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Gnome MPlayer is a GTK2/GTK3 interface for one of the most popular media players on Linux. This easy to use interface gives you the ability to configure the powerful MPlayer in whatever way you like and get the desired results as easy as possible. You can play all your multimedia (audio, video, CD, DVDs, and VCDs, streams etc.), organize, sort and create playlists, take screenshots while playing videos and be notified about media changes.

Version 7.0.4 of KNOPPIX is based on the usual picks from Debian 'stable' and newer desktop packages from Debian 'testing' and Debian 'unstable'. It uses Linux kernel 3.4.9 and X.Org 7.7 (core 1.12.3) for supporting current computer hardware. Optional 64-bit Linux kernel via boot option 'knoppix64'; bug-fix update for 7.0.3 - the APT database now contains all necessary data in order to directly install software via Synaptic; LibreOffice 3.5.4, Chromium 21.0.1180.75 and Iceweasel 10.0.6; LXDE (default) with PCManFM 1.0 file manager, KDE 4.7.4, GNOME 3.4.

The task this book sets out to do is impossible and many who purchase the book will expect a great deal more. Everyone wants a one volume answer guide to the Ubuntu Desktop, it simply is not possible. The goal of the current book, is to provide “jumping-off point to get started.”

There's now an open-source application to let your Web site visitors register to vote in the U.S. elections.

The eleventh alpha version of 0 A.D. has been released by Wildfire Games yesterday. 0 A.D. is an open source, real-time strategy game that works on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X and features excellent graphics and sound but, since it's in alpha, there are also some missing features like settings, multiplayer matchmaking service and others.

Firefox OS is put through its paces in this video showing off browsing the web and photos, as well as phone functionality and other features

GoDaddy, the domain registrar and Web hosting company, is down, perhaps taking millions of websites down as a result.

Michael Muller has released new development version of the Crack Language, which aims to provide the ease of development of a scripting language with the performance of a compiled language using just-in-time and ahead-of-time compilation.

The latest version of OpenSuSE Li-f-e is based on OpenSuSE 12.1, which is not the latest as of early September. I hope the newer OpenSuSE 12.2 Li-f-e will be released soon, but in the meantime let's talk about OpenSuSE 12.1 Li-f-e. You may consider this distribution, if you’re looking for something suitable in the way of a Linux Desktop or Laptop version for pupils, students or teachers in your environment.

After concerns over the Eclipse IDE's performance last week, Google has stepped in with a $20,000 donation to get hardware for a new testing lab

A controversial patch for the open source Apache HTTP daemon ignores the do-not-track header sent by Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 because, the developers say, IE deliberately ignores the open standard

The GIMP is an image manipulation program suitable for photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. In this tutorial you'll learn how to create glass reflection effect with the GIMP.

After concerns over the Eclipse IDE's performance last week, Google has stepped in with a $20,000 donation to get hardware for a new testing lab

The Chakra Development Team, through Anke Boersma, proudly announced last evening, September 8th, the immediate availability for download of the Chakra GNU/Linux 2012.09 operating system.

VirtualBox 4.1.22 (released 2012-09-07)

Download from: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.1.22/

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

VMM: fixed a potential host crash triggered by shutting down a VM when another VM was running (only affected 32-bit hosts and 64-bit OS X hosts, 4.1 regression, bug #9897) VMM: fixed a potential host crash under a high guest memory pressure (seen with Windows 8 guests) VMM: respect RAM preallocation while restoring saved state. VMM: fixed handling of task gates if VT-x/AMD-V is disabled Storage: fixed audio CD passthrough for certain media players USB: don't crash if a USB device is plugged or unplugged when saving or loading the VM state (SMP guests only) RTC: fixed a potential corruption of CMOS bank 1 Mac OS X hosts: installer fixes for Leopard (4.1.20 regression) Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxTray (bug #10808)

Mageia Foundation released the first Alpha version towards to Mageia 3 (March 2013) three days ago, with UsrMove! If I am not wrong Mageia is just the second popular distro (after Fedora) that migrates to UsrMove, and that shows that the people there, chancing the optimal solutions. Speaking of popularity, Mageia’s market trend grows rapidly and by taking into consideration that Mageia 3 is a huge improvement from version 2, it won’t be long till Mageia will look Ubuntu in the eyes.

This guide explains how to set up mod_geoip with Apache2 on an Ubuntu 12.04 system. mod_geoip looks up the IP address of the client end user. This allows you to redirect or block users based on their country. You can also use this technology for your OpenX (formerly known as OpenAds or phpAdsNew) ad server to allow geo targeting.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the September 2012 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine.

Few days ago I installed Gnome Shell 3.5.91 in my Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal beta setup. and I’ve a mixed feeling about the new version of Gnome Shell, which is going to be called as Gnome Shell 3.6. This new version introduces many changes and improvements and is definitely worth an upgrade. So I’m sharing my feelings about this version of Gnome Shell on Ubuntu. Note that Ubuntu 12.10 is still in beta and so is Gnome Shell. Though there shouldn’t be any visible changes since feature freeze and UI freeze is already over.

The BlankOn development team has announced the release of BlankOn 8.0, a Debian-based Indonesian distribution featuring the GNOME 3 desktop with a custom desktop shell called "Manokwari". Built with HTML 5 and CSS 3, Manokwari is an evolution from the project's earlier shell called "BlankOn Panel"; it features a standard panel with a number of common applets, as well as a comprehensive menu system for quick access to applications and utilities. Other features of this release include a new DVD edition with extra software (a CD edition is also available), support for six languages used in Indonesia, Stardict dictionary, the Chromium web browser version 21, and an online package repository developed specifically for BlankOn.