Harsh J

You might think, like I did: Isn’t OSS dead? Didn’t ALSA replace it ages ago?

Open Sound System - Much better!

The answer, as I learnt, was both yes and no. It did die, only to be revived later by 4Front Technologies who developed it under a commercial license for quite sometime. It went GPL only recently, although with a paid premium-support and on certain platforms only. The improvements made in it are simply amazing. I’ll leave the rest of the mystery to be covered by 4Front’s own blog post. It’s a nice read

The following guide on how to shift to OSS from PulseAudio/ALSA is for Ubuntu (Jaunty Jackalope, 9.04*) users alone. A proper guide to ArchLinux’s solution might be found here.
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Check out this preview of KDE4!

The only words gonna come out of my mouth for the next 20 minutes are “Holy CRAP! When am I expecting this?! Bye GNOME!”

Since it comes out in December, this has _got_ to be the best Christmas present ever.

And Amarok with that Cover Flow thing and totally revamped interface … This is too much for me right now. I need it, I need it running on my system ASAP!

Just noticed these cool Aero-like blings in the default Compiz-Fusion theme! And of course, like everything else, its way better than what Aero gave us, cause it partially extends out of the window!

Here’s it in action on my Pidgin windows:

Notice those cool lines? Yep that’s them in action!

Get Compiz-Fusion now, on Ubuntu 7.04! Install it from the disc lying around and follow this! I don’t think you want to see anymore videos of it in action

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God always answers your wish, with a nice GUI!

Yes you got that right, a GUI tool for editing that dreaded /etc/X11/xorg.conf file you’ve always had to when your Ubuntu Linux never showed up on the screen. Its coming soon, in Gutsy Gibbon (Ubuntu ‘October’ 7.10) and is presently in Alpha.

Still, I’d prefer editing it myself with a nice text editor lest something screws up, as GUI mostly tend to

Source

Microsoft has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the operators of “Longhorn Reloaded,” a project that was dedicated to reviving an earlier beta of Windows Vista from before the company removed certain features, such as WinFS. The operator of the site has since posted a message saying that he had removed the download link, and this was followed up by a statement from Jean-Marie Houvenaghel??”the founder of the web site Joejoe.org and supervisor of the Longhorn Reloaded project??”that the project was officially discontinued.

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