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The builders at Wine (Windows on Unix) have quickly come out with Wine 1.1.4 that includes better support for the Google Chrome browser. This is a green light to all those who intend to try Google Chrome on their Linux box.
Other major improvements are;
– Substantial chunks of WinHTTP are implemented.
– More JavaScript support.
– Beginnings of shell AppBar implementation.
– Chinese translations.
– Various bug fixes.
Read more on bug fixes Here.
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Sun Microsystems, owners of one of the leading desktop virtualization software VirtualBox announced the release of version 2.0 of xVM VirtualBox. With this new version you can now run your 64bit operating systems like Windows Vista, Red Hat Enterprise, FreeBSD 5, or Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and many more. Amongst the many innovations, this new version is said to have a new user interface for the Mac OS and performs better on AMD chips.
I’ve been using VirtualBox for a while now on my Ubuntu 8.04 with WinXP as guest, and I’m very convinced when it comes to quality/price, its the best you can get. Can’t wait to upgrade to this new version.
It is also worth mentioning that xVM VirtualBox 2.0 is free and open source, despite that Sun Microsystems acquired Innotek – the makers of VirtualBox back in Febuary this year.
Also read: How to install VirtualBox on Ubuntu.
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Switching to Linux might also mean saying goodbye to some of your favorite software, if that software is not available for the Linux OS, but it is good to know that in such cases there is often an equivalent application, with the same functionality with the one you left behind, so you just have to learn and adapt to this new product(easier said than done). More»
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HTTrack – Web Site copier is a free, Open Source, cross-platform(Linux, Mac and Windows) offline browser utility that permits you to download an entire website to local folder on your computer. This way you can go through the website while offline or not connected. After downloading the website; including images, it reconstructs internal links for better offline browsing. More»
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Cheese is a simple open source, Linux, webcam application that can help you take snapshots and video. Written as part of Google’s 2007 Summer of Code, Cheese is almost a carbon copy of Mac OS X’s Photobooth.
Cheese has as its foundation, the well known open source GStreamer library and GTK. Cheese gives an added value your webcams as most webcams don’t even have to be configured. You just need to attach your old USB webcams, kick-off the intuitive GUI picture/video taker. More»
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