04.07.14
Links 7/4/2014: Applications
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Nautilus Terminal: An Embedded Terminal for Nautilus File Browser in GNOME
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GCompris 14.03 Can Teach Kids How to Use a Computer, Math, Geography, More
The latest GCompris 14.03 version is quite extensive and the developers have managed to implement a large number of fixes and new features. For example, support has been implemented for multigraph languages in click_on_letter by GunChleoc, a font selector has been added in the config dialog box and it has replaced the skin selector, the torta py pastel has been replaced in the Spanish text exercise, and support has been added for localized sound.
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Wine 1.7.16 Brings DirectX Video Acceleration
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Wine Announcement
The Wine development release 1.7.16 is now available. What’s new in this release (see below for details): – More regression test fixes. – String arrays better supported in the IDL compiler. – Initial stubs for DirectX Video Acceleration. – Various bug fixes.
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Medit 1.2.0 – GNOME Alternative to Gedit [Ubuntu Installation]
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XBMC 13 Beta 3 Ships with New Features [Ubuntu PPA for XBMC 13 and 14]
XBMC is a home theater application which runs in fullscreen, has a beautiful, modern interface, support for pictures, music and video collections and playlists, television and radio.
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rig: The random identity generator
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Midori 0.5.8 Browser Pulls In New WebKit2 Code
Midori 0.5.8 features updates to its WebKit2 rendering engine and AdBlock support (for those web users that unfortunately deprive web publishers of their income… including here; if you appreciate this site, please disable AdBlock or become a Phoronix Premium subscriber to support this site that takes 80+ hours of my week for the past ten years in providing always the latest Linux/open-source news and Linux hardware reviews, etc).