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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

2008-12-25T10:21:00.002+07:00

Hello, I'm wishing you all a Merry Christmas And Happy New Year 2009! Hope next year will be a much better year and bring us a peace and joy!

~Jonathan.

Happy Birthday AllForLinux! And We Had Moved to AllForLinux.Com

2008-12-14T20:52:00.002+07:00

Hello there!! This month is the first birthday of AllForLinux blog. And I'm also proudly to announce that AllForLinux Blog now is a part of Crylix Networks. And AllForLinux is now moved to a better place. You can go to AllForLinux.com . Special thanks to Crylix Networks CEO (Ryan) who provide me the domain and server's.

And the end of the word, I also wishes you all a Merry Christmas! Hope this christmas will bring us a full of joy and rejoice! Please do visit AllForLinux.com because this blog is no longer managed. Thank you and Merry Christmas!

* Note for Bert(UbuntuHQ): Can you please add AllForLinux.com to your watch list in UbuntuHQ? I'm really apreciate that :) .

Trying XBMC Media Center Inside Ubuntu

2008-11-17T20:46:00.006+07:00

I just realized that I missed a lot of new things while I'm gone for a few days. I just found a cool media center program that you can try inside your ubuntu! I will give a review and installation method for this program. Please do read and please fill the comment form if you have any opinion with this program, I would love to see it :=) .

OK, You might need to go to XBMC official website after this tutorial get into an end and you can find out more information and features about this programs.

I just managed to install the XMBC media center last afternoon, and the first opinion that I got is this program rock into my heart, I like it, I like the style, I like the simplicity, and I like the plug-ins and the extensibility. I know some peoples think that I too overrated, but the fact is I'm telling the truth, after tried this media center both in windows and ubuntu I realized that this media center program deserved a 5 stars rating. It's almost perfect, there's still some problem and I already provide you the tutorial links to fix those small problems with Ubuntu Linux.

I also like the media management, it has a fast and sophiscated library media management that allows me to customize the library and music folders, I can freely add the music, pictures, and video inside those media center.

The other thing that I like is the skin and and the UI. I like it because it's really user friendly and the interface is really customizable. I also like the visualization of songs. It's pretty attractive.
There's also more cool features like built-in webserver that enable you to share your media library with other computer.

Okay, that's some good things about XBMC Media Center, now I will reveal some problems that I experienced during using this software in Ubuntu, and I also gonna give some problem solves to make you feel more comfortable by using this software.

First, I runned this software on quad core pc with 2 gb of memory RAM, it runs well inside my Ubuntu without any problem with the performance. But when I tried to install it inside my P4 PC's with 512 Mb of RAM , the performance is dropped, I know... High graphics always comes with high memory usage, so I recommend you to use a high performance PC's to get a better and maximal performance and graphics. Elisa Media Player is the other choice for you.

Secondly, again and again... The compiz problem, it seemed to be this problem is always appears with the software that using a high graphics usage like games. You need to turn off the compiz or otherwise, you can make some automation code that also works for this software, just simply click this tutorial link that I provide to you to solve this problem.

Installation

Ubuntu Installation:

If you are interested in stable XBMC releases (releases that we certify as usable and/or testable), please use the stable PPAs. Once added in your repository list, you will be notified for any update we make. You will have the latest stable version this way.

https://edge.launchpad.net/~team-xbmc-gutsy/+archive
https://edge.launchpad.net/~team-xbmc-hardy/+archive
https://edge.launchpad.net/~team-xbmc-intrepid/+archive

GUTSY PPA :

Code:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-gutsy/ubuntu gutsy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-gutsy/ubuntu gutsy main

HARDY PPA :

Code:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-hardy/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-hardy/ubuntu hardy main

INTREPID PPA

Code:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-intrepid/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-intrepid/ubuntu intrepid main

For more advanced users, here is the SVN PPA.

See :
https://edge.launchpad.net/~team-xbmc/+archive
https://edge.launchpad.net/~team-xbmc-svn/+archive

SVN PPA (daily builds)

Code:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-svn/ubuntu gutsy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-svn/ubuntu gutsy main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-svn/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-svn/ubuntu hardy main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-svn/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-svn/ubuntu intrepid main

ADDONS and THIRD PARTIES

Third parties packages will be distributed via a reserved PPA: the xbmc-addons PPA. You will find there skins, scripts and plugins. I suggest you add it to your sources to benefit from all contribution put there.

Ubuntu Installation:

Go to this forum page.

Some screenshots:

Enjoy the software! If you encountered any problem feel free to contact me via comments form!

Change default apache port number for HTTP Server

2008-11-13T16:32:00.005+07:00

My friend just requested a post for me to change the apache port number for HTTP Server, and now I will give you all a tutorial about this stuff.

We all know that as default the Apache HTTP Server will ping to port number 80 . What we have to do when a situation of changing this post number comes? Lets see some simple steps for this…

1. Assume that your new port number is 81

2. Go to terminal and type: cp /etc/httpd/ports.conf /etc/httpd/ports.conf_backupgedit /etc/httpd/ports.conf

3. Find this line- Listen 80

4. Replace with the following line : - Listen 81

5. Save it

6. Go to terminal and type: /etc/init.d/httpd restartApache HTTP server, Linux

And that's all you need to do to change the port number, you also can use this method for other Linux distribution.

Install OpenOffice 3.0 inside your Ubuntu 8.10!

2008-11-04T20:07:00.002+07:00

Somehow, The Ubuntu Team has decided not to add the latest office products from Sun Microsystem. It's because 3.0 release schedule has slipped quite a bit. Just like The Ubuntu Team has said in this site . Well, that's not a big problem! I'm going to give you an easy method to install OpenOffice 3.0. Please do follow this simple tutorial.

1. Press alt+f2 button, and type : sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

2. Add this following code:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main

For hardy, just simply change the "intrepid" word into "hardy" .

3. Go to terminal, and type sudo apt-get update .

4. Go to the update manager, and update your OpenOffice 3.0.

Enjoy!

Urgent!! Just for 28 oct, CrossOver is free to download!! Download Links added!

2008-10-28T20:54:00.005+07:00

After browsing for a while, and I got a really useful information for Linux users, Mac users, and specially Ubuntu Users!! Today, 28 october 2008, CodeWeavers.com giving us a linux/mac users a special promotion to get and download crossover just for free for today. CrossOver is a shareware that allowed mac/linux users to run windows software inside their no-windows operating system. It's a pretty cool things for a Linux rookies for sure.

This is some quotes: On Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008, any one visiting the CodeWeavers' Web site (www.codeweavers.com) will be given a deal code that will entitle them to one free copy of CodeWeavers' award-winning CrossOver software. Each copy comes complete with support.

Now, I will give the download links(Just works for today):

Download CrossOver Mac Pro

Download CrossOver Games Mac

Download CrossOver Linux Pro

Download CrossOver Games Linux

Quick download it while it still fresh!! It's only for today!(28 oct 2008).

VLC 0.9.5 is Out!

2008-10-26T09:21:00.002+07:00

VLC 0.9,5 already released, check out the vlc website. "The VideoLAN team is pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.9.5. This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.9.4 and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerability in TiVo demuxer. More technical details are available in our advisory (CVE-2008-4654, CVE-2008-4686). Also, libpng was updated in Windows and MacOS builds to fix its security issue (CVE-2008-3964)."

This release also improves media keys support under Windows, file access under all OSes, QT interface usability as well as fixing few more other bugs. Full list of changes can be found here.
They strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.
Binary packages for Mac OS X and source code tarballs are available for download. Windows binaries might arrive at a later time.

VLC Media Player 0.9,5 released in 24 oct 2008. For the installation (Mac,Linux, & Windows), go to this page.

More Cool Themes for Your Ubuntu!

2008-10-26T07:00:00.000+07:00

I realized that I didn't wrote a post about Ubuntu themes since a long time ago. And now, I will post more themes for you. All of this themes are from gnome-art and available to download, I will give you the download links for each themes.

1. Moomex

Download here

2. Linux Mint

Download Here

3. Blue Joy

Download here

4. Slickness Black

Download here

5. Creamy

Download here

6. Real Minimal

Download here

7. Darker Ice Murrina

Download here

8. Burnt Orange

Download here

9. Aqua Dreams

Download here

10. Blue Dust

download(Dust Blue Metacity)
download(Ubuntu Dust Original)
download(Ubuntu Dust Mod)

K/Ubuntu 8.10 RC Tour

2008-10-25T15:14:00.008+07:00

I decided to download the release candidate of Ubuntu 8.10 and I found it's pretty much like ubuntu 8.04 with more features added. But I'm still pretty interested with this new release of Ubuntu RC. I just gonna give a tour and simple introduction to the reader, just to know more what's inside Ubuntu 8.10 and Kubuntu 8.10 .

First, about the Ubuntu 8.10. I'm still curious about this, why canonical didn't added Open Office 3.0 as a default office programs instead they use open office 2.4.1. I hope they will update the office program as soon as possible. And I saw ubuntu has improved the panel, it's pretty nice. I also saw Ubuntu team has added the system cleaner and USB start up disk maker in case you want to install Ubuntu from USB, it surely gonna useful for people. You also can found that some applications has an transparancy effects. Let's take a quick look at the included applications:

· Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3
· OpenOffice.org 2.4.1
· The GIMP 2.6.1
· F-Spot 0.5.0.3
· Pidgin 2.5.1
· Brasero 0.8.2
· Transmission 1.34
· Rhythmbox 0.11.6
· Ekiga 2.0.12
· Evolution 2.24.1
· Nautilus 2.24.1
· Vinagre 2.24.0
· Kernel 2.6.27-7 (based on Linux kernel 2.6.27.2)
· X.Org 7.4 and X.Org Server 1.5.2 (with automatic configuration for keyboard and mouse)
· Network Manager 0.7 (with 3G wireless support)
· Apache 2.2
· PostgreSQL 8.3
· PHP 5.2.6
· LTSP 5.1
· GCC 4.3.2
· glibc 2.8
· Python 2.5

I'm pretty impressed with the system mount archived in Ubuntu 8.10 , with a simple right click on the archive, you can select the “Open with ‘Archive Mounter’” option and you can peek a couple of files without extracting a files ;) .

I also found at the Kubuntu website, KDE 4 finally added inside Kubuntu 8.10 . That's cool! Kubuntu use the Oxygen theme and icon as a default theme.

For the Intrepid Ibex, Ubuntu dev team has prepared more unbelievable features and they promised us a better wireless wireless connections just like what Mark Shuttleworth said: "We want you to be able to move from the office, to the train, and home, staying connected all the way" .

Now, lets we take a quick look of Ubuntu screenshots:

Kubuntu Screenshots:

I also add a sneak peak at an alternative to the Intrepid Ibex wallpaper:

Ubuntu 8.10/Intrepid Ibex will be release in 30 oct 2008 . Let's wait and see what will happen at that day! You also can pre-order the CD's of Ubuntu and Kubuntu CD's right now.

What's in the Microsoft Surface?

2008-10-22T01:00:00.000+07:00

I found some pretty interesting videos about the new microsoft technology named microsoft surface. And I think people is overrated about this new technology. But, I will give a little review about this thing although this is a linux blog :) . Hope nobody complain about this :P .

Ok, firstly I just want you to see this videos about the Microsoft Surface, it's pretty interesting.

One word that I can said. WOW. I can't describe it with other word , it's only WOW. Seemed Microsoft has done a new revolutionary technology that can make tech life so simple. This smart desk can automatically recognize our digital media and I think that's a pretty revolutionary breakthrough of touch screen technology. But, the touchscreen technology seemed already adopted by Apple Computer. Let's we see the other videos about the Macbook touch that scheduled will be release in 2009.

Even, Microsoft Surfaces enabled you to order a bottle of wine and food, you also can customized the wine that you wants to order like the density, the body, the depth and other. After the wine is come, just simply put it into the virtual coaster, and after that the Microsoft Surface will identified your wine and will give you more information about those wine. After you finished the food and wine, you can pay it by just put your credit card into the microsoft surface and you also can give a tip to the waiter if you wants with it.

It's a good technology for the future. You can touch a digital content with your hand and it's a great advancement for user to feel the whole new digital content. It's not available to buy right now, it's only a parody for today, but I think it will available shortly in about late 2008 to 2010 after win7. The prices?? The machine costs between 5000$ to 10.000$ !!

Now, what would Apple do to challenge this new Microsoft plan or products? What would apple do to trump Microsoft's Surface computing initiative? Try to see this article as well, it's pretty interesting and it reveal a lot of facts behind the Microsoft's .

Well, after seen much things about this "new" technology, what do you think about it? Share your comments here!

GPicView ; Cool Image Viewer

2008-10-19T15:57:00.004+07:00

Are you boring with the image viewer that currently a default image viewer in Ubuntu? I think I'm pretty bored with those image viewer. But, I finally found some resolution for this thing. I just made a little experiment with the image viewer in Ubuntu and I compared with with GPicView. And with a little calculation, I finally made my decision to change my picture manager into GPicView:

GPicView has more simple GUI than ImageViewer, and it also has a lot of features to runs, you can see the comparative image:

The speed? No doubt, GPicView is way more faster than ImageViewer. After some calculation, the time differences between GPicView and Imageviewer is 0.7 . And GPicView is the winner.
GPicView use a small memory usage. I hope people will like this software.

The installation: GPicView or simply type sudo apt-get install gpicview .

That's all.

Installing Office 2007 in Linux

2008-10-12T12:58:00.004+07:00

People thougt that the recent version of microsoft office (2007) can't be ran in linux/ubuntu. But, I finally found some useful method after googling and some problem solve with it. There are actualy a lot of method to do to install office 2007. Check it out by yourself!

About Office 2007

Office 2007 is the latest release of microsoft office for windows. It has a lot of features like ribbon interfaces that enabled users quickly can find the menu that they wants. And formerly known as Office "12" in the initial stages of its beta cycle, it was released to volume license customers on November 30, 2006 and made available to retail customers on January 30, 2007. These are, respectively, the same dates Windows Vista was released to volume licensing and retail customers.
But, what people know is, microsoft office 2007 CAN'T BE INSTALLED IN LINUX . Well, I finally found some useful method to install office 2007 in linux/ubuntu.

Installation:

Well, this installation is using wine 1.0 with windows version that emulated is windows xp.

1. Before the installation, make sure you ALREADY HAD CROSSOVER GAMES. CrossOver Games enabled you to install office 2007 inside your linux/mac!

2. After CrossOver Games already installed, go to ~/cxgames/lib/wine and copy the rpcrt4.dll.so to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 you will need to re-name the pointer rpcrt4.dll that is currently in ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 to *.bak and then re-name the rpcrt4.dll.so to rpcrt4.dll .

3. While your already in /system32 re-name the msxml3.dll also to *.bak

4. the next thing to do is run winecfg again and set msxml3.dll and rpcrt4.dll to "native windows" select save and exit.

5. DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL Microsoft XML Parser (MSXML)
after the download cd to the directory where you saved it and run.

$ msiexec /i msxml3.msi

6. MOUNT your office 2007 DVD with the option -o unhide. This method will avoid having problems with the hidden files during installation.

Mount and cd to your disk and start the install.
e.g:
mount -t iso9660 -o unhide /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom0

Jo@Ubuntu:~$ cd /media/cdrom0
Jo@Ubuntu:/media/cdrom0$ wine setup.exe

That's all!

Some Problem with this office 2007 linux:
1. There must be some unsolved bugs in here.

2. If you are not have any crossover games, it's probably a good time to become a customer or, the other way is download the crossover torrent(I warn you, it's illegal!). But here is some tricks not to use the crossover, manual installation by using TRiX to install native DCOM and MS XML, instead of using built in DLL's from
crossover. It will saves you from buying it!

3. Currently Outlook does not run; however, the next release of Bordeaux will support Outlook
2003 and 2007.

4. To all the Ubuntu users trying to get this to work: Ubuntu has Wine 1.0.0 in it's repositories at the moment. By downloading the latest Wine you can install Office 2007 with default settings (You don't have to mess with the dll:s).

Step 1
Download the latest Wine as described here.

Step 2
Install Office 2007 with Wine (Don't mess with the dll:s).

Step 3
If you want to use Powerpoint,
then you have to set riched20.dll to native-then-builtin (Messing with the dll:s) as described
here. You don't have to download anything, just set the dll to native-then-built in.

Some screenshots:

Reference links:
http://www.wine-reviews.net/
http://wine-review.blogspot.com/
http://www.codeweavers.com/
http://www.winehq.com/

Count Down For Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex

2008-10-04T20:00:00.001+07:00

Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex is still under development now and scheduled will be released in 30 oct 2008. You can spread a simple banner from ubuntu with this code.

And here is the result after you put the code inside your blog/website.

Simple as that, and you will be doing your bit to help spread the good word of Ubuntu. ;)

Download Ubuntu 8.10 beta now!

2008-10-04T17:45:00.002+07:00

Just got information from ubuntu.com that ubuntu 8.10 beta already available! And here is the quote " The Ubuntu developers are moving quickly to bring you the latest and greatest software the open source community has to offer. This is the Ubuntu 8.10 beta release, which brings a host of excellent new features.

The final release will be in 30 October 2008. And here are the new features since Ubuntu 8.04:
GNOME 2.24

Ubuntu brings you the newest GNOME 2.24 desktop environment with tons of bug-fixes and new features, some of which include:
Nautilus file manager has tab support (by Christian Neumair) and Eject icons for removable drives in Places sidebar (by Stefano Teso, Cosimo Cecchi, Christian Neumair, and others).
File Roller archive manager now supports ALZ, RZIP, CAB, TAR.7Z file types also (by Paolo Bacchilega and Changwoo Ryu).

X.Org 7.4

X.Org 7.4, the latest stable version of X.Org, is available in Intrepid. This release brings much better support for hot-pluggable input devices such as tablets, keyboards, and mice. At the same time this will allow the great majority of users to run without a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. A new failsafe X is introduced, to give better tools for troubleshooting X startup failures.
The fglrx and two of the older nvidia binary drivers are not available for X.Org 7.4 yet, so users of these drivers will be automatically switched to the corresponding open source drivers.

