Question: How to Solve this issue in Fedora:
cannot create object COM
Callee RC: NS_ERROR_FACTORY_NOT_REGISTERED (0x80040154)
Firefox 4 beta 10 is out ! PPA Ubuntu
Mozilla released Firefox 4 Beta 10. According to a post in Mozilla.dev.planing google Group, Firefox Beta11 is expected before the end of this month (Probably the 31th of this month), while the final release will come before the end of February.
Openoffice.org 3.3.0 Final is released!
Oracle Openoffice.org 3.3 final is released, this release comes one day after the release of LibreOffice3.3. Openoffice3.3 features, New Custom Properties 
Handling, embedding of Standard PDF Fonts, New Narrow Font Family, increased Document Protection in Writer and Calc, Automatic Decimals Digits for “General” format in Calc, now openoffice support 1 Million Rows in a Spreadsheet, new Options for CSV (Comma Separated Value) Import in Calc, Insert Drawing Objects in Charts.
Install Amarok 2.4 ubuntu 10.10 | Fedora
Amarok2.4 was released last week, this release brings significant performance, usability, and stability improvements, Amarok now has the 
ability to write your statistics and covers directly to the audio files to keep the information across different devices and should detect compilations a lot better. a new option to hide the menu bar again, Integration with the MusicBrainz music library to update your songs with accurate information. Having a well organized collection is easier than ever, now that you can select what you want tagged and do it with two clicks.
LibreOffice3.3 Final is released! Installation for Ubuntu, LinuxMint, Debian and Fedora included | Linux
The Document Foundation launches today LibreOffice 3.3, this is the first stable of the free office suite developed by the community. According to the announcement, the grown of the number of developer working in the project helped to speed up the development of LibreOffice3.3 : “In less than four months, the number of developers hacking LibreOffice has grown from less than twenty in late September 2010, to well over one hundred today. This has allowed us to release ahead of the aggressive schedule set by the project.”
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VLC 1.1.6 is released! PPA for ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat and LinuxMint
VLC 1.1.6 is released, this new released comes with small features and fixing important bugs and a security issues.
CMU Sphinx- An Open Source Toolkit For Speech Recognition | Linux
CMU Sphinx is one of the most popular speech recognition applications for Linux and it can correctly capture words. it also gives the developers the ability to build speech systems, interact with voice and build something unique and useful.
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GLX-Dock 2.3 beta is released! (Ex Cairo Dock)
GLX-Dock 2.3 beta is released, this new beta version of ex cairo dock comes with many new features, a System Monitor applet, a logout applet, Better layout for the menus, slider is much faster, 2 new themes are also available: Japan-2 and MeeGo.
GLX-Dock is now built on top of libgldi (for GL Desktop Interface), which will also be used for another project: GLX-Desklet. Having a minimalistic core ensure better stability and performances, and less bugs.
Wine 1.3.12 is released
Wine 1.3.12 is released, this development release comes with some improvements and bug fixes. Support for multiple icon sizes in winemenubuilder, improvements to the help browser, initial stab at DOSBox integration, Various MSI fixes, Some fixes to the Wine debugger, Various bug fixes.
Pardus2011- A Linux distro that needs your attention
Few days ago, Pardus 2011 was released, Major features in this release are: the latest Linux kernel 2.6.37 provides an up-to-date hardware support; the bootsplash technology used in Pardus 2009.2 is replaced by the new Plymouth engine; YALI, the 
installer of Pardus, gained LVM/RAID and UUID support; Pardus 2011 comes with the latest KDE 4.5.5; Kaptan, the desktop customization tool, now optionally captures your picture and sets it as your avatar in KDE; GNOME NetworkManager 0.8.2 is now the default networking back-end; all GTK+ applications are rendered with Oxygen style; LibreOffice is the default office suite; Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta 9 is the default web browser.”
Radio Tray 0.6.3 comes with resume parameter, application indicator and user-agent information| Updated
Announced today the release of Radio Tray 0.6.2, this new version comes to fix some bugs and added 
some new features like the resume parameter to play last radio station, application indicator support, Added user-agent information, Added sleep timer and finally Updated translations and added a few more.
