Archive for the 'Linux' Category

Linux Mint is your complete Windows alternative

Published
by
Zach
on October 19, 2007
in General, Linux and Reviews
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A great alternative linux distribution I’ve been using is Linux Mint. Linux Mint is Ubuntu-based and comes stock with non-free codecs for playing MP3, AAC, ALAC, and DivX video files that don’t come preinstalled with most other distributions. Linux Mint comes stock also with Compiz and Beryl. Linux Mint also comes with updated versions of Amarok. Unlike Ubuntu and especially Debian, Linux Mint is updated almost every 1 to 2 months. The only downside to it is that they do not have a 64-bit Linux Mint, but I’m guessing with it’s growing popularity it will come soon.

If you want Linux Mint and you are not legally allowed to use those non-free patented codecs your country they have recently come out with a “free” Light Edition of Celena, their latest 3.1 release.

Trillian ported to Mac… Linux next?

Published
by
Zach
on October 17, 2007
in Apple, General and Linux
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As an Trillian Astra tester and a Mac owner, I’ll be bringing you screenshots of the Mac version of Trillian as soon as I get my hands on the download.

See Cerulean Studio’s blog post on their latest creation.

Trillian is probably the most popular multi medium IM client for Windows. But I’m not convienced an OS X or Linux will over take Adium or Pidgin.

But still, big thanks to Cerulean!