Linux kernel 2.6.27

Ubuntu 8.10 Beta includes Linux kernel 2.6.27, a significant release with better hardware support and numerous bug-fixes.

Encrypted private directory

The ecryptfs-utils package was recently promoted to Ubuntu main, with support for an secret encrypted folder in your Home Folder (by Michael Halcrow, Dustin Kirkland, and Daniel Baumann).
You can help test this new feature by going to Applications → Accessories → Terminal and typing:
sudo aptitude install ecryptfs-utils
ecryptfs-setup-private

Guest session

The User Switcher panel applet (package fast-user-switch-applet) now provides an extra entry for starting a Guest session (by Martin Pitt). This creates a temporary password-less user account with restricted privileges: the account cannot access any users' home directories, nor permanently store data. This is sufficiently safe to lend your laptop to someone else for a quick email check.

Network Manager 0.7

Ubuntu 8.10 Beta ships Network Manager 0.7 (by Dan Williams and others), which comes with long-expected features, such as:
system wide settings (i.e., no need to log in in order to get a connection)
management of 3G connections (GSM/CDMA)
management of multiple active devices at once
management of PPP and PPPOE connections
management of devices with static IP configurations
route management for devices
More information can be found on the Network Manager wiki.
"Last successful boot" recovery entry
On each successful boot, Ubuntu 8.10 will retain a copy of your running kernel and make it available from the boot loader as a "Last successful boot" option (by Ben Collins). This makes it possible for old kernel packages to be safely auto-removed by the package manager, instead of being kept indefinitely.

DKMS

DKMS (by Dell) is included in Ubuntu 8.10, allowing kernel drivers to be automatically rebuilt when new kernels are released. This makes it possible for kernel package updates to be made available immediately without waiting for rebuilds of driver packages, and without third-party driver packages becoming out of date when installing these kernel updates.

Samba 3.2

A lot of new features have been added in Samba 3.2 amongst them:
clustered file server support
encrypted network transport

ipv6 support

better integration with the latest version of Microsoft Windows™ clients and servers.

PAM authentication framework

Ubuntu 8.10 Beta features a new pam-auth-update tool, which allows simple management of PAM authentication configuration for both desktops and servers (by Steve Langasek). Packages providing PAM modules will be configured automatically, and users can adjust their authentication preferences by running sudo pam-auth-update.
More information can be found in the Ubuntu wiki.

Totem BBC plugin

Ubuntu 8.10 Beta features a new plugin for the Totem movie player that fetches free digital content from the BBC. To enable it, start Totem (Applications -> Sound & Video -> Movie Player), enable the plugin (Edit -> Plugins -> BBC content viewer) and select "BBC" from the drop-down labelled "Playlist". The feed is fetched from a staging server at the moment so there may be a delay while it is downloaded.
Thanks to the BBC and Collabora for their work developing this feature.

Download

Get it while it's hot. ISOs and torrents are available at:

http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/8.10 (Ubuntu)
http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/edubuntu/8.10 (Edubuntu add-on)
http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/kubuntu/8.10 (Kubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/8.10/beta (Xubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/8.10/beta (UbuntuStudio)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/mythbuntu/releases/8.10/beta (Mythbuntu)

Local mirrors are also available:

Africa

http://bw.releases.ubuntu.com/ (Botswana)
http://ls.releases.ubuntu.com/ (Lesotho)
http://mz.releases.ubuntu.com/ (Mozambique)
http://sz.releases.ubuntu.com/ (Swaziland)
http://ubuntu.mirror.ac.za/ubuntu-release/ (South Africa)
http://zw.releases.ubuntu.com/ (Zimbabwe)

Asia

http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/ubuntu-releases/ (Japan)
http://debian.nctu.edu.tw/ubuntu-releases/ (Taiwan)
ftp://ftp.corbina.net/pub/Linux/ubuntu-cd/ (Russian Federation)
http://ftp.cse.yzu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Ubuntu/ubuntu-cd/ (Taiwan)
http://ftp.daum.net/ubuntu-releases/ (Korea, Republic of)
http://ftp.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/UBUNTU-CDS/ (Japan)

Europe

http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-releases/ (Germany)
http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu-cdimage/ (Switzerland)
http://ubuntu.ipacct.com/releases/ (Bulgaria)
http://se.releases.ubuntu.com/ (Sweden)
http://nl.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/ (Netherlands)
http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/releases.ubuntu.com/ (Germany)

North America

http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu-iso/CDs/ (United States)
http://less.cogeco.net/ubuntu-releases/ (Canada)
http://linux.nssl.noaa.gov/releases/ (United States)
http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/ubuntu-releases/ (Canada)
http://mirrors.ccs.neu.edu/releases.ubuntu.com/ (United States)
http://mirrors.gigenet.com/ubuntu/ (United States)

Oceania/Australia

http://ftp.citylink.co.nz/ubuntu-releases/ (New Zealand)
http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/ubuntu-releases/ (Australia)
http://ftp.netspace.net.au/pub/ubuntu/releases/ (Australia)
http://ubuntu-releases.optus.net/ (Australia)
http://mirror.3fl.net.au/pub/ubuntu/releases/ (Australia)
http://planetmirror.com/pub/ubuntu/releases/ (Australia)

South America

http://mirror.globo.com/ubuntu/releases/ (Brazil)
http://ubuntu.c3sl.ufpr.br/releases/ (Brazil)
http://cl.releases.ubuntu.com/ (Chile)
http://espelhos.edugraf.ufsc.br/ubuntu-releases/ (Brazil)
http://ubuntu.patan.com.ar/releases/ (Argentina) "

Download it while it still fresh! Screenshot will be added later for ubuntu 8.10!

It's about Mac!

2008-09-29T19:45:00.003+07:00

Well, after playing around Mac X86 for 2 weeks, I finally decided to make a new categories named Mac OS X . I will start to post some Mac news and I will post Mac software tutorial as well! Mac is a pretty cool Operating System and we need to explore it to find more cool things that hidden inside Mac.

After experimenting for a while, I finally managed to install Mac OS X 10.5.2 kalyway. And it ran smoothly inside my computer pentium4 with 128 mb of VGA. Just wait and see, there will be a ton of mac tutorial inside this blog, and if I have some software review, there's some probability that I will give both for Linux and Mac download links.

~Jonathan~

Solving conflict between compiz and games

2008-09-28T21:11:00.002+07:00

After using Ubuntu since a long time ago, there's something that always bugging me. Every time I played a games with compiz fusion running, there must be a conflict like the screen goes black, distorted, or even crash! Well, right now, I have a easy method to do to solve this conflict.

Because the games is always conflict with compiz, we need to turn off compiz every time we turn the games on, and you can play the games with more comfort ;) . And after you played the games, the compiz will automatically start. Here is the tutorial and the how-to:

1. Open text edit at Applications -> Accessories -> Text Editor

2. Type:

#!bin/bash
metacity --replace &
game_name(subtitute this code with your games code e.g: pingus)
compiz --replace

Metacity --replace will disable the compiz and change it into a ordinary ubuntu themes. And the game_name like in the terminal, it will gives the directions to open the games that you wants to open. Compiz --replace is the code to start the compiz after the game is closed.

3. Save those file in ".sh" format. And change the permission to executeable (chmod +x yourfiles) by using the terminal or just simply right click -> properties -> permission and then just simply save those files at your favorite folders.

4. Try to run the script from the terminal, here is an example: ./pingus.sh

After one games run smoothly, you can be creative to change the other games name. Well, that's solved our problem right? The next X.Org probably will have this problem fixed. If you have any problem, feel free to fill the comment form.

Appnr; another easy way to install ubuntu software

2008-09-27T11:48:00.004+07:00

Installing software inside ubuntu is getting much easier. Appnr is an web application that allowed you to install every ubuntu software with only one click. Just like the add/remove programs.

Appnr is using apt-url to perform the software installation. Just by one click, you can install a lot of programs easily. And there're over a thousand free programs to install into your ubuntu! And the latest version as well! It will help newbies to install the softwares. And it surely will help me to give you another cool software reviews for the other next tutorials!

Gambas : Visual Basic for Linux

2008-09-21T18:38:00.003+07:00

Today, I'm going to introduce gambas for programmer, specially a VB programmer. Gambas, is one free software development enviroment based from basic interpreter and works just like visual basic in windows! With gambas, we can design GUI or a program by using QT or GTK+, SQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, ODBC, and SQLLite database also to translate any 3D OpenGL application and web application CGI. Well, it surely has a ton of features.

Installation

Here is the latest gambas installation manual(v. 2.5):

1. Add a new repositories: Open System > Administration> Software Sources > Third-Party Software. Click the "add" button to add a new repositories and paste this following code:

deb http://azores.linex.org/gambas-other/ hardy main

2. And than type: sudo apt-get install gambas or for the easy way, just click this link to install gambas.

Well, after the installation, you probably wants to see the screenshots first, here are some screenshots:

It almost all of the programming languange available in here. And it really look almost the same like VB in windows.

Reference: Melayubuntu , Gambas

VLC Media Player 0.9.2 Ubuntu Installation

2008-09-20T14:01:00.003+07:00

Recently, I just found that VideoLAN team has released their new VLC media player 0.9.2 Grishenko. I saw at their official website that this new software has a lot of new feautures for media player and streaming. VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Installation:

The installation is pretty easy, you need to put some unofficial package for ubuntu 8.04 , in the future of ubuntu 8.10, vlc will be available in the official ubuntu repositories.

Here is the installation method for ubuntu 8.04:

1. If you already had installed the VLC media player inside your ubuntu, remove it by typing:

sudo apt-get remove vlc

2. Add a new repositories: Open System > Administration> Software Sources > Third-Party Software. Click the "add" button to add a new repositories and paste this code:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/c-korn/ubuntu hardy main

(Ubuntu 7.10 coming soon)

3. Close the software sources and reload the repositories(it will be prompted after you closed the software sources)

4. Install VLC! By typing: sudo apt-get install vlc

That's all! You can play almost all of the video format like MPEG4, WMV, FLV, and OGG.
Here are some screenshots of VLC 0.9.2

Other linux installation, you can visit this site for more information about the installation.

*Update:
Almost forgot, here are some free TV streaming service for indonesian visitors, you can watch RCTI, SCTV, Metro TV, and transTV(for streaming, click file menu->and open network stream):

1. RCTI: rtsp://202.58.181.185/broadcast/rcti
2. SCTV: rtsp://202.58.181.185/broadcast/sctv
3. Metro TV: mms://202.171.25.216/metro
4. Trans TV: mms://202.171.25.216/transtv

Enjoy! Please share if you have more information with other TV stations streaming service by posting a new comments!

Download and Install Dusk Theme

2008-09-13T07:15:00.000+07:00

Dusk Theme is one of my favorite theme after the Wall-light theme. The dusk theme has a clean, modern, functional, dan unique concept. After checking the Dusk Theme Artwork, and finally it available to download. People already waiting for this theme. It's cool! No doubt about it! After using this theme for a while, I got started to hoping that Intrepid will add both of my favorite theme(Wall Light and Dusk Theme).

Well, without wasting more times lets go to the main point,

Download Dust theme (.tar.gz)
(Updated September 10) Untar this file to ~/.themes and select it via System -> Preferences -> Appearance.

For Hardy, this theme requires Murrine from SVN. Compile it using:

sudo apt-get install subversion intltool libgtk2.0-dev libtool
svn checkout http://svn.gnome.org/svn/murrine/trunk/ murrine-svn
cd murrine-svn
./autogen.sh --enable-animation --prefix=/usr
make && sudo make install

Some screenshot

The wallpaper? No problem, here is the wallpaper download link

Other Cool stuffs to try

The mockups have borderless windows. To have this, go to your theme's settings (Under System -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Customize) and under the "Window Border" tab, select "Dust Borderless."
Transparent panel
Try setting your panel background (right click at panel -> Properties -> Background -> Background image) to ~/.themes/Dust/panel-background.png.
Compiz decorator settings
If you're using Compiz and you find the titlebar transparency weird, you can try running the script Dust_compiz_settings.sh (included in the download) to fix.

Enjoy!!

Fast way to install Ubuntu inside USB

2008-09-12T19:25:00.005+07:00

Installing Ubuntu inside USB is particularly very easy, right now I'm gonna post an easy tutorial to install Ubuntu live inside USB and you can use those Ubuntu every time you wants! And without wasting more time here is the tutorial.

1. You must download UNetbootin to install ubuntu inside the USB. UNetbootin allows for the installation of various Linux/BSD distributions to a partition or USB drive, so it's no different from a standard install, only it doesn't need a CD. It can create a dual-boot install, or replace the existing OS entirely. You can download the Linux version if you're running on Linux, and you can download the Windows version if you're using windows.

2.

2.1 . Installing from Windows: If using Windows, run the file, select a distribution, floppy/hard disk image, or kernel/initrd to load, select a target drive (HDD/USB), then reboot once done. You can choose to download the Ubuntu or use the ISO package to install it(ISO Package available inside Ubuntu CD'S) See this screenshot, it will explain everything.

Choose Ubuntu For Your OS or you can input the disk image(ISO), even the floppy drive

The Installation

2.2 . Installation From ubuntu; You need to download the Linux version of UNetbootin then make the file executable (using either the command chmod +x ./unetbootin-linux, or going to Properties->Permissions and checking "Execute"), then start the application, you will be prompted for your password to grant the application administrative rights, then the main dialog will appear, where you select a distribution and install target (Hard Disk or USB Drive), then reboot when prompted. See this screenshot:

All thing looks the same, the differences is only the USB Drive directory as you can see it will changed into /dev/sdc1 or sdc2 and other.

3. After the Installation

After the installation, just simply reboot your PC and hit f8 and choose the USB driver and it will boot automatically into Ubuntu.

4. Removal

If using Windows, UNetbootin should prompt you to remove it the next time you boot into Windows. Alternatively, you can remove it via Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel.

If using Linux, re-run the UNetbootin executable (with root priveledges), and press OK when prompted to uninstall.

Removal is only required if you used the "Hard Drive" installation mode; to remove the bootloader from a USB drive, back up its contents and reformat it.

Uninstalling UNetbootin simply removes the UNetbootin entry from your boot menu; if you installed an operating system to a partition using UNetbootin, removing UNetbootin will not remove the OS.

To manually remove a Linux installation, you will have to restore the Windows bootloader using "fixmbr" from a recovery CD, and use Parted Magic to delete the Linux partition and expand the Windows partition.

5. Installation Problem Solve

If you encounter some errors with UNetbootin, you can post a question on the Ubuntu Forums, on either the LiveUSB installation thread or Hard disk installation thread depending on your install mode, or file a bug report. However, if it's a distribution or hardware-specific issue, file a bug report against the distribution itself. You also can ask the IRC if you are still experiencing a trouble.

Ubuntu 9.04 code name confirmed, Jaunty Jackalope

2008-09-09T19:00:00.003+07:00

After the release of Ubuntu 8.10(October 2008), Ubuntu 9.04 is already scheduled will be release in 2009-april . And Jaunty Jackalope will be the next Ubuntu code name after the Intrepid Ibex . The goal of this project is for a better user experience and more improvements.

The other thing that will change in the next generation of Ubuntu after intrepid ibex is to decrease the boot and resume times. And the performance will be speed up. There're still alot of plan that will be announced in Ubuntu Developer Summit, at Googleplex, California that involved Canonical employees and sponsored community contributors. For Mountain View, anyone from the community can submit a request to be sponsored.

You can visit Ubuntu Brainstorm website to discuss about this Ubuntu 9.04.

How to Get a Different Wallpapers on Each Workspaces in Ubuntu

2008-09-07T19:33:00.003+07:00

Today, I'm going to give you a tutorial or a how-to install and use a different wallpaper on each work spaces. Many people thinks and dreaming about this features and not anymore for today, I'm gonna reveal all the hidden things with this simple method and tutorial. So, read this tutorial carefully and make sure you didn't miss any method or tutorial.

Ok, firstly you must make sure that you have those three conditions:
1. You have to use Ubuntu 8.04 or 7.10
2. You have to install and have CCSM. Check under System ->Preferences if Advanced Desktop Effect Setting is there.
3. For more better result I recommend Avant Windows Navigator and cairo dock. You can install it easily by clicking those link that I gave you.

After you completed those conditions, this is the tutorial and the how-to install the different wallpaper on each workspaces:

1. Go to System -> Preferences -> Advanced Desktop Settings
2. Select Desktop Cube ->Appearance -> Background images
3. Click New under background images and add all the images you want as background.
4. Press Alt+F2 and type this code: gconf-editor and then simply hit enter
5. Go under apps -> nautilus -> preference and deselect the "Show Desktop"

Some screenshots (I'm using a screenshots from other site, I will use mine as soon as possible):

Well.. As simple as that, you already get the different wallpapers on each workspaces.

N.B: You will see that you cannot right-click on the desktop and your desktop shortcut will gone, but don't worry because you still can access all of your original desktop in Places -> Desktop directory. And if you still insists for the shortcut, the cairo dock or avant windows navigator will replace the shortcut with more cool way ;) . You must sacrifice your shortcut if you want to use this different wallpaper on each workspaces but I already gave you some other method to replace it right? I will post the method screenshots as soon as possible.

~Jo~

Installing Google Chrome in Ubuntu

2008-09-06T08:26:00.004+07:00

Google Chrome not released yet for Linux, but there's other way to install google chrome inside ubuntu by using wine. And this is the tutorial to install Google Chrome in Ubuntu by using Wine.

