PhoroLinux

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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Want to watch movies, play DVDs and listen musics on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon? You always need to install non-free multimedia codecs. For example, commonly known as w32codecs. To install them on Ubuntu, that’s very simple.

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Version 1.4.0.118 of Skype for Linux has been released. This release is a final edition. It’s not only improved voice call quality, but also added some new features. This post shows how you can install the latest version of Skype on Debian or Ubuntu.

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Avant Window Navigator is an excellent dock application. Recently I have installed it on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon Beta. This how to shows how you can install Avant Window Navigator from source.

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Gajim is a full featured and easy to use instant messenger. After you install Gajim, you’ll need to configure your client to connect to the Google Talk service.

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FileZilla is a cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client. It not only is easy to use, but it also contains lots of useful features. This short article shows how you can install the latest version of FileZilla on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn.

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Nodoka is a new default theme for Fedora’s GNOME. It contains GTK+ engine, GTK+ theme, Metacity theme and GNOME meta theme. This how to shows how you can install them on Ubuntu.

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IBM Lotus Symphony is a suite of free productivity tools for creating and sharing documents, presentations and spreadsheets. It is based on the Open Document Format (ODF) standard. With IBM Lotus Symphony, you not only can import, edit and save a variety of file formats including M$ Office files, but also can export your documents […]

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iTunes is a media player. But it is only available for Windows and Mac OS X. You might want to use it in Linux. What should you do? You can use Wine. I have tested wine 0.9.45 and iTunes 7.2. It works perfectly.

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Recently, Adobe released their Adobe Reader 8.1.1 for Linux. This release has added new interface, tools, more options and 3D features. So far, Adobe Reader is still the best PDF documents viewer in Linux.

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