June 30, 2010 · General · 6 comments

In creating Ubuntu Linux, Canonical has focused on ease of use, and this extends to the install procedure. To this end, Ubuntu eschewed many of the detailed questions that had discouraged potential Linux users of an earlier era. However, despite relative improvements in that area, the installation is still peppered with questions. This means that an admin tasked with the deployment of more than three or four computers is doomed to spend an entire morning dashing around, typing in responses to the same questions over and over again.
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June 30, 2010 · General · 3 comments

streamtuner2 is an internet radio browser. It looks up the categorized music stations from various directory services, like:

* SHOUTcast (works mostly)

* Xiph.org / icecast (basic function)

* live365 (standard)

* DMOZ/Google stations (ported from st1)

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June 30, 2010 · General · 1 comment

Oracle released VirtualBox 3.2.6, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 3.2 which improves stability and fixes regressions.
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June 28, 2010 · General · 1 comment

Decibel Audio Player is a GTK+ open-source (GPL) audio player for GNU/Linux. It is very straightforward to use thanks to a clean and user-friendly interface. It is especially targeted at Gnome  and follows the Gnome HIG.

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June 27, 2010 · General · 50 comments

Tired with your ordinary GRUB loader?
grub loader linux ubuntu lucid linx
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