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6 IM Chat Clients Mostly Used
Many IM chat clients available to use, but which one is the best choice for you. Basically most of them do the same job for me i usually use empathy my favorite one. many IM clients supporting connecting to multiple networks accounts “Hotmail, yahoo, facebook, irc, gmail, ICQ, AIM, myspace, Japper, even more with adding custom API”
Pick yours.
FatRat Awesome Download Manager For Ubuntu 10.04
Usually everyone downloading files with many ways using HTTP/HTTPS, FTP/FTPS, torrent, and SFTP, with this application you can download all in one, Open source application written in C++.
Supporting Rapidshare download, Torrent download, you can also create torrent files, Integrated torrent search engine for many websites pirate bay, linux tracker, btjunkie, Youtube videos, you can get remote access to fatrat via japper or web interface. Get more features with fatrat plugins. before we go any further will show you:
How To Download – Install FatRat
If you are using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
go to terminal and type
or you can install it directly from ubuntu software center, search for fatrat
Also you can download the source code from FatRat site for other distribution
then extract the package and compile it
make
make install
To add extra plugins for subtitles search engine, unpack plugin, czshare download/upload manager.
That’s it for now.
Top 10 FluxBox Themes
FluxBox lightweight window manager based on blackbox window manager, we already reviewed FluxBox and how to install it on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS follow this post. Another post for how to configure FluxBox window manager follow this post.
so, in this post we are going to list top ten fluxbox themes for light themes and other dark themes
1. antix_black
2. Area themes
3. Semblance
4. Ambientbox
5. Color Me Bad
6. Antistar
7. Shiki mod:Flat Blue
8. DarkBlack theme
9. Ubuntu Light themes
10. PerkElementary
That’s it for now 
LinuxNov NEWS 102 “Distributions”
102 LinuxNov NEWS discussing Distributions release, software, Desktops, Mobile, Window Managers, and many distribution released based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, debian based, Slackware. even more with more software released this week for Mobile, Desktop.
Beginning with distributions released for this week
Slackware Linux 13.1
released with different desktops. Slackware 13.1 is available in both 32-bit x86 and 64-bit x86_64 editions, and brings with it many major improvements, like KDE SC version 4.4.3, the 2.6.33.4 Linux kernel, a new toolchain, updated libraries, and major applications such as Firefox and Thunderbird.
Fedora 13
Released with a lot of new features, available for 32, 64 bit and different desktops for Gnome, xfce spin, KDE spin, and LXDE spin.
Also made a quick review for fedora 13 Gnome version, you can find download options Here
IMAGIC OS Sho
Based on ubuntu 10.04 LTS distribution, integrated many softwares with it for social media, multimedia, editing, ftp clients, server cloud, using extension 4 filesystem for more security. also using KDE 4.4 desktop interface with plasma effects.
Release announcement – Download Options
openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 7
upgrades for gnome, KDE, XFce, LXDE, better supporting for Netbook, improving package dependencies, and new spider oak file sharing and backup tool. and many features. check for more
Release announcement – Download Options
SME Server 7.5
Built on Cent OS SME Server is a leading Open Source distribution for small and medium enterprises. It is a simple, powerful, secure Linux server for networking and communicating, used by thousands of individuals, companies and organizations all over the world. SME Server provides a friendly, free alternative to expensive proprietary software, standing apart from the competition by shipping with most common functionality preconfigured, and features a number of popular additional enhancements in the form of downloadable Contributions.
Release announcement – Download Options
MeeGo 1.0
open source project compiling between moblin and maemo os, to get a great performance for Netbooks, laptops , even mobiles phones, and now it’s available to download, This release provides developers with a stable core foundation for application development and a rich user experience for Netbooks. The MeeGo Netbook user experience is the first to appear, with the development of the MeeGo Handset user experience moving to the open in June.
Release announcement – Download options
Endian Firewall 2.4
Endian Firewall Community version 2.4 is now available! This release introduces new features and lots of bugfixes that make EFW 2.4 a significant improvement in the development of the Endian product family.
