Linux

Miro is a free, open source media player that combines internet TV, video feeds, YouTube, torrents, and HD content in one app for Linux, Mac, and Windows.

safe-browsing 0.0.1 for the Epiphany browser checks URLs against Google Safe Browsing, disabling the view pane and showing a status bar warning on phishing pages.

Run a full GNOME desktop session on a remote Linux server over SSH with X11 forwarding — no VNC needed, just three config changes and the -X flag.

Complete step-by-step guide to install WSO2 WSF/PHP on Lighttpd with PHP5 FastCGI on Debian, including consuming a real SOAP web service to verify the setup works.

Switching from Apache to Lighttpd with FastCGI delivered a 204% performance gain — serving 700 req/s on a Debian Xen VPS with just 128 MB RAM.

Build Windows NSIS installers on Linux using Python and SCons, then test them with Wine — skip Windows entirely and compile your installer from the command line.

colorsvn is a drop-in replacement for svn that adds color-coded output to the command line, making it much easier to spot conflicts and changes at a glance.

A custom init script for svnserve on Fedora Core 6 that integrates with the GNOME service configuration tool, supporting start, stop, restart, and status commands.

Step-by-step guide to get the Huawei ETS1000 CDMA modem working on Linux using TI USB 3410 udev rules and wvdial, tested on Fedora Core 6 and Ubuntu 8.10.

Mplayer on Linux delivers crystal-clear DVD playback with nVidia hardware acceleration — as good as a dedicated DVD player, with zero glitches and no extra setup.

A photo circulating the web showed what appeared to be Bill Gates recommending Ubuntu Linux — a fun piece of internet humour from 2007.

Get a Lexmark X1100 all-in-one printer working on Fedora Core 6 using hosted Z600 RPM drivers, with instructions for Debian users converting them with alien.