JS Studio is a Qt-based cross-platform IDE for developing JavaScript-based web applications.
JS Studio is designed to be a fully-featured IDE for developing web applications with a focus on interactive JavaScript-based apps. Here are some of the features currently available:
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With Gnome 2 no longer an option we lost one of the most important upstream components our Linux Mint desktop was based on. Our entire focus shifted from innovating on the desktop, to patching existing alternatives such as Gnome Shell. We used MATE and MGSE to provide an easier transition away from Gnome 2, but without being able to truly offer an alternative that was better than Gnome 2. Both MATE and Gnome Shell are promising projects but MATE’s ultimate goal is to replicate Gnome 2 using GTK+ and Gnome Shell doesn’t provide what we need in a desktop and is going in a direction we do not want to follow. So for these reasons we’re designing a new desktop called Cinnamon, which leverages new technology and implements our vision.
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Probably the simplest and fastest audio player for Linux.Pogo's elementary-inspired design uses the screen-space very efficiently. It is especially well-suited for people who organize their music by albums on the harddrive. The main interface components are a directory tree and a playlist that groups albums in an innovative way.
Supported file formats include Ogg Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Musepack, Wavpack, and MPEG-4 AAC. Pogo is a fork of Decibel Audio Player.
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WinUSB is a simple tool that enable you to create your own usb stick windows installer from an iso image or a real DVD.
This package contains two programs:
-- WinUSB-gui: a graphical interface which is very easy to use.
-- winusb: the command line tool.
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Sun Java 6 packages are being removed from Ubuntu in the near future for the following reasons:
-- As of August 24th 2011, Canonical no longer have permission to redistribute new Java packages as Oracle has retired the "Operating System Distributor License for Java".
-- Oracle has published an advisory about security issues in the version of Java currently in the partner archive. Some of these issues are currently being exploited in the wild.
-- Due to the severity of the security risk, Canonical released a security update for the Sun JDK browser plugin which disables the plugin on all machines.
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