Update 22-01-2010: Radio Tray 0.6.3 has been released, this verion has no new features and comes just to fix some bugs.
Upgrade to KDE 4.6
Today KDE has released 4.6.0, containing compelling new features and improvements to the Plasma Workspaces.
KDE is comming with many features like :
Plasma Workspaces Put You in Control
KDE’s Dolphin Adds Faceted Browsing
Mobile Target Makes KDE Platform Lose Weight
Spread the Word and See What Happens: Tag as “KDE”
How to install of upgrade your system to the last release . please keep in mind that upgrade to the last release for some ditrubution is not save , because the the packages still in test phases in them repositories.
now let give you some ways how to do this depending of your linux distribution :
For Fedora/Centos download:
and drop it in /etc/yum.repos.d/
Note to x86_64 users: You may have to enable both x86_64 and i386 repos.
To install, a simple
yum groupupdate kde-desktop :
For Mandriva:
remove the old KDE repositories
#urpme.removemedia kde-4.5rc3
add the new source media for 32 en 64bit
#urpmi.addmedia kde-4.5 ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/4.6.0/Mandriva/2010.1/i586/
#urpmi.addmedia kde-4.5 ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/4.6.0/Mandriva/2010.1/x86_64/
and start the update
#urpmi –auto-update –auto-select
For Ubuntu and Kubuntu
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
VirtualBox 4.0.2 is released ! Installation for Ubuntu & Debian
Virtualbox 4.0.2 is released, this is an update release that comes with some bug fix and improvements.
Useful commands for daily use
“Under Linux there are graphical user interfaces (GUIs), where you can point and click and drag, and hopefully get work done 
without first reading lots of documentation. The traditional Unix environment is a CLI (command line interface), where you type commands to tell the computer what to do. That is faster and more powerful, but requires finding out what the commands are.” -man intro–
Find in this post a list of some useful commands for this week.
Fix the Ugly Polymouth in Ubuntu 10.10
1- Open terminal and enter the following command:
sudo apt-get install v86d
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Wolfenstein game in Linux
The story: You’re William J. “B.J.” Blazkowicz, the Allies’ bad boy of espionage and a terminal action seeker. Your mission was to infiltrate the Nazi fortress Castle Hollehammer and find the plans for Operation Eisenfaust, the Nazi’s blueprint for building the perfect army. Rumors are that deep within the castle the diabolical Dr. Schabbs has perfected a technique for building a fierce army from the bodies of the dead. It’s so far removed from reality that it would seem silly if it wasn’t so sick. But what if it were true?
As an escaped prisoner in a Nazi war prison, you will move smoothly through a 3D world full of amazing detail and animation Unlike other 3D games, you’ll run through a sensational and realistic 3-D environment, with intelligent moving guards and opponents.
Wolfenstein 3-D has won these RETAIL industry awards in 1992:
- “One of the eight most important games ever created” — PC Gamer
- “Best Arcade/Action Game” — Software Publishers Association “Codie” Award
- “Best Arcade/Action Game” — Compute magazine
- “Most Popular Game” — PC World magazine (reader’s poll)
- “Best Action Game” — Video Games & Computer Entertainment magazine
- “Most Innovative Game” — Video Games & Computer Entertainment magazine
- “Editor’s Choice Award” — Shareware Magazine
- “Best Entertainment Software (Finalist)” — PC/Computing
COOL FEATURES
- Intense and mood-setting Ad Lib music throughout the entire game.
- Incredible digitized effects for Sound Blaster and Disney Sound Source.
- Fastest 3D VGA animated full-screen wide game available for IBM PC!
- Play with keyboard, joystick, mouse or Gravis Gamepad.
- Save and restore games, plus quick-save and quick-load hot keys.
- Must be played on an 80286 or better machine. Does not run on XT systems.
Download the rpm game package http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/updates/testing/14/i386/wolf3d-shareware-1.4-1.fc14.noarch.rpm
