PeterMessing around with partitions can be a somewhat tricky, and dangerous business (especially if you 'forgot' to do that backup before you get started). While there's not a lot you can do to make the concepts easier to understand or reduce the risks, there are several graphical tools for partitioning that can make it a little easier to do.
One such tool is Qtparted. Like its GTK cousin Gparted, …
JacobFinally caving to a Flickr account last night, I was off to go start uploading some pictures. Looking at the Flickr Uploaders page, I saw a Java application that supposedly worked with Linux. After downloading and installing it, all I was able to get were Java errors, even though I had Sun Java 5 and 6 installed. Oh well, it was probably just an error on my part.
But before …
PeterKDE users have for a long time had the jack-of-all-trades, all-singing-all-dancing Konqueror for file management. In KDE 4 we'll be joined by the new Dolphin which will be the default file manager.
If you yearn for a change of file manager now, however, and you're a fan of the left-right split in your file manager, you might just like Krusader.
On first run, Krusader will search your system for …
JacobSome might scream with joy. Some might say "Well, finally." Some don't even know what it is.
XDS is a drag-and-drop framework. It is (should) be used in any application that can let the user drag an object or file out of one window and into another.
Nautilus had its own way of D&D that only let you drag between Nautilus windows. File-roller, the GNOME archive application, had yet another …