1. You need to make sure that you're having the latest wine (1.1.3),

to install wine, type:

sudo apt-get install wine

2. You need to download and install winetricks, use this code:

wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sudo cp winetricks /usr/sbin

3. You need to install some chrome dependency software like flash player like riched20 riched30 flash

You can install allfonts if you want(this is only an optional software): winetricks allfonts

4. After successfully installed all things that you need to install, you can download the google chrome now by typing;

wget http://gpdl.google.com/chrome/install/149.27/chrome_installer.exe

5. Install the chrome, and follow the instructions,

6. After the install is finished, you won't be able to use Chrome as it needs a bit more hacking. Just close it and opent with your favorite editor the Google Chrome.desktop icon created on your Desktop. Make sure your add "--new-http --in-process-plugins", without the quotes at the end of this line:

Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/jonathan/.wine" wine "C:\\windows\\profiles\\jonathan\\Local Settings\\Application Data\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe"

to make it look like this:
Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/mimir/.wine" wine "C:\\windows\\profiles\\jonathan\\Local Settings\\Application Data\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe" --new-http --in-process-plugins

Save the file!

NOTE: jonathan is my username, you will have something like /home/yourusername/.wine

7. Now, go to your desktop and start your google chrome!

8 Problem solve, there are some people who can't find and change

"Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/jonathan/.wine" wine "C:\\windows\\profiles\\jonathan\\Local Settings\\Application Data\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe"

Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/jonathan/.wine" wine "C:\\windows\\profiles\\jonathan\\Local Settings\\Application Data\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe" --new-http --in-process-plugins"

There's some simple problem solve with this problem, you can use the command line like this:

export WINEPREFIX="/home/user/.wine"

wine "/home/user/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/user/Local Settings/Application Data/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe" --new-http --in-process-plugins &

(replace "user" with your account)

Well... That's all of my tutorial, special thanks to myscienceisbetter.info who provide the tutorial. And enjoy your google chrome...

HTTPS Note: it seems that the https is not working due to the fact that wine is missing TSL/SSL features, the dlls that should handle that being just stubs at the moment. If you can solve this things or know how to fix this problem, please share in here.

Testing Circular Application Menu

2008-09-04T15:58:00.005+07:00

Hello, after taking a break for a pretty long time, I announce that I'm still alive and healthy(not really). Well... Right now, I will give you some cool review and experiment's inside ubuntu, I just found a pretty creative software concept for Ubuntu. And I like the difference of the concept(I already posted this concept before for Ubuntu and now it's real!).

Circular Application Menu is a pretty light software and I'll bet that people will likes this software. This application is still under heavy development and still only a prototype. And here is the screenshot:

Ok. Now the installation methods; There's 2 ways to install this Circular Application Menu,

1. You can download this software package from C-A-M @ getdeb.com. Just download and install this software easily.
2. You just have to install some libraries, subversion and essential build stuff, check out the current repository and compile it. Try this:

$ sudo aptitude install subversion build-essential \
libgnome-desktop-dev libgnome-menu-dev
$ svn checkout \
http://circular-application-menu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ \
circular-application-menu
$ cd circular-application-menu
$ make
$ sudo make install

Ok, those are some easy installation method. Now, you can run the software after the installation. I suggest you to build a new directory to install this software, because it's still unstable and I don't really sure if you want to mix it up with your ubuntu binaries.

Integrate with avant windows navigator(AWN)

You can install avant windows navigator :

"sudo aptitude install avant-window-navigator"

And then add an icon for circular menu to it by doing a right-click->settings->Launchers->Add. Now you can start all normal applications by calling Circular menus from the avant go launcher.

Pretty eye catching isn't it?

Well.. In my opinion, this software is really nice and must be improved, there're some complain because this software doesn't run properly and there're a few bugs that needs reparation. Sometimes, C-A-M is not stable and often quit unexpectedly and this software still don't have any preferences function :=( . That's why I think this software need more improvements. But I still like this software. It's pretty light as well... I'll update this software oftenly if I get more info.

~Jo~

Easy XAMPP Webserver installation, and guide to using it for ubuntu

2008-08-28T18:12:00.004+07:00

Hello, right now, I will make some tutorials to install and use XAMPP inside Ubuntu, installing and using this software is pretty easy. Now, please read the instructions carefully and these are the how-to for the installation with some simple steps:

1. Download XAMPP in here

2. Get into the terminal, and login as a root/ super user(type: sudo su). And after that, the text should be looks like this: root@yourname:/home/yourname# .

3. Extract all of the files by typing this code: tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.6.7.tar.gz -C /optAnd now, XAMPP is settled into your ubuntu. Here are some guide to use XAMPP, the method is clearly easy, you just need to follow this guide:

1. Without wasting more time, run XAMPP!! By typing :
cd /opt/lampp
And then type this following code:
/opt/lampp/lampp starts

And after you typing this code, there will appear some code like:
Starting XAMPP for Linux 1.6.7... XAMPP: Starting Apache with SSL (and PHP5)... XAMPP: Starting MySQL... XAMPP: Starting ProFTPD... XAMPP for Linux started.
2. How to stop XAMPP, type this code: /opt/lampp/lampp stop

3. SECURITY CONFIGURATION , you must wondering why I'd use the bold and capital character, AMPP is not meant for production use but only for developers in a development environment. The way XAMPP is configured is to be open as possible and allowing the developer anything he/she wants. For development environments this is great but in a production environment it could be fatal.

Here a list of missing security in XAMPP:

The MySQL administrator (root) has no password.

The MySQL daemon is accessible via network.

ProFTPD uses the password “lampp” for user “nobody”.

PhpMyAdmin is accessible via network.

Examples are accessible via network.

MySQL and Apache running under the same user (nobody).

To fix most of the security weaknesses simply call the following command

#/opt/lampp/lampp security

It starts a small security check and makes your XAMPP installation more secure.

4. More useful code for XAMPP:

start

Starts XAMPP.

stop

Stops XAMPP.

restart

Stops and starts XAMPP.

startapache

Starts only the Apache.

startssl

Starts the Apache SSL support. This command activates the SSL support permanently, e.g. if you restarts XAMPP in the future SSL will stay activated.

startmysql

Starts only the MySQL database.

startftp

Starts the ProFTPD server. Via FTP you can upload files for your web server (user “nobody”, password “lampp”). This command activates the ProFTPD permanently, e.g. if you restarts XAMPP in the future FTP will stay activated.

stopapache

Stops the Apache.

stopssl

Stops the Apache SSL support. This command deactivates the SSL support permanently, e.g. if you restarts XAMPP in the future SSL will stay deactivated.

stopmysql

Stops the MySQL database.

stopftp

Stops the ProFTPD server. This command deactivates the ProFTPD permanently, e.g. if you restarts XAMPP in the future FTP will stay deactivated.

security

Starts a small security check programm.

For example: To start Apache with SSL support simply type in the following command (as root)

#/opt/lampp/lampp startssl

You can also access your Apache server via SSL under https://localhost or https://serveripaddress

5. Important configuration files and directory:

/opt/lampp/bin/ - The XAMPP commands home.

/opt/lampp/bin/mysql calls for example the MySQL monitor.

/opt/lampp/htdocs/ - The Apache DocumentRoot directory.

/opt/lampp/etc/httpd.conf - The Apache configuration file.

/opt/lampp/etc/my.cnf - The MySQL configuration file.

/opt/lampp/etc/php.ini - The PHP configuration file.

/opt/lampp/etc/proftpd.conf - The ProFTPD configuration file. (since 0.9.5)

/opt/lampp/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php - The phpMyAdmin configuration file.

Well, that's a pretty long post, but it will help people to configure they web server for more easier. And I also has made some posts to install JOOMLA INSIDE LINUX/UBUNTU and I 'm sure that this tutorial will help you to install and configure joomla easily without any trouble. I think you can aplicate this joomla installation inside XAMPP.

gOS 3 gadgets beta review

2008-08-25T15:50:00.003+07:00

gOS recently has released gOS 3.0 gadget beta. It seemed to be a couple of month ago, I also just make a gOS 2.0 review, and right now gOS already released gOS 3 gadget BETA. And it much cooler than gOS 2.0 rocket. I'm going to give some special review for gOS 3 GADGET BETA. With some interesting screenshot that I got from some websites.

gOS 3 Gadgets BETA enables you instantly to launches the google gadgets for Linux on stratup and you can add more than 100.000 possible iGoogle + Gadgets for your desktop.

And the other cool thing is you can enable mozzilla prism inside gOS. For more information and reviews for mozilla prism, just click : http://allforlinux.blogspot.com/2008/08/installing-and-using-mozilla-prism-at.html ----- Google Documents, Calendar, and Mail launch in Mozilla Prism windows to closer resemble desktop applications.

WINE 1.0 is also already installed inside this operating system, wine is a project that can enables linux users(newbie) to install some windows software inside Linux OS like photoshop, dreamweaver, internet explorer, and other windows software.

Because I'm still downloading, I just gonna use other screenshots from other website. And after that, probably I'm gonna change the screenshots.

Here is a screenshot of gOS 3 gadget beta,

Well, it look really nice with google gadgets + dock + compiz fusion. And if you can see, there's some features that can enable to install google gadgets instantly from the menu.

After see some demo from youtube... I like the dock, it fresh and looks green.... Really eyecatching dock and I like it..

It seemed to be gOS 3 only available at gnome and based from ubuntu 8.04.1 . I'm still waiting for the enlightenment version.

Unlike other distributions which have icon for only Local Applications in Panel , gOS provides , icon link to Online Web 2.0 Applications like Google Documents , YouTube ,Google Mail etc and local applications like Skype , Open Office Applications , Firefox and Pidgin.

Some people said that gOS 3 beta still buggy and needs more improvements.. Specially with the Adobe AIR and Mono version of Microsoft Silverlight and Shut Down (google gadgets oftenly get error if closed/shutted down).

For me? I'm extremely recomment gOS for your other Operating System. It extremely user friendly. I'm really a gOS fanatics. Hope gOS team will make more improvements with gOS 3 gadget. And you can download this gOS beta at this download link . Send me some feedback if you're already installed this OS.

Top 10 Windows Manager for Ubuntu + The installation method

2008-08-22T17:35:00.006+07:00

Hello, right now, I will give you some tutorial and code that probably will be really usable for you. I will give you the complete Desktop Environment installation set for ubuntu. Well, my first desktop enviroment lists are:

1. Kubuntu/KDE: For kubuntu installation, you can type:
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
And for KDE 4.1 installation, please go to this page

2. E17; E17 is one of my favorite desktop manager, for installation:

Open terminal, and type: sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list and then, add this following code:

# dunnewind e17 repository for Ubuntu Hardy

deb http://e17.dunnewind.net/ubuntu hardy e17

You can replace those word of"hardy" with gutsy or either feisty if you have a different type of version.

After those code added, you need to type this also at the terminal:
wget http://lut1n.ifrance.com/repo_key.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

After that, close the source.list from the terminal, and type this following code again at the terminal: sudo aptitude install e17

You might need to install the media player that based from E17 that named eclair, type this from the terminal after e17 installation: sudo aptitude install eclair

And that settled in the e17

3. Xfce - Type : sudo aptitude install xubuntu-desktop

4. Fluxbox - Type: sudo aptitude install fluxbox

5. Enlightenment - Type: sudo aptitude install enlightenment

6. Blackbox - Type: sudo aptitude install blackbox

7. Openbox - Type: sudo aptitude install openbox

8. Afterstep - Type: sudo aptitude install afterstep

9. FVWM - Type: sudo aptitude install fvwm

10. WindowMaker - sudo aptitude install wmaker

Ok, now that's all of my top 10 windows manager inside ubuntu. Number 2 - 10 are the most lightest Desktop enviroment that I choose for you. but still my default desktop enviroment is gnome :=) . And here are the screenshots of those windows manager(those screenshots are from number 1 to 10).

Well, if you do have more windows manager that I didn't listed in this posts, you can make a comments and inform me with that, I would really appreaciate that.

Best Themes For Ubuntu

2008-08-19T20:31:00.001+07:00

Hello, today I'm going to posts the best themes that I choose for Ubuntu. I do have a few of favorite themes, so I will share it with you.. Probably you do like my style :=) . And I will add some of them a download links...

1. Wall light: Well, this themes is already promoted to be the next intrepid ibex themes, but who knows that this themes will be the next themes?

I like the theme, it has a such simplicity and I like the colors.

More information

2. Kohlenstoff

Wallpaper download

This is the wonderful blackly that I choose to used... Download at:kohlenstoff

3. Dusk

It is a really mac-like themes, I like the colors and the concept, please take a look of the Dusk
themes for more information. This themes is already promoted as the default intrepid themes.

4. This one? This one is my own customization themes... I'm using Wall-light themes and re-mockup it into my own favorite themes.

I'm using cairo-dock for this one with screenlets. It's kinda cool.

5. Emeraldbuntu

I'm using kiba-dock for this themes plus beryl manager.... It's installed by default.
Wallpaper? Just click here

Well.. that's only 5 of my favorite themes. If you do have more cool themes, share it right here!

Installing and using mozilla prism at ubuntu 8.04

2008-08-18T15:06:00.000+07:00

Mozilla Prism is a software from Mozilla labs that allows you to integrate the web applications into the native desktop. So it means those web applications(facebook, myspace, and others) will be acting just like a native software. Cool isn't it? And right now, I'm going to give you some tutorials to install Prism inside Ubuntu 8.04. Please read and follow the instructions carefully.

The installation is pretty easy, you can use the apt-get to perform the installation.

Available Prism Packages in Ubuntu 8.04

prism-facebook
prism-google-analytics
prism-google-calendar
prism-google-docs
prism-google-groups
prism-google-mail
prism-google-reader
prism-google-talk
prism-twitter

Installation at terminal:

sudo aptitude install prism-google-talk prism-google-mail prism-google-docs prism-facebook prism-google-analytics

You also needs to install the flash plugin if you didn't installed it yet.

sudo aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree

Or, you can use the firefox addons to perform the installation.

After the installation:

After the installation, you can find Ubuntu prism at applications --> Internet --> Prism.

And you also can input some web address like TuxWorld.co.nr, facebook, friendster, gmail, etc. And here are more screenshots:

FaceBook runs smoothly

My Blog as well

you also can check your e-mail by using prism, it makes everything easy!

Well, that's all of today software reviews, I'm still playing with Mozilla prism right now :D . I hope Ubuntu will include Prism in Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04.

New Computer, new distros, and new layout!

2008-08-17T19:41:00.006+07:00

Hello again!! My waiting has come to the end.... Finally, I just bought a new computer to replace the old one(not really old, still p4 :P). I'm quite happy with this computer and this computer allowed me to do so many things with Linux... The first distros that I just installed inside this new computer is gOS Linux. I like the UI of gOS, just like I said before, gOS will be my next major OS after ubuntu and xp. So, I'll make it quad boot between XP, gOS, OSX X86, and Ubuntu.

Here is the spec of my new computer, not bad but not good either ;) ;

Intel core2quad QX6600, 2,4 ghz
hdd 250 gb
2 Gb of RAM
Nvidia geforce 8600 512 mb
and the other things that must be inside the usual computer ;) .

I'm still experimenting with this things. And this is my gOS Screenshot:

Oh, and here is also my Ubuntu 8.04 screenshot:

I just finally installed ubuntu, gOS, and XP. The other things that I still confused is my OSX X86

I'm using jAS OS X 10.4.7 . Probably, I need to use kalyway 10.5.2 :( . If anybody know how-to install OSX inside this PC, please contact me :D .

Oh, and here are another announcements, I will renew the TuxWorld layout, just to make it more fresh. I will install this new templates as soon as possible. Hope people will like this layout.

Regards,
Jonathan

Download and Install 130 Ultimate Web 2.0 gradient for GIMP

2008-08-17T17:11:00.005+07:00

The complete 130 Ultimate Web 2.0 Gradients for Gimp! Thats right everyone, SGlider12 has took the courage,time and effort to re-create the original 130 Ultimate Web 2.0 styles form Photoshop by deziner folio to the Awesome Program we all love "The Gimp".

inside the zip you will find the Xcf gimp source file with each gradient and its name in the layer.

Be sure to give it the Thumbs up if your a Stumbler, and spread the word with all the other social bookmark sites out there.

How to install

Download It at Here

Windows: to install these gradients place them inside the gradients folder for example if you installed gimp in drive C: then this is how the path would look

C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\share\gimp\2.0\gradients

Mac:
Mac install path: ~ (Hard Drive)> Applications> GIMP (Right click the icon and hit 'Show Package Contents)> Contents> Resources (From here it is same as Windows...)> Share> Gimp> 2.0> Gradients>

Ubuntu: open terminal in directory with downloaded file.
and type:
unzip 130-UltimateWeb2-0-Gradients-for-Gimp.zip

Then Type again on terminal:

sudo mv gradients/* /usr/share/gimp/2.0/gradients/

then you can delete extracted files as well as .zip file

My Personal Opinion

I like the color and those color is fresh, I like it. I'll use it for the photo design competitions on Tuesday (independence day). For the designer, I fully recommend this Ultimate Web 2.0 Gradient for GIMP. Try it!

Brainstorming Ubuntu 9.04

2008-08-16T21:31:00.006+07:00

Well... After taking a short break for a while... Now I'm gonna make a posts again.... I have some crazy things to do with my school and it takes all of my strength and power :P . Now, I'm back again... And today, I will make some Ubuntu 9.04 prediction and brainstorming the Ubuntu 9.04(the next major release after intrepid ibex) . Yes, I know the Intrepid Ibex haven't released yet. But it's Ok right? To discuss about this Ubuntu 9.04(even the code name is still unknown right now) . But, after googling, I found so many proporsals from the ubuntu users for this Ubuntu version.

Well.... Here are some interesting proporsals and joke that I got from google:

1. Replace Pidgin with emphaty: Some users doesn't really like pidgin very much and they wants to change it to a new and fresh new software like Emphaty, Empathy is a re-usable collection of Graphical User Interface widgets for developing instant messaging clients for the GNOME desktop. It is written as extension to the Telepathy framework, for connecting to different instant messaging networks with a unified user interface.

Empathy has been proposed for inclusion in the next version of the GNOME desktop and will be included in Gnome 2.24. It includes a sample client with a similar overall look and feel to the earlier Gossip client for Jabber/XMPP servers.

