If you’ve ever given away linux livecd’s and wondered if they were ever tried, you might be interested in reading this newsforge article about a guy that followed up with several livecd recipients about 6 months on. It’s interesting to see what he found. There were a limited number, but it is interesting.
Category: Linux
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klax KDE 3.5 RC1 screenshot tour
KDE 3.5 RC1 has been out long enough that there’s already a series of screenshots… (11/11/05 was the announcement). Screenshots are available here. The screen caps were taken from the KLAX livecd.
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Free OpenOffice.org training videos
For those of you that can’t be dropped into an application and “wing it” learning by doing, newsforge has announced some openoffice.org training videos that are now available for free download. So, if you ever wanted or needed a video walkthrough for you or someone else on OpenOffice it looks like that need has been filled. They’re actually excerpts from a video cd that comes from an upcoming book on OpenOffice, entitled Point & Click OpenOffice.org.
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Mozilla Firefox RC2 released…
We’re inching yet closer to a new official release of the Mozilla Firefox browser. Yesterday was the 1st anniversary of the 1.0 release and today see’s the release of the second Release Candidate for 1.5 If you’ve already got a pre-release version of 1.5 it should automatically update. There may still be bugs, so… you might want to wait for the final release if you’re bug-averse….
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Mozilla Firefox birthday
According to spreadfirefox.com, a year ago today was the release of Mozilla Firefox 1.0
Firefox was released prior to November 9th, 2004 in preview releases and early betas, but the official 1.0 came out a year ago today, hard to believe. According to some sources it has as much as 10% of the web market share, although that’s tough to gauge (varies by site content.) It shipped originally with support for “17 languages and on 5 platforms”.
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Transgaming winex 5 cedaga cedega
I’m going to have get used to that new name. Frankly I liked winex – simple and to the point, it was like DirectX, only WineX…. then they went and changed the name to cedega and I can never remember how to spell it cedaga / cedega / cedege… anyway, Whatever it is, I’ve installed version 5.0 now. And here are my first impressions. For starters let me say that I usually don’t test based on the latest greatest games, but the older games I’ve installed and left in my point2play setup to see what improements are made.
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Transgaming Cedaga 5.0 (Winex) release
Well, it looks like Transgaming has released 5.0 of
CedagaCedega (Winex) on the schedule they announced. And to quote from the release notes here are some of the new features…. -
Easy linux installs a “klik away”
Now, I am not one of those that finds linux software installation an arcane and difficult path. However, I use mandrake (mandriva) whose urpmi tool (if setup with the correct source repositories) is usually enough for the software I’m looking for. Anything else is usually easy to either recompile from a source rpm or compile from source with a couple of fairly easy steps. That much said, those two steps do take you to the command line and for many people that means you may as well be using 0’s and 1’s to write the binary code yourself….
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Mandriva Linux 2006 review
There is a Mandriva Linux 2006 review up at mandrake.tips.4.free.fr, which includes a nice primer on “Background: Linux software repositories and software installation”…
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Open Source Clipart Library
I’m putting this under software for Windows and Linux, because this is something I’ve been asked about several times. What kind of clipart comes with OpenOffice.org or with Koffice. There are some samples usually, but clipart is one of those areas that has traditionally been hard to come by for free online. (Yes you could buy a collection of clipart.) Well, The open Clip art Library is filling that gap.