Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Install Nvidia Unix Driver 304.32 On Ubuntu 12.10/12.04/Linux Mint 13
Nvidia has recently released driver 304.32 for Uninx-based systems which fixes a critical vulnerability that allows local users to have root access on your system. In this page, we will help you install Nvidia driver 304.32 on Ubuntu and Linux Mint via PPA. For other systems, you can install the driver manually as shown below.
Linux Display Driver 304.32 Installation
Open the terminal and install Nvidia Unix driver 304.32 under Ubuntu 12.10/12.04/11.10 or Linux Mint 13 or older with these commands:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current nvidia-settings
For other Linux systems not supporting installation via PPA, you can install the driver with the following commands:
Linux 32-bit/i386:
cd /tmp
wget -O NVIDIA-Linux-x86-304.32.run http://goo.gl/Q8Wg7
chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86-304.32.run
sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-304.32.run
Linux 64-bit/amd64:
cd /tmp
wget -O NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.32.run http://goo.gl/wCSXF
chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.32.run
sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.32.run
To finish the installation, you need to restart your computer.
GhostBSD LXDE 3.0 Beta 1 Available for Testing
GhostBSD LXDE, a FreeBSD-based operating system based on LXDE desktop environment, is now at version 3.0 Beta 1.
GhostBSD 3.0 Beta 1 is now available in the LXDE flavor. The developers already have a GNOME 2 distribution launched and are planning to release another one with Gnome 3 support.
Highlights of GhostBSD LXDE 3.0 Beta 1:
• FreeBSD 9.0 r3 has been updated to FreeBSD 9.1-BETA 1;
• A new look, more clean and clear, has been implemented;
• A major installer bug has been fixed;
• The installer swamping the entire disk has been fixed;
• Installation errors are now reported;
• Support for ZFS has been added;
• Improvements to wifi have been implemented.
Download GhostBSD 3.0 LXDE Beta 1
ROSA 2012 "GNOME"
Denis Koryavov has announced the release of ROSA 2012 "GNOME" edition, a Mandriva-based Linux distribution featuring the GNOME 2 desktop: "After a month since RC1 I'm glad to announce ROSA Marathon 2012 GNOME edition final release. RM 2012 GE is a community-driven release with the GNOME 2.32 on the board. This release is intended for people who have not powerful machines, but do not want to use LXDE, or for people who do not want use GNOME 3. Software included: Linux kernel 3.0.38 with the latest security fixes; GNOME 2.32 software pack with the GDM 2.20 and original ROSA theme; Chromium browser 21; LibreOffice 3.4.5 LTS; ROSA Media Player 1.0; Pidgin 2.10; FBreader; GIMP 2.6; EasyTag; Cantarell font used by default." Here is the complete release announcement with screenshots. Download links: ROSA.2012.MARATHON.GNOME.i586.iso (1,211MB, MD5), ROSA.2012.MARATHON.GNOME.x86_64.iso (1,236MB, MD5).
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Improve Lighting And Adjust Brightness Of Your Photography With Urban Lightscape - Ubuntu/Linux Mint
It's difficult to get the perfect lighting within photos taken by cameras, this depends on many factors that may cause your photos to look darker than usual or too bright. An easy solution to correct bright or dark pictures is to use third-party applications to adjust the brightness or improve lighting of your photos to get good quality.
If you are a photographer running Ubuntu or Linux Mint, you can use Urban Lightscape
to help you improve and harness your photos before printing them. With
Urban Lightscape, you can correct exposure, improve lighting, add
synthetic light to your pictures, and make localised brightness
adjustments. The user interface of the application is very simple to use
and allows to save manipulated images in many image formats such as
bmp, png, jpg, tif, pnm, pcx, xpm, etc.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install urbanlightscape
Urban Lightscape Home Page
Monday, August 6, 2012
Bridge Linux 2012.8 Has GRUB2
Bridge Linux, an Arch derivative distribution that includes a GUI and standard applications, is now at version 2012.8.
According to the developers of Bridge Linux, this distribution has a feature that has been requested by a lot of users. GRUB2 is the default bootloader in Bridge Linux 2012.8.
Highlights of Bridge Linux 2012.8:
· The /etc/hosts file has been fixed;
· Xfce X respawn error has been fixed;
· Some mkinitcpio issues have been repaired;
· The installer has been repaired;
· French and Turkish language support in the installer have been added;
· A menu item to run post-install script after first run has been added;
· Terminator is the default for some DEs;
· Enabled regular users to mount drives without password in the file manager.
A complete list of changes can be found in the official announcement.
Download Bridge Linux 2012.8
Damn Small Linux 4.11 RC1 Has Updated JVM
Damn Small Linux, a very versatile 50MB mini desktop oriented Linux distribution initially developed as an experiment, is now at version 4.11 RC1.
The developer of DLS (Damn Small Linux) 4.11 RC1 has tried to make the new version of the distribution a little friendlier to old hardware.
Highlights of Damn Small Linux 4.11 RC1:
• JWM has been updated to 2.1.0 (now supports rounding);
• Dillo has been updated to 3.0.2 (much improves CSS support);
• xChat 1.8.9 has been added (the last version that supported gtk1.2);
• sic 1.1 IRC client has been added;
• A few applications have been removed (such as flminicalc and gphone);
• Menu items to switch between DFM & xtdesk icon engines have been added.
A complete list of changes and updates can be found in the official announcement.
Download Damn Small Linux 4.11 RC1
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