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Ubuntu 8.04 comes with Wine 0.9.59, which is already pretty old. In the meantime, the latest development version of Wine is 1.1.4, which was released on September 5, 2008. In order to compile Wine from source and install it on Ubuntu, you will only need to follow several easy steps I list below:
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Posted by Chris7mas 3 months ago 
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KDocker comes handy when you want to embed some graphical application in the system tray, given that the respective application does not come with its own feature to put it in the tray. Although not updated since 2005, the last version released on April 5, 2005, is good enough and, according to the official website, it works with all the window managers that conform with the NET WM standard. To...
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Posted by Chris7mas 3 months ago 
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Medibuntu is a project somewhat similar with debian-multimedia.org for Debian, providing packages which are not included in the official Ubuntu repositories due to legal issues. In order to make use of the packages included in Medibuntu (including the non-free video codecs w32codecs and libdvdcss2 for watching ecrypted DVDs), you will only need to follow several easy steps explained below.
Posted by Chris7mas 3 months ago
Posted by Chris7mas 3 months ago 
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This is a classic how-to intended for beginners and it describes how to install video codecs and DVD support on Debian Lenny in several easy-to-follow steps.
1. Add debian-multimedia.org repository to your sources.list file
2. Install debian-multimedia-keyring and update the list of packages
3. Install w32codecs and libdvdcss2
Posted by Chris7mas 6 months ago
Posted by Chris7mas 6 months ago 
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Part 1 of a three-parts tutorial shows the very basics on getting used to the command line in Linux. "A shell is a command interpreter which allows the user to interact with the computer. Basically, it is a program which takes the commands you type, interprets them and performs the tasks you asked it to do, then it sends the results to the standard output, which usually is the screen."
Posted by Chris7mas 6 months ago
Posted by Chris7mas 6 months ago 
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This how-to shows how to easily create torrent files using KTorrent and start seeding them. "To install KTorrent on a Debian-based distribution, type apt-get install ktorrent. Just prefix the command with sudo if you use any Ubuntu variant. Next, start KTorrent and go to File -> New."
Posted by Chris7mas 6 months ago
Posted by Chris7mas 6 months ago 
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