The Wine development release 1.1.20 is now available.
What's new in this release:
- Show a dialog on application crashes.
- Much improved OLE copy/paste support.
- Various listview improvements.
- More Direct3D code cleanups.
- Various bug fixes.
Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, announced today that Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop Edition is free to download from Thursday 23 April. Also announced were the simultaneous releases of Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition and Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix
Why 4 + 1 ? Well VLC was using wxwidgets before switching to Qt so it's somewhat less integrated with the Gnome Desktop right now. That can also be said about MPlayer.
Also keep in mind that Miro is more than your regular video player. You can add rss feeds to it / browse the miro's built in TV and find a multitude of freely available videos that you can enjoy.
Also there aren't any download links present because you can find all of them in your Ubuntu / Fedora / OpenSUSE / Mandriva etc. package manager.
Since this is a web site that discusses operating systems, I felt there should be an article explaining how an OS works. I am no expert in the field but only passionate about the subject, so I decided to do some research for the necessary information and present it in a general, easily comprehensible manner. As a result, I came up with an analogy. I hope it is an easily understandable one.
Released on February 17, 2009, HAMMER is now considered "production-ready", and this version includes "major stability improvements across the board". Besides the CD ISO release, this version has a DVD ISO release with "a fully operational X environment," as well as a bootable USB key image.
Released on July 21, 2008, DragonFly 2.0 included several bug fixes, support for more devices, and updated userland applications. Its main focus was the first official release of the HAMMER filesystem. 2.0.1 was released on September 27, 2008 with driver updates and minor fixes and updates for HAMMER.