2. The Codename: Many people wondering what is the next Ubuntu 9.04 codename... Well, I found some crazy suggestions and some logiccal suggesions. Some people suggest the name is:
Jabbering Jackass LOL . It's quite funny if Canonical will name Ubuntu 9.04 with those name... But I also have a suggestions(MY OWN SUGGESTION): Jazzy Jackal Could be a nice Code Name :) . Now, here is a table of the code name suggestions:

J
Jabbering Jaded Jaunty Jazzy Jealous Jiggly Jinchira Jittery Jiving Jocular Jocund Jodeling Jogging Jolly Jolted Jolty Jousting Jovial Joyous Jubilant Judicious Juggling Juicy Jumbled Jumping Jumpity Jumpy Jungle Jungly Jurassic Juvenile	Jabberwock Jacana Jackal Jackalope Jackass Jackrabbit Jaguar Javelina Jay Jellyfish Jackrabbit Jerboa Joey Jentink's Jubata Junco

Well, that's only a suggestions, but who knows that my code name suggestions will be approved? :D .

3. iTunes Pre Done with Wine: iTunes is a very popular music player, the only problem is that it cant work well on Ubuntu. Living in a household of 3 people with 3 iTunes users and 2 Pure Linux users, we have to collaborate all our music on our friends XP. I have tried to get iTunes to work through wine but I can never do it. I dont know if there would be licensing though. For me??? I think I'm happy with Rhythmbox Music Player right now... But I still like the suggestion.

4. KDE 4.2 Added Into Ubuntu 9.04(Including the desktop cube): The desktop cube will be integrated during the google summer of code into KDE 4.2, which apparently will pe base of (K)Ubuntu 9.04.
I would like to see the desktop cube by default then - it is one of the eye candies that are really useful/good (and btw: a thing Windows and OSX does NOT have, at least noct within the standard OS).

5. Fix The Wireless Drivers / The Network Drivers: Well.... This is my OWN SUGGESTIONS. Canonical REALLY need to improve their Ubuntu quality by fixing the Wireless Drivers or the Network Drivers.. I found that so many people has a problem with the wireless drivers at their laptop and has some trouble to connect to the internet. And I'm personally also has a problem with my D-LINK DWL-G122 driver. And because there's no internet connectivity, I moved again to windows. Right now I'm using ubuntu via wired connection :) .

6. Ubuntu Store: Apple has it's own store and it's growing so fast. I think Ubuntu also needs to make a store... With the bigger selection, cheaper shipping, better products. I think canonical can done this things right? :-) .

7. BootScreen Change: Well... People feels kindda bored with the bootscreen, I think canonical also need to change the bootscreen. But, there's already some cool software that can change it... I will post it someday... I hope this software can be added at ubuntu. It will make ubuntu more customizeable then today.... Change it from this:

To this:
Thx to melayubuntu I found this interesting software. The software name is Splashy. You can found it also at melayubuntu.blogspot.com(melayu language) but I will make the translations as soon as possible ;) . There's some probabilty that the bootscreen will be changes in ubuntu 8.10. But who knows???

8. Tab Dock (running Mock-up):
HERE IS SOME QUOTES FROM GNOME-LOOK.ORG , I like the concept.

"""" this is a running mock up!

In Gnome all apps are categorized and so it is very easy to find the app you want in a short time ! For now u must use for that the gnome menu. I like it much more as the old windows one because it has a much better organization, but nevertheless it is a start-menu and also gimmie (maybe the new gnome start-menu) also when it will have much new features is a start menu, so I thought, because gnome always wants to be different:

“Why a start-menu”

So I made this mock-up! It has no menu! It has a tabed dock at the top which holds all apps and a search function for your “system” and everything else like files or places ...
When you does not need the dock moves out of the desktop and you can just see the taps. So the desktop is very clean!

To test it:
1.unpack the .tar file
2.run a terminal
3. write “cd browse to your folder/TabDock”
4. write “python tabdock.py”

Hope you like it :) """""""

You can download it at here

Well then, that's only 8 from a hundred of other suggestions and concept of ubuntu 9.04, I make this post just for fun and to expand the imagination.... Hope you like it.... If you have more concept, you can contact me(just make a comments) and I will add those concept into this post.

PlayOnLinux

2008-08-11T18:59:00.003+07:00

Hello, this night, I will give some cool software review and I know some people will like this review. Specially for a gamers like me. I also a gamers but not really addicted ;) . Well than... Here are some reviews about a cool linux software named PlayOnLinux. PlayOnLinux is a piece of sofware which allow you to install and use easily numerous games and softwares designed to run with M1cr0$oft®'s W1nd0w$®.
Indeed, currently, still few games are compatible with GNU/Linux, and it could be a factor preventing from migrate to this system. PlayOnLinux brings an accessible and efficient solution to this problem, cost-free and rescpetful of the free softwares. PlayOnLinux has a capabilities to run some games, like "The Sims, Sim City 4, and more!"
Get rid of Windows®' constraints! But continue to play!

Ok, that's some introduction of PlayOnLinux, but what are exactly that PlayOnLinux is capable of? And what are the features of this software? And what should I do to use and play this software?? And why this software can install windows games inside Linux? How'd that possible?

Well then, that's a really interesting question...

Here is a non-exhaustive list of the interesting points to know:

A W1ndow$® licence isn't mandatory to use PlayOnLinux.

PlayOnLinux is based on Wine, and so profits of all his possibilities but avoids to the user the need to apprehend his complexity altough the user can exploit some of Wine's advenced functions.

PlayOnLinux is, and will always be, a open source and cost-free piece of software.

PlayOnLinux uses Bash and Python languages, thus can works independantly from the GNU/Linux distribution used, as long as it's a recent one.

It is advised to have a functional hardware acceleration as well as an internet connection.

To prevent any instability of the games, PlayOnLinux strongly advise you to disable desktop's composite effects (Compiz, Kwin, "Cube desktop", etc...)

Nevertheless, PlayOnLinux has some defects, as every piece of software:

Occasional performances decrease (a little bit fluid image, less detailed graphics, etc...).

All the games aren't supported. Nevertheless, you can use our manual installation module.

Now, the installation:

PlayOnLinux is already added some installation method for a different Distros, but I'm just gonna give you the installation tutorial for ubuntu. The rest, you can read it at the official website, click here

There're 2 installation method for ubuntu:

1. Installation via terminal:

Here is a code to perform the PlayOnLinux Installation:

Hardy Repository:

sudo wget http://playonlinux.botux.net/playonlinux_hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playonlinux.list wget -q http://playonlinux.botux.net/pol.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install playonlinux

Gutsy Repository:

sudo wget http://playonlinux.botux.net/playonlinux_gutsy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playonlinux.list wget -q http://playonlinux.botux.net/pol.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install playonlinux

2. Debian Installer

DEB Files: PlayOnLinux_3.0.8.deb

Ok, after the installation, you can take a look of PlayOnLinux Screenshots:

My opinion with this software is, this software is pretty familiar with cedega, but Cedega is a shareware program and users must pay for it. This software is free! Free for all! And people also can change the source code. That's what I like from this software. And this software also provide a tons of games to install and I can see that all of those games are capable to runs at Linux. I like the simple UI, It makes people feels more comfy with the software. 5 Stars for PlayOnLinux! I personally recommend the gamers to try this at Linux :D . Please give me some comments and suggestions. If you already use this software or install thsi software, please share your experience with us in here.

Phatch

2008-08-10T08:45:00.004+07:00

Phatch is software that have a great concept to manipulate the images. I fully 100% recommend the ubuntu users to use this software. And the best things is this software is free! This software available for windows, osx, and linux. At Ubuntu you can install this program via apt or add/remove programs. The installation is easy and the software is also really ease to use. And for windows/osx users go to this site to download and install phatch.

And here are the full features of phatch:

Auto Contrast - Maximize image contrast
Background - Put colour under transparent image
Border - Crop or add border to all sides
Brightness - Adjust brightness from black to white
Canvas - Crop the image or enlarge canvas without resizing the image
Colorize - Colorize grayscale image
Common - Copies the most common pixel value
Contrast - Adjust from grey to black & white
Convert Mode - Convert the color mode of an image (grayscale, RGB, RGBA or CMYK)
Copy - Copy image file
Effect - Blur, Sharpen, Emboss, Smooth, …
Equalize - Equalize the image histogram
Fit - Downsize and crop image with fixed ratio
Grayscale - Fade all colours to gray
Invert - Invert the colors of the image (negative)
Maximum - Copies the maximum pixel value
Mask - Apply a transparency mask
Median - Copies the median pixel value
Minimum - Copies the minimum pixel value
Offset - Offset by distance and wrap around
Posterize - Reduce the number of bits of colour channel
Perspective - Shear 2d or 3d
Rank - Copies the rank'th pixel value
Reflect - Drops a reflection
Rename - Rename image file
Rotate - Rotate with random angle
Round - Round or crossed corners with variable radius and corners
Saturation - Adjust saturation from grayscale to high
Save - Save an image with variable compression in different types
Scale - Scale an image with different resample filters.
Shadow - Drop a blurred shadow under a photo with variable position, blur and color
Solarize - Invert all pixel values above threshold
Text - Write text at a given position
Transpose - Flip or rotate an image by 90 degrees
Watermark - Apply a watermark image with variable placement (offset, scaling, tiling) and opacity

As an example, choose the Scale action and press the Add button. This adds the selected action to the main window. You can then use the available options to tweak the action. For the Scale action, for example, you can choose to scale down the photo by a specified percentage value or to a predefined size measured in pixels. If you wish to change the image resolution or resampling algorithm, you can do so by adjusting the appropriate options. Once you are satisfied with the settings, you can add other desired actions. Finally, you have to add the mandatory Save action; without it, Phatch wouldn't know where to save the processed photos. Besides options such as output format and quality, the Save action also offers a set of variables that you can use to specify a destination for the processed photos. For example, the default folder_phatch/subfolder variable tells Phatch to save the processed images in a separate folder inside the source directory. The root/phatch/year/month/day variable creates a directory structure based on the current date.

You can rearrange the actions in the list using drag and drop -- except for the Save action, which must always be the last action on the list.

To process photos using the created action list, press the Execute button, choose the directory containing the photos you want to process, and press the Batch button. Once Phatch finishes, you should see the processed photos in the destination directory.

While using the Execute command every time you want to run photos through Phatch is not that difficult, the application offers another feature that makes the batch process even more straightforward. Choose View -> Droplet, and Phatch turns into a floating icon. Drag photos onto it, and Phatch processes them using the currently opened action list.

Well, that's all of my opinion and review about phatch. I recommend all ubuntu users to use this. It's really easy and damn cool! I like it and I'm using it for photo editing.

Please give some comments and suggestions for this review. Thanks!

Top CD/DVD Burner

2008-08-09T20:41:00.003+07:00

Hello, right now I'm gonna make a review post of my top 3 CD/DVD Burner software for Linux. And I also gonna give you the download links and my opinion with each software. Ready? Let's roll out.

1. GnomeBaker

The GnomeBaker offers many features for authoring CDs that surpass the basic Nautilus CD/DVD burning capabilities. Among these are the possibility to create an audio cd from existing sound files and other useful things. An overview of available functions is given here:

Create data CDs.
Blank RW disks.
Burn DVDs.
Copy data CDs.
Copy audio CDs.
Support multisession burning.
Record to and burn from existing CD ISO images.
Can burn via SCSI and ATAPI on Linux kernels 2.4 and 2.6. Basically if cdrecord works, then GnomeBaker will work.
Drag and drop to create data CDs (including drag and drop to/from the Nautilus file manager).
Create audio CDs from existing WAV, MP3, FLAC, and Ogg files.
Integrate with GConf for storage of application settings.

Well, gnomebaker works just like Nero works. Download and install Gnomebaker at (tuxsoftware) . I like this software and this is one of my favorite cd burning software.

2. K3B

Well, the number 2 of my top CD/DVD burner software is K3B. Gnome has it's own burner software and KDE also has 1 burner software named K3b. K3B (from KDE Burn Baby Burn) is a CD and DVD authoring application for the KDE desktop environment for Unix-like computer operating systems. It provides a graphical user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks like creating an Audio CD from a set of audio files or copying a CD/DVD, as well as more advanced tasks such as burning eMoviX CD/DVDs. It can also perform direct disc-to-disc copies. The program has many default settings which can be customized by more experienced users. The actual disc recording in K3b is done by the command line utilities cdrecord or wodim, cdrdao, and growisofs. As of version 1.0, K3b features a built-in DVD ripper.

To download and install this software: (tuxsoftware)

3. Brasero

The popular and very easy to use CD/DVD burning application for the Gnome desktop. Capable of burning on the fly audio cds, data cds, and data dvds. You can use an iso or create the directory tree to accomplish video dvd burning with ease.

To download and install this software:(tuxsoftware)

4. Nero Linux 3

Nero Linux 3 is the definitive burning application for the Linux operating system. Based on the award-winning current Nero Burning ROM platform, Nero Linux 3 is the most powerful and versatile burning application available for Linux, and the only application to offer Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD data burning support.

Experience the most comprehensive burning application for the Linux OS

Enjoy the same functionalities as in the newest version of Nero Burning ROM
Burn data using any optical disc format, including CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and HD DVD
Ensure a quick and easy setup using SmartDetect automatic drive support
Manage your music collection with integrated audio capabilities such as high speed digital audio extraction and FreeDB, which automatically searches for disc information over the Internet

Download and installation(Shareware): Link

Well.... That's all of my top 4 CD/DVD Burner software reviews. I hope it will help people who searching for this. Regards.

More Games Update

2008-08-09T20:39:00.002+07:00

Hello, here are more games updates from me. I found more interesting games. And these games are majorly a first person 3D shooters. Just like counter strike. Cool isn't it?

1. Nexuiz:

Nexuiz is a free, cross platform, first person shooter distributed under GNU General Public License by Alientrap Software. It started back in May 31 2005 with version 1.0 using DarkPlaces, a significanlty modified quake engine. The current version, 2.2.3, was released on January 26, 2007. Nexuiz’s logo is based on the chinese character “力” which means strength.

Several notable features of the game include

ability to multiplay up to 64 players
ability to generate bots for practice sessions
dynamic lighting system similar to Doom 3

Screenshot:

2. Enemy Territory-Quake Wars(shareware):
a first-person shooter follow-up to Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. It also has the same science fiction universe as Quake 4, with a story serving as a prequel to Quake II. Quake Wars is the second multiplayer-only game in the Quake series after Quake III Arena. The gameplay is almost the same as Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, but with the addition of controllable vehicles and aircraft, asymmetric teams, much larger maps and the option of computer-controlled bots. Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is being developed by Splash Damage for the PC using a modified version of id Software’s Doom 3 engine and MegaTexture rendering technology.

At E3 2006(Electronic Entertainment Expo), the game won the Game Critics Award for Best Online Multiplayer.

Screenshot:

3. Tremulous

Tremulous is a free, open source game that blends a team based FPS with elements of an RTS. Players can choose from 2 unique races, aliens and humans. Players on both teams are able to build working structures in-game like an RTS. These structures provide many functions, the most important being spawning. The designated builders must ensure there are spawn structures or other players will not be able to rejoin the game after death. Other structures provide automated base defense (to some degree), healing functions and much more...

Player advancement is different depending on which team you are on. As a human, players are rewarded with credits for each alien kill. These credits may be used to purchase new weapons and upgrades from the "Armoury". The alien team advances quite differently. Upon killing a human foe, the alien is able to evolve into a new class. The more kills gained the more powerful the classes available.

The overall objective behind Tremulous is to eliminate the opposing team. This is achieved by not only killing the opposing players but also removing their ability to respawn by destroying their spawn structures.

Screenshot:

4. America's Army:

America’s Army is a tactical, multiplayer, first-person shooter owned by the United States Government and released as a global public relations initiative to help with U.S. Army recruitment. The first version, Recon, was released on 4th July 2002. The current version 2.8.1 was released on 22nd Mar 2007.

It’s the first well known computer game used for political aims. The game is used as a playable recruiting tool and critics have charged the game serves as a propaganda device. A counter on the homepage of the PC version shows over eight million registered accounts as of 2007. GameSpy tracked the game usage and reported an average of 4,500 players at any one time between 2002 and 2005. It is enough for America’s Army to rank in the Top 10 Online Games chart.

Screenshot:

5. Alien Arena:
Alien Arena is a completely free FPS started by COR Entertainment in 2004 comprising of a science fiction ambience and a Quake like gameplay. This game is playable in single player mode against bots, but the action and thrill lies at the online multiplayer mode. Features of the Alien Arena 2007 include an internal server browser for finding other people to play online and an external program that acts as an IRC interface. There are 6 game types and 6 game mutators that changes the gameplay. Cattle Prod is a new game type that requires you to herd robotic cattle to earn points. Alien Arena 2007 is playable in Windows, Linux and FreeBSD.

Screenshot:

6. Vendetta:
Vendetta Online is a 3D space combat MMORPG for Windows, Mac and Linux. This MMO permits thousands of players to interact as the pilots of spaceships in a vast universe. Users may build their characters in any direction they desire, becoming rich captains of industry, military heroes, or outlaws. A fast-paced, realtime "twitch" style combat model gives intense action, coupled with the backdrop of RPG gameplay in a massive online galaxy. Three major player factions form a delicate balance of power, with several NPC sub-factions creating situations of economic struggle, political intrigue and conflict. The completely persistent universe and detailed storyline add to the depth of immersion, resulting in a unique online experience.

Introducing LSI

2008-08-09T16:10:00.000+07:00

I got some information and some new project that my friend, Kevin has made a pretty nice project named LSI(Linux Software Installer). Linux Software Installer allows you to easily install software directly from your web browser and from .deb packages located on your computer. LSI is still under heavy construction and now it's reached 0.6.9 BETA.

TuxSoftware.com is a software installation site for Ubuntu, Debian, and derived distributions such as LinuxMint, gOS or DreamLinux. On the site you will find hundreds of the most popular Linux applications available for installation directly from your web browser - with links, reviews, screen shots, and additional information for each. They goal is to provide one place where you can find, research, and install the free software you need as quickly and as easily as possible.

Here is some screenshots of the Linux Software Installer:

Installation:
The installation method is pretty simple, you need to go to this website and download the LSI.

