Peter
The new release boasts an updated Live CD installer, the Live CD now using Xfce by default, vastly improved hardware support and many updated packages to bring the core system up to date.
For those new, or who haven't heard of the distribution, Gentoo is generally aimed towards the more experienced Linux user. While it does feature its Portage …
Peter
Many financial applications, such as KMyMoney, can be very useful, however there is often quite a learning curve associated with them.
Buddi is an open source personal budgeting application for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X that is designed to keep things very simple, yet still be usable for the average home user to keep track of their finances.
Buddi is written in Java, and thus needs you …
PeterGetting music from a CD (that you own, of course) to your favourite media player, such as Amarok, isn't always a clear process under KDE.
Amarok itself doesn't have the facility to rip CDs, as with many other media players, so using an external program is sometimes the only option. KAudioCreator is one such ripping program.
To install, you should be able to search for it in your package manager. …
Peter
Free Software Foundation chairman and all around computer freedom guru Richard Stallman has written an article for the BBC entitled 'It's not the Gates, it's the bars'.
But Gates didn't invent proprietary software, and thousands of other companies do the same thing. It's wrong, no matter who does it.Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, and the rest, offer you software that gives them power over you. A change in executives or companies …