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These are the Requirements specified by Skype on Linux Beta  Hardware requirements 1 Ghz processor or faster. 256 MB RAM. 20 MB free disk space on your hard drive. Microphone and speakers or headset. Internet connection – broadband is best (GPRS is not supported for voice calls). Video card driver with Xv support. Software requirements… Read More »How to download and install skype for linux on OpenSUSE 11+

These are the Requirements specified by Skype on Linux Beta  Hardware requirements 1 Ghz processor or faster. 256 MB RAM. 20 MB free disk space on your hard drive. Microphone and speakers or headset. Internet connection – broadband is best (GPRS is not supported for voice calls). Video card driver with Xv support. Software requirements… Read More »How to download and install skype for linux on Fedora 9 and 10+

These are the Requirements specified by Skype on Linux Beta  Hardware requirements 1 Ghz processor or faster. 256 MB RAM. 20 MB free disk space on your hard drive. Microphone and speakers or headset. Internet connection – broadband is best (GPRS is not supported for voice calls). Video card driver with Xv support. Software requirements… Read More »How to download and install skype for linux Beta on Ubuntu

These are the Requirements specified by Skype on Linux Beta  Hardware requirements 1 Ghz processor or faster. 256 MB RAM. 20 MB free disk space on your hard drive. Microphone and speakers or headset. Internet connection – broadband is best (GPRS is not supported for voice calls). Video card driver with Xv support. Software requirements… Read More »How to download and install skype for linux on Debian Lenny

These are the Requirements specified by Skype on Linux Beta  Hardware requirements 1 Ghz processor or faster. 256 MB RAM. 20 MB free disk space on your hard drive. Microphone and speakers or headset. Internet connection – broadband is best (GPRS is not supported for voice calls). Video card driver with Xv support. Software requirements… Read More »How to Download and Install Skype for Linux Beta (ubuntu, debian, fedora, opensuse)

GNOME 3.0 will be released in September 2010, and in the meantime, they will release GNOME 2.30 in March 2010, continuing their long-standing tradition of six-months releases. Note that this release date for 3.0 doesn’t mean that 2.30 will be less stable than usual. On the contrary, this will help them integrate the changes that… Read More »GNOME 3.0 to be released only in September 2010

GNOME 2.28 is the latest version of the GNOME Desktop: a popular, multi-platform desktop environment for your computer. GNOME’s focus is ease of use, stability, and first-class internationalization and accessibility support. GNOME is Free and Open Source Software and provides all of the common tools computer users expect of a modern computing environment, such as… Read More »Lets have a look at GNOME 2.28

function VoteWindow() {url=”http://vote.sparklit.com/wait.html”;options=”toolbar=no,scrollbars=yes,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,”;options+=”resizable=yes,width=469,height=520″;window.open(url,”pollwindow”, options);} LINUX POLL How do you pronounce “Linux” Lee-nooks Lie-nuks Lin-ucks Lin-icks Current Results There are three common pronunciations of Linux. All three are quite acceptable. The only proper pronunciation is the one used by Linus Torvalds himself. The name Linux is a derivative of his name, and thus is pronounced like… Read More »How to Pronounce Linux

You can find many applications for windows to play many kind of codecs. Some of the windows applications are windows media player, real player, vlc, mplayer Ubuntu equivalent : vlc, mplayer, helix player To have Ubuntu playing all kinds of stuff, you need to install many codecs. Add the new repository and update your system. $… Read More »How to play multimedia files(install codecs) in ubuntu 9.10

A larger casper-rw loop file is particularly useful for those who have performed a linux install to a large thumb drive using a Windows USB tutorial and need more persistent storage space for saving changes. The default casper-rw loop file might be low.Boot from the Live CD and then (once the system is up and… Read More »Create a larger casper-rw loop file for your live usb from Linux

After installing skype 2.1 in your ubuntu 9.10 you might have seen that there is only one option in skype’s audio properties: “pulse audio server” and Nothing else. But most of you might had used “HDA Intel hd:0” option in their previous versions and it was working.To solve this problem you will just need to install… Read More »Mic not working with skype on Ubuntu 9.10 karmic koala

Most current video multimedia players play many video formats, including the Flash video .flv format. MPlayer Multimedia PlayerMplayer is a video player with a wide range of formats supported (including RealMedia and Windows-codecs) and a wide variety of outputs. sudo apt-get install mplayer SMPlayerSMPlayer is an enhanced frontend for MPlayer. sudo apt-get install smplayer Dump… Read More »Install Video and Music Players for ubuntu 9.10 karmic koala

Follows the steps below to play DVD in your ubuntu 9.10 karmic Koala 1. Become root $ sudo su – 2. Add medibuntu repositories to your sources.list. # wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/karmic.list –output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list Now add the GPG Key:# apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update 3.Update your system. # apt-get update 4. Now… Read More »How to play video dvd in ubuntu 9.10 karmic Koala

The two methods  below doesn’t work now. Please see http://blog.dipinkrishna.info/2009/11/how-to-download-and-install-skype-for_3060.html for a successfull installation of skype on ubuntu. I have provided two methods. Please do comment which one is successful. Follow these steps to install skype in ubuntu 9.10 (64 bit).         First add:            deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ karmic free non-free        to your… Read More »How to install Skype on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

Seahorse is a GNOME application for managing encryption keys. It also integrates with nautilus, gedit and other places for encryption operations. With seahorse you can… Create and manage PGP keys Create and manage SSH keys Publish and retrieve keys from key servers Cache your passphrase so you don’t have to keep typing it Backup your… Read More »Seahorse – Encryption Made Easy

Google is giving web masters access to the malicious code it finds in their web pages. If the Google bot detects malicious code when indexing a web page, search results pointing to this page will be tagged with an appropriate warning. Website operators can now use the Webmaster Tools to access detailed information about the… Read More »Google is giving web masters access to the malicious code

Google has released its Stressful Application Test, known by its Unix name as stressapptest. According to Google, Stressful Application Test, which has been used inside the company for sometime, can be used for memory stress testing, hardware qualification and debugging, memory interface tests and disk testing. The test attempts to create realistic high load situations… Read More »Google’s memory stress test tool

This can be achieved by using the ultra-lightweight text-based BitTorrent client “rTorrent”.If you are using Ubuntu, you can install rTorrent via Synaptic Package Manager, or with this command: $ sudo apt-get install rtorrent You can also get rTorrent HERE. Now, we will start using rTorrent. But first, download a ‘.torrent’ file. You can download it… Read More »How to download torrent files from command line(Linux Terminal)

PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures (thus, its ‘Photo Recovery’ name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media’s filesystem has been… Read More »Recover deleted files in linux using Photorec easily

You can create .deb file of any installed package on your system. For this you will need the package dpkg-repack. So install this package by: apt-get install dpkg-repack  Now run by typing dpkg-repack at terminal To generate a .deb file of rhythmbox, type this at terminal: sudo  dpkg-repack rhythmbox This will create a .deb file… Read More »Create deb file of packages installed in your system