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Imagination, now in HD

Jun 272011

In one of the first articles of Linuxaria i’ve posted a complete how to in how to make a DVD slideshow with Linux and the main program to do this was Imagination, a software that i really like for his simplicity of use.

Imagination is a lightweight and simple DVD slide show maker for Linux and FreeBSD written in C language and built with the GTK+2 toolkit. Imagination has been designed from the ground up to be fast, light and easy-to-use. It requires the ffmpeg encoder to produce the movie file and libsox to handle the audio and nothing else, there are no other dependencies. Continue reading »

PromoGest an OS management program.

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Jun 152011

I’ve received from Francesco Meloni a PR about Promogest a management program for small business totally released under GPL, and so I gladly present this software to you.

PromoGest is a management program for your business. Developed by PromoTUX a leading Italian company in the industry.
Written using open source software is licensed under the GPL. The basic version is freely downloadable and freely usable without any license restrictions. It handles superbly customer lists, supplier and all the generation and movement of documents. For specific features or to customize the print model will, however, necessary to activate specific modules.
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Introduction to Backtrack 5

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Jun 042011

backtrack5 The 10 of may the backtrack team has released the version number 5 (codename “revolution”) of their penetration tool.
Yes backtrack it’s a live Linux Distribution made with this goal, be the best penetration and learning tool around.

It’s Based on Ubuntu Lucid LTS (10.04). Kernel 2.6.38, patched with all relevant wireless injection patches. Fully open source and GPL compliant. In this release you can choose to have Gnome or KDE and install it on 32 or 64 bit computer. The former release supported only 32 bit installation.

But let’s see what you can do with it.

Linux 3.0-rc1

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May 312011

Linus Torvalds has announced to the world that the next Kernel release will be the 3.0:

From Linus Torvalds <>
Date Sun, 29 May 2011 18:30:32 -0700
Subject Linux 3.0-rc1
Yay! Let the bikeshed painting discussions about version numbering begin (or at least re-start).

I decided to just bite the bullet, and call the next version 3.0. It will get released close enough to the 20-year mark, which is excuse
enough for me, although honestly, the real reason is just that I can no longe rcomfortably count as high as 40

Skype to Microsoft ? It’s time to know XMPP/Jingle

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May 102011

The news today is that Microsoft ~~seem to be in the process of buying~~ has bought Skype for something around $8.5 billion.
So what will happen to Linux support for Skype ? No one knows it at the moment but I can imagine nothing too good, in the best scenario, that I can imagine at the moment, the new Skype servers are still open to Linux clients, but the support on our operating system is left back and over some time using Skype on Linux become almost impossible.

But perhaps it’s better to talk to something else…what do you know about XMPP/Jingle ? Continue reading »

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