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GParted: Partition Manager (editor) for creating, reorganizing, and deleting disk partitions.
A disk device can be subdivided into one or more partitions. The GParted application enables you to change the partition organization on a disk device while preserving the…
Protect your grub by applying a password to it (grub-md5-crypt is broken)
Maybe you want the user to enter a password in order to boot the Recovery Mode or your secondary OS. You have to set that password in the…
Howto: do ‘page back’ instead of ‘page up’ when backspace is pressed in Mozilla Firefox
In Firefox, when you press 'Backspace' the default action performed is 'Page up'.You can change this to 'Previous page', just follow this for that: In the adress bar…
CrossOver: Your Windows Applications, Seamlessly Integrated On Linux
CrossOver Linux allows you to install many popular Windows productivity applications, plugins and games in Linux, without needing a Microsoft Operating System license. CrossOver includes an easy to…
Split ISO image into multiple archives that can later be extracted to the full ISO
Just use the default GNU tools tar, split and cat. There is absolutely no need for any fancy gui tools or software that you have to run in…
How-To: Compile and Install Latest VLC in Debian Lenny
This tutorial will show how to compile and install the latest VLC from source in Debian Lenny in several steps. The current version at the time of writing…
Smasher: audio loop slicer
Smasher is a cross-platform audio loop slicer designed to create sliced loops from WAV, MP3, FLAC or AIFF files in seconds without a sequencer.Effects include filter sweeps, phasing,…
Ubuntu 9.10: Koala karmic Alpha 4 Released
The Road to Ubuntu 9.10 continues steadily with the release of Alpha 4 karmic Koala, of course it is not a version for use in production environments, but…
Karmic: Proposed Look & Feel for boot and GDM theme
Splash screenGDM themeGDM theme – selected userGDM theme – menusMat Tomaszewski posted this message on the Ubuntu-art mailinglist:Hi,Not so long ago we announced the revamp of boot and…
Bauble: biodiversity collection manager
Bauble is a software application to help you (yes you) manage a collection of botanical specimens. It is intended to be used by botanic gardens, herbaria, arboreta, etc.…
Scribus 1.3.5.1 Released
Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new…
Twidge: a full-functional command-line Twitter and identi.ca client
Twidge is a command-line, full-functional Twitter client. It supports posting updates, retrieving information, and excellent integration with the Unix shell scripting environment via piping and…