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Installing Windows 7 on VirtualBox

Installing Windows 7 on VirtualBox

Installing Windows 7 beta on to VirtualBox 2.1 running on my Ubuntu laptop. I was not expecting the installation to be so smooth. Will write more about my experience with Windows 7 soon. I can see windows fans prasing Windows 7 after such a PITA with Vista. If you...
LXDE – lightning desktop experience

LXDE – lightning desktop experience

From few days, I was bugged with the same old Gnome and its sluggish speed on Ubuntu. Wanted something faster or fastest X11Desktop Environment. As Linmaya and others commented in our habba discussions, LXDE has been great so far today. Its easy to install on Ubuntu...
Fedora-10: Enriched

Fedora-10: Enriched

Distro to give a try. What amazed me with this distro is the amount of localization done. New software. It comes with KDE 4.2 which is good. Localization support out of box. You can see Sampada.net Kannada website working out of box in konqueror. Also, don’t...
Mobile Media Converter

Mobile Media Converter

The Mobile Media Converter is a free video and audio converter that uses ffmpeg to convert between popular desktop formats like MP3, Windows Media Audio (wma), Ogg Vorbis Audio (ogg), Wave Audio (wav), MPEG video, AVI, Windows Media Video (wmv), Flash Video (flv) and...

Linux Media Center Edition

LinuxMCE is a free, open source add-on to Kubuntu including a 10′ UI, complete whole-house media solution with pvr + distributed media, and the most advanced smarthome solution available. It is stable, easy to use, and requires no knowledge of Linux and only...
My debian days…

My debian days…

I had dedicated few days of past few weeks for Debian in search of stable, secure and reliable solutions.  With Debian, I ended up finding robust solutions for lots of questions which we had while setting up LAN resources. Debian net install CD which weighed...