Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

Sunbird 0.5 RC3

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Sunbird 0.5 RC3 has been released Changes ( from the projects Weblog ) Much more polished user interface in the calendar views Working hours are back Automatic migration of data in Sunbird 0.2, iCal.app, and Evolution Much improved printing functionality Support for Google Calendar (via ...

Wine-doors 0.1 pre-release 1

Saturday, May 19th, 2007

The first release of Wine-doors just got out! It is still in Beta stage, but you can try it out already. What is Wine-doors? Wine-doors is an application designed to make installing windows software on Linux, Solaris or other Unix systems easier using Wine. Its desinged for the GNOME Desktop using pygtk. Its ...

Emesene

Sunday, May 13th, 2007

Remember the emesene - a msn messenger client - I talked about some time ago? Well some time has past and the client is growing, slowly for some, but growing. For those that don't know it, its written in Python and GTK ( For Gnome ). It is a nice alternative ...

Procuram-se Guias / Tutoriais

Friday, May 11th, 2007

Procuram-se Guias e Tutoriais para o GuiaUbuntuPT.org Podem ser sobre qualquer assunto, desde placas 3G, aplicações, segurança, servidores, textos explicativos, etc. Se queres participar e/ou submeter no wiki guias, etc, diz alguma coisa. Os guias não precisam ser específicos Ubuntu, como é óbvio. O Objectivo é criar um repositório de informação para ajudar ...

Tango Skin for Opera

Friday, May 11th, 2007

Wanna give a Gnomish style to Opera? This is the Skin you want :) Tango CL

Revista P@P - 8ª edição

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

8ª Edição - Maio de 2007 Artigos Tema de capa -Windows Vista para Programadores A programar -Estatísticas em PHP - 2ª parte -JNI - Java Native Interface -LUA - Linguagem de Programação -CSS - Cascading Style Sheet -Segurança em Sistemas Distribuídos Tutorial -Programação em C - 2ª parte GNU/Linux -Apresentação do Ubuntu 7.04 "Feisty Fawn" Análises -Moodle: Uma plataforma de eLearning Electrónica -Microcontroladores: Protocolos SPI Download - Mirror Bom ...

Wine & Cedega

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

Reading the latest Wine Weekly Newsletter 329, they talk about Cedega and its relationship with Wine.  In the begin of the Cedega/Wine Benchmarks you can read: Cedega's core is based off the original Wine tree and was forked in 2002. There are several core components that no longer share a similarity with ...

Compiz News

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

Today, new versions of compiz were released! v0.4 (stable) - Link -Changelog v0.5 (development) -Link -Changelog Its been some months already since the last release, It's good to see the work continuing. There is a New layout for the web page, wiki and forum, so to integrate them in one. And they already announce ...

Compiz and Beryl are Reuniting

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

It is official, Compiz and Beryl will reunite! Just out in the mailing list:  - As had previously been decided, Compiz will effectively split in to two ivisions: Compiz-core and Compiz-extra. - The Compiz-Core division package will remain compiz. See this topic . - The Compiz-Extra division will merge with the Beryl project to ...

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 ...