Benchmark Fedora 13 using HardInfo
Sometimes there is a need to benchmark your machine in order to report bugs or to troubleshoot. In Linux it's fairly easy to benchmark your system. HardInfo is a small tool which will help you benchmark your system in Fedora 13. HardInfo can gather information about your system's hardware and operating system, perform benchmarks, and generate printable reports either in HTML or in plain text formats. In order to...

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How to install Cairo Dock in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
Cairo Dock is a docking application for Linux. It's quite awesome and makes a wonderful addition to your Linux's look and feel. Let's see how to install this lovely utility in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx). But before we get into the details of installing it. Let's see how it looks like on Ubuntu 10.04. Let's get on with the installation. Open a terminal window and add the following line and copy paste the following...

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How to install VLC player in OpenSuse 11.2 and play mp3
Undoubtedly according to me the best media player that I can think of on any platform is VLC player hands down and that's the precise reason I have it installed on Ubuntu 10.04, Windows 7 and now on OpenSuse 11.2. Sometime back we covered how to install VLC player on Ubuntu using PPA. Today, we are going to see how to install it on OpenSuse and make it the default player to play mp3 and other media files. In order...

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Alarm Clock for Ubuntu
Did you feel a need for alarm clock on your Ubuntu machine? Well most of us don't need it however, if you are just too geeky to use your laptop or computer to have an alarm clock that wakes you up, then you can have one. This alarm clock is called as alarm clock. Alarm Clock project is a simple alarm clock software for the GNOME desktop. You can schedule your tasks in an easy way. In Ubuntu all you have to do is...

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Install Nvidia graphic drivers in OpenSuse 11.2 and enable desktop...
We all love the infamous cube in Linux. Actually to be frank this is what drove me to start using Linux. Today we are going to see how to install Nvidia graphic drivers in OpenSuse 11.2 and then enable the desktop effects to get the infamous 3D cube. Install Nvidia graphic drivers in OpenSuse 11.2 with Gnome Desktop 1. Go to Computer > Yast At the YaST Control Center, select Software. Cclick Software...

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Download and Install Opera 10.60 {Alpha} on Ubuntu 10.04 {Lucid Lynx}
Yesterday the Opera team announced the release of Opera 10.60 Alpha for Windows, Mac and Linux. They have promised an increased performance for both JavaScript, DOM and CSS. Following are some features to look out for: In addition to the visual tweaks you have seen already, such as the Speed Dial face lift, we have also been making further UI enhancements. You will notice that the O menu button now says "Menu"...

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Upgrade to Firefox 3.6 on OpenSuse 11.2
By default OpenSuse 11.2 comes with Firefox 3.5.4 and when you run the upgrade you'll end up having Firefox 3.5.8. However, as we all know there's Firefox 3.6 available for sometime now. So I decided to update my Firefox to 3.6 on my OpenSuse machine. Following is what I did to upgrade to Firefox 3.6. 1. Open a terminal window and type the following command: sudo zypper ar...

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Installing Shutter on Fedora 13
Shutter is one of the best screen taking utility for Linux and it's my default screen capturing tool. I managed to get the new version of Fedora (13) running on my machine and wanted to start off writing about how to install Shutter on Fedora 13. The installation process is fairly easy: Go to System > Administration > Add/Remove Software and search for Shutter. Select the package as shown in the screenshot...

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Install IceCat 3.6 on Ubuntu 9.10
IceCat is a GPL version of Mozilla Firefox. Which means it's totally free and does not have the non-free Firefox art work. Another reason to have IceCat on your machine is because you can have another browser to open side by side Firefox which has the same features as that of Firefox. You can install IceCat on your Karmic machine using the following command: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnuzilla-team/ppa Once you...

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Linux gets Spotify love: Install Spotify in Ubuntu
The wait is over and Spotify is now available for Linux. Following is how you can install spotify in Ubuntu 10.04. Note: Because they are not able to run ads on this client, this service is only available for spotify premium users. But we can safely assume that it's coming soon to free users as well. 1. Add repository to your software sources [sourcecode language='bash'] sudo gedit /...

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FooBillard: Play Billiards on Ubuntu

Nov 23rd

Posted by Vivek in Featured | 1,368 views

Share FooBillard is an open source game for Linux. However, it’s also available for Windows and Mac. FooBillard is best played on Linux with a GeForce2 class or better graphics card and OpenGL libraries with 3D acceleration. The game can be played against computer or against a Human on the network. Following is how to