You can easily search the software that you want by just go to this site

And these are some features and capabilities that LSI can do:
1. Only great quality, well documented apps that users won't have an issue using.

2. The site or delivery method must be quick and easy for the novice to figure out.

3. Users must be able to educate them self, ie. shots, links, reviews, tutorials, etc.

4. It must be compatible with Ubuntu, Debian, and any popular derived distro.

5. The site must be friendly, yet professional looking and well maintained .

Well, what are you waiting for, just go to tuxsoftware.com and start to download the software that tuxsoftware provides to you ;) . Oh, and one more thing again. On every software reviews that I make, I will give the LSI software link an it might help you to download and install the software that you wants.

Sunbird Calendar

2008-08-06T16:50:00.002+07:00

Hello, before that I'm sorry because I'm pretty busy this week so I taking a short break from blogging . And right now, I'm gonna give you some interesting software tutorial . Sunbird is the Mozilla Calendar application and a sibling of the Firefox webbrowser. The goal is to produce a cross platform stand-alone Calendar application using the XUL user interface language along with the Gecko rendering engine.

You can test-drive Sunbird in two ways: either with the standalone Sunbird application (available in official binaries for Windows, x86 Linux, and Mac OS X), or with the Lightning extension for Thunderbird (which comes as an XPI cross-platform install). The two applications are developed concurrently; the current releases of both are numbered 0.5. Lightning 0.5 will install into Thunderbird version 1.5 or later. To install Lightning, download the installer using Save as ... in your Web browser, then open it from within Thunderbird's Tools -> Add-ons menu.

Ok, without any more introduction and details, I will give you the tutorial to install Sunbird Calendar. I'll provide 4 ways to install the Sunbird Calendar(For Ubuntu):

1. Install from TuxSoftware LSI(Linux Software Installer):Tuxsoftware already added this software into their repositories and this is one of the most easy way to install Sunbird Calendar. You need to download the installer(if this software not installed at you computer) And Download Sunbird Calendar at HERE (via LSI).

2. Install Sunbird from Terminal:
Just simply type those words at terminal(ubuntu & debian installation):

sudo aptitude install sunbird
sudo aptitude download sunbird

3. Install Sunbird by using apt-url: This is the easiest way for the Linux-Amateur, just simply click the link that I give to you and it will install Sunbird automatically(Only works for ubuntu and other ubuntu variant(gOS, kubuntu, and others): Install Sunbird

4. Installation at other linux(Source Code): Just simply click this link to download other linux installation

Ok, that's all of the installation method. And here is some screenshots of Sunbird Calendar:

Ok, that's all of the Sunbird installation tutorial and reviews. Try it! In my opinion, users need to use this software, specially for a business person, this software might can help you to schedule all tasks and appointment. It's really helpful. That's all.

KDE 4.1 Installation at Ubuntu

2008-08-02T19:02:00.003+07:00

Well... KDE 4.1 finally released on 29 july 2008. I'm quite happy about this. Right now, I'm going to give a tutorial to install KDE 4.1 inside your ubuntu. KDE 4.1 comes with a lot of innovations for the Linux desktop. KDE 4.1 is the next generation of the popular K Desktop Environment, which seeks to fulfill the need for a powerful yet easy-to-use desktop, for both personal and enterprise computing. The new version provides increased stability over the first KDE 4 version and more eye candy!

OK, this is the tutorial, read it carefully, and I also provide some apt-url to make the linux rookies more comfortable.

First, add KDE 4.1 repositories.
Go to System->Administration->Software Sources
Then click the second tab called "Third Party Software" then click the "add" button and paste the following code at the new windows:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu hardy main

After that, click the 'Add Source' button and, immediately after, the 'Close' button of the main window. After that, it will ask you to reload the repositories, and reload those repositories until in finish.

Secondly, Install KDE 4.1
If you're in windows/other operating system now, here is the code:

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-kde4-desktop

If you're in Ubuntu, just click this link to perform the installation automatically(apt-url):

Click This Link

When the download is over (it will take a while if you have a slow bandwidth) you will be asked to choose a display manager (GDM or KDM-KDE4). Just hit the forward button.

The installation will start and, when it is over, just log out. Then select the 'KDE 4' option in the "Select Session" entry of the GNOME login manager. It will log you into the KDE 4.1 . That's all! And here are some screenshots of KDE 4.1:

Problem Solve:
Some people might have a problem installing this package, it says that it's trying to write over /usr/lib/kde4/share/doc/kde4/HTML/en/kcontrol/kwindecoration/index.docbook but it can't.
There's 2 ways to solve this problem,
1:
You (probably) already have some kde 4 packages installed... so you need to upgrade them first. Try to execute the following command in a terminal:

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo apt-get install kubuntu-kde4-desktop

2:
you can solved it by running

sudo gedit kdebase-runtime-data.list
and deleting all lines with /usr/lib/kde4/share/doc/
after that type sudo apt-get -f
It should solve this problem.

That's all of the current tutorial, hope it will help you to perform the KDE 4.1 installation.

How To Set Up A Ubuntu/Debian LAMP Server

2008-08-02T09:47:00.004+07:00

Hello, now I'm going to give some tutorial to set up LAMP Server and to use it. Some people are confused to use this local server at UBuntu/Debian. Other linux will catch up later.

Firstly, you need to have this things inside your ubuntu/debian

Apache 2 - Linux Web server
MySQL 5 - MySQL Database Server
PHP4/5 - PHP Scripting Language
phpMyAdmin - Web-based database admin software.

You need a system that has a minimum requirement of Debian/Ubuntu version of linux with at least 256MB of RAM available. Anything less than this minimum ram will cause lot of problems since we are running a server along especially mysql and webmin requires lot of RAM to run properly. Mysql will give you this nasty error "cannot connect to mysql.sock" if you dont have enough memory in your server. But I recommend you to have at least 512 of RAM available for more better performance.

Download PuTTy if you are accessing your server through SSH. Just enter the IP of your server with root login to access your host. You also can use Webmin, Webmin is a freely available server control panel and we will setup this once we have completed the LAMP server and Mail Server. Webmin makes more easier for us to fine tune our linux box. You need to use both of those software.

OK, now all things are set up perfectly, now you need to refresh the repositories in your ubuntu/debian by typing: sudo apt-get update

After following those steps, now we're ready to perform the installation.

1. Installing Apache + PHP

Apache is one of the most famous web server which runs on most linux based servers. With just few commands you can configure apache to run with PHP 4 or PHP 5. You can choose the PHP type there 4 and 5, and pick one of the (DO NOT INSTALL BOTH OF THEM) Choose between PHP 4 or PHP 5.

PHP 4 & apache Command(Type in terminal):

sudo apt-get install apache2 php4 libapache2-mod-php4

Or
PHP 5 & apache Command(Type in terminal):

sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5

Apache configuration file is located at: /etc/apache2/apache2.conf and your web folder is /var/www.

To check whether php is installed and running properly, just create a test.php in your /var/www folder with phpinfo() function exactly as shown below.

Type: nano /var/www/test.php

And here is the results after you type at the terminal:

# test.php

Point your browser to http://ip.address/test.php or http://domain/test.php and this should show all your php configuration and default settings.Use konqueror or firefox to perform this.You can edit necessary values or setup virtual domains using apache configuration file.

2. Installing MySQL Database Server

Installing mysql database server is always necessary if you are running a database driven ecommerce site. Remember running mysql server to a fair extend requires atleast 256mb of RAM in your server. So unless you are running database driven sites you dont absolutely need mysql. The following commands will install mysql 5 server and mysql 5 client

type:

sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client php5-mysql

If you have already installed php4, you should make a slight change like this:

sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client php4-mysql

N.B: The configuration file of mysql is located at: /etc/mysql/my.cnf

Creating users to use MySQL and Changing Root Password

By default mysql creates user as root and runs with no passport. You might need to change the root password.

To change Root Password:

mysql -u root
mysql> USE mysql;
mysql> UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD('new-password') WHERE user='root';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

You must never use root password, so you might need to create a user to connect to mysql database for a PHP script. Alternatively you can add users to mysql database by using a control panel like webmin or phpMyAdmin to easily create or assign database permission to users. We will install Webmin and phpmyadmin during later once we complete basic installation.

3. PhpMyAdmin Installation

PhpMyAdmin is a really nice web based database management and administration software and easy to install and configure under apache. Managing databases with tables couldnt be much simpler by using phpmyadmin. And here is the code to install PhpMyAdmin:

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

The phpmyadmin configuration file is located at: /etc/phpmyadmin folder.

To set up under Apache all you need to do is include the following line in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf(put this code inside the apache2.conf): Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf

Now restart Apache by typing this code:

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Point your browser to: http://domain/phpmyadmin

That's it! MySQL and phpMyAdmin are ready. Log in with your mysql root password and create users to connect to database from your php script. You can perform some installation and I already provide the tutorial to installing joomla at your apache, please visit this link to install joomla at your LAMP: http://allforlinux.blogspot.com/2008/05/installing-joomla-in-ubuntu-tutorial.html

More Compiz Fusion Effects

2008-07-31T06:56:00.004+07:00

Hello, somehow I managed it to made a new post. It's about 07.00 A.M , 1 hour before the electricity going down for 9 hours. Well, without wasting more time, I will give some new compiz fusion effects reviews and how-to for the installation. The current version now is compiz fusion 0.7.6

For the installation: You’ll need to add a new repository that contains recent Compiz packages. Open System->Administration->Software Sources. Select the Third-Party Software tab and click Add. Paste in the line below and click Add Source.

Paste this line :

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/compiz/ubuntu hardy main

After that, close the software sources and reload the repositories (it will reload automatically after you close the software sources) .

The installation is pretty easy, you just need to update the compiz from the update-manager. After you update the compiz fusion, here is some new features that you might need to know:
Quick changelog:
plugins-main:
- -------------
* New plugin: Static Switcher, a simpler switcher with a moving caret instead
of moving thumbnails
* Ezoom: New Zoom Box action allows using the mouse to select a zoom region.

plugins-extra:
- --------------
* New plugin: Cube Addon, a merge of Cube Reflections and Cube Caps, adding
new Cylinder and Sphere deformations
* New plugin: Wallpaper, sets unique wallpapers per viewport. Replaces the
Background images functionality in Desktop Cube.

libcompizconfig:
- ----------------
* New "internal" tag in action metadata. The tag can be used to indicate that
a binding is not a global binding.
* Added workaround to ensure that Benchmark is the last plugin
* App Switcher: Panel switching bindings moved to Bindings section

Configuration manager changes:
ccsm:
-----
* Check if an action conflicts with another plugin when enabling a plugin
* Internal action bindings will now only conflict with global bindings;
internal actions in different plugins can have the same bindings.
* Rewrote plugin overview page
* Changed native size of category icons to 32x32
* Internal code refactoring and bug fixes

simple-ccsm:
------------
* Removed hard-dependency on some plugins (e.g. animation),
simple-ccsm will now be able to start without them
* New profiles: Minimal, Medium, Advanced and Ultimate
* Show which accessibility features (zoom, colorfilter) are enabled
* Cube effects (deformation, transparency, reflection) are now configurable
* Window focus animation is now configurable

If you want to try the new cylinder and sphere deformations. Open CompizConfig Settings Manager and turn on the Desktop Cube, Rotate Cube, and Cube Reflection and Deformation plugins. In General Options->Desktop Size, set the size to four horizontal. In Cube Reflection and Deformation->Deformation, select cylinder or sphere. Rotate the cube by moving the cursor while holding the left mouse button and pressing Ctrl-Alt.

And here is some screenshots of the compiz fusion 0.7.6:

Oh, yeah, I almost forgot, this is also a tutorial to enable Stack Switch.
StackSwitch tilts your desktop and windows down like a table, and flips up the selected window. Just like the screenshot up there.

StackSwith installation(type at the terminal): sudo apt-get install typeswitch

And after the installation, you can found taskswitch at: System->Preferences->CompizConfig Settings Manager. Find and enable the plugin Stack Window Switcher. The switcher can be activated by pressing Super-Tab, or Super-Alt-Tab to show windows from all workspaces. (The super key is also known as the Windows key.)

And watch this video to know more about the new compiz fusion 0.7.6 effects:

And that's all of today tutorial about compiz fusion 0.7.6 . You can have more experiment with those software. It has a ton of effects. If there's a problem, contact me via comments or mail. The local time now is 07.30 A.M , and I need to get to offline now. The electricity will going down and I don't have any electricity for about 9 hours.

Games Update

2008-07-29T21:13:00.000+07:00

Hello, these are some games updates that was requested by a readers. And those are more 5 games update:

1. Saubraten: Sauerbraten (a.k.a. Cube 2) is a free multiplayer/singleplayer first person shooter, built as a major redesign of the Cube FPS. Much like the original Cube, the aim of this game is not necessarily to produce the most features & eyecandy possible, but rather to allow map/geometry editing to be done dynamically in-game, to create fun gameplay and an elegant engine. Website | Download For Linux

2. Freeciv: Freeciv is a Free and Open Source empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization. The game commences in prehistory and your mission is to lead your tribe from the stone age to the space age... Download

3. Freecol: FreeCol is a turn-based strategy game based on the old game Colonization, and similar to Civilization. The objective of the game is to create an independent nation. Download

4. UFO: Alien Invasion is a squad-based tactical strategy game in the tradition of the old X-COM PC games, but with a twist. Our game combines military realism with hard science-fiction and the weirdness of an alien invasion. The carefully constructed turn-based system gives you pin-point control of your squad while maintaining a sense of pace and danger.
Download here

5. Flight Gear FlightGear project is a sophisticated flight simulator framework for use in research or academic environments, for the development and pursuit of other interesting flight simulation ideas, and as an end-user application. One of the best flight simulators available today under any platform.
Install via terminal:

sudo aptitude install flightgear
sudo aptitude download flightgear fgfs-base
Or
You can install via lsi from tuxsoftware.com for the easier way

Well, that's all of the current updates. You can give me a comments or suggestion. Or even you can request for more games that you want, and I will post it specially for you :-) .

Poseidon Linux 3.0

2008-07-26T20:53:00.002+07:00

Poseidon Linux based on open source software and aimed at the Brazilian/International scientific community was designed as a friendly and complete desktop. And this Operating System is also based on ubuntu, ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux Distros. This Operating system also inspired from Quantian Linux.

Poseidon Linux 3.0 offers several specific tools for scientific research like in the areas of GIS, 3D Visualization, Mathematics, Statistics and several otherfields of research. It also has all the software expected in a modern desktop such as an office suite - with spell checker, web browsers, e-mail readers, instant messaging, and more software. I also gonna use this for my school project.

Download the Poseidon 3.0

Please choose one of the servers below:

(Brazil)
http://g3pd.ufpel.edu.br/mirrors/poseidon/

(Germany)
http://www.chromgruen.eu/poseidon/

(France)
http://www.opencarto.net/poseidon/

MD5sum for Poseidon Linux 3.0:

f9960f9245e6b299eac5c3b48a028d09

If you don't know what this means... please look here

Poseidon screenshots:

Well, That's all of today OS review. It's 23.00 P.M now... Pretty late huh? Better go to sleep now.. Good Night.

Cheese

2008-07-25T20:50:00.006+07:00

Introduction
Cheese is an Open Source GNOME application, this application allows you to use your webcam to take a photos and it also allows you to record a videos. Cheese has an interface that really similar like a photobooth at Mac OS X. This software is also has a similar features and effects like photobooth. This software is based from on GStreamer framework.

Cheese Requirements:

GNOME 2.22
GStreamer 0.10
postr for Flickr export (optional)
f-spot for F-Spot export (optional)
a webcam
For more details visit the FAQ page

Some screenshots:(click to make it larger)

I took this screenshots randomly from google images :P . It might be your pictures in there. It's OK right?

Installation

The installation method is easy and the package is available in the ubuntu repositories.

Terminal Command:
sudo apt-get install cheese

After the installation, you can access cheese in Applications -> Graphics -> Cheese

In my opinion is this software is pretty cool, but it's really similar just like Mac OS default PhotoBooth. But it's OK, I like the interface. Overall Cheese is an extremely useful application for the user who had a webcam, I think this software should be bundled by default with the GNOME desktop environment , but cheese should fix some problem, because I noticed some comments are complained about the video recording problem. If you also have a same problem, you can report those bug at bugs.gnome.com . That's all of my opinion and Cheese review.

free billing software for internet cafe

2008-07-25T12:58:00.005+07:00

Introduction
Do you have any internet cafe? And having a trouble to make a billing for your customer? Well, I just got the answers, I found a online billing that can help you to process the billing and record the customer and it will automatically make the bill for your customer for every computer that you put in the room. This software is made from the baliwae company located in Bali island. The software name is BiOS Baliwae, acronym from Billing Open Source is free open source billing for internet caffe. Especially that run gnu/linux as server and client operating system. BiOS Baliwae was developed at Indonesia. Currently the program and manual instalation is only available in Indonesian language. I hope there will be an english language version. You can use any desktop manager to use this software and the most important this software is FREE.

This application is running based on web, it's operated by using the web server like apache or lighttpd. And this is the features of BiOS Baliwae:

Using the Open source license, GNU/GPL version 3
Has been tried in Linux Internet cafe for 2 years and it works well.
BiOS can runs inside any Operating System-cross platform, client or server(linux, windows, freebsd, etc)
BiOS has a simple interface and really ease to use both for client or operator.
Really easy installation without any compilation for client
BiOS is really light to use, responsive, and only need space less that 550 Kb for local bandwidth
Can accessed with any Linux GUI(XWIN: gnome, kde, icewm, enlightenment, jvm, and other)
Unlimited client
AJAX
If the computer billing connected to the internet, the owner can access the cpanel billing from anywhere. So, they can check their internet cafe condition.

Screenshots:

Installation

You need to download this software from http://bios.googlecode.com/files/BiOS-v1.4B.tar.bz2
And then install it inside the localhost(127.0.0.1) .
You also can try this software online in http://drlinux.baliwae.com/billing/ .

