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Banshee 1.7.5 Review in Ubuntu Maverick Beta

Sat, 09/18/2010 - 18:16 — Chris7mas — tuxarena.blogspot.com
Being actively developed, feature-rich, providing access to several useful Internet service and a pretty decent media library, Banshee has a pretty fair share of users, and it is definitely a powerful music player not be i
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Two Free Linux Civilization-Like Games: Freeciv and Freecol

Sat, 09/18/2010 - 12:28 — Chris7mas — tuxarena.blogspot.com

While most of the proprietary games get all the attention on Windows, on Linux it's the other way around. Of course, this is because we're stuck with only few choices for mainly any type of game, from arcade to shooters or strategies.

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A Different Way to Manage Your Linux Desktop: GNOME Shell Looks Promising

Fri, 09/17/2010 - 23:51 — Chris7mas — tuxarena.blogspot.com

GNOME Shell is a window manager designed specifically for the upcoming GNOME 3 desktop, with the intention of offering a rather different way of interacting with the desktop, providing a workspace which

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Miro Review - Great Internet HD Video Player

Thu, 09/16/2010 - 18:39 — Chris7mas — tuxarena.blogspot.com
Miro is a free, open-source video player with ports for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X, designed especially for watching HD videos.
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Tutorial: Install Clementine Music Player in Kubuntu 10.10 Maverick

Thu, 09/16/2010 - 17:00 — Chris7mas — tuxarena.blogspot.com
Clementine is a KDE4 port of the beloved music player Amarok 1.4.
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Pretty Damn Good Audio Player: Guayadeque

Thu, 09/16/2010 - 16:04 — Chris7mas — tuxarena.blogspot.com

Yesterday I put up an article about peculiar application names in Linux, and Guayadeque was on that

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Wesnoth 1.9 Brings Awesome New Features

Thu, 09/16/2010 - 14:50 — Chris7mas — tuxarena.blogspot.com

There is no question Battle for Wesnoth is the most played turn-based strategy game on

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Nautilus Review in Ubuntu 10.10 Beta

Thu, 09/16/2010 - 13:07 — Chris7mas — tuxarena.blogspot.com

There is always a lot of debate whether which file manager is the 'best' for the Linux desktop.

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Linux Applications With Peculiar Names

Wed, 09/15/2010 - 22:55 — Chris7mas — tuxarena.blogspot.com
I'm sure most of us were put before in the situation of discovering a new great application, but had to stop and try to figure out how to actually read and spell its name letter by letter.
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First-Person Shooter Game for Linux: Warsow Review

Tue, 09/14/2010 - 22:19 — Chris7mas — tuxarena.blogspot.com

It's been a while since I last reviewed a shooter game for Linux, and one of them was World of Padman (reviewed here), which was a cartoon-like, funny first-person shooter. Well, the same goes for Warsow, the game I'm going to talk about in this article.

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Audio Player Review: Qmmp

Tue, 09/14/2010 - 18:34 — Chris7mas — tuxarena.blogspot.com

Qmmp (Qt Multimedia Player) is a Qt-based audio player for Linux which resembles the appearance of XMMS (and Audacious for that matter), so users of these two players which want to have a player which integrates well in KDE will probably want to give it a try.

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A Quick Look at Shutter 0.86.4 - Powerful Desktop Screenshot Application

Mon, 09/13/2010 - 18:56 — Chris7mas — tuxarena.blogspot.com

Shutter is probably the most powerful screenshot application for Linux, and the main reason for this is that it comes with tons of configuration options for the final process of taking a simple screenshot.

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Awesome Music Player That Rocks: Jajuk

Mon, 09/13/2010 - 15:01 — Chris7mas — tuxarena.blogspot.com

Jajuk is a free, cross-platform music player available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X, written in Java. I never used Jajuk before, so I tested it for the first time today, an I'm really impressed. Let me explain.

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TORCS Review - The Open Racing Car Simulator

Mon, 09/13/2010 - 12:10 — Chris7mas — tuxarena.blogspot.com

As the title suggests, TORCS is a free and open-source racing simulator available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. I'll list here some of its features:

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Free RTS Game for Linux: Warzone 2100

Sun, 09/12/2010 - 15:57 — Chris7mas — tuxarena.blogspot.com

Warzone 2100 is a free, open-source real-time strategy game available for Linux, Windows and Mac. This game was originally closed-source, developed by Pumpkin Studios and published by Eidos Interactive in 1999, but in 2004 it was officially licensed under the GNU GPL.

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Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Beta - Overview & Screenshots

Sun, 09/12/2010 - 07:29 — Chris7mas — tuxarena.blogspot.com

We're less than one month until the next Ubuntu release, 10.10.

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AcetoneISO: Easily mount CD/DVD Images in Linux

Sun, 09/12/2010 - 05:34 — Chris7mas — tuxarena.blogspot.com

AcetoneISO is an application that uses Fuse (Filesystem in Userspace) in order to mount ISO, NRG, BIN, MDF, IMG and various other disk images.

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Amarok 2.3.2 Beta 1 Review

Sat, 09/11/2010 - 20:27 — Chris7mas — tuxarena.blogspot.com

Well, well, well, guess who's back! It's been over seven months since i last published an article here at TuxArena, but now we're back on track and kicking! The series of reviews continues today with an article about one of the most popular audio player out there (and why not admit it, even controversial). I'm talking Amarok here.

 

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Jolicloud 1.0 Review (Ubuntu Based Netbook OS)

Fri, 08/06/2010 - 11:19 — hotice — www.webupd8.org

Jolicloud 1.0 is now available for all so I decided to install it on my netbook (Asus EeePC 1005 HA) and write a review for the WebUpd8 readers.

 

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Pinguy OS (Remastered Ubuntu) - Ubuntu After A Week Of Customizations [Review]

Mon, 08/02/2010 - 11:32 — hotice — www.webupd8.org

 

Pinguy OS

 

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