With the release of Windows Vista, many people are looking for alternatives. This guide shows how you can set up a Debian Etch desktop that fully replaces your Windows desktop. The benefits: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that runs also on older hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.
Red Swoosh quietly came out of Beta and released FoxTorrent, a Firefox extension anybody can use. Mac/Linux/PC support, streaming torrent downloads, auto-configuration. Pretty cool open-sourced project on GoogleCode opened project up at www.foxtorrent.com
As per the usual release schedule: Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix. What’s new release: Midi support in the CoreAudio driver. Mixer support in the Alsa driver. A lot of MSI fixes. Implementation for most D3DRM functions. The usual assortment of Direct3D fixes. Lots of bug fixes.
Just read the title!
Firestorm is a new Firefox extension that enables Firefox users to download and monitor .torrent files in their browser. Firestorm is being developed as part of a Senior Software Engineering project at Penn State University. The first Alpha release is expected to be released later today
The beta and the wait is over. Ubuntu 7.04 has been released and is available for immediate download.
Seems like the Mozilla project just released Thunderbird 2.0. Most notable new features are (amongst many others) message tags, a new visual theme, Microsoft Vista support and advanced folder views.
DVD::Rip is a full featured DVD copy program written in Perl. It provides an easy-to-use but feature-rich GTK+ GUI to control almost all aspects of the ripping and transcoding process. It uses the widely known video processing swissknife, transcode, and many other Open Source tools. Could you call this the real “Gordian Knot” for linux?
Finally! 9.2 is launched today. 9.2 is not only an important update with bug fixes and the new Speed Dial functionality, it’s also a milestone in spreading Opera to new users around the world: Opera 9.2 for Windows ships with 31 languages.
Firefox/Flock sidebar extension lets you view and post twitters.
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