The NetBeans IDE is an award-winning integrated development environment available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris. The NetBeans project consists of an open-source IDE and an application platform that enable developers to rapidly create web, enterprise, desktop, and mobile applications using the Java platform, as well as PHP, JavaScript and Ajax, Groovy and Grails, and C/C++.I'm one of many fans of Netbeans, I often use it to do my college assignment. Unfortunately, Netbeans looks very ugly on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin. Actually, it has big font and uncomfortable menu bar.
Here is a quick reaction from Mark Shuttleworth for winning the prestigious award.
Wine Is Not Emulator. It allows you to install and run many Windows software on other operating system. Wine is suitable for Linux users who can't live without any Windows application. Although Wine is still under active development and not every application works yet, however there are already several million people using Wine to run their favorite Windows application.
Wine has gained a new version 1.5.4 which brings a lot of improvements and bug fixes, including better support for Microsoft Office, Adobe Premiere, and many games.
Dropbox is a famous online storage service which offers 2GB for its free account. Dropbox is simple, easy-to-use and its client is available on Linux. We can easily share our file to friends with just few clicks on file manager. Unfortunately, there is no share public folder option in Dropbox! So today, I'd like to write a post on how to share all files in "public" Dropbox folder easily. Let's get started!
PLUS: How to remotely control any desktop, new of a heavyweight video editor might be headed to Linux in a matter of weeks, we’ve got the details!
And so much more!
All this week on, The Linux Action Show!









