Thunar, the default filemanager used in Xfce, now supports remote filesystem with its new release, Thunar 1.1.0. This means that Thunar users will now be able to access remote filesystems, like SFTP shares, FTP shares and Samba Shares, from within Thunar itself.

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The upcoming release of Ubuntu, that is Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, is going to feature quite a few changes. Among these changes are the addition of a new social integration feature and a boot recovery option. In this article, we take a brief look at these two changes.

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Wine, the software used to run Windows applications in Linux, now has better Shader Model 4.0 support with its new release, that is Wine 1.1.36. The new release is however considered a development release.

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Plasmoids are the widgets that are present in the plasma desktop in KDE SC 4.x. One little know feature of plasmoids is that they can be set such that different plasmoids appear in different workspaces. In this article we shall show you how to do this. To set different plasmoids in different workspace, follow the…

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The first release candidate of the upcoming KDE SC 4.4 has been made available today. This is the first of two release candidates that is being planned. The second release candidate is being planned for 20th January and the final release on 9th February.

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Starting from the next release of Ubuntu, that is Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, each release of Ubuntu is going to come with a manual. The manual is mainly designed to help beginners get up and running with Ubuntu. It will feature guides, how-tos and other things that a beginners might need to know after installing…

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As any Linux user would be aware, the GRUB interface has always been an eyesore. No doubt its one of the best boot loader out there but its interface is still just a plain old boring list. With some distros, they have tried to make things better with a background image; while some like Ubuntu…

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Gimp is probably one of the most well known applications available for Linux. With Gimp 2.7, we now get the much anticipated single window interface as opposed to the multi-window interface that was used in earlier versions. In this post we will show you how to install Gimp 2.7 in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala.

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(NOTE: Although the title says this is for adding OpenSUSE, it should work for adding other OS as well) OpenSUSE 11.2 uses the legacy Grub in contrast to Grub2 that is used by Ubuntu 9.10. So, when I installed OpenSUSE 11.2 in my laptop which has Ubuntu Karmic installed, the Grub that it installed did…

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