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Slackware 13 is here

September 1, 2009
By silviu

Yupeee, a new toy. Slacware 13.0 is out, with an official and in sync 64bit version too. Finally upgraded to KDE 4.2.x. Get yours while it’s hot. And don’t forget to support the project by buying the dvd’s from the Slackware store. Have fun!
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VLC media player 1.0.0 – Goldeneye is out !

July 8, 2009
By silviu
VLC media player 1.0.0 – Goldeneye is out !

In the good tradition of Open Source projects VideoLAN has been at a version < 1.0 for ages. Traditionally 1.0 would be a complete, stable release. Well VideoLAN is there. Actually has been there for some time, I use it constantly and besides an uglier than usual interface has been stable and useful for...
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Gears available for Firefox 3.5 – sord of

July 7, 2009
By silviu
Gears available for Firefox 3.5 – sord of

Like I mentioned in my previous post Firefox 3.5 is still not supported by google gears. I don’t need it for Gmail but I use the turbo feature of Wordpress. Well, a good soul over at the Google Gears User Group made a custom build. You should treat it as beta quality. It works for...
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Firefox 3.5 fails to impress me. Google Gears also missing.

July 6, 2009
By silviu
Firefox 3.5 fails to impress me. Google Gears also missing.

I’ve been using Firefox 3.5 for some time now – alpha, beta, rc and now final. In my opinion firefox fails to improve performance as promised. It has some new features, it has some bad new features and it misses the speed we want and need. Ajax sites seem just as slow as they were...
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Skyfire updated to v1.0

May 28, 2009
By silviu
Skyfire updated to v1.0

The Skyfire browser just got an upgrade on all supported platforms. Here are some quick notes on the Skyfire v1.0 for Symbian version.
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