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As most of us know, Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL and Unix. Wine is a Microsoft Windows Emulator for Linux which acts as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs on Linux thereby eliminating the need for Windows and allows users to run Windows based applications on Linux. Wine is completely comprises of non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-basedRead More →

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Are you one of those people like me who had this weird problem with Online Videos. When you play videos from online services like Youtube, Google Vidoes. This can happen with any website that hosts flash videos. Flash Videos have their own sound settings. However, to resolve this problem install the latest version of Flash Player from the Yast repositories. Switch user to “root” and install latest stable Flash Player: SAIBABA:~ # yast2 –install flash-player Once done, reboot your system. This should resolve the problem. Open your browser and play Online videos and you should now watch videos ……..with Sound!!!Read More →

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RealPlayer 10 for Linux is based on the open source Helix player. The Helix Community is an open collaborative effort among multimedia enthusiasts to develop and extend the Helix DNA platform. The community offers a collaborative, consensus based development process, with an extensive and diverse ecosystem of developers all involved in creating world class multimedia enabled applications. The Helix Community was created in July of 2002 by Real to help the industry standardize on an open digital media platform. Read More →