It appears that AOL's legal team had set its gaze upon Gaim again and the developers were forced to change the name of the instant messenger under a settlement agreement.
After a secret debate, they decided on the name "Pidgin" for Gaim itself, "libpurple" for libgaim, and "Finch" for gaim-text …
read moreRecently, I have had a few people ask me about the various CLI applications that I use and what I could recommend to them.
I figured I would post a list for those who are interested. I highly encourage those who read this to respond with other applications that they …
read moreI was wondering how many people out there are like me and prefer using ncurses / console applications to their GUI counter-parts. I personally only use a handful of GUI applications (e.g. Firefox and the Gimp) and I could not be happier.
However, my personal preference seems to confuse many …
read moreJorge Arellano Cid recently announced that Dillo, a small light-weight GTK+ web browser written in C, has been frozen due to the lack of funds and manpower.
The Dillo project's web site will be updated with an official statement regarding the situation after he is able to get back in …
read moreAdobe has released the stable version of Flash Player 9 for GNU/Linux.
If you are interested in the fixes for this release, check out their release notes.
read moreAdobe has released the Flash 9 beta for GNU/Linux. I have been using it for a few minutes and it is quite stable so far.. although one should take care to always remember that it is unstable software.
You have the option of downloading the plugin or a standalone …
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