Sopcast is a software which you can use to watch the video and listen to radio on the Internet. You also can broadcast your on tv channel if you want for free. On Vista, I used Sopcast to watch Formula1 race. When I am using Ubuntu, I have no idea how to watch the show. I look around and finally I found one post on Ubuntu forum discussing about how to install Sopcast.
On Windows, Sopcast comes with really good user interface but not on Linux. So you need to install special modified code to get the GUI
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On March 26, 2008, OpenOffice.org community had released a free and open source office suite, OpenOffice.org 2.4. This released will be the last of 2.0 version before the release of new OpenOffice.org 3.0 which is expected to be on September or October 2008.
The OpenOffice.org Community is pleased to announce the release of OpenOffice.org 2.4, the latest version of the leading open source office productivity suite. OpenOffice.org 2.4 includes many new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to all its core components.
Here are some improvements made to this new released:
Download: OpenOffice.org 2.4
Skype 2.0 for Linux has been released on March 13, 2008. So, this is not a something new anymore.
Today we’re proud to announce the general release of video calls in Skype 2.0 for Linux. As you may already know, the best things in life are often free and now you can make (and receive) free, great quality video calls on Linux.
Last week, I didn’t have time to install Skype 2.0 since I was busy doing my assignments and project. So today, when I power up my laptop and boot to Ubuntu, the update manager is notifying me that there are software updates available. I clicked on the notify icon and the update manager windows showed up. I looked on the list of updates available and Skype was in there. So I just clicked on install updates. The system started installing the updates and after a while, I got this error.
E:/var/cache/apt/archives/skype-common_2.0.0.63-0medibuntu0.7.10.1_all.deb:trying to overwrite `/etc/dbus-1/system.d/skype.conf’, which is also in package skype
So, I search on the internet and this is the way to solve this problem.
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Here are some great open source applications which I use most of the time. These applications can be installed in Microsoft Windows, Linux and OS X. I would like to recommend you to install and use it as your main applications. These open source applications can be downloaded for free and can be distributed. If you know programming, you can modify the source code and distribute it.
To know more about open source, go to OpenSource.Org
Mozilla Firefox.
I am pretty sure that you already knew about this great web browser called Mozilla Firefox. If you don’t have any idea about Mozilla Firefox, let me tell you a little bit about this web browser. Mozilla Firefox is a cross platform web browser developed by Mozilla Foundation which is secure and faster than Internet Explore. Mozilla Firefox includes pop-up blocking, a tab-browsing, a spell checker, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager and integrated Google searching. Mozilla Firefox also comes with simplified privacy controls that let you cover your tracks more effectively. Mozilla Firefox can be customized by adding add-ons which were created by third party developer. Click on the Firefox2 button below to download.
Mozilla Thunderbird
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Today, I have installed AVG Anti-virus on my laptop running Ubuntu. People know that Linux system is invulnerable to any viruses, trojans and malware . So, why do I need anti-virus software? That’s a good question to ask.
For people like me who is running dual booting Ubuntu with Windows Vista, this software can be very handy to scan and delete the viruses. If you are running Linux on a server, you need to worry about Windows clients that connect to it. For an ordinary Linux Home user with only one OS system there is no need for anti-virus software.
Out there, many companies produced anti-virus software for Linux system such as AVG Technologies, McAfee, Trendmicro, Panda Software and Sophos. Since Avg Anti-virus software has served me really well when I am using Vista, so I decided to go with Avg Anti-Virus. Also, it is free and very easy to install on my Ubuntu system. AVG Anti-Virus available for Debian, RedHat, Suse and Mandriva based distribution. Here, I will write how to install Avg Anti-virus on Ubuntu system.
Install Avg Anti-virus
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If you are looking for an alternative image manipulation software which is free and open source; Gimp will be the best alternative for you. Gimp stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. New version 2.4.5 of Gimp has been released today. This version is a bugfix release in the stable 2.4 series. Gimp comes by default in many Linux distribution. However, this piece of software can be installed in MS Windows and Mac OS X.
Gimp ables to do what Adobe Photoshop can do and it can read and write most of Photoshop native PSD format files. However, Photoshop does not support Gimp’s XFE file format.
The advantages of Gimp over Photoshop are:
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