photo credit: 4_EveR_YounG So I discovered that Guitar Pro 5 “works” with wine (after installing Kubuntu 64 09.04). I say “works” because the MIDI part doesn’t (though there are lots of guides to wrap timidiy around wine), but GP5 uses RSE (real sound engine I think), so some of the instruments don’t use MIDI. It’s [...]
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Tagged: 64bit, guitar pro, kubuntu, windows
I’ve been checking up on the progress of KDE 4 using the Kubuntu member repository as it moved through various betas and a few days ago the official 4.1 release moved in. While it obviously lacks the many years of polish that went into KDE3, at this point its basically mature enough that I’m now [...]
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Tagged: kde
When XFree86 restricted their license in 2004, the result was a fork into the dominant X window manager we know today — X.org. At the time, just about everyone was pissed off at XFree’s sheer arogance. Thankfully xorg and freedesktop.org pulled everything together and in very short order (relatively speaking) all the major distributions swapped [...]
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I’ve have struggled through driver hell trying to get Beryl to work with my graphics card an ATI Mobility 9600, only to be rebuffed, defeated, and vowing never to buy an ATI product as long as I live. If I had a desktop, I would have been on Newegg ordering a replacement weeks ago, but [...]
Some great news out of the KDE 4 development: Dolphin will replace/coexist with Konqueror as the main file manager. One of my few issues with KDE is Konqueror — trying to be both a web browser and a file manager, when it really is more a web browser. All the options are basically exclusively oriented [...]
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Wine is the open source Windows emulator program for Linux — A very handy thing to have working well if you ever want to make the transition. I have already determined that when I put together my next desktop which will hopefully be some time next year, I will run Kubuntu (If any of this [...]
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I swear, wow’d twice in a span of an hour! Check out this. Knoppix is a Live CD distribution of Linux. Basically, that means that the OS boots off of the CD rom and directly into memory, never touching your hard drive. In my opinion it has been the biggest reason for Linux adoption, because [...]
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