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Wine - Software for Running Native Windows Applications

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A software package for Linux systems that makes it possible to install and run software written for Microsoft Windows.

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Desura Games Client now Open Source

Tuesday January 24, 2012

A couple months ago DesuraNET developers have released a Linux client for the game platform Desura, which provides services for purchasing, downloading, installing, and running a wide range of games. Now they have made the client available as open source with the goal to get bugs fixed faster and to get help with implementing new features.
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How to Write Regular Expressions for Pattern Matching

Sunday January 22, 2012

The regular expression syntax allows you to do more complex searches than the simple "Find" searches typically available in software applications. For example, if you are searching for two or more words in a particular order that may have other words between them, you cannot use the ordinary Find function that only allows you to locate occurrences of a fixed string. Read more...

LiVES Version 1.6.0

Saturday January 21, 2012

There is a new development version of the video editing and VJ tool LiVES, a free, yet stable and powerful software package for editing digital videos, creating real time video displays and imagery, and mixing visuals and music.

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Renaming Files with the find, sed, sh commands

Wednesday January 18, 2012

By combining the find, sed, and sh commands using the pipe mechanism you can compose flexible and powerful command lines. For example, in one step you can rename all files whose name match specified criteria under a specified directory by replacing parts of each file name. Read more...

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