Linux And Friends

The first thing you should do once you have installed Fedora on your machine is to install all the multimedia codecs. This is because Fedora doesn’t ship the codecs due to licensing restrictions. Without installing the media codecs  if you want to watch movies or listen to music, your choice is severely limited. The good [...]

Fedora does not ship with Flash support by default. However, it is very easy to enable Flash in Fedora. Here is how you can install Adobe Flash player in Fedora Linux. These steps I tested on Fedora 15 (Rawhide). However, it should work on any version of Fedora equally well.

Source : blog.cyclingaroundtheworld.nl

BBC features the top 10 new species discovered in 2010. Some of them are weird such as the pancake batfish (that walks on the sea floor with its fleshy fins), or the bioluminescent light emitting mushroom, while others are more down-to-earth-looking like the Philippines fruit-eating Golden Spotted monitor, or the pollinating cricket (shown below).

Q10 is a minimal text editor that packs quite a punch. It eliminates all distractions while you are writing. All of 400 Kb, this is a fully portable text editor that you can carry with you while on the move. Minimal as it is, Q10 has a number of features that are very useful for [...]

PyScrabble is an online, multi-player Scrabble game. To start playing this game, you have to first download and install the PyScrabble client program. If this is your first time then you should register yourself on a public server. This can be done from within the PyScrabble client software itself.

USBWebserver is a portable software that can be run from a USB Stick. It consists of the following applications. Apache web server, MySQL Database, PHP, and PHPMyAdmin. In other words, you got yourself a portable WAMP stack.