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Thursday, February 11th, 2010
The Nvidia ION powered Intel Atom processor netbooks and nettops are the rage these days.
Affordable, lightweight and powerful graphics processor.
The Nvidia ION is actually an Intel Atom CPU coupled with a Nvidia 9400m graphics chipset.
Most linux distributions install fine on most netbooks and nettops. However, their default video player may not be optimized for the Nvidia ION chipsets. For HD video playback, without tweaking the parameters of the video player application, the end result may be lacklustre and the playback may even be not in sync or skipping frames.
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Tags: 1080p, acceleration, atom, geforce, hd, intel, ion, movies, mplayer, netbook, Nettop, trailers, vdpau, video
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Ubuntuforums had an official post from Canonical asking users to submit recommended apps in a survey site.
In the survey, a preselected list of apps for voting includes closed-sourced applications such as ITunes, Photoshop, Spotify and Pandora.
Would the upcoming Ubuntu distro include these applications if the demand is large enough? Will Canonical implementation be Wine-based of the popular applications originally created on only the Windows platform? Or will it be coded natively on Linux?
If these closed source apps are created originally for Windows, eg Apple’s ITunes and Adobe’s Photoshop, how is Canonical going to convince them to code for Linux?
Many argue the fact that opensource linux OS users aren’t a large significant market and therefore many paid apps are not developed for the linux platform. But the recent rise of popularity of Ubuntu and its variants may just shake up the market share of users on linux and attract such developers to write apps for the rising numbers of Linux users.
Source : WebUpd8 Canonical To Bring Closed Source Apps Like iTunes And Photoshop To Ubuntu?!?!.
Tags: adobe, Apple, Applications, apps, canonical, closed-source, code, itunes, linux, native, photoshop, popularity, port, windows, WINE
Posted in Distro, Music, WINE | No Comments »
Monday, January 18th, 2010
ARE YOU SOMEONE WHOM:
1) is sick of dual booting just to play games using Windows?
2) Prefers not to corrupt hardened linux workstation with linux games?
3) Complains of not having enough games on linux?
Supergamer is a permanent fix if you answered YES to any of the question!
Fierce Looking Desktop Background
SuperGamer is a games oriented Live CD/DVD Linux OS. It has all the normal Linux desktop applications such as the Firefox Browser, OpenOffice.org, etc., but also has a great many native to Linux games added, as well as some demos of proprietary games.
Here is the list of games it comes pre-installed with :
Quake Wars
Doom 3
Prey
Unreal Tournament
Quake 4
Savage 2
Postal 2
Enemy Territory
Penumbra Black Plague
Sauerbraten
Urban Terror |
Soldier Of Fortune
Torcs
Tremulous
AlienArena
True Combat
America’s Army
Nexus
OpenArena
PlaneShift
Drop Team
Frets On Fire |
Chromium B.S.U.
Mad Bomber
X-Moto
BZ Flag
Mega Mario
Glaxium
GL-117
NeverBall
NeverPutt
Super Tux
PPRacer |
Download torrent here
or
Purchase the Live-DVD direct from On-Disk if you feel 8 gigabytes will take too long to download.
Source : Linux Journal
Or visit Supergamer website!
You might also wanna read up what Distrowatch has to say about the Supergamer linux distribution here.
Tags: distrowatch, dual layer, dualboot, DVD, Gaming, iso, Live CD, Live DVD, supergamer, windows
Posted in Applications, Distro, Gaming, Leisure | 1 Comment »
Friday, January 15th, 2010
What is lm_sensors?
By Wikipedia’s definition of lm_sensors :
lm_sensors (Linux-monitoring sensors), a free open source software-tool for Linux, provides tools and drivers for monitoring temperatures, voltage, and fans. It also monitors chassis intrusion detection.
lm-sensors is already included in many popular linux distribution repositories.
For Gnome desktop users, values obtained from the lm_sensors can be placed in the “top panel” by installing “sensors-applet”.
Here is a good “lm-sensors” guide for Ubuntu users to add lm-sensors to your customized installation [ for both Gnome and KDE users ]
For those with bleeding edge hardware, the usual repositories lm-sensors package may not yet support all the latest sensors on their mainboards and graphics card.
However, there has been some new developments in the detection of new yet to be supported sensors that can be installed with a simple script.
More on this lm-sensors update here from Phoronix.
Source: Phoronix
via LM_Sensors Gets A New Configuration Utility.
Tags: applet, Distro, gnome, Hardware, kde, lm-sensors, sensors
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
As a linux distro gets updated with a new version, it is always a good idea to do a fresh install than to do an upgrade [which may cause some unforeseen problems].
But with the frequent updates of newer versions of distros such as Ubuntu [every 6 months], it gets a bit tiring to re-install from scratch and do “apt-get” commands for all the packages required for customization and personalization of the OS. To make matters worse, it is hard to remember each and every package that was installed previously.
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Tags: apt-get, Distro, dkms, fresh, new, reinstall, version
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
Foxconn’s planning to launch a netbook that is both XP and linux capable.
According to Liliputing, the linux will be a customized distribution called FoxOS
Read the full article here at liliputing.com
Tags: Distro, foxconn, liliputing, netbook, OS, xp
Posted in Distro, Hardware, Netbook | No Comments »
Sunday, December 27th, 2009
If you use any of the Nvidia graphics card of GeForce chipset 8500 and above, you can make use of its VDPAU functions.
VDPAU = Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix
Since most standard linux distributions does not include it in their repositories, users have to download and install it manually, or if using Ubuntu, a new PPA repository can be added..
More on how to install VDPAU in the link below
Nvidia 195.22 Beta Linux Display Driver Available In Nvidia Vdpau Team PPA [Ubuntu]
Thanks for Webupd8.org for the heads up
Tags: display, gfx, nvidia, ppa, ubuntu, vdpau, video
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Moblin has recently announced its version 2.1 of the project for download.
At SGLNX, armed with a first generation ITX Intel Atom 230 mainboard and a MSI Wind U100-Plus N280 netbook, the live USB image was tested on the 2 hardwares and an attempt to do a full install was also done on another USB stick.
This second USB stick was used to boot this “natively installed Moblin” to test the portability of the Moblin operating system across different hardwares.
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Tags: atom, Distro, intel, ITX, Kernel, live, Live CD, LiveCD, moblin, netbook, Nettop, opensource, operating system, usb
Posted in Distro, Hardware, ITX, Kernel, Moblin, Netbook, Nettop, Tips & Tricks | 1 Comment »
Friday, October 30th, 2009
Tags: Distro, karmic, koala, ubuntu
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