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Fedora 19 "Schrodinger's Cat" beta has been Released

noreply@blogger.com (Umair Riaz) — Wed, 29 May 2013 15:33:45 PDT

Dennis Gilmore has announced the availability of the beta release of Fedora 19: "We've opened the box for the Fedora 19 'Schrodinger's Cat' beta release and confirmed it's alive! Ready to purr at the latest free and open source technology?" Some of the features include: "3D modelling and printing are enabled through a variety of tools, including OpenSCAD, Skeinforge, SFACT, Printrun, and RepetierHost; OpenShift Origin; Ruby 2.0.0; MariaDB, a community-developed fork of MySQL; Federated VoIP; Developer's Assistant; Syslinux optional boot tool integration; systemd Resource Control; GNOME 3.8, KDE 4.10, MATE 1.6...." Continue to the release announcement for further information.

Download links (SHA256):
Fedora-Live-Desktop-x86_64-19-Beta-1.iso (951MB, torrent)
Fedora-Live-KDE-x86_64-19-Beta-1.iso (888MB, torrent)
Fedora-Live-LXDE-x86_64-19-Beta-1.iso (712MB, torrent)
Fedora-Live-MATE-Compiz-x86_64-19-Beta-1.iso (693MB, torrent)
Fedora-Live-XFCE-x86_64-19-Beta-1.iso (630MB, torrent)

Kingsoft Office for Fedora 19/18/17/16/CentOS

noreply@blogger.com (Umair Riaz) — Thu, 23 May 2013 06:21:02 PDT

Install Microsoft alternative Kingsoft Office in Fedora 19/18/17/16/CentOS

Kingsoft Office is an office suite developed by Zhuhai based Chinese software developer Kingsoft. Components include: Kingsoft Writer, Kingsoft Presentation and Kingsoft Spreadsheet. Kingsoft Office personal version is completely free. With the Kingsoft Office suite, you can view, edit, and send Microsoft Office documents, spreadsheets, and other data on Linux. This offers most of the features and functionality like Microsoft Office.

To install Kingsoft office in Fedora/CentOS open Terminal and enter following commands:

cd && wget -O kingsoft-office-TechLW.rpm http://goo.gl/x5nWm

sudo su

cd && yum localinstall kingsoft-office-TechLW.rpm

cd && rm kingsoft-office-TechLW.rpm

That's it

Source: wps

Converseen Image Converter for Fedora/Arch Linux

noreply@blogger.com (Umair Riaz) — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:49:24 PDT

Install Converseen Image Converter in Fedora/Arch Linux/Debian/OpenSuse/CentOS/Other Distributions

Converseen is an open source project written in C++ with the powerful Qt4 libraries. Converseen is a free software system for Linux and Windows that allows you to convert, compress and resize single or multiple images at a time in a simple, effective and above all automatic and painless. Think for example of having to convert or resize a folder of images. Converseen, with a simple click, you can convert on the fly all the pictures you want to process.

Magick++ image libraries it supports more than 100 image formats. You can convert and resize an unlimited number of images to any of the most popular formats: DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. With Converseen you can save your time because it allows you to process more than one image with one mouse click!

With converseen you can:

Carry out a single or a multiple conversion.
Resize one or multiple images.
Compress images for your web pages.
Rotate and flip images.
Rename a bunch of images using a progressive number or a prefix/suffix.
Selecting a resampling filter to resize images.

To install Converseen in Fedora copy the following command in the Terminal:

sudo yum install converseen

To install Converseen in Arch-Linux copy the following command in the Terminal:

sudo pacman -Sy converseen

To install Converseen in Debian/CentOS/OpenSuse/Other Distributions open Terminal and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
You need to install Qt4 and Magick++ development libraries with the gnu c++ compiler

wget -O converseen-0.6.tar.bz2 http://sourceforge.net/projects/converseen/files/Converseen/Converseen%200.6/converseen-0.6.tar.bz2/download

tar -xvf converseen-0.6.tar.bz2 && cd converseen-0.*

mkdir build && cd build

cmake .. (to install on /usr/local/) or cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr .. (to install on /usr/)

make

su

make install

That's it

Source: converseen

Fuduntu 2013.2 has been Released (Based on Fedora)

noreply@blogger.com (Umair Riaz) — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:57:45 PDT

Lee Ward has announced the release of Fuduntu 2013.2, a user-friendly, rolling-release distribution with the RPM package management system and the classic GNOME 2 desktop: "The Fuduntu team is proud to announce the second quarterly release of 2013, Fuduntu 2013.2. This release comes with many improvements, including many bug fixes, new features and applications. As usual, existing Fuduntu users have already rolled into 2013.2. As Fuduntu has grown, so has the default install. To help those who may want a lighter install, especially for netbooks, we now include a light edition. Users of the Fuduntu Lite will notice several programs that are normally installed by default, including LibreOffice, GIMP, and Thunderbird, are not installed. Included in 2013.2: Linux kernel 3.8.3, GIMP 2.8.4, Thunderbird 17.0.4, Firefox 19.0.2, Chromium 25.0.1364.172 and LibreOffice 4.0.1." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details.

