The “Oracle-java″ package is no longer available in the official Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and Precise Pangolin.   In this post i will show you how to remove OpenJDK and install Oracle Java7 on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin.

Announced today by Clem the release of Cinnamon 1.4, this new release a total of 267 commits, a new “Expo” Overview : so now there are  two “overview” modes: “Scale” and “Expo”, new “Settings Applet” And “Panel Edit Mode” : This applet … Continue reading →

Thunderbird 11 has been released, this is a new release that comes with  a new user interface with Tabs above the main menu bar to facilitate navigation and make it more contextual, fixed a various bugs  including security bugs, Thunderbird notifications … Continue reading →

Updated: 19-04-2013 : Medibuntu is a packaging project dedicated to distributing software that cannot be included in Ubuntu for various reasons, related to geographical  variations in legislation regarding intellectual property, security and other issues, some examples of packages included in … Continue reading →

Conky-Lua next generation is a nice conky theme from the same author of Conky Lua. This theme is available for Debian, Fedora, LinuxMint, PCLinux, Opensue and Ubuntu. From my side i tested this conky theme in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise … Continue reading →

Updated 05-04-2013: Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop. There are many nice themes available for conky that can display clock, CPU usage, ram usage, swap, disk, net and more, one … Continue reading →

Coverflow ALT-TAB is a great  extension for cinnamon that  let’s you Alt-Tab through your windows in a cover-flow manner.

Tempered glass is a nice theme for Gnome shell and Cinnamon

The decision of adobe and google to allow Flash player only on google chrome browser via the “Pepper” API flash plugin, pose a real problem to users of Firefox, opera and other small browsers. Hopefully, there are a good alternative … Continue reading →

DeLorean_Noir is a nice dark theme for Gnome Shell, Unity and Cinnamon . If you like dark themes, then this one is for you. This theme also supports GDM, Xfwm4, Emerald and Openbox.