[125007880010] |<title>Is Ubuntu Ready for a Non-tech-savvy Girlfriend?</title>
[125007880020] |Many people are buzzing about Linux’s newest OS, called Ubuntu, which operates under the open source GNU license.
[125007880030] |This small and stable operating system is making a splash around the world for it usability and high security levels, unlike previous Linux systems.
[125007880040] |Though it’s cited as a user friendly OS like Microsoft Windows, it’s still a Linux based system, so there are some differences when compared to Windows.
[125007880050] |Technology has always been a tough sell for women.
[125007880060] |However, throughout the years, things have changed.
[125007880070] |One reason that you hear more women opening up to Windows is that it can be less intimidating than a Mac or even Linux computer.
[125007880080] |<strong>What Makes Ubuntu Different?</strong>
[125007880090] |Many people are buzzing about Linux’s newest OS, called Ubuntu, which operates under the open source GNU license.
[125007880100] |This small and stable operating system is making a splash around the world for its usability and high security levels, unlike previous Linux systems.
[125007880110] |Though it’s cited as a user-friendly OS like Microsoft Windows, it’s still a Linux based system, so there are some differences.
[125007880120] |While it’s not Windows, it’s also not a Mac system, although it can be learned quickly once users dip their virtual feet into the Linux environment.
[125007880130] |Linux has made some big strides with Ubuntu, so we created a list ranking just how easy it can be for the beginner, male or female, to use Ubuntu.
[125007880140] |<strong>Accessibility</strong>
[125007880150] |One nice thing about Ubuntu is that it’s very easy to find.
[125007880160] |Thanks to the GNU license, many people can modify and distribute it.
[125007880170] |It’s not dominated by a corporation like the Windows or Mac OS.
[125007880180] |And while it’s open source, meaning that you can download it for free, it can also be sold on the market.
[125007880190] |It would be highly recommended for those who decide to sell if for a profit to add something of value to make this a worthwhile purchase, because people can get the exact same system for free!
[125007880200] |Some versions of Ubuntu that can be found on their website include the Desktop, Netbook, and Server editions.
[125007880210] |Of course you can also find other variations if you look hard enough., like Edubuntu and Kubuntu.
[125007880220] |However those two were not put out by the main creators of the original Ubuntu and might not contain all the core components of the original.
[125007880230] |<strong>Production Tools</strong>
[125007880240] |Most people use a computer to work or become more productive and Ubuntu is on top of that.
[125007880250] |Like all other mainstream operating systems, Ubuntu comes fully loaded with productive tools that can used for a multitude of things.
[125007880260] |Evolution is the software that Ubuntu uses for email, contacts, calendar, and other task features.
[125007880270] |It appears to work almost exactly like Windows Mail, with the layout included.
[125007880280] |So this should be easy enough to use even for newbie’s of Linux.
[125007880290] |This was most likely the goal of the software‘s creators to create an easy to use Windows Mail clone.
[125007880300] |However if you prefer to use a more well known web based email service, you can.
[125007880310] |Evolution does allow you to check more than one email account at a time, which should be a time saver for many people.
[125007880320] |Read <a>Full Story</a>
[125007890010] |<title>Weekly Roundup : 26-10-2009 - 01-11-2009</title>
[125007890020] |<h3><strong>Backup</strong></h3>
[125007890030] |<a>How to Install Ubuntu One on Kubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)</a>
[125007890040] |<strong>General</strong></h3>
[125007890050] |<a>Fix for rhythmbox not playing mp3 in Ubuntu karmic</a>
[125007890060] |<a>Install Nvidia Graphics Drivers 190.42 in Ubuntu Karmic/Jaunty/Intrepid/Hardy</a>
[125007890070] |<a>Ubuntu Tip :Improve your boot times with ubuntu boot in Karmic</a>
[125007890080] |<a>How to change Screen resolution in Ubuntu</a>
[125007890090] |<a>Mplayer Frontends (gnome-mplayer,Smplayer)</a>
[125007890100] |<a>Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) Screenshots Gallery</a>
[125007890110] |<a>Linux Theme Mockups for Firefox 4.0/3.7</a>
[125007890120] |<a>Install Mplayer and Multimedia Codecs (libdvdcss2,w32codecs,w64codecs) in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)</a>
[125007890130] |<a>Upgrade Kubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) to 9.10 (Karmic)</a>
[125007890140] |<a>Howto upgrade ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) to 9.10 (Karmic) Desktop/Server</a>
[125007890150] |<a>What applications or tweaks you prefer after installing Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)</a>
[125007890160] |<a>Howto Connect Sixaxis to Ubuntu trough bluetooth mode</a>
[125007890170] |<a>Nice themes for ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) users</a>
[125007890180] |<a>Download Karmic Nights Theme</a>
[125007890190] |<a>Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Overview</a>
[125007890200] |<a>FireFTP - Firefox Add-on</a>
[125007890210] |<a>Foxit Reader - A free PDF document viewer</a>
[125007890220] |<a>Ubuntu Tip : Simple way of making a stop animation</a>
[125007890230] |<h3><strong>Monitoring</strong></h3>
[125007890240] |<a>How to setup Zabbix monitoring application in Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) Server</a>
[125007890250] |<h3><strong>News</strong></h3>
[125007890260] |<a>CD/DVD/Bittorrent Download Links for Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)</a>
[125007890270] |<a>Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) released and Download now</a>
[125007890280] |<a>Ubuntu’s Karmic Koala bares fangs at Windows 7</a>
[125007890290] |<a>Ubuntu readies the Karmic Koala </a>
[125007890300] |<a>Mark Shuttleworth: 10 Thoughts On Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)</a>
[125007890310] |<a>The BBC takes on Ubuntu Linux</a>
[125007890320] |<a>Ubuntu Minimum Requirements</a>
[125007890330] |<h3><strong>Package Mgmt</strong></h3>
[125007890340] |<a>Select fastest mirror for your ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) Upgrade</a>
[125007890350] |<h3><strong>Server</strong></h3>
[125007890360] |<a>Howto upgrade ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) to 9.10 (Karmic) Desktop/Server</a>
[125007890370] |<a>How to setup Zabbix monitoring application in Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) Server</a> 
[125007910010] |<title>Fix for Flash is not recognizing mouse clicks</title>
[125007910020] |This is work around for <a>Bug#410407</a>
[125007910030] |<strong>Procedure to follow</strong>
[125007910040] |<strong>Method 1</strong>
[125007910050] |First you need to edit /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer file from terminal
[125007910060] |gksudo gedit /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer
[125007910070] |Add the following line before the last line of text
[125007910080] |export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1
[125007910090] |Save and exit the file
[125007910100] |Note:- when you try to upgrading your system next time you need to revert back the changes
[125007910110] |<strong>Method 2</strong>
[125007910120] |<strong>Note:</strong>- Using this script might break your system
[125007910130] |Create a file called flashclickfix.sh and script credit goes <a>here</a>
[125007910140] |gedit flashclickfix.sh
[125007910150] |Add the following script
[125007910160] |Save and exit the file
[125007910170] |Now you need to change the permissions on the script
[125007910180] |sudo chmod 755 flashclickfix.sh
[125007910190] |Run the script with the following command
[125007910200] |sh flashclickfix.sh
[125007920010] |<title>Fix for No sound (Sound Blaster Audigy) after upgrading from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 </title>
[125007920020] |<strong>Problem</strong>
[125007920030] |After upgrading from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 you might not get the sound from your Sound Blaster Audigy sound card.
[125007920040] |<strong>Solution</strong>
[125007920050] |Install GNOME Alsa Mixer
[125007920060] |sudo apt-get install gnome-alsamixer
[125007920070] |or
[125007920080] |Click on the following link
[125007920090] |<a>apt://gnome-alsamixer</a>
[125007920100] |Now open GNOME ALSA Mixer from Applications -> Sound &Video -> GNOME ALSA Mixer
[125007920110] |Choose the tab: “SigmaTel…”
[125007920120] |Turn on “Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack”
[125007920130] |That’s it now your sound should work as normal
[125007930010] |<title>How to restore Grub boot loader after installing Windows</title>
[125007930020] |This tutorial will explain how to restore Grub after installing Windows 7/Vista/Xp.If you are using dual boot PC with windows,Ubuntu for some reason you reinstall your windows now you may not see your grub 2 is loading because your windows installation might have been over written MBR (Master boot record).
[125007930030] |<strong>Method 1</strong>
[125007930040] |<strong>Using Ubuntu 9.10 livecd</strong>
[125007930050] |First you need to download Ubuntu from Ubuntu site
[125007930060] |In this tutorial we are assuming the Ubuntu partition is sdc3,and /boot partition is sdc2
[125007930070] |Note:- You need to replace sdc3,sdc2 with your partitions.You can check your partition table with fdisk -l
[125007930080] |Now Boot up ubuntu from the livecd,open terminal from Applications menu -> Accessories -> Terminal and login as root using the following command
[125007930090] |sudo -i
[125007930100] |mount /dev/sdc3 /mnt
[125007930110] |mount /dev/sdc2 /mnt/boot
[125007930120] |grub-install <code>--</code>root-directory=/mnt/ /dev/sdc
[125007930130] |If you are not having “grub.cfg” file,use following contents to recreate
[125007930140] |mount <code>--</code>bind /proc /mnt/proc
[125007930150] |mount <code>--</code>bind /dev /mnt/dev
[125007930160] |mount <code>--</code>bind /sys /mnt/sys
[125007930170] |chroot /mnt update-grub
[125007930180] |umount /mnt/sys
[125007930190] |umount /mnt/dev
[125007930200] |umount /mnt/proc
[125007930210] |exit 
[125007930220] |<strong>Method 2</strong>
[125007930230] |<strong>Using GRUB for DOS</strong>
[125007930240] |GRUB4DOS is an universal boot loader based on GNU GRUB.
[125007930250] |It can boot off DOS/LINUX, or via Windows boot manager/syslinux/lilo, or from MBR/CD.
[125007930260] |It also has builtin BIOS disk emulation, ATAPI CDROM driver, etc.
