Author Archives: Panos Georgiadis

About Panos Georgiadis

Panos is studying Control Systems Engineering. He has passion with both hardware and software and writes articles and reviews for many IT websites. In his free time, he plays guitar and drinks beer with friends. Contact: drpaneas (at) gmail (dot) com

VLC: How to Download Subtitles Using VLSub

Written by Panos Georgiadis on . Posted in Frequently Asked Questions, Linux tutorials, News, opensource, Software

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First off you need to install VLC. Go to videolan.org and follow the instructions there. Why VLC? Because it’s one of the best media players out there. Seriously, it finds the proper video/audio codec automatically and it plays even broken … Continue reading

New Intel Haswell Iris GPU Triples the Performance

Written by Panos Georgiadis on . Posted in News, Software

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Truth be told, Intel HD Graphics series is not for gaming purposes, especially when AMD provides a better solution for their Llano CPUs. However, all this seems to change (a little bit) when Intel Haswell CPUs hit the market’s shelf. … Continue reading

NVIDIA Linux Driver Vulnerability Exploits Root Privileges!

Written by Panos Georgiadis on . Posted in Gaming On Linux, News, Software

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According to NVIDIA there is a major vulnerability in their UNIX/Linux driver that every Linux user should be aware of. Especially now, that most of us play Steam games using proprietary drivers, this is quite dangerous and you should pay … Continue reading

Kali Linux Released

Written by Panos Georgiadis on . Posted in Linux distributions, Releases

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If you consider yourself a penetration tester or security expert then you are already aware of BackTrack Linux, a distro well known for its pen-test purpose. Today, Kali Linux replaces BackTrack as it is the new generation of the industry … Continue reading

OpenShot goes cross-platform

Written by Panos Georgiadis on . Posted in opensource, Software

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OpenShot Video Editor is a program designed to create and edit videos on Linux.  It can easily combine multiple video clips, audio clips, and images into a single project, and then export the video into many common video formats. It is … Continue reading

KDE Telepathy 0.6 beta released

Written by Panos Georgiadis on . Posted in News, Releases

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KDE Telepathy is an instant messaging (IM) and voice over IP (VoIP) client for KDE desktop, which supports text, voice, video, file transfers, and inter-application communication over various IM protocols. As its name implies, the software uses the Telepathy framework … Continue reading

Vokoscreen: A new screencasting tool for Linux

Written by Panos Georgiadis on . Posted in News, Software

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The last few years, many users upload their how-to videos (also known as videorials — like tutorials) in Youtube, showing their Linux desktop and explaining how to do a bunch of stuff. So instead of reading an article or a … Continue reading

Canonical replaces X Server with Mir

Written by Panos Georgiadis on . Posted in News, Ubuntu

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Some may say “X is totally the UNIX way”, while Unix says “Do one thing and do it well”. But what is the one thing that X does and does it well? That’s hard for me to answer, since I … Continue reading

Linux Steam client on rampage

Written by Panos Georgiadis on . Posted in Gaming On Linux, News

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Just a few weeks after the official release of the Linux client for Valve’s Steam gaming platform, Linux gamers are on rampage, making up more than two percent of all Steam users.