Today’s Application of the Day is Katapult, a program launcher (and more!) for KDE. The documentation is pretty sparse, but it is a good way to quickly run a program. For openSUSE, the OSS repository has version 0.3.2.1 and installed pretty painlessly. But once installed and run, you are faced with - nothing!
If you look [...]
In case you were wondering, like myself, why cover fetching was broken in Amarok, here’s a note from an Amarok developer explaining the recent breakage:
April 8: Amarok cover fetching at sebruiz.net
Just a quick message that Im sure many of you have discovered already. Cover art retrieval from Amazon is now broken due to a change [...]
We all know that Firefox is the only way to browse, but it’s been a bit hard to love it so much lately, especially on Windows. Come on, 280MB of RAM occupied by a browser with 6 tabs? That’s ridiculous. The good news is that FF3 is noticeably faster. I was a little bit shocked [...]
I’ve often wonderd how companies that “certify” Red Hat for their hardware or for their application feel about projects like CentOS and Oracle Linux. I know from experience that HP won’t support CentOS on servers that certify Red Hat, and IBM won’t support DB2 installed on CentOS, even though it’s certified for Red Hat.
Well, hopefully [...]
Some great, some not so great, hacks for Firefox. Some you probably already know, but some are new to me.
15 must-have Firefox tricks
I am an Emacs groupie and I have no problem admitting that. I have been using this editor / application suite / way of life / religion since I first began programming on a “big iron” computer, way back in the mid-80s. And my .emacs file shows it! Emacs has been a real timesaver, as [...]
Fedora Feather has been updated. Here’s the info from contributer:
I tested this on a fresh Fedora 8 install on my laptop.
+ It now installs Adobe Acrobat
+ Fedora Version is grabbed from /etc/issue so it isn’t locked into Fedora 7.
I tested on Fedora 8.
+ the MS fonts required chkfontpath so I added a check and install [...]
Keep an eye out for Fontmatrix, a good looking font manager for Linux. It’s still in an early, yet usable, phase, but you have to build it from source. Hopefully, it will soon be available as a package distribution for your distro. I’ve been on the prowl for a good font program, as I often [...]
Here is a table of every single media player for Linux that I could track down. And goodness knows, there are plenty of them! These are programs that only or mainly play audio files, not necessarily full blown media players. I have tried to show as much information as I could for every player [...]
Now here is a unique twist on a window manager - ratpoison. To quote the web page:
Ratpoison is a simple Window Manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no rodent dependence. It is largely modelled after GNU Screen which has done wonders in the virtual terminal market.
It is ‘rat [...]