[125007930270] |Download GRUB for DOS from <a>here</a>
[125007930280] |<strong>For XP Users</strong>
[125007930290] |copy the file grldr from grub4dos package to C:\.Edit boot.ini (hidden file) and add this line to the file:
[125007930300] |c:\grldr=”grub4dos”
[125007930310] |<strong>For Windows7/Vista Users</strong>
[125007930320] |Copy the file grldr,grldr.mbr to C:\.Create boot.ini file in the root directory of C:,copy and paste following into this file.
[125007930330] |[boot loader] timeout=0 default=c:\grldr.mbr [operating systems] C:\grldr.mbr=”Grub4Dos”
[125007930340] |Now,create menu.lst in root directory,with the following content
[125007930350] |timeout 0 default 0 title grub2 find <code>--</code>set-root /boot/grub/core.img kernel /boot/grub/core.img boot
[125007930360] |Now restart your computer,and select boot from Grub4Dos.Then select boot up Ubuntu in grub menu.
[125007930370] |Once login,use this command to install grub into mbr
[125007930380] |sudo grub-install /dev/sdc
[125007930390] |Note :- Replace sdc with your partiton
[125007940010] |<title>Howto install eee-control in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid)/9.10 (Karmic)</title>
[125007940020] |eee-control is an easy-to-use utility for controlling Eee PC hardware under Linux.
[125007940030] |It can toggle hardware (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) on and off, lets you configure all hardware hotkeys, enables aggressive powersaving, and more.
[125007940040] |<strong>Features</strong>
[125007940050] |* ACPI support for hotkeys, LCD brightness control and hardware toggles
[125007940060] |* Toggle hardware (WiFi, Bluetooth, card reader, webcam, touchpad) on and off
[125007940070] |* Easy graphical configuration of hotkey actions
[125007940080] |* Better (finer granularity, more silent) fan control
[125007940090] |* Extended LCD brightness (brighter and darker than the default range)
[125007940100] |* Notifications/OSD (fully configurable)
[125007940110] |* Performance control (adjusts FSB and CPU voltage) for saving power and/or overclocking
[125007940120] |* gnome-power-manager integration for automatic performance adjustment
[125007940130] |* Fine-grained configuration through a configuration file (/etc/eee-control.conf)
[125007940140] |* Monitor for hardware sensors (fan, temperature)
[125007940150] |* Internationalization
[125007940160] |* Clean architecture
[125007940170] |o eee-control-daemon (low level operations, hardware abstraction, runs with root privileges)
[125007940180] |o eee-control-tray (GTK/GNOME GUI, configuration, OSD)
[125007940190] |o D-Bus for communication
[125007940200] |Currently the Eee PC models 701/701SD, 702, 900, 900A, 901 &1000/1000H are supported.
[125007940210] |<strong>Install eee-control in Ubuntu 9.10</strong>
[125007940220] |First you need to download .deb package from <a>here</a> or using the following command
[125007940230] |wget http://danamlund.dk/eee-control/eee-control_0.9.4_all~karmic.deb
[125007940240] |Now install .deb package using the following command
[125007940250] |sudo dpkg -i eee-control_0.9.4_all~karmic.deb
[125007940260] |You can always download latest .deb from <a>here</a>
[125007940270] |<strong>For Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 users</strong>
[125007940280] |For Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 users add the eee-control PPA repository to your Third Party Software Sources (Administratio – Software Sources) type in:
[125007940290] |ppa:eee-control/eee-control
[125007940300] |Than update the packages archive and install eee-control package with the
[125007940310] |Package Manager or in a terminal type 
[125007940320] |sudo apt-get install eee-control
[125007940330] |<strong>Screenshot</strong>
[125007950010] |<title>Fix for VLC doesn’t play video after ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) Upgrade</title>
[125007950020] |<strong>Problem </strong>
[125007950030] |After completing the upgrade to Karmic every time if youtry to play any sort of video in VLC none of them work <strong>Solution 1</strong>
[125007950040] |Install libavcodec52 package using the following command from terminal
[125007950050] |sudo apt-get install libavcodec52
[125007950060] |or
[125007950070] |click on the following link
[125007950080] |<a>apt://libavcodec52</a>
[125007950090] |<strong>Solution 2</strong>
[125007950100] |Make sure you have installed ubuntu-restricted-extras packe
[125007950110] |sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
[125007950120] |<strong>Solution 3</strong>
[125007950130] |Make sure you have the Medibuntu repository disabled if you have it.You need to remove the packages that were installed by the metapackage “ubuntu-restricted-extras” using the following command
[125007950140] |sudo apt-get remove <code>--</code>purge ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly liba52-0.7.4 libavcodec52 libavformat52 libavutil49 libdvdnav4 libdvdread4 libgsm1 libid3tag0 libmad0 libmpeg2-4 libpostproc51 libschroedinger-1.0-0 libsidplay1 libswscale0 libtwolame0 ubuntu-restricted-extras libavcodec52 libavformat52 libswscale0 libvlc2 libvlccore2 vlc vlc-data vlc-nox vlc-plugin-pulse
[125007950150] |This will remove any codecs installed and any programs that use the codecs.
[125007950160] |Ex. mplayer, Audacity, xmms, etc.
[125007950170] |Don’t worry, you can install them afterwards.
[125007950180] |Note :- The above might remove ubuntu-desktop so you have to install this.
[125007950190] |sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
[125007950200] |sudo apt-get clean
[125007950210] |Now restart your PC and install ubuntu-restricted-extras and your prefered media player
[125007950220] |sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
[125007950230] |<strong>Solution 4</strong>
[125007950240] |1. Disable medibuntu karmic repo.
[125007950250] |2. apt-get <code>--</code>purge remove libx264-67
[125007950260] |3. ReInstall the package names saved in the text file using the standard Karmic repos.
[125007950270] |<strong>Solution 5</strong>
[125007950280] |One user did the following to fix the problem
[125007950290] |$ sudo apt-get remove smplayer $ sudo apt-get remove mplayer $ sudo apt-get remove libx264-67 --purge $ sudo apt-get install libx264-67 $ sudo apt-get install smplayer $ sudo apt-get install mplayer $ sudo apt-get install vlc 
[125007950300] |Full credit goes to <a>ubuntuforum users</a> .I hope this would help some users without searching too much to fix their problem.
[125007960010] |<title>How to install vmware server 2.0.x in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)</title>
[125007960020] |VMware Server is a free virtualization product for Windows and Linux servers with enterprise-class support and VirtualCenter management.
[125007960030] |VMware Server is a robust yet easy to use server virtualization product and is based on proven virtualization technology, which has been used by thousands of customers for many years.
[125007960040] |First you need to download vmware server 2.0.x from <a>vmware website</a> and get the vmware server installation key
[125007960050] |Currently we have a problems compiling vmware server under kernel version 2.6.31 so this tutorial will explain how to install vmware server 2.0.x in Ubuntu 9.10
[125007960060] |Now we have VMware-server-2.0.2-203138.i386.tar.gz file so unpack this file
[125007960070] |tar -zvxf VMware-server-2.0.2-203138.i386.tar.gz
[125007960080] |go to vmware-server-distrib directory
[125007960090] |cd vmware-server-distrib
[125007960100] |Run vmware-install.pl script using the following command
[125007960110] |./vmware-install.pl
[125007960120] |Now you might receive compilation error messages so now you need to download required <a><strong>patch files from here</strong> </a>in vmware-server-distrib directory these patches from <a>vmware forum</a>
[125007960130] |You can use the following command to download patches
[125007960140] |wget http://www.ubuntugeek.com/images/vmware-server.2.0.1_x64-modules-2.6.30.4-fix.tgz
[125007960150] |After downloading extract vmware-server.2.0.1_x64-modules-2.6.30.4-fix.tgz file
[125007960160] |tar xvzf vmware-server.2.0.1_x64-modules-2.6.30.4-fix.tgz
[125007960170] |Now run the patch script using the following command
[125007960180] |sh vmware-server.2.0.1_x64-modules-2.6.30.4-fix.sh
[125007960190] |Note:- This script will work 2.6.30,2.6.31 kernel versions
[125007960200] |After each completing the patch installation you should see similar to the following message
[125007960210] |After completing the patch installation you need to remove /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary directory because The original VMware modules directory is still in the way so this will confuses VMware that is why we are removing this directory
[125007960220] |rm -rf /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary
[125007960230] |Now run vmware-config.pl script
[125007960240] |vmware-config.pl
[125007960250] |This should complete the vmware server installation.
[125007960260] |Now open your browser type https://PC-ipaddress:8333 once it opens you should see similar to the following screen
[125007960270] |Whe you try to login using your ubuntu user login details you might see “You do not have permissions to login to the server” error this is because you need to enable root account on your <a>ubuntu machine using this tutorial</a> or login as user who is having root permissions
[125007960280] |Once you login you should see similar to the following screen
[125007960290] |<strong>Reinstall Vmware server</strong>
[125007960300] |If you still having problems with your vmware server installation follow these steps
[125007960310] |Delete the vmware modules using the following command
[125007960320] |rm -rf /usr/lib/vmware/modules/
[125007960330] |rm -rf /lib/modules/2.6.31-13-server/misc/vm*
[125007960340] |Now kill all vmware processes manually
[125007960350] |kill -9 $( ps -ef | awk ‘/vm/ { print $2 }’ )
[125007960360] |Now run vmware-install.pl file
[125007960370] |./vmware-install.pl
[125007960380] |at the time of installation where you see the following message type <strong>no</strong> and press enter
[125007960390] |Before running VMware Server for the first time, you need to configure it by invoking the following command: “/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl”.
[125007960400] |Do you want this program to invoke the command for you now? [yes] <strong>no</strong>
[125007960410] |Now you need to run the patch script file using the following command
[125007960420] |sh vmware-server.2.0.1_x64-modules-2.6.30.4-fix.sh
[125007960430] |After completing this you should run vmware-config.pl
[125007960440] |/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl
[125007960450] |<strong>Error message </strong>
[125007960460] |<code>When i try to install vmware server 2.0.2 under ubuntu 9.10 i got the following error so i installed the patch file with the procedure specified above</code>
[125007960470] |/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2007: error: too many arguments to function ‘smp_call_function’ make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-14-generic’ make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2 make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only’ Unable to build the vmmon module.
