Picasa for Linux
Picasa:
Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your computer.
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Hi, everyone. Today I'm pleased to announce that we're making Picasa, our photo management application, available for Linux. This is a pre-beta labs release and since we're still learning on how to best make software for Linux, we're asking that you submit your bugs as you find them. Picasa for Linux uses Wine internally; this shows a bit in the interface, but it works even better than we had hoped. Download it and check it out! A list of supported distributions can be found in the FAQ. We hope our patches to Wine will help make it easier for everyone to run Windows apps on Linux and other Unix-like systems. Thanks to our pals at CodeWeavers who did much of the heavy lifting, and to MarcusMeissner, whose libgphoto support patch was a welcome surprise.
Windows Vista Minimum Supported System Requirements
Processor: 800 MHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor1
System Memory: 512 MB GPU: SVGA (800×600)
Graphics Memory: -
HDD: 20 GB
HDD Free Space: 15 GB
Optical Drive
CD-ROM drive2
Here is a news snip:
LONDON, England (UPI) — Windows Vista, the next version of Microsoft software, has been criticized because it takes up too much space and memory for most British computers.
A technology and telecommunications consultant has reviewed the operating system and said only five percent of British households have computers able to handle everything Vista has to offer.
This includes added security and 3-D graphics, among others.
David Bradshaw, an analyst at Ovum, said many computers — especially laptops — will have trouble processing Vista`s features.
The Times of London reports computers will need a 1 gigahertz processor, 1 gigabyte of RAM and 128 megabytes of graphics memory, among other requirements, to fully run Vista.
Microsoft has denied the problem, saying nearly every PC on the market will be able to run Vista, which is due out later this year.
Burnings CDs from command line (Linux)
(http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-cdburn.html?ca=dgr-obg-lnxw99BurnCD)
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4) Multisession
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[P.S] I just came today. Feeling a bit tired with abridge this article and will soon write it for linux newbies.
-sansor
Amarok vs Itunes
Amarok and Itunes are two audio player softwares. Due to 92% of market share of windows/MacOS Itunes is more popula among windows users and as amarok runs only on Linux it has less number of users. Both are freely available on net. My personal choice is Amarok but I like Itunes as well due to some of its properties.
Though there is no comparison exist between these software as on runs on windows and another on linux.
Lets see what are the differences. I will try to not to get into technical details as a user hardly want to get into these details:
1) Platform:Itunes –> It runs on MacOS and Windows both but it is still not available for linux. It is not a open source source software thuogh It can be downloded from internet for free.
Amarok –> It runs only on linux and similar OS. It is still not available for windows. It is open source project. You can download it from internet for free.
2) User Interface :
Both are equally good and user friendly. See the pics.
http://amarok.kde.org/images/stories/albums/1-2-series/amarok_osx.png
Amarok Gallery : Click Here
3) Sound Quality:
Itunes : Sound quality is good but somehow I noticed that it doesnt work efficiently. To clearify the sound it basically suppress volume a bit which is quite noticable. Though its sound quality is as good as amarok player.
Amarok: Superb sound quality and refined. I just cant live without amarok.
4) Look and feel :
Itunes: It has only one theme. You cant change the theme. Though it looks attractive.
Amarok : There are lot of themes avaiable for amarok. It looks simple and clean.
5) Computer Resources:
Itunes: It consumes a lot of resources of your CPU.
Amarok : It is light.
6) Global Shortcuts:
Itunes: Itune dont use the global shortcut. Global shortcut means that we can control the software using alloted shortcuts whther that software is active or in system tray.
Amarok : There are some standard defined global shortcuts but you can change it if you want.
7) Randomization:
Itunes: The random funstion used in Itunes is not that much affective.
Amarok: The ramdomization is properly done.Listening to song in random mode is great.
Sharing of songs:
Itunes: The sharing of song feature is superb. You can also set passwords.It is not in amarok.
Amarok: It has no feature like this.
9) Radio:
Itunes: Best jukebox and number one music store.
Amarok: It is not that much impressive.
10) Information about the song:
Itunes:
–> It displayes the song cover image.
–> Rating system is not that much impressive. Just counting number of times it is played doesnt make it a good rater.
–> Lyrics is not displayed.
–> Not much information about the singer,artists etc.
–> Need to install plugin for submission in last.fm
–> There are not much extension available for itnues.
Amarok:
–> It also diplays the song cover.
–> Rating system is great. It will count for everything. If you stop a song in between it will reduce the rating automatically. It is not only based on number of times songs are played but on lot of other features too.
–> You can either add you lyrics or it will fetch lyrics automatically from internet. It is displayed side by side of the song.
–> Full wikipedia of the artists is displayed.
–> Last.fm is included by default. You just need to put in the login password.
–> There are lot more extensions/scripts available. You can easily install them by opting the script manager option. You can download all sorts of extension avaiable on internet.
Might be there are more differences in technical terms but these are just those difference which one user experience.
-sansor
(sansor@gmail.com)
LOOP for Windows
What is LOOP?
LOOP == List of Open Source Programs
This is a list of the best open-source applications that run on Windows. Feel free to edit this list and add any programs that meet the criteria below. The purpose of this list is to demonstrate the quality of open-source applications and advocate the open source software development model.
Ubuntu wikipedia maintain a wesbite fo LOOP. Have a look at the website.
[ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoopList ]
Content of the list:
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