‘Open source’ Archive

Must have Ubuntu Linux Software June 22, 2009 No Comments

Yes there are a lot of lists like this already. This one is my own, a list of software I installed right after reinstallingUbuntu. These go well with the Gnome Desktop.
exaile – Music player based on Amarok.
gnome Do – Amazingly simple way to open programs, files and much more, even tweet.
Vlc – The universal video [...]

My Journey through KDE 4 and back to Gnome again June 4, 2009 1 Comment

I first tried linux around in the year 2000 or maybe it was ‘01. Although I’ve used both along side, I found KDE better then Gnome as it has more features and lots of things to configure and tweak. I had mainly been using Redhat and then Fedora. In 2005, I shifted to Ubuntu and [...]

Gedit for Rails June 3, 2009 No Comments

Gedit is a light weight, easy to use and simple text editor which comes with many useful plugins. Its like the firefox of text editors. For a few months I was completely unaware of how powerful this simple looking text editor is. At first I treated it like notepad, then I realized it has amazing [...]