[125007960480] |For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please visit our Web site at “http://www.vmware.com/go/unsup-linux-products” and “http://www.vmware.com/go/unsup-linux-tools”.
[125007960490] |Execution aborted.
[125007970010] |<title>How to install sopcast player in Ubuntu 9.10(Karmic)</title>
[125007970020] |SopCast Player is designed to be an easy to use Linux GUI front-end for the p2p streaming technology developed by SopCast.
[125007970030] |SopCast Player features an integrated video player, a channel guide, and bookmarks.
[125007970040] |Once SopCast Player is installed it simply “just works” with no required configuration.
[125007970050] |<strong>Install opcast player in Ubuntu 9.10</strong>
[125007970060] |Use the following command to add the sopcast player PPA
[125007970070] |sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jason-scheunemann/ppa
[125007970080] |Update the source list using the following command
[125007970090] |sudo apt-get update
[125007970100] |First you need to install sp-auth .deb package so download from <a>here</a>
[125007970110] |wget http://sopcast-player.googlecode.com/files/sp-auth_3.0.1_i386.deb
[125007970120] |Install .deb package
[125007970130] |sudo dpkg -i sp-auth_3.0.1_i386.deb
[125007970140] |Install sopcast player using the following command
[125007970150] |sudo apt-get install sopcast-player
[125007970160] |or click on the following link to install
[125007970170] |<a>apt://sopcast-player</a>
[125007980010] |<title>How to restore notifications Position in Ubuntu 9.10 as they did in Ubuntu 9.04</title>
[125007980020] |One of the changes Ubuntu 9.10 made from 9.04 was the placement of “asynchronous” farther down the right side of the screen.The problem a lot of users have with this is that it leaves a big space between the top of the screen and notifications.
[125007980030] |<a>Julien Lavergne created .deb packages</a> (notify-osd) to fix this problem and this will restore ubuntu 9.04 behaviour
[125007980040] |Download updated .deb packages (notify-osd)
[125007980050] |For i386 users download from <a>here</a>
[125007980060] |For amd64 users download from <a>here</a>
[125007980070] |Install .deb package using the following command
[125007980080] |sudo dpkg -i packagename
[125007990010] |<title>Install Empathy in Ubuntu Jaunty/Intrepid/Hardy</title>
[125007990020] |Empathy is a messaging program which supports text, voice, and video chat and file transfers over many different protocols.
[125007990030] |You can tell it about your accounts on all those services and do all your chatting within one application.
[125007990040] |Empathy uses Telepathy for protocol support and has a user interface based on Gossip.
[125007990050] |Empathy is the default chat client in current versions of GNOME, making it easier for other GNOME applications to integrate collaboration functionality using Telepathy.
[125007990060] |<strong>Current features</strong>
[125007990070] |* Multi-protocol: Google Talk (Jabber/XMPP), MSN, IRC, Salut, AIM, Facebook, Yahoo!, Gadu Gadu, Groupwise, ICQ and QQ.
[125007990080] |(Supported protocols depend on installed Telepathy Connection Manager components.)
[125007990090] |Supports all protocols supported by Pidgin.
[125007990100] |* File transfer for XMPP, and local networks.
[125007990110] |* Voice and video call using SIP, XMPP, Google Talk and MSN.
[125007990120] |* Some IRC support.
[125007990130] |* Conversation theming (see list of supported Adium themes).
[125007990140] |* Sharing and viewing location information.
[125007990150] |* Private and group chat (with smileys and spell checking).
[125007990160] |o Empathy Conversation window
[125007990170] |* Conversation logging.
[125007990180] |* Automatic away and extended away presence.
[125007990190] |* Automatic reconnection using Network Manager.
[125007990200] |* Python bindings for libempathy and libempathy-gtk
[125007990210] |* Support for collaborative applications (“tubes”).
[125007990220] |<strong>Install Empathy in Ubuntu Jaunty/Intrepid/Hardy</strong>
[125007990230] |First you need to edit /etc/apt/sources.lst file
[125007990240] |gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
[125007990250] |Add one of the following
[125007990260] |<strong>For Jaunty Users</strong>
[125007990270] |deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/telepathy/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/telepathy/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
[125007990280] |<strong>For Intrepid Users</strong>
[125007990290] |deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/telepathy/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/telepathy/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
[125007990300] |<strong>For Hardy Users</strong>
[125007990310] |deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/telepathy/ppa/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/telepathy/ppa/ubuntu hardy main
[125007990320] |Save and exit the file
[125007990330] |Add GPG key
[125007990340] |sudo apt-key adv <code>--</code>recv-keys <code>--</code>keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com FA3A1271
[125007990350] |Update the source list
[125007990360] |sudo apt-get update
[125007990370] |Install Empathy using the following command
[125007990380] |sudo apt-get install empathy
[125007990390] |If you want to install support for SIP, MSN, IRC and voice &video
[125007990400] |sudo apt-get install telepathy-sofiasip telepathy-butterfly telepathy-idle libtelepathy-farsight0 python-tpfarsight
[125007990410] |Now you can open empathy from Applications->Internet->Empathy IM Client
[125008000010] |<title>Ubun-student - Easy way to install commonly used professional softwares in Ubuntu</title>
[125008000020] |As we all known, a lot of professional softwares do not provide Debian packages in their official sites.
[125008000030] |These softwares include TexLive 2008, NetBeans 6.7, Intel Compiler, BRL-CAD, Alice programming language and so on.
[125008000040] |Sometimes the installation is complicated.
[125008000050] |Recently, some students developed a GPL project named Ubun-student.
[125008000060] |It is designed for students.
[125008000070] |It provides the following functionality:
[125008000080] |<strong>Ubun-student tries to simplify software installation process</strong>.
[125008000090] |It automatically download software packages, unpack them, start the installation process, and create shortcut icons after installation.
[125008000100] |Screenshot:
[125008000110] |<strong>Ubun-student helps to search the fastest apt server.</strong>
[125008000120] |Many universities have set up Ubuntu apt mirrors.
[125008000130] |And students want to choose the fastest apt server from many candidates.
[125008000140] |By Ubun-student, students can type in server names and get server response time.
[125008000150] |Screenshot:
[125008000160] |<strong>Ubun-student simplifies apt source configuration process.</strong>
[125008000170] |Many softwares are provided in launchpad.
[125008000180] |Google and other companies also provide softwares.
[125008000190] |To use these third party repositories, one may have to edit apt source and import the gpg key.
[125008000200] |Ubun-student tries to simplify this process.
[125008000210] |It displays repository webpages, repository speed and repository content.
[125008000220] |Screenshot:
[125008000230] |<strong>Ubun-student supports offline installation mode.</strong>
[125008000240] |Software packages can be cached into personal computer.
[125008000250] |If files are cached, Ubun-student will use them directly without downloading from the Internet.
[125008000260] |Screenshot:
[125008000270] |<strong>By Ubun-student, you can easily install common used professional softwares.</strong><strong> </strong>
[125008000280] |<strong>How to install</strong>: Open web page <a>http://groups.google.com/group/ubun_student_user</a> .
[125008000290] |Download “ubun-student-10.04.deb” and install it.
[125008000300] |Install downloaded .deb package using the following command
[125008000310] |sudo dpkg -i ubun-student-9.10.deb
[125008000320] |An shortcut icon will appear in the “Application”->”System tool” menu.
[125008000330] |Or download “ubun-student-10.04.tar.gz” and install it by “./configure ; make ; make install”
[125008010010] |<title>Bazaar Explorer - Advanced Version Control Made Simple</title>
[125008010020] |Bazaar Explorer, a wonderful cross-platform Qt-based GUI front-end to the Bazaar VCS, is making it even easier.
[125008010030] |Whether you’re just getting started with DVCS or you just prefer a graphical environment, you should really check it out.
[125008010040] |Bazaar Explorer has 3 main views:
[125008010050] |* Welcome page
[125008010060] |* Repository view
[125008010070] |* Status view
[125008010080] |<strong>Install Bazaar Explorer in Ubuntu</strong>
[125008010090] |First you need to install <strong>QBzr</strong>
[125008010100] |QBzr is a cross-platform GUI front end for Bazaar, based on Qt toolkit.QBzr provided GUI frontend for many core bzr commands and several universal dialogs and helper commands.
[125008010110] |Equivalents for core bzr commands has the same names as CLI commands but with prefix “q”.
[125008010120] |<strong>For karmic users</strong>
[125008010130] |sudo add-apt-repository ppa:qbzr-dev/ppa
[125008010140] |<strong>For Jaunty Users</strong>
[125008010150] |Edit /etc/apt/sources.list file
[125008010160] |gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
[125008010170] |Add the following lines
[125008010180] |deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/qbzr-dev/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/qbzr-dev/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
[125008010190] |Save and exit the file <strong>For Intrepid Users</strong>
[125008010200] |Edit /etc/apt/sources.list file
[125008010210] |gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
[125008010220] |Add the following lines
[125008010230] |deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/qbzr-dev/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/qbzr-dev/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
[125008010240] |Save and exit the file <strong>For Hardy Users</strong>
[125008010250] |Edit /etc/apt/sources.list file
[125008010260] |gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
[125008010270] |Add the following lines
[125008010280] |deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/qbzr-dev/ppa/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/qbzr-dev/ppa/ubuntu hardy main
[125008010290] |Save and exit the file
[125008010300] |Install GPG key for Jaunty,Intrepid,Hardy users (Not required for Karmic users)
[125008010310] |sudo apt-key adv <code>--</code>keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com <code>--</code>recv-keys 364F5AF5
[125008010320] |Update the source list
[125008010330] |sudo apt-get update
[125008010340] |Install qbzr Explorer using the following command
[125008010350] |sudo apt-get install qbzr
[125008010360] |or click on the following link
[125008010370] |<a>apt://qbzr</a>
[125008010380] |Now you need to <strong>install Bazaar Explorer </strong>
[125008010390] |<strong>For karmic users</strong>
[125008010400] |sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bzr-explorer-dev/ppa
[125008010410] |<strong>For Jaunty Users</strong>
[125008010420] |Edit /etc/apt/sources.list file
[125008010430] |gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
[125008010440] |Add the following lines
[125008010450] |deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bzr-explorer-dev/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bzr-explorer-dev/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
[125008010460] |Save and exit the file
[125008010470] |<strong>For Intrepid Users</strong>
[125008010480] |Edit /etc/apt/sources.list file
[125008010490] |gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
[125008010500] |Add the following lines
[125008010510] |deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bzr-explorer-dev/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bzr-explorer-dev/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
[125008010520] |Save and exit the file
[125008010530] |<strong>For Hardy Users</strong>
[125008010540] |Edit /etc/apt/sources.list file
[125008010550] |gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
[125008010560] |Add the following lines
[125008010570] |deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bzr-explorer-dev/ppa/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bzr-explorer-dev/ppa/ubuntu hardy main
[125008010580] |Save and exit the file
[125008010590] |Install GPG key for Jaunty,Intrepid,Hardy users (Not required for Karmic users)
[125008010600] |sudo apt-key adv <code>--</code>keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com <code>--</code>recv-keys 68489A05
[125008010610] |Update the source list
[125008010620] |sudo apt-get update
[125008010630] |Install Bazaar Explorer using the following command
[125008010640] |sudo apt-get install bzr-explorer
[125008010650] |or click on the following link
[125008010660] |<a>apt://bzr-explorer</a>
[125008010670] |After completing the installation
[125008010680] |Then change to the directory holding your plugins (normally ~/.bazaar/plugins) and run:
[125008010690] |bzr branch lp:bzr-explorer explorer
[125008010700] |To start explorer, run:
[125008010710] |bzr explorer
[125008010720] |It is recommended that you make this a shortcut on your panel.
