Practical Wine Building a Wine environment for Windows applications
Jun 21, 2012More and more Windows applications run on Linux thanks to Wine. If you spend a little time on configuration and troubleshooting, you won’t be stuck in Windows – even with applications that no one dreamed would run on Linux.
more »Command Line: Wodim Burning with wodim
Jun 21, 2012Wodim works behind the scenes in popular CD/ DVD-burning software, but it’s even more powerful at the command line.
more »Ext2Fsd Accessing Linux filesystems from Windows with Ext2Fsd
Jun 21, 2012Sure you can access Windows partitions from Linux. But what if you want to connect to your Linux partitions from Windows? Ext2Fsd offers an easy solution.
more »CrossOver Install and run Windows applications on Linux with CrossOver
Jun 21, 2012If Wine has thrown you into the impenetrable depths of operating system arcana, you might try CrossOver, a commercial application that contributes to the Wine project.
more »Tintii Colorizing Enhancing photos selectively with Tintii
Jun 21, 2012Tintii, a modest image-processing program, transforms color images into black-and-white pictures then enhances specific areas with eye-catching colorizing effects.
more »Tech Tools
Jun 21, 2012Linux Mint Announces mintBox
ownCloud Introduces Version 4
Mozilla Updates Thunderbird
Obnam 1.0 Released
more »Apache Announces OpenOffice 3.4
May 10, 2012The Apache OpenOffice Project announces Apache OpenOffice 3.4, the first release of OpenOffice under the governance of the Apache Software Foundation.
more »Canonical Releases Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
May 03, 2012Canonical has launched Ubuntu 12.04 LTS for the desktop, marking the fourth long-term support (LTS) release with maintenance updates guaranteed for five years.
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