Category Archives: Software

Wine 1.5.10 has been released!

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in News, Software

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Wine is a free and open source application that allows users to run Windows software on other operating systems. Wine is always under heavy development with the team preparing one release every 2 weeks. Yesterday, the founder and current leader … Continue reading

CUPS reaches version 1.6.0!

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in News, Software

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CUPS is the standards-based, open source printing system developed by Apple Inc. for Mac OS® X and other UNIX®-like operating systems.

The GUI Bloat Effect

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in News, Software

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Something dawned on me just yesterday. When using a slim and clean-lined theme or skin on GUI based software, the user can be easily convinced that the system is actually running faster and much lighter on resources. Or at least … Continue reading

Facebook Smartphone Coming in 2013

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in Android, Linux distributions, News, Software

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It’s been on the top of the list of technology rumors for some months but it has finally been unofficially confirmed via Bloomberg, Facebook are collaborating with smartphone manufacturer HTC to release the Facebook smartphone some time in 2013.

All Platform, All Device Terminal for System Administrators

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in News, Software

There’s a general perception that Server System Administrators are short, overweight lonely men with overgrown beards who work in dark dungeon like basements, maintaining the worlds servers and keeping the internet running. Where this perception comes from, I’m not quite … Continue reading

New look for Nautilus as revamped- Nautilus 3.5.4 arrives

Written by anuradha.shukla on . Posted in News, Software

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Nautilus 3.5.4 is now updated and has new changes and is available for Ubuntu 12.10, Quantal Quetzal repos. In its new avatar, Nautilus developers have chosen to give it a thorough revamp with new style toolbars. A new ‘gear’-styled menu … Continue reading

Makers Tale-New 3D game on JmonkeyEngine

Written by anuradha.shukla on . Posted in Gaming On Linux, Software

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This is a story purely for game developers. While gamers shall have their day out when full version of Maker’s Tale is out, here we discover how and why gaming engines are becoming so popular by the day.

HP and Itanium Future Belong to Linux

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in News, Software

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HP has been in the industry for a long time. And one of their key industry interests is in the server sector and the Itanium architecture.

Wine 1.5.9 has been released!

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in News, Software

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Wine is a free and open source application that allows users to run Windows software on other operating systems. Wine is always under heavy development with the team preparing one release every 2 weeks. Today, the founder and current leader of … Continue reading

Mozilla Firefox 14.0.1 has been released!

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Releases, Software

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Firefox 14.0.1 has been released, according to the announcement, in the new release, Google searches now utilize HTTPS, added full screen support for Mac OS X Lion implemented,  Plugins can now be configured to only load on click (requires an … Continue reading