[125008010730] |<strong>Screenshot</strong>
[125008010740] |You can check more screnshots from <a>here </a>
[125008020010] |<title>Howto Convert AVI to DVD ISO in Ubuntu</title>
[125008020020] |This tutorial will explain Howto Convert AVI to DVD ISO in Ubuntu
[125008020030] |<strong>Preparing your system</strong>
[125008020040] |First you need to install following packages
[125008020050] |sudo aptitude install ffmpeg mencoder lame dvdauthor lame-extras libtwolame0 genisoimage
[125008020060] |Now create a file avi2dvd
[125008020070] |sudo gedit /usr/bin/avi2dvd
[125008020080] |Add the following contents
[125008020090] |#!/bin/bash
[125008020100] |output=$1 #################### # avi Function # ####################
[125008020110] |function avi { mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=xvcd -vf scale=352:196,expand=352:240,harddup -srate 44100 -af lavcresample=44100 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video:keyint=18:vrc_buf_size=327:vrc_minrate=1152:vbitrate=1152:vrc_maxrate=1152:acodec=mp2:abitrate=224 -ofps 30000/1001 -o output.mpg “$output” }
[125008020120] |#################### # vcd Function # ####################
[125008020130] |function vcd { ffmpeg -i output.mpg -target ntsc-dvd -aspect 4:3 output2.mpg }
[125008020140] |#################### # rm1mpg Function # ####################
[125008020150] |function rm1mpg { rm output.mpg }
[125008020160] |#################### # convert Function # ####################
[125008020170] |function convert { dvdauthor -o dvd -t output2.mpg }
[125008020180] |#################### # rmpg Function # ####################
[125008020190] |function rmpg { rm output2.mpg }
[125008020200] |################### # Rename Function # ###################
[125008020210] |function finalize {
[125008020220] |dvdauthor -o dvd -T
[125008020230] |}
[125008020240] |##################### # ISO Function # #####################
[125008020250] |function image {
[125008020260] |mkisofs -dvd-video -o dvd.iso dvd/
[125008020270] |}
[125008020280] |##################### # rm2 Function # #####################
[125008020290] |function rm2 {
[125008020300] |rm -rf dvd/
[125008020310] |}
[125008020320] |############### # Script # ###############
[125008020330] |avi ; vcd ; rm1mpg ; convert ; rmpg ; finalize ; image ; rm2 ;
[125008020340] |exit
[125008020350] |Save and exit the file
[125008020360] |You can download this script from <a>here</a> .
[125008020370] |This file name is avi2dvd.sh script
[125008020380] |Now change this file permissions with the following command
[125008020390] |sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/avi2dvd
[125008020400] |place your avi file into a directory of your choice and cd into it
[125008020410] |cd /home/someuser/avidirectory
[125008020420] |run this comand
[125008020430] |avi2dvd *
[125008020440] |it takes about an hour but the end result is an iso to burn using your favorate cd burning software k3b, nero etc
[125008020450] |You can also use DeVeDe to do this.
[125008020460] |Credit goes <a>Here</a>
[125008030010] |<title>Install Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)</title>
[125008030020] |Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. Java applications are compiled to bytecode, which at runtime is either interpreted or compiled to native machine code for execution.
[125008030030] |The language itself derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities.
[125008030040] |JavaScript, a scripting language, shares a similar name and has similar syntax, but is not directly related to Java.
[125008030050] |Currently Ubuntu has the following Java packages
[125008030060] |sun-java6-bin - Contains the binaries
[125008030070] |sun-java6-demo - Contains demos and examples
[125008030080] |sun-java6-doc - Contains the documentation
[125008030090] |sun-java6-fonts - Contains the Lucida TrueType fonts from the JRE
[125008030100] |sun-java6-jdk - Contains the metapackage for the JDK
[125008030110] |sun-java6-jre - Contains the metapackage for the JRE
[125008030120] |sun-java6-plugin - Contains the plug-in for Mozilla-based browsers
[125008030130] |sun-java6-source - Contains source files for the JDK
[125008030140] |<strong>Installing the Java Runtime Environment</strong>
[125008030150] |First you need to check multiverse repository enabled or not after that open a terminal window.
[125008030160] |Since you are going to be installing the JRE and the web browser plug-in, you’ll be using the following command from a terminal
[125008030170] |sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts
[125008030180] |Once it downloads the packages and begins the installation, you’ll get a screen that contains the Sun Operating System Distributor License for Java and hit Enter to continue.
[125008030190] |You’ll see a dialog that asks you if you agree with the DLJ license terms.
[125008030200] |Select Yes, and hit Enter; the JRE will finish installing.
[125008030210] |<strong>Testing Java Runtime Environment</strong>
[125008030220] |You’ll want to confirm that your system is configured properly for Sun’s JRE.
[125008030230] |This is a two-step process.
[125008030240] |First, check that the JRE is properly installed by running the following command from a terminal.
[125008030250] |<code>java -version</code>
[125008030260] |You should get similar output
[125008030270] |<strong>Testing Java Plugin for Firefox</strong>
[125008030280] |open Firefox and typing about:plugins in the address bar and check for java plugin
[125008040010] |<title>Ubuntu Tip:How to Play VCD using VLC Player</title>
[125008040020] |This is very simple tutorial how to open VCD using VLC Player
[125008040030] |<strong>Method 1</strong>
[125008040040] |Run the following command from terminal
[125008040050] |/usr/bin/vlc vcd://
[125008040060] |<strong>Method 2</strong>
[125008040070] |Open your VLC Player Go to Media---> Open Disc---> Select SVCD/VCD option
[125008040080] |If you have any other idea please shre with us.
[125008050010] |<title>How to Configure Ubuntu desktop to use your proxy server</title>
[125008050020] |If you are having ubuntu desktop/laptop in your office or home behind proxy this tutorial is for you.This tutorial will explain How to Configure Ubuntu desktop/laptop to use your proxy server.
[125008050030] |<strong>Network Proxy</strong>
[125008050040] |Ubuntu has a setting in gnome for the Network Proxy, which should set gnome’s proxy.
[125008050050] |First go to System--->Preferences--->Network Proxy
[125008050060] |Once it opens click on “Proxy Configuration” and enter your proxy server,port number details click Close.
[125008050070] |<strong>Synaptic Package Manager</strong>
[125008050080] |Synaptic Package Manager must have the proxy set, in order to update your installation using the in-built Update Manager or Synaptic GUI.
[125008050090] |Go to System--->Administration--->Synaptic Package Manager
[125008050100] |Once Synaptic Package Manager opens click on Settings--->Preferences
[125008050110] |Click on Network tab select Manual Proxy Configuration option and enter your proxy server,port details.If you have username,password click on Authentication to enter these details click on ok
[125008050120] |<strong>Firefox proxy Configuration</strong>
[125008050130] |Open your firefox browser go to Edit--->Preferences
[125008050140] |Click on Advanced and select Network tab
[125008050150] |Select Settings option
[125008050160] |Now select Manual Proxy Configuration and enter your proxy server,port details click on ok
[125008050170] |<strong>Terminal Proxy</strong>
[125008050180] |If you want to configure proxy for apt-get,aptitude,wget use the following procedure
[125008050190] |First you need to edit /etc/bash.bashrc file
[125008050200] |gksudo gedit /etc/bash.bashrc
[125008050210] |Add your proxy server details in the following format
[125008050220] |export http_proxy=http://username:password@proxyhost:port/ export ftp_proxy=http://username:password@proxyhost:port/
[125008050230] |Save and exit the file
[125008050240] |Update the source list and you can restart your system
[125008050250] |sudo apt-get update
[125008060010] |<title>Aptlinex - Web browser addon to install Ubuntu packages with a click</title>
[125008060020] |This addon allows installing ubuntu packages from iceweasel, firefox, galeon or konqueror just clicking on a web link.
[125008060030] |For this to work, links need to have an url beginning with apt:// This package does not install the packages or download them from the web sites, it just launches apt, passing the package name to install as a parameter to apt.
[125008060040] |<strong>Install aptlinex in Ubuntu</strong>
[125008060050] |sudo apt-get install aptlinex
[125008060060] |This will install all the required packages.
[125008060070] |<strong>Using aptlinex</strong>
[125008060080] |<strong>Syntax</strong>
[125008060090] |apt://packagename
[125008060100] |In this example i am trying to install d4x download manager from firefox we have to use the following command
[125008060110] |<a>apt://d4x</a>
[125008060120] |Now you should see similar to the following screen
[125008060130] |Confirmation of installing packages click on Yes
[125008060140] |Enter your password click ok
[125008060150] |Downloading and installing required packages in progress
[125008060160] |Installation completed
[125008060170] |One more nice feature i have seen is it will ask you with the following screenshot options create desktop icon or Run now
[125008060180] |Once i choose to Run now option i am seeing d4x main screen as follows
[125008060190] |We have similar tool <a>apturl</a> but with less options.
