Thursday, May 31, 2012

About Linux: 2013 Cadillac XTS comes with Linux

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From Juergen Haas, your Guide to Linux
Linux has been making inroads in the car infotainment system area. The 2013 Cadillac XTS showcases the state of the art.

2013 Cadillac XTS comes with Linux
The infotainment system of the 2013 Cadillac XTS runs on a 3-core ARM 11 processor powered by Linux, Java, and HTML 5. The software drives an 8-inch capacitative touch screen in the center of the dash board, and a 12.3-inch screen that replaces the instrument cluster... Read more

Linux Mint 13
The official release of Linux Mint 13 is now available. According to download statistics at distrowatch.com, the Ubuntu based Linux Mint has become the most popular distro of them all, followed by Ubuntu itself, Fedora (a Red Hat variant), Debian, and openSUSE... Read more

Virtual Box 4.1.16
Oracle has updated the virtual machine software package VirtualBox. As the name indicates, VirtualBox provides desktop virtualization, and is designed for x86 and AMD64/Intel64 processor systems. In runs on all major operating systems and supports numerous guest operating systems... Read more



 


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Thursday, May 24, 2012

About Linux: Perl 5.16.0 Released

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From Juergen Haas, your Guide to Linux
Perl 5, one of the most widely used programming languages, has been updated. With more than two decades of development under it's belt, Perl is still going strong and hasn't lost it's edge.

Perl 5.16.0 Released
After twelve months of development since version 5.14.0, Perl developers have announced the availability of Perl 5.16.0. More than 130 people have contributed close to 600,000 lines of updates... Read more

Tcl/Expect for Windows-Linux Interaction
Expect is a command line (console) program that enables automation of interaction with other programs. It is useful for implementing routine tasks such as software testing, backups, or combining the functionality to multiple programs... Read more

Linux Jobs Site
With increased demand for Linux professionals in recent years, job portals focussed on Linux positions are becoming more popular... Read more



 


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Thursday, May 17, 2012

About Linux: Two Free Games for Linux by EA

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Two classic role playing games (RPGs) have been released by EA, which may be a first step towards Linux support by mainstream game developers.

Free Ubuntu Software Centre Games by EA
Electronic Arts (EA), one of largest video game developers, is now offering free of charge Lord of Ultima and Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances on the Ubuntu Software Centre... Read more

Rosegarden Music Editor Version 12.04
The open source music composition tool Rosegarden has been updated. Version 12.04 brings automation of MIDI channel allocation and performance and reliability improvements in the track editor... Read more

Windows-Linux Connectivity using PuTTY
One of the most popular utilities for connecting to Linux servers from computers running a Microsoft Windows operating system is the open source program PuTTY. It works great as remote... Read more



 


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Thursday, May 10, 2012

About Linux: GIMP 2.8

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The image and graphics tool GIMP has made a major leap forward. With new features, such as the single window mode, this versatile software is likely to capture a wider clientele on both Linux and Windows platforms.

GIMP 2.8
Developers have released a major upgrade of GIMP, the open source image and graphics tool. This version brings a number of significant advancements and new features. In particular, you can now toggle between single-window mode and multi-window mode... Read more

Remote Desktop Guacamole 0.6.0
The latest version of the remote desktop server Guacomole supports Microsoft's RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) in addition to VNC. With Guacamole no special client software is required. Instead a browser supporting HTML5 and AJAX is sufficient... Read more

How to Fix a Broken Internet Cable Plug
This issue has caused a lot of people a lot of frustration. The little plastic spring that holds an Internet cable plug (RJ45) in place and presses the metal contacts against those of the receptacle brakes off easily... Read more



 


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