Endian Firewall Community is a “turn-key” linux security distribution that turns every system into a full featured security appliance with Unified Threat Management (UTM) functionality. The software has been de signed with “usability in mind” and is very easy to install, use and manage, without losing its flexibility. The features include a stateful packet inspection firewall, application-level proxies for various protocols (HTTP, FTP, POP3, SMTP) with antivirus support, virus and spamfiltering for email traffic (POP and SMTP), content filtering of Web traffic and a “hassle free” VPN solution (based on OpenVPN). The main advantage of Endian Firewall is that it is a pure “Open Source” solution that is sponsored by Endian
Release announcement – Download endian 2.4 Options
Peppermint-One-05222010
Lubuntu based distribution comes with a lot of web based applications, with LXDE desktop and openbox window manager, and many new features integrated with it. check more information about packages and main features for it on release announcement.
Release announcement – Download Options
Zenwalk Linux 6.4
big fan of zenwalk distro cause it based on Slackware with XFCE 4.62 window manager, other updated with many applications for multimedia gstreamer, and openoffice 3,2.0, and uisng Xorg 7.5 and more features check release announcement for more.
check the release announcement and Download Options For Zenwalk Linux 6.4
Qimo 4 Kids 2.0
Based on Xubuntu distribution, it’s a really good choice for kids, with a lot of suitable applications for children, we are going to make a quick review for it soon.
check the release announcement and Download Options for Qimo 2.0
sidux 2010-01 preview 1
Debain based distribution coming with two desktops for KDE and xfce. Now that KDE 4.4.3 and kernel 2.6.34 have entered the archive, we have the pleasure to announce the immediate availability of the first preview for sidux 2010-01 “Ύπνος”.
check the release announcement for more informations – Download Options for Sidux 2010 – 01 preview 1
That’s for last released distribution so far, adding LinuxNov 102 News for Software hardware soon.
[How To]: Get Mac OS X Menu Look on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
A lot of people interesting to make Ubuntu 10.04 LTS menu to looks like Mac OS x menu, looks really good to integrate every menu bar for each window or applications running to main Panel bar for ubuntu.
Using Gnome2-Globalmenu package using it gnome also working on other desktops.
you can download and install the package from any one of those
- Google code select 10.04 Lucid packages you can download using repositories or DEB package
- Launchpad packages Also you will find 10.04 Lucid packages
Maybe you will need to logout to activate global menu package.
after the installation you can add applet to main panel and select Global menu applet. it will be active directly.
you can customize it from global menu applet preferences
Enjoy it. That’s it for now.
[Reviews]: Fedora 13 Gnome Review
A lot of Things coming up with the new release Fedora 13 for improving the distribution itself, even extra package added, fixing many bugs reported by the users for many applications such as wine, printer problems with older fedora versions,… “, even more we will fully discuss it now.
Before we go any further let’s check the release Notes, Release announcement for fedora 13, and Download Options.
Release announcement Release Notes
Download Fedora 13: you will find a lot of download options there for Gnome, KDE, LXDE, XFCE Desktops for 32 bit or 64 bit processors
We already make listed the main enhancement and what’s new with fedora 13
Using it as a live session on Virtual machine “sun virtualbox” with this hardware specifications
- Single core processor 2.1 Ghz
- 384 MB of RAM
- 12 MB of video memory
Booting time and loading time to login screen take a while but not that long with this hardware specifications, expecting to get better booting time to get to the login screen.
Looks really good some upgrades added to gnome 2.30 integrated with fedora 13, some changing for time and date menu for better navigation.
Printer manager new upgraded added to fedora 13 to auto identify the printer type and installing the suitable driver for it, that’s solved a lot reported problem with printers for many users.
Pino new integrated package for social media to be able to connect with social media like Twitter, identi.ca and more but you will need to know the API for this social media to be able to use it on pino, remembering me with Gwibber social media application for ubuntu now. But gwibber much more better than pino so far. waiting for more upgrades.