[125008080010] |<title>Hard disk usage and availability report tools</title>
[125008080020] |This tutorial will explain 3 Hard disk usage and availability report tools available in ubuntu You can always use du and df commands for this purpose but apart from that we have these 3 nice tools
[125008080030] |<strong>di - advanced df like disk information utility</strong>
[125008080040] |`di’ is a disk information utility, displaying everything (and more) that your `df’ command does.
[125008080050] |It features the ability to display your disk usage in whatever format you desire/prefer/are used to.
[125008080060] |It is designed to be portable across many platforms.
[125008080070] |<strong>Install di in ubuntu</strong>
[125008080080] |sudo apt-get install di
[125008080090] |<strong>Examples</strong> <img/>
[125008080100] |More
[125008080110] |di -f SMbuf1T di -f SMbcvpT di -f SMBuv2T
[125008080120] |<strong>discus - pretty version of df command</strong>
[125008080130] |Discus aims to make df prettier, with features such as color, graphs, and smart formatting of numbers (automatically choosing the most suitable size from kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, or terabytes).
[125008080140] |If you don’t want Discus deciding the best sizes, you can also choose your own increments, along with specifying the number of decimal places you’d like to see.
[125008080150] |<strong>Install discuss in ubuntu</strong>
[125008080160] |sudo apt-get install discus
[125008080170] |<strong>Output</strong>
[125008080180] |<strong>durep - create disk usage reports</strong>
[125008080190] |durep is a perl script used for disk usage reports.
[125008080200] |It can generate text output with bar graphs to allow easy comparisons of disk usage between directories.
[125008080210] |It can also generate web pages which can be navigated through the directory structure.
[125008080220] |This allows easy visual monitoring of disk usage.
[125008080230] |<strong>Install durep in ubuntu</strong>
[125008080240] |sudo apt-get install durep
[125008080250] |<strong>durep examples</strong>
[125008080260] |1. durep -td 2
[125008080270] |This would print the directory tree starting from the current direc?tory to depth 2.
[125008080280] |2. durep -f /var/spool/mail
[125008080290] |This might be useful for keeping a check on the mail directory.
[125008080300] |The “-f” switch tells durep to just scan files and not descend into directories.
[125008080310] |3. durep -x -cp “/(etc|usr/share)” -ep “/var” -sf /var/lib/durep/root.ds /
[125008080320] |This more complicated version does the following.
[125008080330] |It scans the root filesystem only, collapses the contents of any paths begining /etc or /usr/share and skips the contents of the /var directory.
[125008080340] |It saves the output of this report into the file /var/lib/durep/root.ds.
[125008080350] |No text report is produced.
[125008080360] |4. durep -lf /var/lib/durep/root.ds -hs 1m
[125008080370] |This reads the save-file /var/lib/durep/root.ds and produces a text report from it, hiding any files below 1 megabyte.
[125008080380] |5. durep -c /var/lib/durep
[125008080390] |This collates any save-files in /var/lib/durep.
[125008080400] |<strong>Pydf - report colourised filesystem disk space usage</strong>
[125008080410] |pydf is a python script that displays the amount of disk space avail?able on the mounted filesystems, using different colours for different types of filesystems.
[125008080420] |Output format is completely customizable.
[125008080430] |<strong>Install pydf in ubuntu</strong>
[125008080440] |sudo apt-get install pydf
[125008080450] |<strong>Output</strong>
[125008080460] |If you want to know more details about each tool use man pages
[125008080470] |man di
[125008080480] |man discus
[125008080490] |man durep
[125008080500] |man pydf
[125008090010] |<title>Humanity Icons Pack </title>
[125008090020] |Humanity Panel Icons for the following are included: Printing, Shutter, Tomboy, Banshee, File Operations, Rhythmbox, Deluge, Fusion-Icon, Transmission, Gwibber, Emesene, Lifera, PolicyKit/Seahorse, Exaile, gPodder, Gwget, CellWriter, Gnome-Do, Specto, HPLIP, Brasero, Weather.
[125008090030] |More to come!
[125008090040] |<strong>Screenshot</strong>
[125008090050] |Download Humanity icons pack from <a>here</a>
[125008100010] |<title>List of Audio/Video players available for GNOME/KDE Users</title>
[125008100020] |This is list of Audio/Video players available for GNOME/KDE Users <strong>Alsaplayer-gtk</strong>
[125008100030] |Alsaplayer is a PCM player designed specifically for use with ALSA, but works great with OSS or EsounD.
[125008100040] |It’s heavily threaded which cuts down on skipping, offers optional and even simultaneous visual scopes, plays mp3, mp2, ogg, cdda, audiofs, and lots more.
[125008100050] |This package provides a GTK-based interface to alsaplayer.
[125008100060] |<strong>Project Homepage :</strong>- <a>http://www.alsaplayer.org/ </a>
[125008100070] |<strong>Latest Stable Version :-</strong> 0.99.80
[125008100080] |<strong>Amarok</strong>
[125008100090] |Amarok is a sound system-independent audio-player for Unix.
[125008100100] |Its interface uses a powerful “browser” metaphor that allows you to create playlists that make the most of your music collection.
[125008100110] |<strong>Project Homepage :</strong>- <a>http://amarok.kde.org/</a>
[125008100120] |<strong>Latest Stable Version :</strong>- 2.2
[125008100130] |<strong>Aqualung</strong>
[125008100140] |Aqualung is an advanced music player originally targeted at the GNU/Linux operating system, today also running on FreeBSD and OpenBSD, with native ports to Mac OS X and even Microsoft Windows.
[125008100150] |It plays audio CDs, internet radio streams and podcasts as well as soundfiles in just about any audio format and has the feature of inserting no gaps between adjacent tracks.
[125008100160] |<strong>Project Homepage :</strong>- <a>http://aqualung.factorial.hu/</a>
[125008100170] |<strong>Latest Stable Version :</strong>- 0.9beta10
[125008100180] |<strong>Audacious</strong>
[125008100190] |Audacious is an advanced audio player.
[125008100200] |It is free, lightweight, based on GTK2, runs on Linux and many other *nix platforms and is focused on audio quality and supporting a wide range of audio codecs.
[125008100210] |Its advanced audio playback engine is considerably more powerful than GStreamer.
[125008100220] |Audacious is a fork of Beep Media Player (BMP), which itself forked from XMMS.
[125008100230] |<strong>Project Homepage :</strong>- <a>http://audacious-media-player.org/</a>
[125008100240] |<strong>Latest Stable Version :</strong>- 2.1.0
[125008100250] |<strong>Banshee</strong>
[125008100260] |Banshee is an media management and playback application for the GNOME desktop, allowing users to import audio from CDs, search their library, create playlists of selections of their library, sync music to/from iPods and other media devices, play and manage video files and burn selections to a CD.
[125008100270] |<strong>Project Homepage :</strong>- <a>http://banshee-project.org/</a>
[125008100280] |<strong>Latest Stable Version :</strong>- 1.4.3
[125008100290] |<strong>Beep media player</strong>
[125008100300] |BMP Is a versatile and handy multi platform media player
[125008100310] |<strong>Project Homepage :</strong>- <a>http://sourceforge.net/projects/beepmp/ </a>
[125008100320] |<strong>Latest Stable Version :</strong>- 0.20pre2
[125008100330] |<strong>Cactus </strong>
[125008100340] |Cactus Jukebox is an audio player and music organizing tool.
[125008100350] |It searches given folders for music files and shows them in a database.
[125008100360] |<strong>Project Homepage :</strong>- <a>http://cactus.hey-you-freaks.de</a>
[125008100370] |<strong>Latest Stable Version :</strong>- 0.4.2
[125008100380] |<strong>cmus</strong>
[125008100390] |cmus is a small and fast text mode music player for Linux and many other UNIX like operating systems.
[125008100400] |<strong>Project Homepage :</strong>- <a>http://cmus.sourceforge.net/</a>
[125008100410] |<strong>Latest Stable Version :</strong>- 2.2.0
[125008100420] |<strong>Decibel </strong>
[125008100430] |Decibel Audio Player is a GTK+ open-source (GPL license) audio player designed for GNU/Linux, which aims at being very straightforward to use by mean of a very clean and user friendly interface.
[125008100440] |It is especially targeted at Gnome and follows as closely as possible the Gnome HIG.
[125008100450] |<strong>Project Homepage :</strong>- <a>http://decibel.silent-blade.org/</a>
[125008100460] |<strong>Latest Stable Version :</strong>- 1.01
[125008100470] |<strong>Exaile</strong>
[125008100480] |Exaile is a music manager and player for GTK+ written in Python.
[125008100490] |It incorporates automatic fetching of album art, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, Last.fm scrobbling, support for many portable media players including iPods, internet radio such as shoutcast, and tabbed playlists.
[125008100500] |<strong>Project Homepage :</strong>- <a>http://www.exaile.org/</a>
[125008100510] |<strong>Latest Stable Version :</strong>- 0.3.0.1
[125008100520] |<strong>Freevo</strong>
[125008100530] |Freevo is an open source HTPC media centre software integrating PVR / DVR funtionality along with music, video, gaming, home automation and more.
[125008100540] |It is written in python and uses existing popular software such as mplayer, xine and vlc.
[125008100550] |Primarily aimed at the Linux platform it is also possible to run on OSX and for the determined on Windows.
[125008100560] |It is the main mythtv alternative.
[125008100570] |<strong>Project Homepage :</strong>- <a>http://freevo.sourceforge.net/</a>
[125008100580] |<strong>Latest Stable Version :</strong>- 1.9.0
[125008100590] |<strong>Helix-player</strong>
[125008100600] |The Helix Player is an open source media player for Linux, Solaris, and Symbian based on the Helix DNA Client media engine.
[125008100610] |More operating system versions are currently in development.
