Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

A little optimization tip for Ubuntu.

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

I know most of you should already know about this, but for some its new, like me. This also will work on other Distros :) Changing /etc/hosts Just by doing this small change, the Xorg will be more responsive, making the applications start faster. For the example the hostname will be ubulaptop. To see ...

Beryl 0.2.0 Final is Out!

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

Finally Beryl 2.0 stable is out! * New Plugins - Thumbnail: Thumbnails on the taskbar (window list) which show a mini view of the actual window - Snap: Allows windows to “snap” to each other, or provide edge resistance - Opacify: Makes windows behind the active window transparent - Group: Allows windows to be group, ...

Revista Linux - Edição 2

Saturday, March 10th, 2007

A Revista Linux é uma revista grátis bimestral em PDF e tem como alvo o público com interesse na área do Linux. Os nossos artigos vão desde artigos técnico-práticos a artigos teóricos e mesmo artigos filosóficos sobre o espírito Open Source! Principais Conteúdos: Do Photoshop para o GIMP Automatix Mac OSlinuX Zenity Fully Automated Install XFCE ...

Ajudem o Ubuntu PT :)

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

Existem várias formas de poder ajudar a comunidade, criando guias, ajudando outros utilizadores, fóruns, etc. No entanto é preciso ajuda para a tradução do Ubuntu para Português, e a nova versão está para sair em Abril - Ubuntu 7.04 "Feisty Fawn" Se querem ajudar na tradução vejam os seguintes endereços: http://www.ubuntu-pt.org/Web/ubuntupt_participar.html http://www.ubuntu-pt.org/Wiki/Traduzir Ou se tiverem ...

Nautilus Tips

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

2 little tips for Nautilus that may help you. 1- Nautilus Open Terminal With this plugin you can open the folder you wish in nautilus using the right-click menu, just install the package nautilus-open-terminal . 2- Browse Nautilus has Root I think this is self explanatory, to browse files and folder having root permissions. gksudo ...

NTFS-3G 1.0 - Stable Release

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

Finally the day has arrived, NTFS-3G Stable Release is out! http://www.ntfs-3g.org/releases.html There are still some issues : - access to encrypted files - writing compressed files (reading is ok) - change file ownership and access right But the rest is fine. I've been using it for about 3 months and it's rare to see an ...

Beryl 0.2.0 Preview

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

For those of you how still don't know what Beryl is, or dont know what it can do now, Lunapark has created as article that shows many of Beryl effects. Check it out : Preview of Beryl 0.2.0 @ Lunapark6

avant-window-navigator

Monday, February 5th, 2007

Created by njpatel, Avant Window Navgator (Awn) is a fully customizable dock-like bar which sits at the bottom of the screen tracking open windows for GNOME. It uses composited to apper (that means you have to have Beryl or Compiz active for it to work) and libwnck to show open windows, ...

Audacious Media Player

Monday, January 29th, 2007

Audacious is a fork of BMP ( beep-media-player ) that has a great look, very simple, and easy functionality. Has the touch of Classic Winamp. It feels better than XMMS in my opinion, better setting manager, has some nice plugins ( you can get more at the projects web page ) ...

Dilbert

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

@ Dilbert