Supporting IPhone and IPod now available to be able to auto sync up with your device to control you music and multimedia libraries.
will be reviewing other desktops for fedora soon.
That’s it for now.
Main Enhancement and what’s New for Fedora 13
Waiting for Fedora 13 is over now it’s available to download with a lot of new features and many enhancement and extra packages installed for it, showing the main new things with this release.
1. Printer drivers improvement
Automatically recognize printers plugged in with RPM package offering driver installation for compatible driver for your printer.
2. Network Manager
From now you are not have to be connected using weired or wireless connections, supporting Mobile Broadband, Bluetooth communicate, and command line, connecting to internet becoming easier and easier with these new supported ways to connect.
3. Colors Management
New for quite easy modifying for colors for your printout for your display, scanner, and printers. with gnome color manager, that’s always helpful to improve your output quality.
4. IPod, IPhone enhancement
supporting IPod, IPhone music libraries and photos management and taking control of them using applications like Rhythmbox, automatically identifying attached devices and auto syncing for it.
5. Disk buffering in Gstreamer and better performance for Totem
Totem player now able to play bigger multimedia file for HD movies with a really good buffer with any lagging time and disk buffer playing a big roll there for gstreamer.
6. Nouveau opensource driver for Nvidia cards
supporting 3d accelerations and 2d for Nvidia cards with Nouveau opensource driver.
7. Social media application Pino
Twitter and ideni.ca client support even adding more clients usin API.
That’s it for now
[How To]: Install LXDE Desktop On Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx
LXDE is really lightweight desktop and that what this desktop name stand for, a lot of distributions right now using LXDE desktop, if you was a windows user you will feel it looks similar to it a little bit. But this is not the idea, LXDE comes with a lot of integrated packages with it for file manager “PCMan file manager”, and music player LXmusic, and many other packages.
LXDE menu panel
File manager for LXDE
Music player and themes manager for LXDE Desktop, also you will be able to change themes and icons
Installation process:
you download it and install it from LXDE website This way recommended to other distribution or
for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Go To Terminal and type:
## will ask you for the administration password
then it will take some time for the installation process
after the Installation over, Log out and log in with LXDE Desktop
Enjoy LXDE on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx
That’s it for now.
[How To]: Control Ubuntu from your phone using Bluepad
it’s quite good to take control of your machine using your phone with bluepad application the idea of the application two packages 1st one installed on your distribution for example Ubuntu 10.04 and the 2nd one the phone and will list the supported phones for this application.
Using Bluepad on your phone will let you to do a lot of things to control you machine such as control multimedia files for playing audio and movies files, presentations files for open office, even games you use this application as game pad.
check this video show how Bluepad working
Here some screenshots
This is the supported devices for BluePad
- Benq-Siemens EF81 – Tomas R
- Motorola V360 – Claudio
- Motorola Razr V3x – ourselves
- Motorola Razr V3xx – Michael Ellis
- Nokia 5300 – Samuel Sieb
- Nokia 6126 – Samuel Sieb
- Nokia 6131 – Alejandro Lázaro
- Nokia 6230 – David
- Nokia 6230i – Lars Friedrichs
- Nokia 6234 – Juan
- Nokia 6280 – Patrício Fernandes
- Nokia 6288 – ourselves
- Nokia 6300 – Phil (despo)
- Samsung E390 – Nelson Vinagre
- Sony Ericsson k610 – Ruben Silva
- Sony Ericsson k750 – Anna Filipova
- Sony Ericsson k510 – Anna Filipova
- Nokia 6110 Navigator – ourselves
- Nokia 6680 – ourselves
- Nokia E51 – Tito Garrido
- Nokia E61 – Tomasz Dominikowski
- Nokia N80 – Vitor Nogueira
- Nokia N95 - Mike Cronenworth
For more information about Bluepad follow this link
Inform Bluepad community if you tested this application on other devices listed up there.
That’s it for now.
