A better, faster desktop search for Linux!

Beagle desktop search, while useful, tends to consume way to much system resources, which leaves out Linux users that care about high performance or have older machines. Tracker is a high performance search engine written in C, uses only 3-9 megs of ram and is very Laptop-friendly. Features nautilus and deskbar support for seamless integration.

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Parallelize applications for faster Linux

One of the biggest complaints about Linux®, particularly from developers, is the speed with which Linux boots. By default, Linux is a general-purpose operating system that can serve as a client desktop or server right out of the box. Because of this flexibility, Linux serves a wide base but is suboptimal for any particular configuration.

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Linux MCE looks hot - Download Squad

MythTV, the popular Linux based PVR project, has been around for some time. It's nice, and it functions well, but it's only as functional as Windows Media Center Edition plus, it can be difficult to install and configure.

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GNOME 2.18.0 Released

"GNOME 2.18 is out, on time as usual. The top-class free desktop for the masses looks and feels better than ever. This is another progressive release in our road to perfection.."

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New NVIDIA Linux Display Drivers Released

Today the latest Version 1.0-9755, of NVIDIA graphic drivers for linux was released. Highlights inlcude: * Added support for Quadro FX 4600 and Quadro FX 5600 and * Added initial support for NVIDIA SLI with GeForce 8800, Quadro FX 4600, and Quadro FX 5600.

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BBC licence payers demand Mac & Linux Support

The BBC's plans to launch on-demand services including features such as "catch-up" and "streaming" content has come under fire. It has not gone unnoticed that there iPlayer software will only work on Windows based machines.
A petition has been launched on the Prime Ministers website with the following statement, "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to prevent the BBC from making its iPlayer on-demand television service available to Windows users only, and instruct the corporation to provide its service for other operating systems also." At the time of posting the number of signatures was nearing 2,000.
Show your support for your chosen computer platform by signing the petition, which can be found here.

Floola - an iPod alternative

Floola is an alternative management software for iTunes. Basically you can use Floola to manage your iPod related content, including music, movies and even podcasts without touching iTunes. Floola even has Growl support for Mac OSX and allows you to manage applications that can then be launch right from your iPod. It is donationware and available to download for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.