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With wine and Crossover Linux , now you can run many popular windows applications in Linux operating system. I have already installed and using Microsoft Office 2003, Adobe Photoshop 7, Internet Explorer, Picasa 3 on my Ubuntu Hardy. They are working almost without a glitch. Screenshot: Microsoft Office 2003 running on ubuntu 8.04 (installed through crossover) Wine (Windows Emulator) is a compatibility layer on top of Linux, that runs windows programs. It independently implements the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL and Unix, and it is free and open-source. Picasa is officially supported in wine Office 2003 is being installed through Crossover Crossover is a product from CodeWeavers which you can optionally use. It is based on wine. It makes installation and execution of Windows programs simple and fast. It integrates windows applications seamlessly with your Gnome or KDE environment. I am able to run Adobe Photoshop 7, Office XP, Office 2003, IE6, Windows Media Player 6.4 without a...

GRUB stands for GRand Unified Bootloader . It is a flexible and powerful boot loader for personal computers. It can load a wide range of free operating systems, as well as proprietary OSs with chain-loading. I need to install GRUB whenever I reinstall Windows. Windows rewrites the MBR with its own boot loader. Now, grub is required to boot into my ubuntu linux. I generally use the following method to install grub. Install GRUB using ububtu live CD Boot up with ubuntu live CD. Open a terminal. Run the Grub shell in superuser mode. $ sudo grub Now set the root device, the partition containing the '/boot' directory, like this (For me, this is the 2nd partition on my first hard disk, where also ubuntu is installed. Hard disk and partition numbers start from 0) grub> root (hd0,1) If you are not sure which partition actually holds this directory, use the command 'find', like this: grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 Once you set the root device correctly, ru...

Google is launching Google Chrome - A browser from Google! Wow, this is really exciting. They should have done it long ago, after all most of the services Google provides requires a browser. A Beta version of Google Chrome will be launched tomorrow. Only Windows version will be available for now. But, Google assured that Linux and Mac versions will be there soon. Here is a comic available, explaining the problems with current browsers, and how Google Chrome will overcome them. It seems, Google chrome will be as complex as an operating system internally, yet having a intuitive and simple user interface. Also, Google chrome will be more faster and robust - 'rock solid' according to Google. Another great news is Google Chrome will be open source. So, Check in tomorrow to try Google Chrome for yourself. Keep an eye on Official Google Blog to know when it is time. Update (Sep 3, 2008) : Get Google Chrome from http://www.google.com/chrome . Visit the Chromium project website to ...