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Exaile a music player aiming to be similar to KDE's Amarok

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Tue, 11/04/2008 - 06:25

Exaile is a music player aiming to be similar to KDE's Amarok, but for GTK+ and written in Python. It incorporates many of the cool things from Amarok (and other media players) like automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, Last.fm support, and optional iPod support.


 

Exaile Music Player - Music Player for GTK+ in openSUSE

Linux Today  Tue, 09/02/2008 - 23:31

SUSE & openSUSE: "Exaile is a music player aiming to be similar to KDE’s Amarok, but for GTK+ and written in Python.

It incorporates many of the cool things from Amarok (and other media players) like automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, Last.fm submission support, and optional iPod support"


 

Exaile Music Player - Music Player for GTK+ in openSUSE

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Sat, 08/30/2008 - 16:16

Exaile is a music player aiming to be similar to KDE’s Amarok, but for GTK+ and written in Python. It incorporates many of the cool things from Amarok (and other media players) like automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, Last.fm submission support, and optional iPod


 

5 Things You Didn’t Know About Linux Kernel Code Metrics

Linux Today  Mon, 07/28/2008 - 21:00

Linuxator: "Recently Greg Kroah Hartman showed some very interesting Linux kernel development stats. I decided to do some too and the result are 5 cool things you probably didn’t know about the kernel code ;-) These aren’t anything I’ve seen so far about the kernel."


 

Ring. Ring. It's Fedora calling

Topix - Linux  Thu, 07/24/2008 - 14:22

Red Hat's Fedora Project has announced several cool things this week. The first was Intel's defection from Ubuntu to use Fedora in its Moblin .


 

Ring. Ring. It's Fedora calling

Topix - Linux  Thu, 07/24/2008 - 11:57

Red Hat's Fedora project has announced several cool things this week. The first was Intel's defection from Ubuntu to use Fedora in its Moblin .


 

DragonFly BSD Releases Version 2.0

Slashdot: BSD  Wed, 07/23/2008 - 08:30

An anonymous reader writes "DragonFly BSD 2.0 has been released! It includes HAMMER, DragonFly's brand-new file system supporting advanced features like history, snapshots and various other cool things.

Will it become the new ZFS? Since it is BSD licensed it could also be integrated into various other operating systems."


 

BackTrack 3 Final - Release Information

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Fri, 06/13/2008 - 10:59

It's finally happening....BackTrack 3 Final is being released....Finally!Max, Martin and I have slaved for weeks and months, together with the help of many remote-exploit'ers to bring you this fine release.

As usual, this version overshadows the previous ones with extra cool things.


 

Exaile is a music player aiming to be similar to KDE's Amaro

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Sun, 04/20/2008 - 04:13

Exaile is a music player aiming to be similar to KDE's Amarok, but for GTK+ and written in Python.It incorporates many of the cool things from Amarok (and other media players) like automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, Last.fm submission support, and optional iPod sup


 

The Hidden world of Linux: Cool things you can do with it

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Sat, 04/05/2008 - 11:40

Article about the variety of uses Linux has as well as a discussion of various distributions that allow you to reuse an old computer to provide you with anything from a hardware firewall to a PBX telephone system - all through Linux (and some BSD) as well as the main caveat.

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