My opinion about this software is, this software has a really good potential and even this software is made from indonesia, but this software can be really competitive and don't forget that this software has win a reward as a best innovation software on the open source day competition. If you have any internet cafe, you can use this software for free. That's all of today software review .

FrostWire

2008-07-24T13:58:00.002+07:00

Software Introduction
Frostwire is a free peer2peer software that enable you to download any software, pictures, music , files, and video. This software works just like limewire. And even, frostwire has enabled the limewire pro features for free! Frostwire promises that this software will be more faster, more secure, and has broader search results. And finally I found some p2p software replacement for limewire.

Some Screenshots:(click to make it larger)

Installation:

The installation method is pretty simple, you need to install this software from terminal.
Open terminal and type this:
For Ubuntu, debian, gOS and the variant:

sudo aptitude install frostwire
sudo aptitude download frostwire

My opinion with this software is, this software is cool and I think most people will like it. You can download anything from this software and it's really simple and fast. I like this software. That's all :D . Try to install it, but remember to download a legal things. You can bookmark this post and give some comments, I really appreciate it.

Flyback

2008-07-23T10:42:00.002+07:00

Introduction

Apple Mac already has a time machine to went back to the time we wants to restore all files we needed. And Windows also has a system restore to went back to the time we wants. But Linux? As long as we knows, Linux doesn't have a software like that.... Well, this day.. After surfing the internet, I found something really interesting.. I found a ubuntu software that can perform system restoration just like Apple mac time machine and windows system restore. This software named FlyBack. This software is made from google code and I already tested it and it works really well.

Flyback provides much of the same functionality, but does so with a nice GUI wrapper to make the entire process more user-friendly. The UI appears to be GTK-based and overall, it's impressive. Just about everything you want from rsnapshot is here for the common man to make the most of it with.

Flyback creates successive backup directories mirroring the files that you want to make sure are backed up. In the truest sense, this has the potential to become a very clean, useful means of backing up a system completely. It can be fully automated and can be run via backup, which would likely meet the needs of the most hardcore command line users.

Screenshots of FlyBack:(Click to enlarge the picture)

Installation:

You're probably need to install this additional software:

Debian	$ sudo apt-get install python python-glade2 python-gnome2 python-sqlite3 rsync
Ubuntu	$ sudo apt-get install python python-glade2 python-gnome2 python-sqlite3 python-gconf rsync
Redhat/Fedora	$ yum install pygtk2 gnome-python2-gconf pygtk2-libglade python-sqlite3

Then download:

$ svn checkout http://flyback.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ flyback

$ wget http://flyback.googlecode.com/files/flyback_0.4.0.tar.gz
$ tar -zxvf flyback_0.4.0.tar.gz

Then change to the new directory ("flyback/src/" or "flyback/", depending on which you chose above) and run:

$ python flyback.py

Or, use the simple way that I got from tuxsoftware.com

Command Line Installation:

Ubuntu, Debian, gOS:

sudo aptitude install flyback
sudo aptitude download flyback

Installation from Tuxsoftware.com

INSTALL NOW
using L.S.I.

INSTALL NOW
with AptUrl

Well, my final opinion with this software is, this software is really good and you must try it, and flyback probably gonna help you to backup and restore in instant just like time machine. But, I also thought that flyback need to improve the UI, it will make people more like this software. Perhaps, FlyBack can request to Ubuntu team to make this software the default backup system.
That's all of my conclusions with this software.

Gnome-Do

2008-07-22T10:39:00.004+07:00

Introduction:
Gnome-Do is an intelligent launcher tools to perform common task on your computer simple and efficient. This software can index 100% of your files correctly including mail, chat, play, applications, and more. This software will make your work more efficient and faster. Do provides instantaneous, action-oriented desktop search results that adapt to reflect your habits and preferences. For example, if you use Firefox web browser often, typing "f" in Do will launch it.
Unlike other search tools that present search results as flat, homogeneous lists, Do provides familiar graphical depictions of search results that assure you that your intent is being realized correctly; searching for "mom" will show a picture of mom, and searching for "beatles" will show a Beatles album cover. Do has many more powerful and exciting capabilities that must be seen to be appreciated.

Some Screen shots(click to make it larger):

Installation:

Terminal Installation(Ubuntu, Debian, gOS, and other ubuntu variant):

sudo aptitude install gnome-do
sudo aptitude download gnome-do

Download the Software Package:

Ubuntu Package Downloads
Debian Package Downloads

Installation from tuxsoftware.com(other alternative and it works well):
using L.S.I. | Using AptUrl

Homepage: http://do.davebsd.com/

And that's all of todays software review and my last opinion is this software is looks like a lot like finder at mac os x. But it seemed to be this software is has more capabilities to search and index, even has an action-oriented desktop search results that adapt to reflect your habits. With the file size only 2 MB and the memory requirement only 256 MB, it really gonna satisfy users. Try it and share your experience in here by filling the comments for suggestion and other. Some of this information I got is from wiki, tuxsoftware.com, and do.davebsd.com .

Antivirus for Linux

2008-07-21T12:42:00.004+07:00

Every Linux forum that I joined are have some of Linux antivirus thread, and people are just laughed thoseYES, I know... Linux is really secured and the windows viruses are cannot break into Linux system (some virus can). But, there's nothing wrong if I give some list of free antivirus and shareware antivirus. I do it because it seems some newbie needs those things. newbie. I think this antivirus is only work to search the windows virus and for make your workstation more secured. And these are some Anti Virus List:

* AVG Antivirus Avg is one of the most popular free antivirus, with the best capabilities to terminate and clean the virus. AVG is one of my favorite antivirus both for windows and Linux.
Download here

* Avast! Antivirus Avast is also one of the best free antivirus, it can handle many viruses and with their free mail scanner make this antivirus is one of the popular antivirus. This antivirus is available both for windows and linux. Download here

*Panda Antivirus Panda Antivirus for Linux is an antivirus for Linux servers and desktops. It is an antivirus designed to be managed from the command line or console. To do this, an executable called PAVCL will be used. Download here

* F-PROT Antivirus Antivirus that also designed for Linux server/ Linux workstations and it works properly. Download here

* Clam Antivirus Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner and advanced tool for automatic database updates. The core of the package is an anti-virus engine available in a form of shared library. Download here

* Kaspersky Antivirus Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Linux Workstation is a two-part solution designed to protect workstations. The first module, the on access protection, is integrated with the operating system and checks file modified files (either new or amended files), thereby ensuring real-time protection of the system without significantly increasing server load. Download here

* Norman Antivirus In line with this Norman has developed a new antivirus application for Linux, offering both On-access and On-demand scanning of files residing on the servers or workstations. The Norman Virus Control (NVC) for Linux is compatible with all major Linux distributions. Download here (shareware)

More Update! Special thx to

* Free avira antivirus for unix system Avira antivirus providing the up2date updates and has a capabilities to scan and remove a ton of viruses, avira also capable to scan the mail via evolution and kmail. Download here

* BitDefender Antivirus The award-winning BitDefender technologies in a variety of desktop products ranging from the simple to the expert provide all the security you'll ever need. Download here

* Sophos (shareware) Sophos Endpoint Security and Control provides integrated cross-platform virus and spyware detection on non-Windows servers, desktops and laptops. The powerful detection engine scans all potential entry points for full network protection. Download here

Well, that's only a few antivirus from a ton of them... But, there some note... during my 3 years experience with Linux, I'd never saw a single of viruses infected into my Linux PC, and in my opinion, there NO NEEDED ANTIVIRUS FOR LINUX. Comments for suggestion and criticism are OK.

gOS review

2008-07-19T21:46:00.007+07:00

gOS is one of the popular distros based from enlightenment and gnome. Many people think that gOS is from google software, but the fact is gOS is not from google but from the other company that headquartered in Emeryville, California. gOS is based from ubuntu, and we can predict that gOS will be as good as ubuntu ;) . gOS already released the stable version and it's available in gOS official website.

And this is the gOS Space features(the newest one):

Linux meets MySpace With a stunningly beautiful interface and fun MySpace Apps, gOS Space 2.9 introduces a linux-based operating system designed for the 100,000,000 MySpace users.

Web on a dock Now with the new gOS Space dock, you can email, IM, surf the web, while surfing through popular TV, movies, and music at the same time. The gOS Space dock aggregates the most popular web apps into neat, usable stacks for MySpace, News, Photos, Videos, Music, TV, Tools, and Fun.

Making beautiful open source products for the world gOS is a linux-based operating system designed with mainstream appeal and usability. gOS first debuted with the Everex gPC, a $199 PC sold at Wal-Mart stores and online. gOS has since released two additional versions of its linux operating system. To learn more about the company, please visit About section.

System Requirements:

700 MHz x86 processor [500 MHz also OK for gOS Rocket E(enlightenment)]
384 MB of system memory (RAM) [128 mb is OK for gOS Rocket E]
8 GB of disk space
Graphics card capable of 1024×768 resolution [800x600 also OK]
Sound card
A network or Internet connection

Download gOS:
You can download gOS at here . There's 3 options; gOS Space, gOS Rocket G for the gnome environment, and gOS Rocket E for Enlightenment environment.
Screenshots:

It seemed to be gOS merge 2 OS between ubuntu with Mac OS X Leopard. If you see the dock, it's really familiar with Mac Dock. And those dock are one of my favorite dock style. And with compiz fusion, it make gOS 3D composition really perfect.

Video:
Here's video of gOS, it's interesting:

Final Conclusion:

My personal opinion is, I will use gOS immediately and this OS will be one of my favorite distros. I hope I still have more hdd space for this distro :P . I really like the dock, it's really elegant. And I think you should try to use gOS also. I think users will like this distro. And that's all of my reviews. Please give a comments for suggestion or criticism. I really appreciate that. Thx.

YouTube Downloader

2008-07-16T17:10:00.002+07:00

Hello, this time I will give some reviews of Linux Software. People who use windows must know how to download the videos from youtube. But in linux, some newbies cannot download the videos from YouTube, because there's some request from a friends, I will post this method to download the videos from youtube. There's a software that I use to download the YouTube Videos and it works really well and it's pretty easy to use also. The software name is Clive.

Clive is Command-line and fullscreen console program that extracts videos from YouTube, Google Video and other video sites. It supports embedded video extraction, and can be used with an external encoder (e.g. ffmpeg) to re-encode the extracted videos to different video formats (e.g. avi, mpeg, flv).

Features

Multi-platform; POSIX (BSD/Linux/UNIX-like)

Supports:

- Youtube
- GoogleVideo
- Dailymotion
- Guba
- Metacafe
- Sevenload
- Myvideo

Bandwidth throttle

Multi-URL (batch) support

Compatible with UNIX pipes

Configuration file support

Integration with X clipboard (xclip)

Chain with a 3rd party player software for playing

Chain with ffmpeg for subsequent re-encoding

Proxy support; option and http_proxy environment setting

Installation
Clive have a lot of features, and I can't explain it, I just made it simple. And this is the command to install Clive:

sudo aptitude install clive

For Cheat Sheet Click HERE .

Compiz Fusion Video

2008-07-14T12:52:00.005+07:00

Hello again, this time I'll give you some compiz fusion videos, including the new effects. And just for note that this desktop composition is not available for windows :P . This is only some demonstration to show that Linux also can be like vista or mac. Because some people doesn't believe that Linux is better than vista/mac. Well, just take a look of those videos.

Well, if you take a look of those videos, there's one videos that shows Asus Eee PC. I'm pretty surprised that asus eeepc can handle the 3D desktop.

Accessing your yahoo mail from evolution

2008-07-14T10:11:00.002+07:00

At this time, I want to gives you some tutorial to access your yahoo mail from the evolution.
Before you get started, you need to make sure your to change your mail pop3 settings. So it can run inside evolution. And this is the step:
1. Open Evolution and click the menu : Edit -> Preferences .

2. At the left side, make sure you're already highlighted the mail accounts and then click add.

3. Click the Forward button and fill with your accounts ID.

4. Choose the POP for the type of the servers:

Pop : plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com:995 (make sure the pop number same with you account)

Username: yourusername@yahoo.com

Use Secure Connection: SSL Encryption

Authentication Type: PASSWORD

Remember Password: Checked

And click the forward button, and choose the options that you're desired.

5. Click the forward button again and Input this:

Server Type:SMTP

SERVER: plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com:465 (make sure your port number is same with your account)

Server requires authentication: Check it.

Use Secure Connection: SSL Encryption

Authentication: Plain

Username: username WITHOUT @yahoo.com

6. Click The Forward button again, And input those name settings with your yahoo id.

And that's it! If there's something wrong, contact me.

Screenlets installation

2008-07-10T18:09:00.001+07:00

Screenlets is a powerful widgets, and I will give you a tutorials to install screenlets, screenlets is the other options after google gadgets. Google gadgets has a ton of widgets, but screenlets also cannot be ignored. Firstly, you need to take a look of the video.

And this is the tutorial, please follow it carefully.

1. Install through the Repositories
Install through the repositories by open your sources.list , press alt+f2 button.
Code: sudo /etc/apt/sources.list

2. Add The Line at the End of the Files
Add this line to the end of the file (for Ubuntu 7.10):

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gilir/ubuntu gutsy main universe

Add this line to the end of the file (for Ubuntu 8.04):
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gilir/ubuntu hardy main universe

3. The Installation

Save and close the text editor. Run this command to update apt repositories:
sudo apt-get update

Install the Screenlets package by typing:
sudo apt-get install screenlets

You also need to install the package of phyton-feedparser if you didn't install this things:
sudo apt-get install python-feedparser

If starting the Screenlets Manager nags you that Gtkmozembed needs to be installed, some Screenlets may not work. Run this command to fix it:
sudo apt-get install python-gnome2-extras

Press y and enter to accept installing the package without verification.

4. Use Debian Package for Offline Users

For offline users, you can use the getdeb.netpackage and it might help you ;) . Don't forget to use Compiz Fusion too.

5. Get Started with Screenlets!

The Screenlets manager can be started from the System->Preferences->Screenlets menu item. If it’s not there, you may find it in Applications->Accessories->Screenlets.

As you will see in the Screenlets Manager, the default installation includes a lot of Screenlets. Start a Screenlet by selecting it in the list and clicking the Launch/Add button. If you like the Screenlet, select the Auto start on login box to have it launch automatically. Close a Screenlet by unselecting the Start/Stop box.

6. Mac OS X Style

Compiz’s Widget Layer plugin can be used with Screenlets to achieve an effect similar to the dashboard in Mac OS X. Your Screenlets will only be visible by activating a view that dims the desktop and displays the Screenlets on top of everything else.

In the Appearance Preferences dialog (System->Preferences->Appearance), open the Visual Effects tab and switch to the Custom effects level. If this option is not available, you need to install CompizConfig Settings Manager (CCSM) first:
sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

Now, open CCSM by clicking the Preferences button. Find the Widget Layer plugin and select the box to turn it on.

For all the Screenlets you want on the Widget Layer, open their right-click menus and select Window->Widget. The Screenlet will disappear from your desktop. Press the default Widget Layer key, F9, to dim the desktop and display your widgets.

That's all of Screenlets tutorial, hope it will make your Ubuntu desktop more cooler. And for tutorial to make your desktop look like Mac OS X, please go to this Link . Please fill the Comments. I really appreciate that.

Make your ubuntu looks like a Mac OS

2008-07-09T20:24:00.008+07:00

Mac OS X are the most impressive Operating System with the most impressive graphical interface and stability. And right now, even you can install Mac OS X inside your PC. But some people who cannot install the OSX X86 inside their computer wants to make their Operating System looks like OSX. And majority of their OS are also Windows xp/vista. XP and Vista has their own transformation pack, but it's not really like Mac OS X, only some themes added, with additional software and dock. And that's it! But at Linux, specially Ubuntu with the gnome as the default windows manager, your Ubuntu can be mocked up and it will be as cool as Mac OS X. I will give you some tutorial to change your Ubuntu look into OSX. You should tweak and customize your desktop to make it more like Mac. It's really easy, and you're just need to follow the step:

For me to extract the file to $HOME/Mac directory(already created but you can change the directory by your self) command would be : -
Code: tar -xvzf LeopardX-V2.6.tar.gz $HOME/Mac

Otherwise, you can just extract it into your directory by right click it and extract those package.

2. Downloading Mac4Lin GTK Theme

Now similarly download Mac4Lin GTK theme from the following website and extract it to the folder created above ($HOME/Mac)

Download : http://rs18.rapidshare.com/files/71511264/Mac4Lin_GTK_Aqua_v0.3.tar.gz

and to extract it to $HOME/Mac director(already created)
Code: tar -xvzf Mac4Lin_GTK_Aqua_v0.3.tar.gz $HOME/Mac

3. Download Cursor Theme Package

We need to download the cursor set for our new theme , you can download the cursor set from t he following website :

http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Shere+Khan+X?content=57588

After downloading the cursor set extract cursors to the directory created in the first step.

4. Combining the Downloaded Files into a Single Theme Package
Now after completing the above steps go to the directory( cd $HOME/Mac for me ) in the Terminal and issue the following command to combine the three theme files into a single .tar.gz archive .

Code: tar cvfz MyTheme.tar.gz LeopardX Mac4Lin_GTK_Aqua_v0.3 Shere_Khan_X/

5. Installing Theme Package
Now to install the theme package we have created in the above step , go to (System -> Preferences -> Appearance) and click Install and point to our newly created MyTheme.tar.gz archive.

This should start installing the theme package (Cursors/Icons/Theme) once installation is completed . Chose Custom in theme and click on Customize .You will find a window like this:

Customize Dialog Box

In this window in Icons chose LeopardX , in Controls Mac4Lin_GTK_Aqua_v0.3 , in Window Border Mac4Lin_GTK_Aqua_v0.3 and in Pointers White Cursor .

If you have followed the steps properly the theme and icons should have been installed , and you should be able to see the new theme applied to your default desktop .

6. Changing the Log In Screen / GDM Theme

To change the Log In Screen/GDM Theme download the package from website listed below : http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/OSX+Session+Login?content=68346

After downloading the package , open (System -> Administration -> Log in Window ) and there go to Local and click on Add and point to the downloaded theme package (osx-login.tar.gz) . Now you would find OSX-Login theme listed in the window , select OSX-Login and close the window . Logout and Login again you should find the new theme installed .