[125008100620] |<strong>Project Homepage :</strong>- <a>https://player.helixcommunity.org/</a>
[125008100630] |<strong>Latest Stable Version :</strong>- 11.0
[125008100640] |<strong>Juk</strong>
[125008100650] |JuK is a free software audio player for KDE, the default player since KDE 3.2 part of the kdemultimedia package.
[125008100660] |JuK supports collections of MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC audio files.
[125008100670] |<strong>Project Homepage :</strong>- <a>http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/juk.html</a>
[125008100680] |<strong>Latest Stable Version :</strong>- 2.2
[125008100690] |<strong>kaffeine</strong>
[125008100700] |Kaffeine is full featured Media Player for KDE.
[125008100710] |It supports all kinds of local and network media and digital video broadcasting (DVB).
[125008100720] |At the moment Kaffeine can use xine-lib or GStreamer as backend.
[125008100730] |<strong>Project Homepage :</strong>- <a>http://kaffeine.kde.org/</a>
[125008100740] |<strong>Latest Stable Version :</strong>- 1.0-pre2
[125008100750] |<strong>Listen</strong>
[125008100760] |Listen is an audio player written in Python.
[125008100770] |Thanks to it, you can easily organize your music collections.
[125008100780] |<strong>Project Homepage :</strong>- <a>http://www.listen-project.org/</a>
[125008100790] |<strong>Latest Stable Version :</strong>- 0.6.3
[125008100800] |<strong>Mesk</strong>
[125008100810] |Mesk is a PyGtk+ audio player that supports multiple playlists and plugins.
[125008100820] |<strong>Project Homepage :</strong>- <a>http://mesk.nicfit.net/</a>
[125008100830] |<strong>Latest Stable Version :</strong>- 0.3.2
[125008100840] |<strong>Mplayer</strong>
[125008100850] |It plays most mpeg, avi and asf files, supported by many native and win32 DLL codecs.
[125008100860] |You can watch VCD, DVD and even DivX movies too.
[125008100870] |The other big feature of mplayer is the wide range of supported output drivers.
[125008100880] |It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, but you can use SDL (and this way all drivers of SDL) and some lowlevel card-specific drivers (for Matrox/3dfx/SiS) too!
[125008100890] |Most of them supports software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen.
[125008100900] |<strong>Project Homepage :</strong>- <a>http://www.mplayerhq.hu</a>
[125008100910] |<strong>Latest Stable Version :</strong>- 1.0rc2
[125008100920] |<strong>MPD</strong>
[125008100930] |Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music.
[125008100940] |Through plugins and libraries it can play a variety of sound files while being controlled by its network protocol.
[125008100950] |<strong>Project Homepage :</strong>- <a>http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Player_Daemon_Wiki </a>
[125008100960] |<strong>Latest Stable Version :</strong>- 0.15.4
[125008100970] |sonata GTK frontend MPD
[125008100980] |<strong>Mpg123</strong>
[125008100990] |mpg123 is a real time MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 audio player/decoder for layers 1,2 and 3 (MPEG 1.0 layer 3 aka MP3 most commonly tested).
[125008101000] |Among others working with Linux, MacOSX, FreeBSD, SunOS4.1.3, Solaris 2.5, HPUX 9.x, SGI Irix and Cygwin or plain MS Windows.
[125008101010] |It is free software licensed under LGPL 2.1 (the officially released sources, some files in subversion repository may differ).
[125008101020] |<strong>Project Homepage :</strong>- <a>http://www.mpg123.de/</a>
[125008101030] |<strong>Latest Stable Version :</strong>- 1.9.1
[125008101040] |<strong>Muine</strong>
[125008101050] |Muine is an innovative music player.
[125008101060] |It has a simple interface designed to allow the user to easily construct a playlist from albums and/or single songs.
[125008101070] |Its goal is to be simply a music player, not to become a robust music management application.
[125008101080] |<strong>Project Homepage :</strong>- <a>http://muine-player.org/wiki/Main_Page</a>
[125008101090] |<strong>Latest Stable Version :</strong>- 0.8.11
[125008101100] |<strong>Quodlibet </strong>
[125008101110] |Quod Libet is a GTK+-based audio player written in Python, using the Mutagen tagging library.
[125008101120] |It’s designed around the idea that you know how to organize your music better than we do.
[125008101130] |It lets you make playlists based on regular expressions (don’t worry, regular searches work too).
[125008101140] |It lets you display and edit any tags you want in the file.
[125008101150] |And it lets you do this for all the file formats it supports -- Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP3, Musepack, and MOD.
[125008101160] |<strong>Project Homepage :</strong>- <a>http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/</a>
[125008101170] |<strong>Latest Stable Version :</strong>- 2.1
[125008101180] |<strong>Rhythmbox</strong>
[125008101190] |Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application, originally inspired by Apple’s iTunes.
[125008101200] |It is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop, and based on the powerful GStreamer media framework.
[125008101210] |<strong>Project Homepage :</strong>- <a>http://projects.gnome.org/rhythmbox/</a>
[125008101220] |<strong>Latest Stable Version :</strong>- 0.12.5
[125008101230] |<strong>Songbird</strong>
[125008101240] |Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that’s under active development.
[125008101250] |<strong>Project Homepage :-</strong><a> http://www.getsongbird.com/</a>
[125008101260] |<strong>Latest Stable Version :</strong>- 1.2.0
[125008101270] |<strong>SMPEG GTK+ MPEG audio/video player</strong>
[125008101280] |SMPEG (SDL MPEG Player Library) is a free MPEG1 video player library with sound support.
[125008101290] |Video playback is based on the ubiquitous Berkeley MPEG player, mpeg_play v2.2.
[125008101300] |Audio is played through a slightly modified mpegsound library, part of splay v0.8.2.
[125008101310] |SMPEG supports MPEG audio (MP3), MPEG-1 video, and MPEG system streams.This package contains a GTK+ player called gtv.
[125008101320] |<strong>Totem</strong>
[125008101330] |Totem is the official movie player of the GNOME desktop environment based on GStreamer.
[125008101340] |It features a playlist, a full-screen mode, seek and volume controls, as well as keyboard navigation.
[125008101350] |<strong>Project Homepage :</strong>- <a>http://projects.gnome.org/totem/</a>
[125008101360] |<strong>Latest Stable Version :</strong>- 2.28
[125008101370] |<strong>VideoLan/VLC</strong>
[125008101380] |VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac …) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
[125008101390] |<strong>Project Homepage :</strong>- <a>http://www.videolan.org/vlc/</a>
[125008101400] |<strong>Latest Stable Version :</strong>- 1.0
[125008101410] |<strong>XBMC</strong>
[125008101420] |XBMC has gone a long way since its first stable release in 2004.
[125008101430] |It has evolved from a xbox only application into a sleek cross platform media center that runs on almost anything you throw it at.
[125008101440] |XBMC has thousands of users, is the mother of many successful derivative projects and commercial spin-offs and is written about in the international press on a regular basis.
[125008101450] |<strong>Project Homepage :</strong>- <a>http://xbmc.org/</a>
[125008101460] |<strong>Latest Stable Version :</strong>- 9.04.1
[125008101470] |<strong>ximp3</strong>
[125008101480] |Ximp3 is a console music player.
[125008101490] |It is based on the GPL’ed Xing decoder also used in FreeAmp.
[125008101500] |<strong>Project Homepage :</strong>- <a>http://matsp888.tripod.com/</a>
[125008101510] |<strong>Latest Stable Version :</strong>- 0.1.15
[125008101520] |<strong>Xine </strong>
[125008101530] |xine is a free multimedia player.
[125008101540] |It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs.It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet.It interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available – and some of the most uncommon formats, too.
[125008101550] |<strong>Project Homepage :</strong>- <a>http://www.xine-project.org </a>
[125008101560] |<strong>Latest Stable Version :</strong>- 1.1.16
[125008101570] |<strong>XMMS</strong>
[125008101580] |XMMS is a legacy GTK+1 music player modeled after Winamp.
[125008101590] |<strong>Project Homepage :</strong>- <a>http://www.xmms.org/</a>
[125008101600] |<strong>Latest Stable Version :</strong>- 1.2.11
[125008101610] |<strong>Youki</strong>
[125008101620] |Youki is the current media player of the MPX Project.
[125008101630] |Previous media players produced by the team were Beep Media Player, BMPx, and the never officially released audiosource.
[125008101640] |Youki is a free software media player for most modern Unix operating systems.
[125008101650] |<strong>Project Homepage :</strong>- <a>http://youki.mp/</a>
[125008101660] |<strong>Latest Stable Version :</strong>- 0.05.2
[125008101670] |If you know something is missing from this list plaese let us know.In the next article we will see how to install these players in ubuntu.
[125008110010] |<title>How To Check Which Software Package Is Using More Space</title>
[125008110020] |If you’re running out of disk space and you want to quickly see what packages are using the most space on your hard drive, use the following command
[125008110030] |dpkg-query <code>–-</code>show <code>–-</code>showformat=’${Package;-50}\t${Installed-Size}\n’ | sort -k 2 -n | grep -v deinstall | awk ‘{printf “%.3f MB \t %s\n”, $2/(1024), $1}’ | tail -n 10
[125008110040] |That will sort the packages by size, putting the largest ones on the bottom.
[125008110050] |If you only want to see the top few, you can type
[125008110060] |tail -n 10
[125008110070] |Credit Goes <a>here</a>
[125008110080] |My Output as follows
[125008110090] |33.180 MB gimp-data 34.609 MB smbclient 36.891 MB libgl1-mesa-dri 39.023 MB evolution-common 43.797 MB openoffice.org-common 69.871 MB linux-headers-2.6.31-14 82.582 MB sun-java6-bin 86.039 MB linux-image-2.6.31-14-generic 109.215 MB openoffice.org-core 247.348 MB ubuntu-docs
[125008120010] |<title>Howto fix touchpad issues after karmic upgrade</title>
[125008120020] |This tutorial will explain Howto fix touchpad issues after karmic upgrade
[125008120030] |1. Check what kernel you are booting into
[125008120040] |$uname -a
[125008120050] |Linux xxxx 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:05:01 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[125008120060] |If this is not your output, then you are using an older version (most probably from jaunty).
