Software - Part 4

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openSUSE 11.1 released!!

posted on December 19, 2008 in Linux, Open Source, openSUSE with 5 Comments

Woo Hoo openSUSE 11.1′s out!! Grab it here What’s new? Brand new license GNOME 2.24.1 KDE 4.1.3 KDE 3.5.10 OpenOffice.org 3.0 – Support for ODF 1.2, better Excel integration, Linux 2.6.27.7 – Improved YaST – new printer module, new partitioner module, new security module See full new features list. openSUSE is available for download in [...]

openSUSE 11.1 almost here

posted on December 18, 2008 in Linux, openSUSE with 0 Comments

openSUSE 11.1, set to be the best release will be relased at 9pm Malaysian time or Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 13:00:00 UTC time today. Find a openSUSE 11.1 launch party near you and get update on their Facebook page. To download go to http://software.opensuse.org (don’t hammer the openSUSE wiki!). Also, if you download within [...]

GParted LiveCD for all your partitioning needs

posted on November 18, 2008 in Linux, Open Source, Software with 2 Comments

A friend needed to re-size his Windows NT OS partition from the default 4GB to 8GB. The easiest way to do this is with Linux, specifically with the GParted LiveCD. GParted is a Gnome based partition editor which uses the libparted library from the popular GNU Parted package to do all it’s fancy partitioning stuff. [...]

Installing Adobe AIR and twhirl on Ubuntu 8.10 Interpid

posted on November 13, 2008 in HowTo, Linux, Open Source, Software, Ubuntu with 2 Comments

Dropped my TwitterFox for twhirl today. Runs flawlessly on Ubuntu 8.10. Installation was a breeze, here’s the walkthrough. 1. Download Adobe AIR Beta from http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air_linux.html 2. Install Adobe AIR danesh@pandora:~/Desktop$ ls adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin danesh@pandora:~/Desktop$ chmod +x adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin danesh@pandora:~/Desktop$ ./adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin danesh@pandora:~/Desktop$ 3. Download twhirl from http://www.twhirl.org/project/twhirl 4. Double click the twhirl file to start the installation. The [...]

Deluge 1.0.2 released

posted on October 12, 2008 in Linux, Open Source, Software with 2 Comments

Deluge 1.0.2 is out. This is an important bug fix release for Deluge 1.0.0. Many bug fixes and stability improvements have gone into it. Changelog; Read more Deluge 1.0.2 (10 October 2008) Core: * Fix issue where torrents will not be properly added to the session Deluge 1.0.1 (10 October 2008) Core: * Change the [...]

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