Log-in Window allows easy changing of the Login Screen Theme

7. Enabling Compiz-Fusion

IMPORTANT : - Enabling Compiz-Fusion is essential if you want to use Screenlets , Avant Window Manager Properly .

Unlike previous releases of Ubuntu where one had to manually download and install compiz,beryl etc (Compiz Fusion is composite window manager that provides best features of Compiz and Beryl) from Repositories if one wanted to have glitzy visual effects .

Ubuntu 7.10 comes with Compiz Fusion pre-installed and on supported hardware offers a wide array of Visual Effect . Now depending on graphic hardware of computer one could chose from three level of Visual Effect (From System -> Preferences -> Appearance )

None : - This mode causes Ubuntu to use Metacity instead of Compiz Fusion , with no visual effect

Basic : - Has only simple visual effects like shadows , fading windows-menus etc

Advanced : - Recommended for PC with descent graphic hardware , enables effects like wobbly windows, transparency , animated workspace switching etc

Visual Effect Dialog Box

However , compiz-fusion is capable of much more and you can enable more desktop effects /customize compiz by typing the following command in the terminal window : -

Code : sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

Otherwise, if you are inside ubuntu now, just simply click this Link and it will automatically installed.

After completing above step , you can customize compiz by going to System _. Prefrences _> Advanced Desktop Effects Settings.
Code: sudo apt-get install emerald
Otherwise, if you're inside ubuntu right now, just click this: Link
After installation is over , open Terminal from (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal ) and issue the following command to install emerald which is necessary for using themes in compiz .
Download MacOS X Emerald theme from this link : http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Mac4Lin+Leopard+Emerald+Theme?content=68409

Now open (System -> Preferences -> Emerald Theme Manager )

After Emerald theme manager opens click on import and point to the downloaded theme package from withing the Theme Manager , you will find Mac4Lin Theme listed select the theme , click on refresh and quit the application .

8. Install Avant Windows Navigator or Cairo Dock.

I already provide you the tutorial inside this blog also, AWN for ubuntu gutsy, and I promises to give the hardy repositories and cairo dock can be use for both gutsy and hardy.

For AWN: Link
For Cairo Dock: Link

9. Install Google Gadgets or Screenlets

Install Google Gadgets for the widgets or gadgets, I already provide the tutorial link(still inside this blog). It's easy and guaranteed 100% works. Please go to this Link
N.B: I will give you the tutorial to install the screenlets as soon as possible.

Well, that's the end of the tutorial, hope it can make your Ubuntu desktop even more better. For the wallpaper, you can use all of the wallpaper that you love! And don't forget to remind me to give the screenlets tutorial. Thx.

* I got some information from linuxondesktop.blogspot.com and the rest is from my blog.

Intrepid Ibex

2008-07-08T06:27:00.004+07:00

Ubuntu already announced, Intrepid Ibex will be the next generation of Ubuntu after Hardy Heron. Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex scheduled will be release in October 2008 and right now is still under development. Canonical promises that Ubuntu 8.10 will be the next major release of Ubuntu with some major changes including layout changes. I'm a bit getting bored with the human themes also after all :P .

Watch The new Intrepid Ibex alpha 1 video:

Plans for Intrepid Ibex include improvements to mobile computing and desktop scalability as well as increased flexibility for Internet connectivity. "Our desktop offering will once again be a focal point as we reengineer the user interaction model so that Ubuntu works as well on a high-end workstation as it does on a feisty little subnotebook. We'll also be reaching new peaks of performance—aiming to make the mobile desktop as productive as possible," Shuttleworth wrote in the e-mail. "A particular focus for us will be pervasive Internet access, the ability to tap into bandwidth whenever and wherever you happen to be."

And this is the annoncemet letter from Mark Shuttleworth (The founder of Ubuntu): Link

I will update you with more news about this next version of Ubuntu. Just wait :-)

Windows 7 review

2008-07-07T07:02:00.014+07:00

Yes, I know this is a Linux Blog. But what's wrong if I also gives some review to Micro$oft Windows? ~~Somehow, I think we also should give this OS some chance~~ :P .

First, take a look of windows 7 video. It's pretty interesting.

Hey dude! It's really look like a MacBook Touch concepts! Apple already used that technology. Well then, it seemed to be another copy and paste program from Microsoft. But who knows? probably Microsoft will announce a fresh software from nowhere. Take a look of the Apple concepts from Macbook Touch:

Windows 7 is predicted will be the successor of Windows Vista(this OS will replace the dying vista, in my opinion they're made a big mistakes by released windows vista). So, Microsoft gonna release windows 7 in middle of 2009 to 2010(only 2-3 years after vista released). Well, the first thing that on my mind is seems to be microsoft doesn't want to defer the time for more with those new operating system. Windows se7en already predicted will be release in Jan 2010. And right now I also find some interesting screenshots about this OS, take a look at those screenshots:

Many people thought that this screenshots are just like Mac OS X, or Linux, but ~~I personally thought that this OS will be different from the other OS~~ I think it's also really similiar. Just for note that this pictures are some concepts of Windows 7. And the CodeName can be changed anytime just like windows vista.

You can try windows 7 on october 2008, there will available a beta version to try. And here are screenshots of windows 7 renewed application like calculator, control panel, and paint:

New control panel look

New look with the calculator

Customize your own task

The ribbon concept for internet explorer??

Well, that's my reviews and comments from me, (some Linux users are Windows users also after all :-D ) . I'll really appreciate some comments, critism and sugestion also.

*Update

Here are more screenshots(the latest windows 7 pre-beta release).

As you can see, a renewed taskbar

Quick Preview

And the download links for windows 7 beta will be added soon, windows 7 beta 1 will be release in december 2008. Let's hope that this OS will be much better than vista :) . But, still in my opinion, Ubuntu is still the best Operating System that I've ever use!! Have no regret to said that. I'll keep update this post.

Installing Ubuntu Netbook Remix at hardy heron

2008-07-05T19:19:00.004+07:00

Ubuntu Netbook Remix is a special edition of Ubuntu and right now, it seemed to be there isn't any kind of installation from ISO cd or VB image of netbook remix available. Fortunately, the Ubuntu Netbook Remix Team offers a Personal Package Archive (PPA) of their great work.

Warning: Ubuntu Netbook Remix packages change a lot of settings on Ubuntu Hardy, including all session files and Nautilus setup. So DO NOT install the packages on your native desktop. You can install this Ubuntu Netbook Remix inside your VMWare or VirtualBox.

After you prepared a virtual machine, installation if fairly easy:

1) Add the PPA to your sources list (click the system->software sources or press alt+f2 and type sudo /etc/apt/sources.list):

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/netbook-remix-team/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/netbook-remix-team/ubuntu hardy main

2) Update your system and install Ubuntu Netbook Remix:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install go-home-applet human-netbook-theme maximus ume-launcher window-picker-applet

3) After installation, you need to restart gdm:

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

And here is some screenshots (for more screenshots visit Flickr.com):

If your theme didn't change automatically, please check your appearance settings. There's a new "human netbook theme" available.

There's also some issued there's some bug with the graphical interface. Please contact the Ubuntu Netbook Remix at Launchpad.net if you get some bug. Note that some if this tutorial are came from markusthielmann.com . I got this information after searching for more information about this Ubuntu variant. Please give some comments for question, critism, and suggestion.

IBM Lotus Symphony 1 with Ubuntu

2008-07-05T17:44:00.002+07:00

IBM already launched they office products for Linux named IBM Lotus Symphony. IBM’s closed source OpenOffice-based free office suite. I'm not really impressed with this office suites but I still will gives some review with the installation tutorial. But it seemed to be this lotus symphony has a few bug and errors.

I already installed the Lotus Symphony final release inside my Ubuntu 8.04 and it works well. OK, this is the tutorial, please read carefully.

1. Before starting the installation, you might need to install an extra dependency or the installer will fail with the error: Installation requires libstdc++.so.5 to continue. Install the package libstdc++5 before continuing: sudo apt-get install libstdc++5

2. Disable your desktop effects, because it seemed to be IBM hasn't fixed the problem from Beta 3 where the installer fails with Compiz enabled. So, disable the desktop effects.

3. Open terminal and change the directory to the directory where you downloaded the file by typing: cd ~/Desktop

Allow the installer to be executed:

chmod +x IBM_Lotus_Symphony_linux.bin

Run the installer as root:
sudo ./IBM_Lotus_Symphony_linux.bin

The installer will be running and it's really similiar with windows software installation, you're just need to follow the instructions.

After the installation, You will find a launcher for Lotus Symphony under Applications->Office->IBM Lotus Symphony.

The first thing you'll find after the installation, you'll find that the Lotus Symphony has a great layour, blue and orange interface. Lotus Symphony uses a tabbed interface. Multiple documents, presentations, and spreadsheets can be switched between from one window. A neat feature is the Show Thumbnails button on the tab bar which shows a preview of all open tabs.

This is some screenshots:

Lotus Symphony uses the ODF standard file formats. In my testing I noticed that Lotus Symphony does much better rendering complex diagrams embedded in MS Office documents than OpenOffice 2.4. The font size problems I had with ODT files in the previous Beta seem to have been fixed. File compatibility with MS Office and ODF documents in Lotus Symphony is good.

Finally, this is my conclution about this office suite;
1. The software is much more slower than open office
2. IBM need to improve they office suites to keep up with open office 3.0
3. IBM really needs to fix the bugs in their Linux installer, and start providing DEB packages for easier installation.
4. But still, I like the tabbed interface and the simplicity of the layout, it's more like MS Office.

That's all of my reviews with IBM Lotus Symphony 1.0 . Hope this reviews will help you. Some tutorial are taken from tombuntu.com and lotus.com. Please give some comments for question, critism, and suggestion.

D-LINK DWL-G122 Wireless Problem Solved

2008-06-28T18:30:00.002+07:00

Firstly, thanks for Ubuntuseekers who help me to solve this problem. It seemed to be Hardy Heron had a major problem with the Wireless Devices Drivers. So, this time I will post some tutorial to repair the Wireless Problem at Ubuntu (for D-LINK DWL-G112 or G122 ONLY). And you're also need to edit some text files. So, follow the step...

1. Make sure the wireless adapter are connected to your computer

2. Open your terminal.
Enter this sudo :" sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces "

3. A text window are appear. Clear all the text on that window. Then, copy and paste the following text at that window:
"
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them.

# The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback

# This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.

# They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.

# iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto rausb0

iface rausb0 inet dhcp pre-up ifconfig rausb0 up
pre-up ifconfig rausb0 down
pre-up iwconfig rausb0 essid {your ESSID}
pre-up iwconfig rausb0 key {your WEP key}
pre-up dhclient rausb0
"
4. Save it.

5. At terminal, enter sudo reboot

Just for a note that I can't guarantee this code will works, but it works with my Ubuntu and my D-LINK DWL-G122.
Special thanks to Ubuntuseekers who help me finding the answer.

CCSM (Compiz Config Configuration Settings Manager)

2008-06-26T20:58:00.003+07:00

In Ubuntu 7.10, there's a simple Compiz Config Settings Manager if you are installed the Compiz Config Manager. But in Ubuntu 8.04, simple Compiz config settings manager has gone.. A new tool, called Simple Compiz Config Settings Manager now needs to be installed to enable the option. Whether or not you want the Simple CCSM, you need to install it to enable the custom effects level.
To Install Simple Compiz Config Settings Manager:
sudo apt-get install simple-ccsm

After that, you can switch to custom effects. Click the Preferences button in Appearance Preferences to open the simple configuration tool. And to access all options you also need to install the CompizConfig Settings Manager By typing:

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

After following those steps you can run CCSM from the System->Preferences->Advanced Desktop Effects Settings menu item.

NB: to use Simple CCSM or CCSM, you need to have the Custom effects option selected.

Wine 1.0 Released

2008-06-21T14:36:00.003+07:00

Finally, after 15 years development, from 1993 to 2008, Wine team has released the final version of Winehq.

Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix.

Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris.

More information can be read in the articles Why Wine is so important, and Debunking Wine Myths. If you are wondering how well a particular application works in Wine, please examine the Applications Database. For installation instructions and step-by-step help with running Wine, take a look at the User Guide.

Wine is free software. The licensing terms are the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1.

Right now, Wine can support a thousand of windows software, like microsoft office, adobe photoshop, and many more games + software. For Wine installation in Ubuntu type: ' sudo apt-get install wine ' . I suggests you go to the wine website for more information. Link .

And perhaps I will promise you some tutorial to use Wine. When I having a free time of course.

Google Gadgets

2008-06-18T20:54:00.003+07:00

Google just released the new Google Gadgets for Linux. And now, I will give you some tutorials to install the Google Gadgets. Google Gadgets is a cool software, just like the dashboard of the Mac OS X. The Linux Gadgets features is pretty good although I think the windows gadgets might be better. But with the help of the compiz fusion, things are getting better and better.

OK, now here is the tutorial (ubuntu):

1. Go to System->Administration->Software Sources, and select the Third-Party Software tab.Click the add button or you can go by type in terminal: "sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list and paste in this repository code:


" deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/googlegadgets/ubuntu hardy main "

Close the software sources and reload those software repositories, you can type
" sudo apt-get update "

2. For the installation, after the software repositories reload, (for ubuntu users or if you in ubuntu right now) just click this . Or you just can type " sudo apt-get install google-gadgets " in terminal.

3. Run the Google Gadgets, press alt+f2 and type: " ggl-gtk "
if you're not like the sidebar you can type this by pressing alt+f2 again type: " ggl-gtk -ns "

Installation2 (other linux): just download the source code here . And compile it.

If you want the google gadgets start automaticly when you're restarting the computer go to System->Preferences->Sessions. Click Add and create a new item for Google Gadgets with the command ggl-gtk or ggl-gtk -ns if you don't want the sidebar.

You also can use the Compiz widget layer plugin to get the effects that similiar just like Mac OS X dashboard. You need to install the compiz-config-manager to do that.

Launch System->Preferences->Advanced Desktop Effects Settings. Enable the Widget Layer plugin, and enter its preferences screen. Select the Behavior tab, and type the following into the Widget Windows text box:
class=Ggl-gtk

Your gadgets should now be hidden. Press F9 to toggle the widget layer to show and hide them.

That's all for today tutorial...

Please leave some comments, I really appreciate that. thx..

some information I got from code.google.com and tombuntu.com .

Gimmie new panel

2008-06-18T19:57:00.006+07:00

I just surfing the internet and I found a pretty interesting software, do you remember my last posts that I made a long time ago named gnome3? I provide some software at the gnome3 post, a cool software named USP. Right now, I found more revolutionary new panel named Gimmie, I thought that this panel can be the future panel of the next generation of ubuntu. With it's simplicity and the unique desktop organizer, it might be the one who can be the replacement of the current panel at ubuntu. Ubuntu 7.10 installation: use the code: " sudo apt-get install gimme "

For other: Go to this download page Link

After the installation, you can found Gimme in the utilities section, select it, and click “Add”.

Gimmie is composed of 4 topics (menus): Linux, Programs, Library, and People.
The Linux topic is close to what you would think of as a typical main menu. You can launch your favorite applications, open recent files, view places & devices, and log out. The Library topic is used for getting quick access to your files. You can view your recent files, documents, notes, media, and downloads. One feature is development is Google Docs integration, that could switch me to Gimmie alone. The People topic provides simple instant messaging capabilities.

There's more screenshots:(click for enlarge)

For more information click this link
Please leave me some comments for critism, opinion, or suggestion. I really appreciate that.

Cairo Dock

2008-06-18T19:00:00.002+07:00

Isn't that fun if our ubuntu have a stylish dock just like Apple Mac OS X dock? A cool dock that have a cool features more than Mac. Well, I have the answer for that. Cairo Dock is probably the answers, after playing around with google, I found that Cairo Dock seemed to be a good dock.

Cairo-dock is an animated application launch bar for the desktop comparable to Mac OS X's Dock, or Rocket Dock (for those of you who come from Windows). It is compatible with Compiz-Fusion, Beryl, Compiz, and also Xcompmgr, but it can run without a composite manager (with fake transparency). Cairo-Dock can run under GNOME, KDE, and XFCE.

That's the screenshot of Cairo Dock.

For the installation, you need to download the deb package and just double clicking it for the installation. There's no need to use the command line :D . You should go to the website for more information and I will provide you the download links, just click the links and you will automaticaly forwarded to the download page, the current version is 1.5.6 and the beta version is 1.6.0 . I will give you the download link of the current version 1.5.6:
1. The Cairo Dock Plugins (DEB)
2. Cairo Dock sources (tar.bz2)
3. Cairo Dock (DEB)
You MUST install the cairo dock plugins and cairo dock (DEB), for the installer you also can use the sources code or just the installer(DEB).

And the unstable version 1.6.0:
1. Plugins (DEB)
2. Cairo Dock (DEB)

Launch it from Applications->System Tools->Cairo-Dock. The first time Cairo-Dock is run, it will open the Manage Themes dialog. Select a theme and click OK. The dock will then launch.

Right-click on the dock to access configuration, as well as add and remove launchers.

And this is the cool screenshot from cairo dock:

My last conclusion with this software is, Cairo dock need to improve the GUI for more to catch up with AWN. But, I think this dock is cool as well. Users will like this dock and it's pretty light to use.

For critism, suggestion, or opinion, you must leave a comments. I really appreciate your comments.

Ubuntu Studio 8.04 Released!

2008-06-18T15:14:00.001+07:00

Ubuntu Studio now is fully support Hardy. Ubuntu Studio is a multimedia editing/creation flavor of Ubuntu. It's built for the GNU/Linux audio, video, and graphic enthusiast or professional. People can use this Operating System for they studio. Ubuntu Studio has the most complete software for studio purposes. Check out ubuntu studio website.

