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Miro is a free and open-source application. With Miro, you can watch free internet video channels and play any video file. The latest version of Miro is 0.9.9.9. This tutorial shows how you can install it on Ubuntu.

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Mozilla Sunbird is a standalone calendar application for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. With Sunbird, you can manage your schedule easily, and store it where you want to. Sunbird 0.7 was released yesterday. The new release includes a redesigned event/task dialog, new event summary dialog, and other new features and changes. You can read […]

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Transmission is a fast and easy-to-use BitTorrent client. Yesterday Transmission 0.90 was released. This release features encryption support, ban peers, improved compliance with BitTorrent spec, MSE Tracker Extension support, etc. This tutorial will help you install Transmission 0.90 on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon.

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Note: This guide has a lot of problems. Please do not use this guide.
Version 0.6.0 of Compiz Fusion has been released. This is the first stable release of Compiz Fusion. Compiz Fusion 0.6.0 not only has fixed many bugs, but also added a ton of new features. This HOWTO shows how you can install […]

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Ubuntu Studio is an Ubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution designed for audio, video and graphic enthusiast. It uses GNOME desktop environment and includes lots of open-source applications for multimedia creation. For instance, Ardou, Audacity, GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, PiTiVi, Kino, Cinepaint and so on. This installation guide will help you install Ubuntu Studio 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon.

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Menu File Browser Applet is an useful applet for the GNOME Panel. With Menu File Browser Applet, you can browse, open and manage files in your computer directly from the panel. This HOWTO shows how you can install Menu File Browser Applet on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon.

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Deluge BitTorrent client 0.5.6 RC 1 (version 0.5.5.95) has been released today. In this release, Deluge have included Web User Interface Plugin. With this plugin, you can now download torrents from web browser. That’s pretty cool.

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SSHMenu is a very cool GNOME panel applet. With SSHMenu, you can keep SSH connections and quick access SSH. This how to shows how you can install the latest version of SSHMenu on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon.

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I installed the latest version of Conky (1.4.7) on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon. To my surprise, Conky can now download and parse RSS feeds. That’s really very cool. The following steps will show you how to display RSS feeds on your Ubuntu desktop.

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VirtualBox is a powerful virtual machine software. The VirtualBox OSE is open source edition of VirtualBox. It is functionally equivalent to the full VirtualBox, except for a few features that primarily target enterprise customers. Currently, VirtualBox OSE was already in the Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon repositories.

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