[125008120070] |You’ll need to change the kernel you are booting into.
[125008120080] |This can be done by editing the default value in /boot/grub/menu.lst file.
[125008120090] |1) cd /boot/grub/menu.lst (change directory)
[125008120100] |2) sudo cp menu.lst ~/menu_bkup.lst (create bkup)
[125008120110] |3) sudo vim menu.lst (it will open file for edit …i) goto to the last portion of it using arrow key or mouse …you will find all OS listed there if you have dual boot set …. ii) each block of about 4 lines for each boot option.
[125008120120] |Copy -paste the previous kernel lines block and change all kernel number (e.g. 2.6.28.11) to 2.6.31-14. iii) save file by Esc >>press “:wq” >>ENTER
[125008120130] |4) reboot by typing Cmd sudo reboot
[125008120140] |5) Select newly added boot option.
[125008120150] |2. Search your ‘dmesg’ output for this:
[125008120160] |$dmesg | grep mouse
[125008120170] |[ 13.603905] psmouse: Unknown parameter `synaptics_resume_reset’
[125008120180] |3. Check if the ‘psmouse’ module is loaded at all:
[125008120190] |$lsmod | grep psmouse
[125008120200] |If there is no output of the above command, that means the touchpad module (psmouse) is not loaded.
[125008120210] |4. Look if there is a file called /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse.conf
[125008120220] |If this line exists in the file, you have the problem .
[125008120230] |options psmouse synaptics_resume_reset=N
[125008120240] |<strong>Solution:</strong>
[125008120250] |1. Comment out the line in (step 3) /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse.conf, i.e. add “#” at the start of the line.
[125008120260] |2. Reboot.
[125008120270] |The ‘psmouse’ module should be loaded successfully, and you should see a ‘touchpad’ tab in System->Preferences->Mouse
[125008120280] |Credit goes <a>here</a>
[125008130010] |<title>How to setup your desktop background as xsplash / gdm in Ubuntu karmic</title>
[125008130020] |On a single user system i like to have the same background for bootsplash, login screen and desktop.
[125008130030] |As the new xsplash and gdm in ubuntu karmic (9.10) makes this easy to access.
[125008130040] |Note:- Before running this script take a backup of the default background file located at /usr/share/images/xsplash. 
[125008130050] |<strong>Depends on</strong>
[125008130060] |- xsplash (default on ubuntu karmic)
[125008130070] |- imagemagick
[125008130080] |Install imagemagick
[125008130090] |sudo apt-get install imagemagick
[125008130100] |or click on the following link
[125008130110] |<a>apt://imagemagick</a>
[125008130120] |Download the script from <a>here</a>
[125008130130] |1. Unpack wallpaper_daemon.py, store it anywhere you like (e.g. ~/.scripts) and make it executable (chmod +x wallpaper_daemon.py).
[125008130140] |2. Run ./wallpaper_daemon.py <code>--</code>install
[125008130150] |3. Add wallpaper_daemon.py to the startup programs (gnome-session-properties).
[125008130160] |4. restart
[125008130170] |<strong>Testing (without restarting)</strong>
[125008130180] |Just start change your desktop wallpaper as you normally do (e.g. through gnome-appearance-properties).
[125008130190] |Type sudo xsplash in a terminal to see the splash screen (exit with ESC) or log out to see the login screen.
[125008130200] |<strong>Uninstall/Restore Default Xsplash</strong>
[125008130210] |1. Remove wallpaper_daemon.py from the startup programs (gnome-session-properties).
[125008130220] |2. Extract your backup file.
[125008130230] |If you used the install routine this file is called backup.TIMESTAMP (where TIMESTAMP is dynamically generated number) and located at /usr/share/images/xsplash.
[125008130240] |To get the extraction path right use the following command (you may use the TAB key to complete backup. with the right timestamp number):
[125008130250] |tar -C / -xf /usr/share/images/xsplash/backup.TIMESTAMP
[125008130260] |3. Version 1.0 only:
[125008130270] |sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename /usr/share/images/xsplash/bg_2560x1600.jpg
[125008130280] |4. restart (dont change your desktop wallpaper before restarting!)
[125008130290] |<strong>Customize GDM</strong>
[125008130300] |You want to use your gtk and icon theme for the login screen?
[125008130310] |Run ./wallpaper_daemon.py <code>--</code>gdm (Note that this only works for system wide installed themes)
[125008130320] |If you want to use a different theme than the one you are using on your desktop just use the following commands and replace $my_…_theme with the name of the theme you want to use:
[125008130330] |sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 <code>--</code>set <code>--</code>type string /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme $my_gtk_theme
[125008130340] |sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 <code>--</code>set <code>--</code>type string /desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme $my_icon_theme
[125008130350] |To restore the default gdm themes run ./wallpaper_daemon.py <code>--</code>restore-gdm
[125008130360] |<strong>Screenshots</strong>
[125008140010] |<title>Add,Modify and Delete Users and Groups in Ubuntu (Using GUI)</title>
[125008140020] |This tutorial will explain how to Add,Modify and Delete Users,Groups in Ubuntu.Linux users can login to the system and use with the provided previliges.
[125008140030] |Linux groups are a mechanism to manage a collection of computer system users.
[125008140040] |All Linux users have a user ID and a group ID and a unique numerical identification number called a userid (UID) and a groupid (GID) respectively.
[125008140050] |Groups can be assigned to logically tie users together for a common security, privilege and access purpose.
[125008140060] |<strong>Add,Modify and Delete Users and Groups in Ubuntu</strong>
[125008140070] |You can start Users Administration Tool from System--->Administration--->Users and groups
[125008140080] |Use the following command from terminal
[125008140090] |users-admin
[125008140100] |Once it opens you should see similar to the following screen here you need to click on lock icon to do any changes
[125008140110] |Now you will be prompted for the administrator password click on Authenticate.
[125008140120] |This is necessary because the changes done with this tool will affect the whole system.
[125008140130] |<strong>Add a new user</strong>
[125008140140] |After entering the administrator password in the above screen, the following window is displayed.Press the Add User button in the main dialogue
[125008140150] |A new window will appear asking for the new user data.
[125008140160] |For adding a new user, you must provide at least the username and password (automatically generated, or by hand)
[125008140170] |One more important field is profile here you can select what permission you want to provide this new user
[125008140180] |Under User Privileges tab you can give what new user can do on this system
[125008140190] |In Advanced tab you can provide home directory,shell used,Main group, user ID and a list of the secondary groups for the user, shell used, home directory and user ID are automatically guessed depending on the selected profile.
[125008140200] |Once you created new user you should see similar to the following screen
[125008140210] |<strong>Modify an existing user</strong>
[125008140220] |If you want to modify an existing user select the user you want to modify and press the Properties button
[125008140230] |A window similar to the following will appear with all the user data, allowing you to modify them.
[125008140240] |<img/><strong>Delete an existing user</strong>
[125008140250] |If you want to delete an existing user or users select the user or users that you want to delete and press the Delete button in the Users tab.
[125008140260] |Due to the importance of this data, you will be asked for confirmation for every user you want to delete.For security reasons, the home directory of the deleted users will not be deleted so you can delete from home directory
[125008140270] |<img/><strong>Add a new group</strong>
[125008140280] |If you want tp add a new group click on Manage groups
[125008140290] |Now you should see similar to the following screen here click on Add Group button
[125008140300] |A new window will appear asking for the new group data.
[125008140310] |For adding a new group, you must provide at least the group name and the group ID.
[125008140320] |Optionally you can specify the users that will belong to this group click on ok
[125008140330] |Once added you should see your group similar to the following screen
[125008140340] |<img/><strong>Modify an existing group</strong>
[125008140350] |Now select the group you want to modify in the groups dialogue and press the Properties button.
[125008140360] |A window will appear with the group’s data allowing you to modify it.
[125008140370] |<strong>Delete an existing group</strong>
[125008140380] |Select the group or groups that you want to delete in the groups dialogue and press the Delete button in the Groups tab.
[125008140390] |Due to the importance of this data, you will be asked for confirmation for every group you want to delete.
[125008150010] |<title>Amarok 2.2.1 “Weightless” released</title>
[125008150020] |Only 6 weeks after the launch of Amarok 2.2.0, the Amarok team is proud to present the next release in the 2.2 series: Amarok 2.2.1.
[125008150030] |While the developers have focused on fixing bugs and polishing existing features, a few new features make their appearance as well.
[125008150040] |A large amount of work went into the Podcast section, where you can now manually mark podcasts as New.
[125008150050] |Also, it is now possible to group podcasts.
[125008150060] |When a network connection is detected, podcasts will now automatically update themselves, and they show emblems to indicate their status.
[125008150070] |The playlist received attention as well.
[125008150080] |The inline editor in the playlist can now be used for resizing elements as well as for editing metadata.
[125008150090] |Track bookmarks can now can be deleted directly without having to go through the bookmark manager.
[125008150100] |Also, there is a new keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-J) for jumping to the playlist search box, in addition to many more shortcut possibilities.
[125008150110] |Under the hood, the collection scanner has been improved.
[125008150120] |It will no longer process subdirectories of changed folders when those subdirectories themselves are unchanged, which leads to a very significant speed increase for those with relatively flat collections.
[125008150130] |It will also filter out directories that have been passed in multiple times, instead of scanning them twice.
[125008150140] |In addition, the process for parsing the output of the collection scanner has been highly optimized: speed increases in the range of 30 to 300% have been reported!
[125008150150] |Amarok 2.2.1 also introduces the Script Updater.
[125008150160] |This updater checks for updates to first-party scripts (those the developers include with Amarok itself), allowing us to quickly release updates in case of changes to the sites they connect to.
[125008150170] |It uses cryptographic signing to ensure that only updates released by the Amarok team are ever used.
[125008150180] |As usual, a significant amount of bugs have been fixed and stability has been improved, as you can see in the changelog below.
[125008150190] |<h3>Features</h3>
[125008150200] |<li>Podcasts will only be automatically updated when there is a network connection (using Solid).</li>
[125008150210] |<li>The SMB (Samba) protocol is now supported in the playlist.
