CMus is a very powerful audio player for the console with a ncurses-based interface, support for themes and highly configurable.Although (at least in Debian) CMus does not come with Last.fm song submission support by default, there is a script availabl…
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Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 was released on October 14, 2008 and it currently comes in 36 fully-localised languages. This beta is based on Gecko 1.9.1 layout engine and according to the official website, this release features “significant changes to improve web…
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Xine is an engine which allows to play audio CDs, DVDs, VCDs, various audio and video formats like AVI, WMV, MOV to list a few. The last version of xine-lib is 1.1.15, released on August 14, 2008.Installation in Debian LennyTo compile from source and i…
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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 …
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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….
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