On May 23, 2012, Linux Mint 13 “Maya” was released. There are two desktop flavors available, the MATE Edition and the Cinnamon Edition. MATE is a fork of the GNOME 2 desktop since the GNOME project has abandoned GNOME 2 in order to work on GNOME 3 development. Cinnamon is a project started by Linux …
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Most Linux and Open Source enthusiasts are familiar with the OpenOffice.Org office suite. OpenOffice is great, but sometimes you just need a lighter and faster alternative. Maybe you’ve got a netbook or an older computer and you don’t need a full, integrated, office suite, but just a few of the main applications like a word …
Continue reading Gnumeric: A Light Weight Spreadsheet ProgramIf you’ve been looking for a nice WebKit based web browser for Linux, Midori is a browser worth checking out. Although it’s still in early stages of development (the current version is 0.2.5,) it provides a fairly complete set of features for a web browser. Some of the more advanced features include user scripts and …
Continue reading Midori – A Lightweight Web BrowserIt seems like I’m always losing track of some small sheet of paper with a recipe from my Mom written on it. An old fashioned box of recipe cards just doesn’t suit my style, so I thought about creating a database using OpenOffice.org’s Base. Being short on time and motivation, I decided to look for …
Continue reading Organize Your Recipes with Gourmet Recipe ManagerRockBox is a free and open source firmware available for several different digital music players. Stable releases are available for the following music players: Apple: iPod 1g through 5.5g, iPod Mini and iPod Nano 1g Archos: Jukebox 5000, 6000, Studio, Recorder, FM Recorder, Recorder V2 and Ondio Cowon: iAudio X5, X5V, X5L, M5, M5L, M3 …
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