Category Archives: Software

Browsing the internet with a Jet!

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in Software

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Ever since Costantine Apostolou started the development of JetBrowser, I wanted to evaluate it in terms of speed and responsiveness. Is this browser a jet or a wreck?

First Peek at LibreOffice Android port Prototype

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

That LibreOffice continues to respond to requirements of end-users became truly evident when news of it being developed for Android OS arrived a few months ago. And now with screen shot of the progress made so far being released by its developers, … Continue reading

Red Hat versus The World

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in News, Software

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What is in the title of a software company? Does the name resemble anything that the company offers? Or do you not care so much and already have a pre-fixed image in your mind of what the business offers, even … Continue reading

Webmin 1.590 added support to Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin

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

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Webmin 1.590 has been released, the new release added support to Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, translation updates for German, Dutch, Catalan and Norwegian, a new contributed module for Shorewall6, DNSSEC-Tools support in the BIND module, UI cleanups in the Disk … Continue reading

GWoffice- A nice application that brings your google drive to your desktop

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Linux Mint, Software, Ubuntu

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GWoffice (Google Web Office ) is a nice application that bring you google drive to  your desktop without using a web browser. It allows you to use google docs at it was installed in your computer by offering  a nice … Continue reading

VLC 2.0.2 has been released! PPA Ubuntu

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

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VLC 2.0.2 has been released, this is a major update that fixes a lot of regressions of the 2.0.x branch of VLC. This release comes With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open

Linux Kernel 3.5-rc5 Released

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in News, Software

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If you’re a bog standard Linux user who never even looks at kernel.org and just accepts whatever kernel your Linux distribution pushes down the repositories, that’s ok. You can probably ignore this news.

GRUB2 Releases Version 2

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in News, Software

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GRUB (GRand Unified Boot-Loader) is a very important part of your operating system. Although, technically, it’s not actually part of the OS itself, but rather integrates itself in to file system structure.

Keeping Kernels Open

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in News, Software

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There are a lot of pioneering technology companies. Many of them don’t pay homage, respect or contribute to open-source software. But that’s ok, not all technology companies can be expected to. And many of them, it simply is not in … Continue reading

Tomahawk 0.5 has been released!

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in News, Software

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Great news for everyone that uses the most promising music player available for the Linux platform, as the Tomahawk developers announced a few days ago the availability of version 0.5 + a small bugfix 0.5.1 release.