XBMC!How to turn your Ubuntu into the Media Center of your dreams.

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Jan 232012
 

Do you have a nice TV or projector? You are in the right place. Today we will see how to make an incredible and surprising combination of a low-performance PCs and a nice TV or projector. Our goal is to turn that old PC into a fantastic Media Center, which will give you many possibilities. From the view of Film and/or video, to listen to music (excellent if you have connected a good sound system), an excellent way to show photographs and browse the web with a simple click .

All of this will be possible with XBMC

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Meego – In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) edition

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Jan 052012
 

IVI (In-Vehicle Infotainment) systems are systems that provide entertainment, navigation and networked computing services in cars, planes, buses and trucks. Many car manufacturers are at a fast-pace viewing these types of systems in separating their products from the competition. Passengers and drivers alike are expecting the same, high-caliber technology in cars they see on mobile computers in their cars. Cars are becoming more than ever before connected to the Internet. The demand for these services is increasing and MeeGo is rising to the challenge, accelerating the pace of innovation in IVI and car entertainment.

The MeeGo IVI software platform was created to provide entertaining and rich Internet experiences for cars. Meego IVI is based on the foundation that was created by Moblin IVI for CE device management, car connectivity and rich multimedia.

The last release of MeeGo v1.2 for In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) has been released on: 19 May 2011
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Top Ten articles for Linuxaria in 2011

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Jan 042012
 

The first days of the new year are a good moment to look back at the past year and see what have been the most read articles of the site, this is also a good opportunity for you to read (or re-read) them. And, a bit late, but i wish you all a Happy New Year.

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10 – How to run commands in the background

Suppose you have a long-running task (for example, compiling a large program) that you need to run, but you also want to get some other work done. Linux lets you start a task in the background and keep on doing other things from the command prompt.

We will see in this article how to send commands in the background, then return them to the foreground, and make sure that also closing the current shell or terminal the process doesn’t remains tied to the session but continue to work.

An alternative to these command is using screen, as read in a former article, but now let’s seethe command bg and the spacial character &

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Speak Up In Linux Using eSpeak

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Jan 032012
 

eSpeak

Article by Ankur Aggarwal, owner of the Blog http://flossstuff.wordpress.com

Sometimes we want our Linux box to speak to/for us.This ability is very useful to make announcements and alerts in case of many critical events in our machines or can be used just for sheer fun. There exists a command line synthesized known as eSpeak that comes pre installed in Ubuntu. You can also install it on debian systems by typing the command sudo apt-get install espeak in a command console .For all other operating systems you can install it from source available at http://espeak.sourceforge.net/download.html

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