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From now on, specially for those mac fanatics, but without a real mac, winsucks.org is going to support issues related with OSX86


This means a special forum for the X86 treads and also new free and or open software for this kind of Unix/BSD Darwin.

Stay tuned for more infos.

Most desktop Linux users have at least heard of the free application Wine or its retail cousins CrossOver Linux and CrossOver Mac. If you haven't heard of these applications, you

Most desktop Linux users have at least heard of the free application Wine or its retail cousins CrossOver Linux and CrossOver Mac.  If you haven't heard of these applications, you may want to give them a try.  They allow users to run Windows programs in other operating systems (namely Linux, Mac OS and Solaris) without any virtual machines or other resource-intensive processes, as long as you have an x86-compatible CPU in your PC -- and let's face it, nowadays, who doesn't?

In fact, with WINE there's no need for Windows at all. WINE creates an environment that responds to Windows API calls, so apps 'think' they are running in Windows, when in fact there's no Windows there at all.

The difference between the two applications is that CrossOver uses a proprietary, more up-to-date version of Wine along with some handy extensions.  The two also differ as far as support; CrossOver is commercially supported by CodeWeavers while Wine relies on the community for support.

Last week Codeweavers' Jeremy White posted an update on the CodeWeavers website outlining what has been happening over the last eight months and giving a preview of what is to come this year for CrossOver and Wine.

As far as the last eight months, most of the development work has gone towards what White calls "under the hood" improvements and better support for the newer releases of Microsoft Office.  Many of these changes are now present in the development version of Wine.  Quite a few DirectX 9 games are well supported along with many other common applications such as Photoshop and QuickBooks.

What is more interesting, though, are the few details White gives about what this year has in store.  It seems that this year will be focused more on the core functionality and user experience. 

Developers will begin working on adding DirectX 10 compatibility layers while improving support for Outlook, Quicken, Photoshop, QuickBooks, and many other applications.  On top of that, CrossOver will get a user-interface makeover.

All of these improvements should be working before the end of the year.

If Wine and CrossOver continue to develop as they have been the past year or two, in a few years they might offer better support for Windows applications than Windows itself!  But changes occur rapidly in the world of technology, and Microsoft might have a trick or two up its sleeve with Windows 7.

Time will tell.

 

AUTHOR= Russ Creech 17 March 2009, 11:35 PM (7 hours 16 minutes ago.)

SOURCE= http://apcmag.com/directx-10-in-linux-through-wine-and-crossover.htm

Did you ever needed to share quickly some files with someone? now you can with Python.

Requirements:

• Python

Howto:

1. At first navigate to your "shared" folder:

get@athlon:~$ cd Images/
get@athlon:~/Images$ ls
Snapshot_001.png  probando2.png         slaxpx4sk2.png  valentin.jpg
header1.png       proyecto\ llamas.xcf  tux.jpg

2. Startup your simple http server with pyton

get@athlon:~/Images$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ...

3. Point your explorer to htp://127.0.0.1 and check it out ;)

Introduction

In the past I was trying many different linux distros. Each has its own package management systems: debian has apt, mandrake has urpmi, yellowdog has an apt front-end for rpm, suse has yast... While they all are quite similar and not difficult to use, I found that I often made mistakes because I often forgot which system I was using and the exact commands on that system. Another issue is that I wish I could keep track how I installed/removed those packages. So I wrote a simple wrapper for various package management systems. It serves two purposes:

 

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Slackfind is a nonprofit project which stores metadata and provides search tools for slackware-packages across various repositories. The project idea has been taken from rpmfind.net, a similar project for rpm-based distributions.

Project objectives:

• Make Slackware easier to use and increase popularity
• Centralize package metadata
• Improve package quantity as well as quality

URL: http://slackfind.net/en/

Date Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:52:49 -0800 (PST)
From Linus Torvalds <>
Subject Happy v2.6.28

It doesn't really matter what day it is, or what holiday (if any) you're
celebrating, because even if you sit at home, alone in your dank basement,
without any holidays or friends, I bring you a tiding of great cheer: you
can now download Linux-2.6.28, and compile it to your hearts content!

Listen to the cheerful grinding of your harddisk as you reboot into an
all-new kernel - and I'm sure that if your computer could smile, it would
have a big silly grin on its non-existent face. So as you sit there in
your basement, give your computer the holiday cheer too.

In fact, even _if_ you have friends or family, leave them to their endless
toil over that christmas ham or turkey, and during the night, when they're
asleep, you can give them that magical present of a newly updated
computer. When they wake up tomorrow morning, tell them how you saw Santa
crawl down the chimney with his USB stick in hand, updating the OS of all
good boys and girls.

Ho, ho, ho,

Linus "almost Santa" Torvalds


Kernel 2.6.28: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.28.tar.bz2

fonte: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/24/105

IsiX OS, is a Slackware based, remastered Linux Distribution specially for Ahtec.net Hardware, in this version: v0.001 exactly for the XHL90 15.4" Laptop.

This deathscreen was shown in the just moment of the China teams earn their gold medals of the olimpic games.

When the People will admit that they are using the wrong OS solution??

Well folks, it's that time to announce a new stable Slackware release
again. So, without further ado, announcing Slackware version 12.2!
Since we've moved to supporting the 2.6 kernel series exclusively (and
fine-tuned the system to get the most out of it), we feel that Slackware
12.2 has many improvements over our last release (Slackware 12.1) and is
a must-have upgrade for any Slackware user.

This Slackware edition combines Slackware's legendary simplicity (and
close tracking of original sources), stability, and security with some
of the latest advances in Linux technology. Expect no less than the best
Slackware yet.

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