Announced today the release of GnoMenu2.2, the new version comes with some new features and improvements , but the big improvement is that Gnomenu now takes 60% less Memory. If you diden`t hear before about GnoMenu, it is -

A consolidated menu for gnome that brings eye candy to the world of the Gnome menu’s. Fully functional menu , supports themes , for a composited or non composited desktop. It can emulate the look and feel of the most beautiful menus of most modern desktops, and it can also use custom menus, due to its powerful theme XML engine.

What`s new in GnomeMenu 2.2 :

- New theme lancelot, emulates the look of the kde lancelot menu
- added gmenu side by side with xdg menu
- support for XDG_MENU_PREFIX
- Improved gtk theming
- More translations
- New svg logo by Darkhaseo
- Improved speed
- No more flickering on vista like menus

Installation in Ubuntu9.10 karmic koala and Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx:

First add repository for ubuntu 9.10 karmic koala :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnomenu-team/ppa
 

Now refresh using the command :

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gnomenu
 

For other linux distribution, you can download the GnoMenu from the link bellow :

Google has released the beta version of Google chrome for Linux.

Acording to google blog :

The actuall beta version is available for download from this link

And then open the .deb package

If you shoosed to save the package to the desktop,then use this command to install the package :

sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-beta_current_i386.deb

Extensions also are online now, you can got them from this link :

https://chrome.google.com/extensions

We are excited to announce the immediate availability of version 3.3 of the Metasploit Framework. This release includes 446 exploits, 216 auxiliary modules, and hundreds of payloads, including an in-memory VNC service and the Meterpreter. In addition, the Windows payloads now support NX, DEP, IPv6, and the Windows 7 platform. More than 180 bugs were fixed since last year’s release of version 3.2, making this one of the more well-tested releases yet.

FOR DOWNLOAD

framework-3.3-linux-i686.run   35,434,869 bytes (34M)	Linux 32-bit installer including all dependencies.
framework-3.3-linux-x86_64.run   36,635,297 bytes (35M)	Linux 64-bit installer including all dependencies.
framework-3.3.tar.bz2   22,614,595 bytes (22M)	Unix tar format for installing on all other operating systems.

One of the leading text editors for Microsoft Windows is finally available on Linux. UEx (UltraEdit for Linux) has been released for download with packages available for Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, and Red Hat. Users of other distributions can get it via .tar package with 32 and 64 bit support.

UEx will make coding in C, C++, HTML, Javascript, XML, PHP, Perl, and Java a lot more fun through its user-friendly, highly configurable interface and layout. It has tons of tools, including macros, configurable syntax highlighting, code folding, file type conversions, project management, regular expressions for search-and-replace, a column-edit mode, remote editing of files via FTP, interfaces for APIs or command lines of choice and more.

UltraEdit for Linux contains some Linux-specific configurations, such as the ability to choose a console for user tool output, or pick a file browser when browsing project files/folders.

I’m sure a lot of Linux users/programmers who prefer to use UltraEdit are happy about this release as it can now run on both the KDE and GNOME desktops without the need for Wine or any other translation layer. But for those of you who want to switch from using free and open source text editors to UEx, not so fast because UltraEdit for Linux is not available for free. You can only try the application for 30 days, and then you will have to purchase a license if you wish to continue using it beyond the given time.

UltraEdit Text Editor for Linux (UEx) download page can be found HERE.

In Ubuntu, the Archive Manager (or file-roller) has make it easy for anyone to compress and zip up a file or folder, but if you have a large file, say 20Gb, and you want to back it up to the CD/DVD, you will find that no amount of compression can you reduce the file size to fit into 1 CD/DVD. In such case, it is a better solution to compress and split the large file into several smaller files and store them separately. This also applies if you want to share a large file on a file-sharing site. Splitting the compressed file into several smaller files will make it easier for others to download.

Let’s say that the large file is a movie file found in /home/username/films/large-file.avi and you want to compress, split and store the smaller files at the folder /home/username/films/split-flies/, this is what you type in the terminal:

cd films/split-files (change the filepath to where you want to keep the split files)

 tar -cvj /home/username/films/large-files.avi | split -b 640m -d – “large-files.tar.bz.”

You will now see several files appearing at the split-files folder, each with file size of 640MB and with filenames large-files.tar.bz.00, large-files.tar.bz.01, large-files.tar.bz.02, etc.

To recover and extract the split files, type

cat large-files.tar.bz.* > large-files.tar.bz
 tar -xvj large-file.tar.bz

and you can get the original file back.

Most often when you download a huge file from a P2P network, it is compressed in the .daa format. When you click on it, you will find that there is no application in Ubuntu that can handle it.

If you are wondering, DAA (Direct-Access-Archive) is actually a proprietary file format created by PowerISO to compress, password protect and to split a huge file to multiple volumes. To decompress a .daa file, you have to use the PowerISO application.

Download PowerISO for Linux

Extract the tar file

cd /usr/bin
sudo tar -xf [path-to-poweriso-tar-file]

To extract .daa file

poweriso extract /input-file.daa / -od /extracted-file-path

Done + Have Fan

Ubuntu does not support .rmvb files by default. Even though you may have installed the Gstreamer codec plugin and VLC (an audio player that supposedly able to play any media format), there is still no way that you can get the .rmvb file to play. There may be many tutorials out there that tell you to configure mplayer to play .rmvb file, but the easiest and fastest way to tackle this is simply install the Real Player for Linux.

- first :

Download the deb package click here

- 2 :

Double click the downloaded deb file to install the Real Player 11 for Linux.

- 3 :

Once the installation is done, you should be able to play .rmvb or .rm files.

Right click on the .rmvb file and select “Open with Real Player 11”

Have Fan

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To make life easy, you need just to add Medibuntu repositories, so what is Medibuntu ?

Medibuntu is a packaging project dedicated to distributing software that cannot be included in Ubuntu for various reasons, related to geographical variations in legislation regarding intellectual property, security and other issues:

• patentability of software, algorithms, formats and other abstract creation
• legal restrictions on freedom of speech or communication
• restrictions on the use of certain types of technical solution, such as cryptography
• legal restrictions on imports of software technology, requiring for example specific permissions
• etc.

Now after you adding Medibuntu repositories you will be able to install many software(Google earth, Opera , Sun Java ,Acrobat Reader…) that are not included in the ubuntu software center and you will stop wasting time looking for for the right package and from where to download the package … because you will be able to install the package by simple typing :

sudo apt-get install <package name >. 

Now let`s see how to ad Medibuntu repositories :

1- Add the Medibuntu repository.

echo deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ karmic free non-free | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

2- Add the verification key

wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add – && sudo apt-get update

Now you will be able to install softwares by simple using this command :

sudo apt-get install <package name >

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