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KDE 4.10 Review in Kubuntu 13.04 Daily Build
Mon, 03/04/2013 - 15:46 — Chris7mas — www.tuxarena.comTo be honest, KDE 4.10 is really a wonderful experience. And that’s even with my low specs graphics card from Intel. I read a lot of complaints over the Internet, mainly here, but for me the experience was great. It’s good to see such a feature-rich desktop keeping improving and heading towards the right direction, at least as far as I’m concerned.
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Debian 7.0 'Wheezy' Artwork Unveiled
Fri, 03/01/2013 - 19:27 — Chris7mas — www.tuxarena.comIn addition to this, the final artwork for the upcoming release 7.0 codenamed ‘Wheezy’ has been published too, just a few days after the Debian Installer RC1 was released. The artwork is based on a light-blue theme.
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Overview of 10 Very Good Firefox Add-ons
Fri, 03/01/2013 - 09:51 — Chris7mas — www.tuxarena.comIn this article I will overview several add-ons for Firefox which I consider useful and are also popular among Firefox users. The article is divided into two parts, the first one containing add-ons for users which are not necessarily tech-savy, while in the second I will mention add-ons for advanced users or web developers.
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Linux Mint 14 Xfce Overview & Screenshots
Sat, 12/29/2012 - 14:52 — Chris7mas — www.tuxarena.comI made this review after a fresh install of Mint 14 Xfce ‘Nadia’ from the ISO DVD and a full sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade.
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0 A.D. Alpha 9 Review and Ubuntu Installation | Screenshots
Sat, 03/31/2012 - 09:06 — Chris7mas — www.tuxarena.com0 A.D. is a strategy game that has been around for quite some time now, and it reached a decent level of completeness despite the fact that Wildfire Games are releasing only alpha versions.
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Top 10 News Readers for Ubuntu (Overview & Screenshots)
Fri, 03/30/2012 - 12:01 — Chris7mas — www.tuxarena.com- 529 reads
The First Ubuntu 12.04 Beta to Be Released Next Week
Thu, 02/23/2012 - 20:38 — Chris7mas — www.tuxarena.comAccording to a development update posted on Ubuntu Fridge by the Ubuntu developer Daniel Holbach, Ubuntu 12.04 is on its way to release the first beta next week, on February 29, after the user interface f
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Kubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2 With KDE Plasma Netbook - Overview & Screenshots
Thu, 02/16/2012 - 13:16 — Chris7mas — www.tuxarena.comWith Unity getting most of the attention lately in Ubuntu and the feature-freeze coming in tomorrow, I decided to take the latest <a href="http://www.kubuntu.org/">Kubuntu</a> alpha for a spin and see how KDE 4.8 for netbooks looks and behaves. But first, a little about 12.04 as a whole.
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Battle for Wesnoth 1.10 Review - Universe of Wesnoth, Reloaded
Tue, 02/14/2012 - 19:46 — Chris7mas — www.tuxarena.comI’m used to making a review for each of the new major Wesnoth release, and so it is no exception with the latest version.
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MegaGlest 3.6.0 Released - Overview, Installation & Screenshots
Mon, 12/05/2011 - 21:24 — Chris7mas — www.tuxarena.comMegaGlest is a free, open-source real-time strategy game set in a medieval fantasy universe, based on a 3D engine, with support for single player, multi player, and mods. It’s available on Linux, Windows, and, starting with this release, also OS X.
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10 Console Music Players for Linux
Sat, 12/03/2011 - 14:38 — Chris7mas — www.tuxarena.comCMus This is one of the best, feature-rich players for console. Build using ncurses and thus offering a text user interface, CMus has several view modes, organizes your music by artist/album, provides playlists and a library view, a filebrowser, it allows searching, Last.fm/Libre.fm scrobbling via this script, and it uses Vi-like keyboard shortcuts.
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Marlin File Browser for GNOME - Overview
Thu, 12/01/2011 - 15:36 — Chris7mas — tuxarena.blogspot.comMarlin is a relatively new file browser for GNOME somewhat similar with Nautilus when it comes to features, but with a different default interface.
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6 Great Free, Open-Source Games to Fetch After Installing Ubuntu
Thu, 12/01/2011 - 12:50 — Chris7mas — www.tuxarena.comOverview of 6 open-source games: Wesnoth, AssaultCube, Hedgewars, Xonotic, Neverball, Warzone 2100.
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NeonView 0.6.0 Released With New Features
Wed, 11/30/2011 - 23:42 — Chris7mas — www.tuxarena.comThis new release, codenamed “Xiphophorus”, comes with several new features and a small bug fix:
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6 Applications to Take Screenshots in Ubuntu
Wed, 11/30/2011 - 18:38 — Chris7mas — www.tuxarena.com6 ways for taking screenshots in Ubuntu: Shutter, KSnapshot, GNOME Screenshot, scrot, ImageMagick and GIMP.
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Taking Screenshots with Shutter in Ubuntu
Wed, 11/30/2011 - 14:12 — Chris7mas — www.tuxarena.comFor those of you who didn’t hear about it before, it’s probably time you have a look at it. Shutter is probably the most powerful screenshot-taking application available for GNOME, including countless features and several useful tools to take screenshots and manipulate them in any way possible.
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IM from the Terminal: 2 Great Applications
Wed, 11/30/2011 - 10:29 — Chris7mas — www.tuxarena.comThis article is about two popular IM (Instant Messaging) clients that can be used in a terminal instead of a graphical environment. Both have advanced features and are based on the ncurses library.
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NeonView 0.4.0 Released
Sat, 10/01/2011 - 04:06 — Chris7mas — www.tuxarena.comThis release, codenamed ‘Corydoras’, comes with several new features, including two rewritten modules and a graphical configuration window. Here are the most important changes for this version:
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Xonotic 0.5 - Free Shooter Based Off Nexuiz
Wed, 09/28/2011 - 17:20 — Chris7mas — www.tuxarena.comXonotic is a free first-person shooter game for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. The Xonotic project started as a fork of Nexuiz, a game which was popular for many years on Linux.
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NeonView 0.2.0 Image Viewer First Version Released
Wed, 09/28/2011 - 14:06 — Chris7mas — www.tuxarena.comThis first release, codenamed ‘Betta splendens’, includes just a handful of features for now, however it is the base on which development of more advanced features will take place. Still, the goal of NeonView is to remain clean and lightweight, while also trying to implement only the needed functions that a simple image viewer should have.
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