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About a year ago, Google released their desktop search called Google desktop for Linux. Since then they released some updates to Google Desktop adding support for 64 bit and more file fomats, but they left out one big feature of its Windows and Mac counterparts: Gadgets, mini-applications written in HTML and JavaScript. Today Google released …
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After 6 months of development, the new version of Ubuntu is available. The release is named Ubuntu 8.04 LTS “Hardy Heron”. The numbers stand for the year and month of the release date while Hardy Heron is the codename. LTS stands for long-term support, which means that this release will be supported for three full …
The upcoming Ubuntu release 8.04, codenamed “Hardy Heron” can be pre-ordered now. Ubuntu ShipIt is a service sponsored by Canonical where anyone can order Ubuntu CDs free of charge. This is especially useful for people with slow internet connections or restricted transfer volumes. So to everybody who can’t or doesn’t want to download the next …
Follwing the latest meme, here are my 10 most used commands in the shell history: tim@tim:~$ history | awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head 89 sudo 42 ls 42 cd 31 rm 18 java 17 unrar 16 wget 16 gksudo 15 ajcore 10 mv
AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) is a platform that allows the creation of web applications and run them on the desktop alongside “classic” software. The Windows and Mac OS X version of AIR has been around for a while and today, Adobe released a first alpha version for us Linux users. The software isn’t available on …
Ubuntu brainstorm is a new site for Ubuntu fans to vote on which issues should have the highest priority. Everybody is free to register and submit ideas. Then, one can vote on every entry, either adding or subtracting a vote. The site closely resembles Dell’s IdeaStorm, which incidentally contains a fair share of Ubuntu-related entries …
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Wow, for a blog that’s called Ubuntu Daily there may have been not enough posts in the last time, maybe I should have called it Ubuntu Quarterly. This post is just to inform everyone who is interested that I am not dead and neither is this blog. I won’t make any promises on how often …
Not long ago a video popped up on the internet show what was called “content-aware image resizing”. Everybody was amazed by this new technology. Now just a month later there is an open-source implementation and a free GIMP plugin to download. Here is an example of what can be accomplished with this software: Picture source: …
A job offer for Senior Engineer that recently appeared on Valve’s website lists among other things the following responsibilty: Port Windows-based games to the Linux platform. If they really mean games and not game servers this might be a major breaking point for Linux gaming and Linux on the desktop in general. Valve’s Steam platform …
Ubuntu is featured in issue #4 of the Marvel Comic Mighty Avengers. You can see the boot manager GRUB and the list of Kernels to choose from, along with a movie-style “Access Denied” message: Normally this isn’t the point where you have to authorize in Ubuntu, and you could just use recovery mode to go …