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    Chromium in Fedora 13: How-to

    Fedora 13 comes with Mozilla Firefox and by default doesn't have Chromium installed. Chromium is an open source browser developed by Google. The reasons Chromium is not part of official Fedora repository is well explained by Joe Brockmeier at Making Projects Easier to Package: Why Chromium Isn't in Fedora. However, Tom ‘Spot’ Callaway, Fedora Engineering Manager, has created a rpm repository with precompiled ver...
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    Install Google Chrome on OpenSuse 11.3

    Google Chrome is a lightening fast browser and is available cross platform. Let's see how to install Google Chrome on Open Suse 11.3. All you have to do is go to Google Chrome Download Page. 1. Click on Get Google Chrome (BETA). 2. On the subsequent page make sure OpenSuse is selected. Click Accept and Install. 3. The package file will be downloaded and opened in YaST and Google Chrome will be installed on...
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    Install LXDE (Light weight desktop manager) on Ubuntu 10.04

    This post is inspired by one of my geek friends. She totally loves Linux and keeps experimenting it. She suggested I try LXDE as my desktop manager on Linux. The "Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment" is an extremely fast-performing and energy-saving desktop environment. I wasn't disappointed when I installed it. It's lightening fast and loads up in no time. Following are some of it's features: Lightweight It...
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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 qBittorrent in Ubuntu 10.04

    Torrent applications have become almost an integral part of every operating system and user desktop. There are plenty of choices of torrent client for Ubuntu and one of them is qBittorrent. qBittorrent 2 is a multi-platform Bittorrent client developed in C++/Qt4 by Christophe Dumez, a Ph.D student in the University of technology of Belfort-Montbeliard. This software is still under active development and it becomes ...
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    Installing Skype in Linux Mint 9 using repositories

    Skype is one of the most popular Voip client that allows users to make free calls from their computers over the Internet. Installing Skype using deb file on Linux Mint is the way most of us have used. However, this doesn't ensure an automatic update of skype as and when there is a new version released. Which makes it tedious to update it all the time. However, using the repositories we can ensure that whenever there...
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    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 Docky on Linux Mint 9 {Isadora}

    Docky is a branched out application from Gnome-Do and has turned into a full fledged dock application for Linux. Docky is a frontend for GNOME Do (Do) that introduces an entirely new way to interact with Do. Docky helps Do become more directly involved with your desktop by providing a persistent mouse based Dock interface while remaining true to Do's keyboard only interaction. Being tied directly into Do allows...
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    Upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

    I think I have waited enough and now it's time to upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 code named Lucid Lynx. If you have just too much of stuff to worry about on previous versions of Ubuntu, I'd suggest to wait for the final release in April. That's right the current release is alpha (not even Beta) so please upgrade at your own risk. Following is what I did to upgrade from Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala to Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha Lucid...
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    15 Most Amazing Gnome themes GTK 2.x

    Ubuntu has come a long way in terms of the user interface and design. With a little bit of tweaking, Ubuntu can be turned into a real eye candy. Following is a collection of some beautiful GTK 2.x themes which could be ideal for someone looking for a new look and change. In order to download, click the title of each GTK theme. Zuki Simply Basic Radiance Drakfire Mod absolute Azenis Equinox Variance...
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Posts tagged download manager ubuntu

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MultiGet: A cross platform download manager

Oct 14th

Posted by Vivek in Featured | 1,128 views

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Share Download Managers helps you download faster and with better efficiency. There are many download managers available for Linux. However, I haven’t come across the one which is as good as Internet Download Manager. MultiGet is a cross platform download manager that provides all the basic functionality of a good download manager. MultiGet is an

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Install D4X on Ubuntu-Download Manager for Linux: How-to

Jul 3rd

Posted by Vivek in Featured | 1,387 views

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Share Download Managers have become and important part of our Internet usage. With amazing Internet speeds a download manager comes in really handy. Although I must confess that Linux, still lacks a good GUI based Download Manager. D4X also called as Downloader for X is a decent alternative. However,  I can say that it’s no

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