PDF Tools for Linux

Evince : Default document viewer of GNOME. Some formats it supports; postscript, djvu, tiff, dvi.
http://projects.gnome.org/evince/

KPDF : Based on Xpdf, simple pdf viewer. It was in KDE 3 default. More

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Twitter Client for Linux

Gwibber : One of the most popular social networking clients.gwibber
Supported services: Twitter, Facebook, Identi.ca, Flickr, StatusNet, FriendFeed, Digg, Qaiku
Automatically shortens URLs when they are pasted
Optional support for spell-checking as you type
Multicolumn user interface for viewing multiple streams More

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Fedora 15 Lovelock Alpha Released

“The Fedora 15 “Lovelock” Alpha release is available! This release offers a preview of some of the best free and open source technology currently under More

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Debian 6.0 Squeeze Released

debian“After 24 months of constant development, the Debian Project is proud to present its new stable version 6.0 (code name Squeeze). Debian 6.0 is a free operating system, coming for the first time in two flavours. Alongside Debian GNU/Linux, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is introduced with this version as a technology preview. More

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Installing Tor On Ubuntu

Tor, provides protecting your privacy on web. When you connect a website by using tor, your personal encoded information passes random servers and arrives to the website. These servers do not save your personal information. So being traced gets harder.
First step adding repository adress.

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Add this line into the oppening file with command. More

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BitTorrent Client for Linux

In this article, I didn’t mention about softwares which don’t have gui like rtorrent. In Linux there are more alternatives than following softwares’. I didn’t use some of the softwares’ last versions. I’ve also mentioned the versions which I used, near the titles.

BitTornado – 0.3.18

bittornado

BitTornado uses average 30mb ram. It’s written with Python. Super seeding and web seeding were developed by BitTornado group. The torrent files which were newly added, open in separate windows. More

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