Ubuntu 10.04(64 bit) , if you get an error like this one ./crx: error while loading shared libraries: libXxf86dga.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Do the following. 1. Download getlibs from here and install
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If you are looking for quick transfer of files between two Ubuntu systems within the same network, it can get no easier .
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It is super easy to get remote desktop sharing working between two Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) machines. Just follow the steps below. 1. System -> Preferences -> Remote Desktop -> Tick allow remote destop ( add a password for security reasons) 2. Open Empathy and login using your google / jabber client id 3. Double click
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Novell released the second version of opensource implementation of Silverlight, Moonlight 2.0, today for linux users. Although Moonlight is lagging way behind the Silverlight version which is at 3.0 stable and 4.0 beta, this release will give users compatibility with SIlverlight 2.0 applications and some 3.0 ones as well. Moonlight is opensource, however, the codecs
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Google released the beta version of Chrome for Linux and Mac today. The packaged files for major distributions are availabe at http://www.google.com/chrome. Users who were already using the dev channel version can find the beta packaged seperately in synaptic . Trying to install the beta will prompt you to uninstall the unstable version though. Try
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I have been testing video calls from the newly launched pidgin voice/video service. The test was done with a windows user on the other end , on a dell studio 15 laptop running windows vista home premium. On my end i have been using the latest ubuntu 9.10 alpha4 daily release 29th of august 2009.
Pidgin voice & video calls from gmail actually working!! Read More »
