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Wine 1.1.29 Released

The Wine development release 1.1.29 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Improved Gecko integration by using Wine's network layers.
  • Use of external libmpg123 for mp3 decoding.
  • Support for JPEG and PNG formats in WindowsCodecs.
  • Many regression test fixes for Win64 and Windows 7.
  • Various bug fixes.

Resources
Announcement | Download

Author: CoolGoose

Zenwalk Linux 6 Review

Zenwalk 6 is the latest release of Zenwalk Linux. The changes are major enough that most people will find it worth making the upgrade (note Xfce 4.6). Zenwalk has come a long way with Zenwalk 6, from its beginnings with creator Jean-Philippe Guillemin, also known as Hyperion.
 
Zenwalk is a fast distribution and has low system requirements so you can use it on older, slower computers with no problem. Zenwalk 6 is no exception to this rule. The new Zenwalk 6 looks a lot like 5.2 so it will feel familiar.

Author: John Doe

Slackware 13

Patrick announced the 13-th release of Slackware Linux.

Yes it's that time again! After many months of development and careful
testing, we are proud to announce the release of Slackware version 13.0!

Major new features:

  • KDE 4 as the default, instead of KDE 3 (4.2.4)
  • Xfce 4.6.1
  • An official 64-bit port
  • Updated kernel, x11, gcc

Resources
Announcement | Release Notes | Download

Release Date: 
Thu, 2009-08-27

Top 3 Linux Vector Graphics Editors

Who said that Linux has nothing to do with graphics editing didn't try one of these pretty nice and, if I may say so, production ready vector graphics editors.

Author: CoolGoose

Wine 1.1.28 Released

The Wine development release 1.1.28 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Support for IRDA protocol.
  • Faster initial wineprefix creation.
  • Axis remapping with evdev joysticks.
  • More image formats in WindowsCodecs.
  • Various bug fixes.

Resources
Announcement | Download

Author: CoolGoose

How to boot Linux after Windows XP installation Part 2

A couple of weeks ago, John Doe wrote a tutorial about how to make Linux work after you've installed Windows XP, which, of course, has made your Linux primary partition inactive.

Well, let's say you try a different solution, like I did, the one found here (Recovering GRUB after reinstalling Windows section). Everything was fine and dandy, except I couldn't boot Windows after that. What was the problem? I'm a noob, so of course I didn't know. Luckly, there is #ubuntu, with some very helpful people. They helped solve the problem, so I figured I'd share the solution.

Author: Lucas

IBM Lotus Symphony 1.3 Review - The office alternative.

If you’re looking for an alternative to Windows Office, OpenOffice or other software suites, you might want to give IBM Lotus Symphony 1.3 a look. Although the name of the suite is derived from a similar software package that failed to make an impact in the 1990’s, this suite seems to have more potential and a wide range of features that might make it more appealing to consumers and computer users.

Author: John Doe

PCLinuxOS 2009.2 Review

Mandriva Linux (formerly known as Mandrake Linux) is an operating system that had so much recognition that various forks were made out of it to further make Linux accessible to enthusiasts and newbies while at the same time overcoming some of its weaknesses.

PCLinuxOS was among these forks and opened up in 2007 with a lot of potential because of its easier installation process and best preserved features of the original OS. From there, a community made 2008 version surfaced having code that is more diverse than Mandriva and Live Install features and then only minor updates were seen.

Author: John Doe

Wine 1.1.27 Released

The Wine development release 1.1.27 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • New version of the Gecko engine.
  • New GSM 06.10 codec support.
  • Improved support for the disk volume APIs.
  • Support for XShm pixmaps for better performance.
  • Various bug fixes.

Resources
Announcement | Download

Author: CoolGoose

KDE 4.3.0 Release

Have no fear KDE 4.3 is here and it's shaping up to be a great release.

Here are some random stats that do justice to this project:

  • 10,000 bugs have been fixed.
  • close to 63,000 changes were checked in by a little under 700 contributors.
  • 2,000 feature requests were implemented in the past 6 months
Author: CoolGoose
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