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gOS, the name says it all, maybe, it is rather a difficult product to present, for a simple reason, it is unique of it’s type. The producer says “consumers, who use Linux and open-source software are rare” so the need to come out with what they call “An alternative OS for the masses” — released under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
The “g” in gOS operating system, does not stand for Google, no, the “g” doesn’t stand for anything but gOS has six Google applications loaded; gMail (Google’s e-mail product), Gtalk, a direct link to video on YouTube, a calendar, maps and news. Other pre-installed software are Mozilla Firefox, Meebo, Skype, Wikipedia, GIMP, Xing Movie Player, Rhythmbox, Faqly, Facebook and OpenOffice.org 2.2 (includes Writer, Impress, Draw, Calc, Base) . Other products could eventually be installed by the user; Dave Liu, the founder of gOS, the California start-up that built the open-source operating system says even an iPod will work on gPC
The gOS will run a Green gPC produced by Everex (we are in a gWorld) and this so called gPC will be sold online at Walmart.com and in about 600 Wal-Mart stores at a give-out price of $199, monitors not included.
If you don’t need the gPC but want to try-out gOS, it is now downloadable and would run any PC. gOS is Open Source even though it is not released under the GNU GPL. They thank the Ubuntu 7.10 community for their contribution to gOS and the world.
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Formally known as MediaFork, Handbrake is an open source, GPL- licensed, multi platform DVD to MPEG-4 converter. The most recent version, released 8 October, 2007 came out with many additional features. HandBrake 0.9.1 takes your DVDs and video sources like VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image , PAL or NTSC, AC-3 or MPEG audio tracks and and gives them back to you in major file formats like MP4, AVI, OGM and video formats like: the pro iPod MPEG-4 or H.264 and audio formats like : AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3. Its worth mentioning that the ripped files can be played by Zunes and many other devices.
For Linux platforms, this final release is available for download as source code.
Two free Web Applications that serve as efficient video encoders are Hey!Watch and VidDownloader
Hey!Watch converts video uploaded from your desktop as well video on sites into wide variety of formats like H264, MP4, WMV, DivX, HD Video, Mobile 3GP/MP4, iPod, Archos and PSP. Above 10MB of upload per month, the service becomes commercial.
VidDownloader could be used to make a save and personal copy of video found around the web. It picks-up video from streaming sites like YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo etc and converts them to playable video formats and it gives it back for download in the popular AVI format, thus compatible with DivX.
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Installing Azureus on Ubuntu 7.10
Many would have noticed that whilst trying to install the famous BitTorrent client, Azureus on Ubuntu 7.10 from a terminal, it hang up with the response
Aborted (core dumped) azureus
This issue occurs with other p2p clients like aMule-AdunanzA. The Ubuntu community for now uses a patch to fix this issue. All you need to do is install the .deb patch and it would lead you to the complete installation of Azureus.
Installing aMule AdunanzA
For aMule AdunanzA the same error occurs whilst trying to install the aMule AdunanzA with the Auto-Installer. The easiest way to turn around this issue is using the cvs downloadable from this Website.
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Linux games for now are not up to what we find on Windows or Apple neither are they up to what we find on Xbox or PlayStation. Nonetheless it is good to know that they are good Open Source or free games available for various Linux distributions.
Linux Journal came out with a rather interesting list of free games for Linux. I tried out three of these games and can say they are utmost and run well even on a moderate pentium III workstation. To enjoy these games, arm your PC with OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) . Try them out.
AstroMenace
Deadly Rooms of Death
War Zone 2100
The Battle for Wesnoth
Torcs
BZFlag
Sauerbraten
There are certainly many more games for Linux out there. Help me extend the list.
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Opera 9.5 Beta is now ready for public test. This new version of the Norwegian browser comes a year after the previous, the version 9, the Linux version integrates Qt 4. Many major improvements have been made in this version including stability issues, better user interface with content blocking improvements, better support for CSS 3 and a new JavaScript engine amongst many others.
Opera 9 has Linux versions for i386, PowerPC and Sparc and is available for download for most Linux distributions
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