Play your Windows Games with Wine and DirectX
November 27, 2007
Microsoft DirectX is a collection of libraries for game programming. With Runtime installed on your Windows Desktop you can run the most important commercial games. On linux you can't have DirectX installed natively as part of system and there isn't a Linux Binary versione of it. So, you can't run windows games on Linux. To have DirectX games on your Linux you can try Wine. Wine (wine is not emulator) is a wrapper of windows libraries, so you can use windows software on your Linux Desktop. Many of windows software don't run on Linux with Wine, but you can try particular configuration of Wine to see if you can run your favorite windows game or software. To install a Windows Game on Linux you have to install and configure DirectX on wine. This tutorial explain how to install DirectX.
Windows XP Virtual Machine with VMware player on Ubuntu Gutsy
November 22, 2007
Linux is a good operating system but sometimes you could have the necessity of run a particular application that don’t work with wine and is only for Windows XP.
WMware released its virtualization software for free (not opensource): VMware Server and VMware Player.
WMware server could be more complicated for personal use, so you can choose WMware player to run Windows XP on Ubuntu Gutsy.
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Free CSS Editor Software for Linux and Ubuntu Gutsy
November 18, 2007
There are many CSS editors for Linux. Every of this software has particular features. Normally you can use a simple text editor to do a good CSS code for your web projects, but certainly a CSS editor could help you to do a beatiful CSS code.
Quanta as a Linux CSS Editor
Quanta Plus is an HTML and CSS editor. You can use it for HTML editing but also you could use it for CSS editing. You can find a color picker inside Quanta Plus to choose the colors for your CSS links or background and much more. Quanta is a good choice especially if you run KDE as Desktop Environment.
sudo apt-get install quanta (on Ubuntu Gutsy)
HowTo - Batch Image Resize on Linux
November 16, 2007
Suppose you want resize every your photos to put it on web. As you know, you can’t upload your photos on a webpage with the highest resolution because a web gallery became inaccesible and too slow to load. Suppose that you have a folder containing every photos of you holidays and you want resize it at 640 of width mantaining original aspect ratio. To make a resize there are many tools but I suggest a command line tool called “mogrify”. This tool will be installed with ImageMagick Libraries, so you have to install ImageMagick on you Linux.