Download (MD5):
Fuduntu-2013.2-x86_64-LiveDVD.iso (1,009MB, torrent)
Fuduntu-2013.2-x86_64-LiteDVD.iso (819MB, torrent)

Install Mate Desktop 1.6 in Fedora/Debian/Arch Linux

noreply@blogger.com (Umair Riaz) — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:00:38 PDT

Install Mate Desktop 1.6 in Fedora/Debian wheezy/Arch Linux

The GNOME 2 Fork 'Mate' is a desktop environment. If you wish to use this desktop environment on Ubuntu to replace your current desktop interface. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop to Linux users using traditional metaphors.

Changes and improvements in Mate 1.6:

Support for systemd-logind in mate-session-manager, mate-screensaver and mate-power-manager has been added.
The places sidebar has been improved.
Support for new thumbnailers specification has been added.
Wallpapers are now cached for a better memory management.
A connect server dialog has been added from Nautilus 3.
An option has been added to open new windows on the center of the screen.
New GTK2/3 themes have been implemented.

To install Mate desktop in Debian Wheezy open Terminal and copy following commands in Terminal:

su

sh -c 'echo "deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/debian wheezy main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'

apt-get update

apt-get install mate-archive-keyring

apt-get update

apt-get install mate-core

apt-get install mate-desktop-environment

To install Mate desktop in Fedora open Terminal and copy following commands in Terminal:
>> For Fedora 16

su

yum install https://dl.dropbox.com/u/49862637/Mate-desktop/mate-desktop-fedora-updates/16/noarch/mate-desktop-release-16-8.fc16.noarch.rpm

yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop

>> For Fedora 17

su

yum install https://dl.dropbox.com/u/49862637/Mate-desktop/fedora_17/mate-desktop-fedora-updates/noarch/mate-desktop-release-17-4.fc17.noarch.rpm

yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop

>> For Fedora 18

su

yum install https://dl.dropbox.com/u/105479527/Mate-Desktop/fedora-release-extra-18/mate-desktop-fedora/noarch/mate-desktop-extra-release-18-1.fc18.noarch.rpm

yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop

To install Mate desktop in Arch Linux open Terminal and copy following commands in Terminal:
Open /etc/pacman.conf and append this repo:

# Official MATE repo:
Server = http://repo.mate-desktop.org/archlinux/$arch

After adding repo then start installation with following commands:

pacman -Syy

pacman -S mate mate-extra mate-extras

That's it

Source: Mate Desktop

Install Distro conky in Debian, Fedora, Arch, CentOS and RedHat

noreply@blogger.com (Umair Riaz) — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:37:01 PDT

Install Distro-Clock-Conky in Debian/CentOS/Fedora/RedHat/Arch and other Distributions

Ubuntu-nsClock Conky make by Laabiyad Abderrahim, It looks awesome on desktop. This conky was only available with Ubuntu logo but NoobsLab made available logo Mint, Linux, Fedora, Redhat, Gentoo, openSUSE Debian, and Arch. It is available for all desktop environments like Gnome Shell, Cinnamon, and others. It shows Distribution logo and current PC time as Analogue clock.

Install Conky in Debian open terminal and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

sudo su && apt-get install conky conky-all && exit

Install Conky in Fedora open terminal and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

su && yum install conky conky-all && exit

Install Conky in CentOS/RedHat open terminal and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

su && yum install libImlib2.so.1 libtolua++-5.1.so

wget -O conky-1.8.1-2.i686-TechLW.com.rpm http://goo.gl/TwcE7

sudo rpm -ivh conky-1.8.1-2.i686-TechLW.com.rpm && exit

Install Conky in Arch open terminal and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

su && pacman -S conky && exit

First of all Download Startup script with following commands:

cd && wget -O .start-conky http://goo.gl/6RrEw

chmod +x .start-conky

Now open Startup Applications (Press Alt+F2 and type gnome-session-properties) > click Add > New Dialog box will open click on Browse > Now (Press Ctrl+H) to see hidden files in your HOME directory then select (.start-conky) file.

1: Ubuntu Clock Conky

To install Ubuntu-clock-conky open Terminal and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
>> For (Gnome Shell, Cinnamon)

cd && wget -O ubuntu-noobslab-gs.zip http://goo.gl/Kz8wz

unzip ubuntu-noobslab-gs.zip && rm ubuntu-noobslab-gs.zip