Tag Archives: windows

Install and configure wine to Play latest windows games in Linux

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Linux tutorials

In this post i will show you how to install latest windows applications and games using wine in Linux. When you install wine the first time, wine will work but not all windows application and games will  work properly because … Continue reading

PlayOnLinux 3.8.5 is available- It is Highly recommended to upgrade to this new version

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Software

PlayOnLinux 3.8.5 is available, this version is a bug fix and is hightly recommended to upgrade to this new version, otherwise you will not be able to use playonlinux.

To reduce its dependence on Microsoft, Russia invest 4.9 million dollars to develop a Linux-based Windows alternative

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in News

MOSCOW — The Russian state plans to revamp its computer services with a Windows rival to reduce its dependence on US giant Microsoft and better monitor computer security, a lawmaker said Wednesday.

Create image for your hard drive the easy way with Redo Backup and Recovery

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in News

Redo is an easy point-and-click GUI tool for full system backup and recovery from bare metal. Allows fast cloning of hard disk images to and from local or network-shared drives. Extremely user friendly interface boots from CD or USB.

Wine 1.1.42 is out with many improvments | PPA

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in News

Wine 1.1.42 is out, this version comes with many improvments and some new features like Support for shared 32/64-bit setups, dwarf debug info support for better backtraces, more standard actions supported in MSI, Support for TIFF image format in WinCodecs, … Continue reading

Access to Linux Ext2/Ext3 partitions from windows using Ext2Fsd

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in News

If you are for example in windows machine and you want to access to your linux partitions, then you will need  Ext2Fsd ,an Open source ext2/ext3 file system driver for Windows (NT/2K/XP/VISTA, X86/AMD64). Ext2Fsd  will give you acces to EXT2/Ext3  … Continue reading

Inkscape 0.47 is released !

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Inkskape0.47 is released . This new version the SVG-based vector graphics editor brings improved performance and tons of new features, some of which are as follows:

Remote desktop from Linux to windows using rdesktop and gnome-rdp

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

How to connect to a remote desktop from a Linux machine to windows XP , windows 2003 server , Vista or windows 7.? This question is frenquently asked by linux users especialy the newbies that want to discover more linux.

3 usefull plugins for Gimp

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in News

plugins for gimp are usefull because give more choice when you are designing or adding effects to a photo , here are 3 nice and usefull ones , Blur & Shadow, Rss lightsaber and Colour Match plugin.

Ubuntu and Windows Boot Times Compared

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in News

A boot time test as a rule brings more criticism than praise for the tester, seeing that the tests are usually considered flawed. A new test has fixed all that. In February TuxRadar released a benchmark test for installation, bootup, … Continue reading