Since its inception, the Xfce desktop environment has aimed to provide high functionality with only modest demands on system resources, with the overarching goal of leaving more facilities for the user to run applications. One of the significant changes in recent releases of Xfce 4 is the Thunar file manager, which replaces the original xffm. [...]
I’ve been a fan of SimplyMEPIS for years. The distribution was one of the early pioneers in the field of user-friendly Linux development, and to this day offers a system that usually “just works.” Earlier this month the MEPIS site announced a community variation for older computers based on SimplyMEPIS. AntiX is an installable live [...]
VLC is unique among Windows players in that it doesn’t require installed codecs and drivers to play back media content. Why this approach? VLC originates in the Unix/Linux world where there’s no such a thing as Windows codecs. It has been designed to use built-in decoding algorithms from the beginning. Some of the codecs were [...]
Back in January I wrote a review of Vector Linux 5.8 Standard. The fact that as I write this, over five months later, that review is still in the O’Reillynet Blogs Hot 25 says a lot about just how much interest there is in this up and coming Canadian distribution, a user friendly derivative of [...]
DocBook XML is a library of standard XML tags you can use to write stylesheets for generating almost any output. Learn how to use DocBook XML and the Eclipse IDE together to create reusable technical documentation that you can easily distribute in most formats.
(Perfect for writing that Doc for that project you have been [...]
Dozens of online music broadcasters will go silent on Tuesday to protest a new set of royalty rates that many smaller companies say would put them out of business.
Viacom Inc.’s MTV, Live365, Pandora, AccuRadio and several public radio stations including KCRW in Los Angeles and others will observe the day of silence and encourage listeners [...]
