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Alternageek Episode 32: Putting On A Social AIR

techmonkey — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:01:39 +0000

In this week’s episode, we talk about our new AlternaGeek OGG feed, PCLinuxOS, Amazon MP3 Downloader for Linux, Adobe AIR (including how to run it on Wine while you wait for Linux support) and the recent influx of social network aggregators like SocialThing, FriendFeed and Spokeo.Links:

Click here to download this episode in OGG formatAlternaGeek.com Podcast, Episode 32 for the week of March 17th, 2008Featuring Linuxchic & TechMonkeyIncluded Podcast Promo: Atlantic Wave Radio

Have a little Wine and a new Kernel build

linuxchic — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:32:23 +0000

Updates and releases this week:Wine 0.9.54 was released enabling support for Photoshop CS/CS2 and a load of bug fixes. Also out is the latest stable Linux kernel 2.6.24.KDE is going cross-platform and porting to Windows and OSX. Currently the core desktop programs, the KOffice suite, and the Amarok music player are actively being ported. Early releases are out for testing; visit the KDE Windows project site or KDE TechBase for OSX snapshots to download.Last but not least, the jailbreak for the iPhone 1.1.3 firmware update is in the wild if you are just itching to upgrade without losing your third-party apps.

AlternaGeek Episode 15: Virtualizing the Desktop

linuxchic — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:00:35 +0000

AlternaGeek.com Podcast, Episode 15 for the week of September 24th, 2007
Featuring Linuxchic, Code Ninja and TechMonkey.

We covered server based virtualization in a previous episode so for this episode Code Ninja walks us through options for running virtual machines on the desktop.

Lina
CodeWeavers
Cedega
Wine
DosBox
VMware
Ubuntu Forums for 32-bit chroot Howto
Mac-on-Linux
Qemu
VirtualBox
Parallels Workstation

Click here to download this episode in .ogg format