And this is a complete list of ubuntu studio software link: Link

For more information about ubuntu studio: Link

Download Ubuntu Studio 8.04:
1. For i386 computers
2. For AMD computers

Screenshots:

Well, I hope this news can help people to find they own favorite distros. :D

Portable Linux

2008-06-14T18:47:00.002+07:00

Isn't it fun if we can use linux by just only boot our USB flash stick without installing those OS anymore? And you can access your favorite distros anytime and in any computer without install those distros anymore...

USB Linux installation enables you to install a portable Linux operating system on a flash drive or USB key no larger than your thumb. This portable Linux operating system can then be run from any computer that can boot from a flash device, allowing you to bring your operating system, desktop, applications, files, email, personal settings, favorites, games and more with you. It’s your own personal operating system you can carry in your pocket. On Pendrivelinux.com, we provide many simplified portable Linux flash drive installation tutorials. Making is easy for anyone to install, boot and run Linux portably from a Pen drive!

And without more speech :P, I just give you some links of tutorial to install Linux into USB Flash Drive. Try it and use it...

Note: Please perform the USB Boot Compatibility Test to ensure that your Computer is capable of booting from a Portable USB device.

This cool information I got is from http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ . Please take a visit to this website. It might help you with the installation. :D .

Compiz Fusion Shortcut

2008-06-14T15:01:00.002+07:00

Hello again.. Right now, I'm going to post a keyboard shortcut for Compiz Fusion. This shortcut probably can help people for having fun with the Ubuntu desktop effects. Now, this is some shortcut:
SUPER+SHIFT+DRAG LEFT MOUSE = draw fire
SUPER+SHIFT+C = clear fire
CTRL+ALT+DRAG LEFT MOUSE = rotate cube
CTRL+ALT+LEFT ARROW = rotate cube
CTRL+ALT+DOWN ARROW = flat desktop
SHIFT+ALT+

UP=initiate window picker
CTRL+ALT+DOWN=unfold cube
ALT+TAB=window switch
SUPER+TAB=flip switcher or ring switcher depending on which is enabled.
ALT+F7=initiate 'move windows'
SHIFT+F9=water effect
SHIFT+F10=slow animations
CTRL+ALT+D=show desktop

For Grouping and Tabbing:
SUPER+S=Select Single Window
SUPER+T=Tab Group
SUPER+Left=Change Left Tab
SUPER+Right=Change Right Tab
SUPER+G=Group Windows
SUPER+U=Ungroup Windows
SUPER+R=Remove Group Window
SUPER+C=Close Group
SUPER+X=Ignore Group
hold the super button then select the windows you want to group and then hit super+g also You can add new shortcuts.

Note: SUPER Keys means the windows button.

For the Desktop Configuration, you also need to install the Compiz Config Manager by typing this code: " sudo aptitude install compizconfig-settings-manager " .

Well, I hope this articles can help you for playing around the Compiz Fusion. Have Fun. :D

Ubuntu Ultimate 1.8

2008-06-14T13:32:00.003+07:00

One of the Ubuntu Edition named Ubuntu Ultimate has already released the new version: Ubuntu ultimate 1.8. Ubuntu Ultimate is the most complete version of Ubuntu, it has a ton of software inside those OS. But Ubuntu ultimate is not a part of the official Ubuntu Project, somebody made those varian by itself. Ubuntu Ultimate 1.8 is already based from Ubuntu Hardy Heron and the owner of this project made a new design for the skin and themes at those OS. It's pretty cool, considering the people are getting bored with the human themes based from ubuntu.
And this is a quote from the maker of Ubuntu Ultimate:
" Ultimate Edition 1.8 is built based off Ubuntu Hardy Heron, unlike previous biulds which were created by a tool called reconstructor I built this one by hand. it is by far my best work. I am releasing both a 32 bit & a 64 Bit edition. Hotrod is a fitting name for it, if you have a 64 bit processor I highly recommend the 64 bit edition. I can not stress how important that it is to torrent this release. We do have mirrors in route to try and take the load off, please, please torrent after you get it.

This release was built from scratch using Ubuntu Hardy Heron LTS with all the goodies pre-added, you have came to love with previous editions & a few new ones.

I would like to take the time to point out that the usplash is fully carried through after installation (the dragon). I have added a new sound scheme. I highly suggest you take the time to register on our forum there is a wealth of information to be obtained there. I suppose I should also point out I have made an online F.A.Q. more elaborate then can be found through the websites. Updating pages takes way too much of my time writing in html / css after all I am 1 MAHN.

Just download it already, you won't be sorry. The Screenshots speak for it all ;)

Enjoy!!!,

TheeMahn "
Here are some screenshots:

Linux Games

2008-06-13T19:25:00.006+07:00

Well, isn't it boring if your Linux doesn't have any interesting games? Well, Linux Games are getting better and better... The games vendor now really improving Linux games... Many new games or windows games right now can run inside Linux. And here are the list of Linux Games; (Please contact or notify me if there's any new interesting games released by fill the comments). And here is the TOP 10 games in Linux.

1. LinCity-NG-> A games that similar just like simcity, making a city.

2. Unreal Tournament 2004 -> Unreal Tournament is a commercial games and ussualy you need to pay for 40$ to 50$. It's a good games full with 3-D graphics and one of my favorite games in Linux, you can play it natively without any support software. Screenshots:

3. Urban Terror -> Urban Terror is a free multiplayer first person shooter (FPS). Urban Terror uses the free, stand-alone, ioquake3 engine modified, which doesn't require Quake III Arena, in addition to being an add-on to Quake III Arena. Urban Terror is focused on blending realism with the fast-paced action of shooters such as Quake III Arena and Unreal Tournament. The realism in the mod is introduced through a number of changes.You can download this game at here. Screenshots:

4. Never Winter Nights -> This game is for th ose who want the thrill of enthralling graphics in a 3rd-person world. It's a great game, and plays fantastically fast on Linux. Again, this game will install on Linux right out of the box. No additional software needed to get this on e running on Linux. Download This game here .

5. Marble Blast -> This is a full fantasy game, a really intresting game, and you should try it. Download this game here .

6. Frozen Bubbles ->Frozen Bubble is sort of like a reverse tetris. You are shooting frozen bubbles and once you get three of a kind next to eachother they disappear. The goal of each level is to get rid of all the frozen bubbles.

7. X-Moto -> In X-Moto you are driving a motorcycle. It's not 3D, but it's challenging and quite fun to play.

8. Koules -> Koules is a fun multiplayer game in which the goal is to bounce all the koules fighters out of your sector.

9. Armagetron Advanced -> 3-dimensional version of the old Tron game, racing games.

10. World Of Warcraft -> A RPG game, with 3-D Graphics. You can install WOW by using a support software like winehq, or crossover, I already posts crossover, with the links.

More Updates!

update:
1.Nexuiz 2.4.2 -> Nexuiz is a fast-paced, chaotic, and intense multiplayer first-person shooter game, focused on providing basic, old style deathmatch. It is extremely modder-friendly.
2. Alien Arena 2007 7.10 -> This game combines some of the very best aspects of such games as Quake III and Unreal Tournament and wraps them up with a retro alien theme, while adding tons of original ideas to make the game quite unique. Watch the Video .

* For more Games Update, please tell me from the comments section. Thank You.

KDE 4.0.5 Released

2008-06-12T18:39:00.002+07:00

On 4 july 2008, KDE Community is announced the immediate availability of KDE 4.0.5 . It support more than 50 bug fixes and a maintenance release. KDE 4.0.5 is the fourth major update that released every month.

KDE 4.1, which will bring large improvements to the KDE desktop and application will be released in July this year. A first Beta is already available for testing.
KDE 4.0.5 stabilises the desktop further, users of previous KDE 4.0 versions are encouraged to update. Improvements revolve around lots of bugfixes and translation updates. Corrections have been made in such a way that results in only a minimal risk of regressions.

The complete source code for KDE 4.0.5 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing KDE 4.0.5 are available from the KDE 4.0.5 Info Page.

The KDE 4 screenshot:

Linux Viruses

2008-06-09T19:41:00.004+07:00

Linux Operating System is having a really good potential right now if a hacker or cracker wants to prevent those OS. And viruses inside Linux are increases although those viruses cannot destroy or make Linux OS damaged, but some of those viruses are CAN DESTROY and . The peoples who are using Linux are increases and just like windows, the bad programmer started to make some viruses for Linux.

The number of viruses specifically written for Linux has been on the increase in recent years and more than doubled during 2005 from 422 to 863.

Like other Unix systems, Linux implements a multi-user environment where users are granted specific privileges and there is some form of access control implemented. As such, viruses typically have a diminished ability to change or impact the host system.
One of the vulnerabilities of Linux is that many users do not think it is vulnerable to viruses. Tom Ferris a researcher with Mission Viejo, California-based Security Protocols said in 2006, "In people's minds, if it's non-Windows, it's secure, and that's not the case. They think nobody writes malware for Linux or [Mac] OS X. But that's not necessarily true...."
Shane Coursen a senior technical consultant with Kaspersky Lab noted, "The growth in Linux malware is simply due to its increasing popularity, particularly as a desktop operating system...The use of an operating system is directly correlated to the interest by the malware writers to develop malware for that OS."
The viruses listed below still pose a potential, although minimal, threat to Linux systems. If an infected binary containing one of the viruses were run, the system would be infected. The infection level would depend on which user with what privileges ran the binary. A binary run under the root account would be able to infect the entire system. Privilege escalation vulnerabilities may permit malware running under a limited account to infect the entire system.
The use of software repositories significantly reduces any threat of installation of malware, as the software repositories are checked by maintainers, who ensure that their repository is malware-free. Subsequently to ensure safe distribution of the software, md5 checksums are made available. These methods of attack can be defended against using repositories protected by digital signatures which prevent the hijacking of communications using a man-in-the-middle attack or via a redirection attack such as arp or DNS poisoning. This limits the scope of attacks to include those that have administrative access to the repository itself.

Cross-platform viruses

A new area of concern identified in 2007 is that of cross-platform viruses, driven by the popularity of cross-platform applications. This was brought to the forefront of malware awareness by the distribution of an Openoffice.org virus called Bad Bunny.

Stuart Smith of Symantec wrote:

"What makes this virus worth mentioning is that it illustrates how easily scripting platforms, extensibility, plug-ins, ActiveX, etc, can be abused. All too often, this is forgotten in the pursuit to match features with another vendor... [T]he ability for malware to survive in a cross-platform, cross-application environment has particular relevance as more and more malware is pushed out via Web sites. How long until someone uses something like this to drop a JavaScript infector on a Web server, regardless of platform?"

For The Antiviruses Application, there's some popular antivirus such as the open source Clam AV and the commercial freeware Avast! and AVG are available for Linux. For Clam AV , you download it at the repositories if you're using ubuntu, but Avast! and AVG must downloaded from the antivirus site.

This is a list of a known viruses or trojans at Linux Currently:

Trojans

* Kaiten - Linux.Backdoor.Kaiten trojan horse
* Rexob - Linux.Backdoor.Rexob trojan

Viruses

* Alaeda - Virus.Linux.Alaeda
* Bad Bunny - Perl.Badbunny
* Binom - Linux/Binom
* Bliss
* Brundle[9]
* Bukowski[10]
* Diesel - Virus.Linux.Diesel.962
* Kagob a - Virus.Linux.Kagob.a
* Kagob b - Virus.Linux.Kagob.b
* MetaPHOR (also known as Simile)
* Nuxbee - Virus.Linux.Nuxbee.1403
* OSF.8759
* Podloso - Linux.Podloso (The iPod virus)
* Rike - Virus.Linux.Rike.1627
* RST - Virus.Linux.RST.a
* Satyr - Virus.Linux.Satyr.a
* Staog
* Vit - Virus.Linux.Vit.4096
* Winter - Virus.Linux.Winter.341
* Winux (also known as Lindose and PEElf
* ZipWorm - Virus.Linux.ZipWorm

Worms

* Adm - Net-Worm.Linux.Adm
* Adore
* Cheese - Net-Worm.Linux.Cheese
* Devnull
* Kork
* Linux/Lion (also known as Ramen)
* Mighty - Net-Worm.Linux.Mighty
* Millen - Linux.Millen.Worm
* Slapper
* SSH Bruteforce

Well, what can we learn from this articles?? You already know the answers. :) .

OphCrack

2008-06-07T13:54:00.002+07:00

Ophcrack is a free Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with a Graphical User Interface and runs on multiple platforms. Unlike dictionary and brute-force atacks, rainbow attacks cannot be used to crack password hashes of unlimited length.
The ophcrack LiveCD contains a full linux system (SLAX), ophcrack for linux and rainbow tables for alphanumerical passwords.

The liveCD cracks passwords automatically, no installation necessary, no admin password necessary (as long as you can boot from CD). Release 1.1.4 cracks Windows Vista SAM.

The Ophcrack LiveCD is a SLAX-based bootable Linux CD-ROM containing ophcrack 2.3 and a set of tables (SSTIC04-10k).

It allows for testing the strength of passwords on a Windows machine without having to install anything on it. Just put it into the CD-ROM drive, reboot and it will try to find a Windows partition, extract its SAM and start auditing the passwords.

Features:

» Runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, ...
» Cracks LM and NTLM hashes.
» Free tables available for Windows XP and Vista.
» Brute-force module for simple passwords.
» LiveCD available to simplify the cracking.
» Loads hashes from encrypted SAM recovered from a Windows partition, Vista included.
» Free and open source software (GPL).

Website: 1).Link , 2). Link .

Download Links:
1. Live CD's
2. All Platforms

Screenshots(click to enlarge):

CrossOver 6.10

2008-06-03T19:48:00.002+07:00

CrossOver is the best known application for Linux in windows emulator software. And this software can support a few windows applications and it's really helpful for the newbie in Linux.
So many software are supported by this "CrossOver". Crossover works just like wine, but it's more stable than wine. And there's so many popular plugins, games, and games of windows in Linux. I even can run Warcraft 3 inside my ubuntu linux :D .

There's some Windows applications that can run in Linux by using CrossOver:

Microsoft Office 2003, XP, 2000 and 97
Microsoft Access (Microsoft Access supported in Office 2000 only)
Microsoft Project
Adobe Photoshop
Microsoft Visio
Lotus Notes 5.0 and 6.5.1
Quicken
FrameMaker
Various Web Browser Plugins
QuickTime
Shockwave Director
Windows Media Player 6.4
and more…

For further information you can visit the CrossOver Linux website.

to download:
CrossOver Linux

Passwd of RAR: just4you

Ubuntu Mobile Edition

2008-05-31T08:09:00.003+07:00

Ubuntu Mobile is the latest version of ubuntu, and it's ready now.

Ubuntu mobile provide some new features and advance software inside those OS.

Ubuntu Mobile is an Ubuntu edition that targets an exciting new class of computers called Mobile Internet Devices.
Ubuntu Mobile, based on the world's most popular Linux distribution, and MID hardware from OEMs and ODMs, are redefining what can be done in mobile computing.

Ubuntu Mobile, a fully open source project, gives full Internet, with no compromise. Custom options may include licensed codecs and popular third-party applications.

Full Web 2.0/AJAX fidelity, with custom options of Adobe Flash®, Java, and more
Outstanding media playback so you can enjoy videos, music and photos with superior quality and easy navigation
A suite of applications that work seamlessly to meet every need of a digital parent, student or anyone who is on-the-go
Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Dailymotion, 3D games, GPS, maps, in short, the full Web 2.0 experience delivered into your hands as a compact and powerful device that's easy and fun to use

All inside the Ubuntu mobile are works well and this is some screenshots:

And these are some requirements for using ubuntu mobile:

Small size/form factor
4 to 7 inch touch screen
Physical and/or virtual keyboard
Wi-Fi, 3G, Bluetooth, GPS, WiMAX
2GB to 8GB Flash or disk storage, 256MB+ memory/512MB+ recommended
OpenGL 3D
USB, camera, head phone jack, speakers, microphone

And Ubuntu Mobile is really customizable and you can customize your icon and things inside those ubuntu mobile.

If you have a smart phone that have those spec, like Sony Ericsson P990i(it works well) you can try to install ubuntu mobile into those phone if you intrested.

Places to get started:

For information about Ubuntu Mobile, see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileAndEmbedded
For information about Intel's MID Linux Moblin project, see http://moblin.org

More information

For more information about Ubuntu Mobile, download the datasheet.

Free Online Books For Linux User's

2008-05-24T14:42:00.002+07:00

I just surfing the internet for the free Books or PDF about Linux and I got interested with one site that posts so many books about Linux, for beginner to advance user.

The following books are available either for download or for reading online, free of charge.

Books about Linux

Advanced Linux Programming by Mark Mitchell, Jeffrey Oldham, and Alex Samuel
Comprehensive Linux Textbook by Muayyad Saleh Al-Sadi
Java Application Development on Linux by Carl Albing and Michael Schwarz
Linux Client Migration Cookbook, Version 2: A Practical Planning and Implementation Guide for Migrating to Desktop Linux by Chris Almond, et al
Linux Compute Clusters by Chander Kant
The Linux Cookbook: Tips and Techniques for Everyday Use by Michael Stutz
Linux Device Drivers by Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet
Linux From Scratch by Gerard Beekmans
Linux Installation and Getting Started by Matt Welsh
Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide by Ori Pomerantz
Linux Network Administrator's Guide by Olaf Kirch and Terry Dawson
Securing and Optimizing Linux by Gerhard Mourani
Self-Service Linux: Mastering the Art of Problem Determination by Dan Behman and Mark Wilding
Slackware Linux Essentials by Alan Hicks, Chris Lumens, David Cantrell, and Logan Johnson

Open Source and Free Software

Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Sam Williams
Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution by Sam Ockman, Linus Torvalds, Eric S. Raymond, Richard Stallman, et al
The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond
Open Source Licensing by Lawrence Rosen
Open Source Development with CVS by Karl Fogel and Moshe Bar
Open Source Security Tools: Practical Applications for Security by Tony Howlett
Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel
Free for All by Peter Wayner

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Perl 5 by Example by David Medinets
Programming Ruby by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt
The Art of Unix Programming by Eric S. Raymond
Web Client Programming with Perl by Clinton Wong
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