Linux Vixta vs Vista as Lindows vs Windows?
October 17, 2007
Vixta is a Linux Distribution based on the famous Fedora. Project is born to make a Linux Distro user friendly. They starts his job using the name Vixta copying the attractive look of Aero Theme Design. This screenshot show the look of Vixta Desktop.
RPM fusion – New repository for Fedora and RedHat
October 9, 2007
What is RPMfusion?
It starts to merge The Dribble, Freshrpms and Livna teams.
Apple block Ipod Management on linux So, it’s last happened. Unhappy with new media players being best than iTunes, Apple have plain resolved to end them from making with the other chain of iPods. Who does this move? This affects Linux users – there’s no iTunes for Linux, then common Linux iPod direction tools like gtkpod and Rhythmbox will non make with the other chain of iPods. Windows users who but obviously wear’t like iTunes and perfer an option like Winamp, Ephpod or some of the different iPod administration applications out there. How? The iPod keeps course of the songs and playlists in your iPod with a database file – the iTunesDB, establish in the iPod_Control/iTunes/ hidden booklet on the iPod. Back in the new years of the iPod, the formatting of this file was quick reverse-engineered by folk who needed to take iPods without iTunes. This was more great backwards so because iTunes just existed on the Mac, then Windows users were stuck with Real Player (which was only bad), and Linux users had just zero.
This project tries to collect many packagers from third party repository to build a single repository to add on Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise. They make two repositories: free and non-free. Where free contain only OpenSource Software that Fedora developers can’t include as standard packages, while non-free include all software that are not OpenSource.
This new repository try to provide support for all testing versions including development version for the most important CPU architecture: i386, ppc, ppc64 and x86_64.
