TimburyDotOrg is owned and operated by Timbury Computer Services. For over ten years, Timbury Computer Services has shown home, small business and corporate clients how to use Linux and Open Source software to maximize efficiency and lower costs.Since I’m an IRC addict and I always liked to spend time learning new stuff on IRC, here is a review of several IRC clients for Linux. Some of them are well-known and popular, like XChat, Konversation or Irssi, and others are not so widely used or know…
Listen is a not so widely known audio player written in Python and using the GTK toolkit, with an interface similar to the one of Rhythmbox, and including features like a music library, podcasts support, lyrics fetching, Wikipedia integration, and Last…
Code::Blocks is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for C and C++, built using the wxWidgets kit.The latest version is 8.02, available for download from the official downloads page. To install the dependencies, use:apt-get install build-essenti…
The GUI browsersFirefoxMozilla Firefox gained more and more popularity since its initial release in November 2004, and today is the browser of choice for the majority of Linux users. Although relatively new compared to other browsers which date for ove…
IntroductionExaile is an audio player built in GTK, and although it’s not as popular as Banshee, Rhythmbox or Audacious, it’s feature-complete and offers a unique concept by using multiple tabs for showing several playlists, each one in its own tab, an…
Exaile is an audio player built in GTK which aims to provide the same features as the popular Amarok for KDE. The last stable version is 0.2.13, released on April 2, 2008, which fixes cover art fetching from Amazon.In order to compile Exaile on Debian …
Konqueror – Default file manager in KDE3, Konqueror was replaced by Dolphin in KDE4. Very powerful, Konqueror supports profiles, split windows, several view modes, plugins and much more features.Official websiteKrusader – Another powerful file manager …
Two days ago I reviewed Xfe, a pretty good file manager built using the FOX toolkit, so today I’ll continue in the same fashion reviewing PCMan FM, a GTK file manager with a simplistic interface and basic features.PCManFM – list viewPCManFM has a left …
PCMan FM is a basic GTK file manager with a simple interface, providing features like tabs, compression menu (bzip2, gzip, zip), or bookmarks. The last version is 0.4.5, and to install it issue as root:apt-get build-dep pcmanfmapt-get install intltoolN…
BasKet is a powerful and fully-featured notes-taking application for KDE3, and there are also plans to port it to KDE4 (read about it here). The current version included in Debian Lenny’s repositories is 1.0.2, however the last stable release is 1.0.3….
