Fedora 17 release date schedule

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Fedora 17 release date has been schedule. Fedora 17 final release is expected on May 8 2012.  Fedora is RPM Linux based operating system, developed by the Fedora project and sponsered by Red Hat. The first alpha version for fedora 17 is available for download. However the live cd is not available for the current alpha version. The complete [...]

File Structure in Linux

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Most of the people who are new to Linux are confused about directories and File structure on Linux. When you boot any Linux distribution ‘root partition’ is mounted at /. Every files and folder are mounted under /. You don’t find any drive name like (C, D) etc in Linux(if it is not dual booted). [...]

Jdownloader: Download Manager for Linux Review

Jdownloader is a free, cross platform open source download manager. Jdownloader requires Java Runtime Environment(jre/jdk) 1.5 or higher to operate. Jdownloader allows to download multiple file parallely and also supports download of several file hosting sites such as Rapidshare, hotfile.. The huge list of hosting site from A-Z alphabet make user easily access their required [...]

Ubuntu 12.04 apha 2 released (major screenshots)

Ubuntu 12.04 alpha 2 screenshot

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS code name “precise Pangolin alpha 2 has been released and available for download. We have cover some major changes in ubuntu 12.04 in its very early development release alpha 1. This post will cover some screenshot  and the major changes in Ubuntu 12.04 since alpha 1. Here is the quck tour of [...]

How to install firefox 10 in Ubuntu via ppa

Firefox 10 ppa

Mozilla has launched the latest version of firefox yesterday. The new version comes with several improvement.  Firefox 10 adds support for the fullscreen API. This can be used for not only video, but games, or even other HTML based apps, such as presentation slides as well. Another exiciting features is CSS 3D transforms, a major CSS3 [...]

Google earth 6.2 released and way to install it in Ubuntu

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Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information application that allows you to travel the world virtually. Google earth 6.2 has been released with new improvement rendering imagery.  The installation process is simple you can just grab the deb file and install it in your desktop using GUI or terminal. After installation the crappy [...]

Webilder: Download image from flickr webshot and use it as wallpaper

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Webilder is the stunning application that will deliver wonderful wallpaper to your Linux from Flickr, webshots and your local folders. The image can be automatically obtain when user specify certain keyword tag like(cars, bike). Webilder automatically download the wallpaper based on the tag and display as wallpaper on your desktop. Furthermore the application automatically change [...]