[Reviews]: Linux Mint 9 Isadora Review
Linux Mint 9 Isadora is one of the best Ubuntu based distributions, a really cool distribution if you used Ubuntu 10.04 LTS you find out it has many things on common with Linux Mint Isadora with extra packages installed on it. before we go any further will list the release announcement and download options for it here
release announcement and download options so far it’s available to download with Gnome desktop on CD, DVD for different CPUs AMD, intel, 32 bit or 64 bit
Using Isadora on virtual machine ” virtual box ” with this hardware specifications:
- single core processor 2.1
- 384 MB or RAM
- 12 MB of Video memory
Same great look for linux Mint with green color, and many new wallpaper we mentioned it on this post
Featured improvements in this release: 30,000 applications catalogued and reviewable both online and in the new software manager, brand new incremental backup tool for both data and software selection, menu transparency and editable items, USB and Windows installers, 3 years support, look & feel improvements.
A lot of new features and software packages integrated with linux mint 9 isadora check this release announcement for more information.
Using live session on the virtual machine, so it’s not expected to know exactly if this good booting time or not. but overall working good.
a really cool backup tool for linux mint some kind like apttocd application, to backup specific packages installed on the machine and you can restore it later.
also improves linux mint main menu with extra look for transparent, and same other features usually see for 3d and cube and fading…
Awesome software manager a really cool organized way to pick your applications you would like to install, and optimized with different categories and subcategories. also you can add your own review on the listed applications there and make a vote for it.
Overall it’s a great distribution working great, and still waiting for FluxBox window manager version that will come from Linux Mint community soon.
That’s it for now :)
[Download]: 12 Default Desktop Background For Linux Mint 9 Isadora
Linux Mint 9 default wallpaper posted on linux mint blog by Clem, looks really good wallpapers I always liked linux mint desktop backgrounds. Linux mint suppose to be released on two days from now according to this post Linux Mint 9 ETA
You can download the whole pack on .zip file from here, or visit linux mint blog post
[Reviews]: Puppy Linux 5.0 Review
Puppy Linux 5.0 or called Lucid Puppy it a minimal distribution based Ubuntu 10.04 LTS release, built on binary packages on Lucid Lynx. comes with a lot of installed packages even you can get more using “Puppy package manager”, using JWM desktop really cool window manger ” Joe’s window manger ” to get more information about JWM desktop follow this link
Using it as a live session on SUN VirtualBox with this hardware specification
- Single core processor 2.1 Ghz
- 384 MB memory RAM
- 12 MB Video memory
First Impression
Really quick release with a really small size distribution just 128 MB it’s not the smallest distribution released but it comes with a lot of installed great packages and internet applications,
Graphics packages ” light inkscape application “, Network manager, Multimedia applications “burn ISO to cd/dvd, Pburn for cd/dvd/blue-ray, ISO master to modify ISO files. and a lot of multimedia application ” Asunder audio CD ripper, Gxine media player, Pmusic player, Pcdripper CD songs ripper, Zmixer audio mixer, mhwave edit audio recorder/editor ” default writing application abiword, Gnumeric spreadsheet application.
First run configuration window comes up with first time boot up that help you out to modify you keyboard layout, languages, Location, time and date, and resolution setting.
when first used it felt it’s messy a little bit with all these icons on the desktop and after using it for a while and getting used to JWM desktop you will find out that distribution is really cool.
Chthemes GTK themes chooser with GTK+ 2.0
Installing extra packages using Puppy packages manager. you will find a lot of recommended applications listed under many categories and Repo s ” Ubuntu lucid-main, Ubuntu-Lucid- multiverse, puppy-woof, puppy-5″
before turn off the live session it will ask you to save your files and settings you already done on the live session.
Who should use this distribution
This distribution is really light weight distribution, if you have an old laptop or any machine with really low hardware specification this will be a really good choice for you, cause it’s totally awesome and quick. that’s not mean decent computers can’t use it. working great on all.
More information, release Notes and Download Options Follow this link
Direct Download link for Linux Puppy 5.0
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