Linux Media Center

July 17th, 2007 | Ubuntu, Linux by th | No Comments

LinuxMCE is a free, open source add-on to Ubuntu including a 10′ UI, complete whole-house media solution with pvr + distributed media, and the most advanced smarthome solution available.

Absolutely fantastic introduction video available here. Though it’s quite biased comparison against Windows Media Center, it demonstrates LinuxMCE’s features pretty well.

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If you’ve ever considered building a Linux Media Center box, LinuxMCE is definitely the software bundle to use with it. More screenshots and videos here.

Google goes Linux-friendly

July 16th, 2007 | Ubuntu, Linux by th | 3 Comments

Apparently Google has gone Linux friendly, offering repositories for various distributions for easy software installation. Go Google! Step-by-step GUI configuration instructions are available for Ubuntu, Debian, Mandriva and Suse. See this page for more information.

Packages (and easy updates!) available for the following Google software:

  • Picasa
  • Google Earth
  • Google Desktop

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CRM 3.0 installation and configuration is also known as MB2-421 test, is a significant part of Microsoft certification. The quality web hosting providers like startlogic provide excellent support for this feature. You also need to set up internet phones and you’ll also need web templates in order to be more professional.

Awesome Linux Apps you might not know about

July 14th, 2007 | Ubuntu, Linux by th | 1 Comment

littleubuntu.com has collected a very nice list of Linux apps you might not know about. Interesting list indeed. Check it out!

Easy addons for Ubuntu

July 11th, 2007 | Ubuntu, Linux by th | No Comments

Looking for extra addon software for Ubuntu? getdeb.net offers easy downloads for several Ubuntu version. Nice and clean site with easy, working downloads.

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Incredibly cool touchscreen products

July 4th, 2007 | Nintendo, Technology, Microsoft, Linux, Apple by th | 2 Comments

Touchscreen is not a new technology, but it is steadily coming more mainstream. Touchscreens definitely have a lot of huge potential to ease interaction with our everyday gadgets and computers, so here is a little roundup of current touchscreen usage in real products.

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Linux gaming, part four: massive multiplayer online games

June 26th, 2007 | Games, Linux by th | 28 Comments

Massive Multiplayer Online Games are hugely popular nowadays, especially thanks to the World of Warcraft which brought online gaming to the mainstream. So what’s the state of online games on Linux?

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Linux gaming, part three: strategy games (continued)

June 21st, 2007 | Games, Linux by th | 35 Comments

As many readers pointed out, there are many cool strategy games available for Linux that weren’t mentioned in the part two. These games are simply too good to be missed, so here’s take two for the strategy games.

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Linux gaming, part two: strategy games

June 19th, 2007 | Games, Linux by th | 41 Comments

Part one covered first person shooters on Linux. Blizzard just announced Starcraft 2 for Windows and Macintosh, but how’s the strategy gaming on Linux?

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Linux gaming, part one: first person shooters

June 16th, 2007 | Games, Linux by th | 32 Comments

Linux might not have as much games as Windows (or game consoles) but people enjoying this wonderful open source operating system can have fun with games too, as there are a lot of free games for Linux available, even some huge commercial ones. Even Linux games are a niche market, Linux gaming has got a pretty colorful history so far. So what’s the state of Linux gaming?

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