[125008150220] |Patch by Steven van der Vegt <s.vandervegt@student.utwente.nl>.
[125008150230] |(<a>BR 178691</a>)</li>
[125008150240] |<li>Podcasts have better indication of status with emblem icons.
[125008150250] |(<a>BR 209433</a>)</li>
[125008150260] |<li>The information from the podcast feed can be written to the downloaded files.
[125008150270] |Both manually and automatically.</li>
[125008150280] |<li>Track bookmarks can be removed directly by using the delete icon shown in the popup when the mouse is over it.</li>
[125008150290] |<li>Add a menu allowing the creation of any known type of bookmark to the Bookmark Manager.</li>
[125008150300] |<li>CTRL+SHIFT+F toggles full screen mode.
[125008150310] |Patch by Rick W. Chen <stuffcorpse@archlinux.us>.</li>
[125008150320] |<li>Podcast episodes can now be marked as new/old manually.</li>
[125008150330] |<li>Podcasts can now be grouped in the playlist and show useful info in the tag editor.</li>
[125008150340] |<li>Playlist files can be droped on the “Saved Playlist” category to import them into Amarok.
[125008150350] |(<a>BR 193476</a>)</li>
[125008150360] |<li>Playlist files from the default playlist location are now loaded by default.
[125008150370] |(<a>BR 209596</a>)</li>
[125008150380] |<li>Added view menu to menu bar for ease of use.</li>
[125008150390] |<li>Saved playlists and folders can now be deleted with the keyboard.</li>
[125008150400] |<li>Added “Copy on Write” when trying to edit a read only (one of the default) playlist layouts.
[125008150410] |The changed layout is now simply saved under a new name.</li>
[125008150420] |<li>Added context view bookmarks, allowing saving and restoring of applet setups.</li>
[125008150430] |<li>Enhanced --debug feature: When a function takes very long to run (> 5s), we print a special message (DELAY) that can be searched easily.</li>
[125008150440] |<li>Middle-clicking an item in the Collection Browser appends it to the playlist.
[125008150450] |Patch by Felix Geyer <debfx-kde@fobos.de>.
[125008150460] |(<a>BR 197423</a>)</li>
[125008150470] |<li>Added feature for removing duplicates from the playlist.
[125008150480] |Patch by John Atkinson <john@fauxnetic.co.uk>.
[125008150490] |(<a>BR 200445</a>)</li>
[125008150500] |<li>Allow changing of playlist layout item sizes using the inline editor.</li>
[125008150510] |<li>Initial KNotify support.</li>
[125008150520] |<li>Show total playlist file size in a tooltip when hovering over the total play list time.
[125008150530] |(<a>BR 91640</a>)</li>
[125008150540] |<li>Implemented “Jump To”.
[125008150550] |Press Ctrl+J to focus the playlist search.
[125008150560] |(<a>BR 92400</a>)</li>
[125008150570] |<li>Made Love/Skip/Ban/Enqueue/Dequeue available in Shortcuts configuration dialog.
[125008150580] |(<a>BR 136232</a>, <a>BR 187542</a>)</li>
[125008150590] |<li>Added a function to automatically update the built-in scripts if newer versions are available.</li> 
[125008150600] |<h3>Changes</h3>
[125008150610] |<li>Do not automatically fetch the entire Jamendo database every time the Jamendo service is started.</li>
[125008150620] |<li>Database now does consistency checks on a semi-regular basis, with full checks upon full rescans.</li>
[125008150630] |<li>Removal of most SQL during scan result parsing means enormous speedups during collection scanning.
[125008150640] |(<a>BR 210201</a>)</li>
[125008150650] |<li>Usability improvements for the Videoclip applet.</li>
[125008150660] |<li>Restore the proper custom bias when switching between saved biases (<a>BR 209350</a>).</li>
[125008150670] |<li>Don’t crash when receiving bogus data from Last.Fm when asking for recommended songs (<a>BR 208173</a>).</li>
[125008150680] |<li>UMS device plugin now checks MIME types of tracks both by content and filename.
[125008150690] |Thanks to Aran Cox <aroncox@gmail.com> for the patch.</li>
[125008150700] |<li>Some optimization of SQL queries during scan to speed things up.
[125008150710] |(BR 210201)</li>
[125008150720] |<li>Use an emblem for indicating a podcast episode is on disk.
[125008150730] |(<a>BR 209433</a>)</li>
[125008150740] |<li>Scanning speedups by getting rid of unnecessary code paths and optimizing some queries.
[125008150750] |Patch by Egbert König <e.kunig@home.nl>.
[125008150760] |(<a>BR 209822</a>)</li>
[125008150770] |<li>New main toolbar and renaming of ToolbarNG to Slim Toolbar.</li>
[125008150780] |<li>Huge performance improvements for the Cover Manager.
[125008150790] |Thanks to Michael Reiher <redm@gmx.de> for the patch.
[125008150800] |(<a>BR 210454</a>)</li>
[125008150810] |<li>Improved usability and look of main control buttons.</li>
[125008150820] |<li>Multiple usability improvements for the Dynamic Playlist UI.</li>
[125008150830] |<li>Moved the Podcast category to the top level of the Content panel.</li>
[125008150840] |<li>Renamed “Browsers” panel to better suited “Media Sources”.</li>
[125008150850] |<li>Improvements to the row heights in the playlist, making especially the size of the rating stars more consistent.</li>
[125008150860] |<li>Usability improvements in the Context View’s applet tab bar.</li>
[125008150870] |<li>Collection scanner won’t scan a directory more than once if passed in multiple times.
[125008150880] |Should significantly speed up certain incremental scanning cases.</li>
[125008150890] |<li>When doing a recursive incremental scan, the scanner will no longer scan subdirectories of changed directories if those subdirectories’ mtimes have not changed, for extremely large speedups in some cases.
[125008150900] |For very flat collection trees, the difference is basically between a small incremental scan and a near full rescan.</li>
[125008150910] |<li>Ask the user for confirmation before refetching lyrics and overwriting cached ones.</li>
[125008150920] |<li>It is now possible to stop editing lyrics without saving changes in the lyrics applet.</li> 
[125008150930] |<h3>Bugfixes</h3>
[125008150940] |<li>Fix issue where data structures were loaded with wrong values.
[125008150950] |(BR 212676)</li>
[125008150960] |<li>Videoclip applet didn’t work correctly on some systems.
[125008150970] |Thanks for the patch go to Jacopo De Simoi.</li>
[125008150980] |<li>Proportions of layout stay correct after window resizing.
[125008150990] |(<a>BR 200527</a>)</li>
[125008151000] |<li>The GUI layout is now crash persistant.
[125008151010] |(<a>BR 211509</a>)</li>
[125008151020] |<li>Ensure that ReplayGain float values are stored in the database with a period, not a comma.
[125008151030] |(<a>BR 212676</a>)</li>
[125008151040] |<li>Fixed crashes with Icecast Directory script.
[125008151050] |(<a>BR 206579</a>)</li>
[125008151060] |<li>Enabled C++ exceptions handling in Amarok.
[125008151070] |This fixes various crashes with liblastfm.
[125008151080] |(<a>BR 212115</a>)</li>
[125008151090] |<li>Reversed the priority of repeat and random modes.
[125008151100] |Repeat now always takes precedence.
[125008151110] |(<a>BR 178056</a>)</li>
[125008151120] |<li>Fixed crash if closing amarok while the JamendoXmlParser is running.
[125008151130] |(<a>BR 208468</a>) (<a>BR 211015</a>)</li>
[125008151140] |<li>Systray information now updates correctly for streams.
[125008151150] |(<a>BR 211748</a>)</li>
[125008151160] |<li>Made playlist layouts translatable.
[125008151170] |(<a>BR 189751</a>)</li>
[125008151180] |<li>Fixed issue with collection scanner seeing duplicate tracks if they contained the default MusicBrainz UUID.
[125008151190] |Patch by Egbert König <e.kunig@home.nl>.
[125008151200] |(<a>BR 209822</a>)</li>
[125008151210] |<li>Fixed issues with certain types of tracks not correctly getting grouped together in the playlist when grouping by something other than album.</li>
[125008151220] |<li>Splash screen no longer hides KWallet on startup.
[125008151230] |(<a>BR 210179</a>)</li>
[125008151240] |<li>On Screen Display was not shown when cover image changed.
[125008151250] |(<a>BR 195188</a>)</li>
[125008151260] |<li>On Screen Display was not shown on automatic track change.
[125008151270] |(<a>BR 209376</a>)</li>
[125008151280] |<li>Automatic playlist scrolling was broken in some cases.
[125008151290] |(<a>BR 193459</a>)</li>
[125008151300] |<li>The On Screen Display now uses a sane font size with all display resolutions.
[125008151310] |(<a>BR 195186</a>)</li>
[125008151320] |<li>Fix rare regression where inaccessible subfolders (due to permissions) in the collection could not be picked up by an incremental scan when permissions were fixed and their mtime updated, requiring a full rescan.</li>
[125008151330] |<li>When using a MySQL server with “Watch Folders For Changes” disabled, very long periods of idle Amarok could allow the server to close the local connection.
[125008151340] |This is now detected and should be worked around.</li>
[125008151350] |<li>Correctly set the lyrics applet’s title when displaying HTML formatted lyrics</li>
[125008151360] |<li>Track selection is now correctly preserved when using Dynamic Playlists.
[125008151370] |Patch by John Atkinson <john@fauxnetic.co.uk>.
[125008151380] |(<a>BR 208349</a>)</li>
[125008151390] |<li>Cover Manager no longer stops when one cover cannot be fetched.
[125008151400] |Patch by Tycho Andersen <kdebugs@tycho.ws>.
[125008151410] |(<a>BR 205032</a>)</li>
[125008151420] |<li>Magnatune.com store: Fixed problematic use of external unzip command for unpacking downloaded album zip files.
[125008151430] |(<a>BR 138499</a>)</li>
[125008151440] |<li>Magnatune.com store: Download high quality covers when purchasing or downloading albums.
[125008151450] |(<a>BR 176177</a>)</li>
[125008151460] |<li>Correctly modify the Lyrics Applet’s title when its state changes.</li> 
[125008151470] |Source from <a>here</a>