Category Archives: Software

Why do super computers use Linux?

Written by Ayesha .A on . Posted in News, Reviews, Software

Why do supercomputers Use Linux?

In our last few posts we discussed the fact that over 90% supercomputers (94.2% to be precise) employ Linux as their operating system. In this post, a sequel to our last posts, we shall attempt to investigate the potentials of … Continue reading

XStreamOS: An Illumos Kernel based Operating System

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

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Being a Technical Writer involves a lot of reading and research of new and emerging technologies. And one project that recently came to my attention through my email inbox was an Illumos kernel based Unix operating system called XStreamOS.

VLC 2.0.4 has been released! PPA Ubuntu 12.10

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

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VLC 2.0.4 has been released, this is a major update that fixes a lot of regressions, bugs and security issues. In this release all playback were improved notably for Blu-Ray, DVD, HLS, Ogg and MKV files; but also for Youtube, … Continue reading

Nvidia 304.60 has been released! Install in Ubuntu (12.10), LinuxMint & Fedora

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

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Nvidia 304.60 has been released, the new release comes with some new features, improvements and bug fixes.

Firefox 16, a treat for developers

Written by Ayesha .A on . Posted in News, Releases, Software

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Mozilla has released the latest version of Firefox, version 16, keeping up with is newly imposed tradition of “rapid release”. Mozilla brings several under-the-hood stability enhancements to the new browser, Java script performance improvements and support for Web Apps; however … Continue reading

Good to know: Freeware is not Free Software

Written by Ayesha .A on . Posted in Reviews, Software

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You will be interested to note that; you can purchase a Free software! That is to say Free Software may not be free and might come with a huge price Tag! Then why is it called Free? And what is … Continue reading

Ubuntu 12.10 ‘Quantal Quetzal’: Beta 2 Sneak Peek

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

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Ubuntu 12.10 ‘Quantal Quetzal’ is due for release in approximately one week. But before we start preparing a full review of the new version, we thought we’d give Unixmen readers a small preview of what we should all expect from … Continue reading

Ubuntu: Breaking the Industry Barriers

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

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Canonical has come under some heavy criticism in the past couple of weeks with its controversial decision to include Amazon shopping results in the Ubuntu Dash search results. I have to admit, when I first read of the news I … Continue reading

Openshot 1.4.3 has been released! PPA Ubuntu

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

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Few days ago was released Openshot 1.4.3 , according to the announcement this release has more bug fixes, enhancements, and new features than any other release of OpenShot to date!

LibreOffice 3.6.2 has been released! With installation instructions

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

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LibreOffice 3.6.2 has been released! The new release comes with a lot of bug fixes and improvements.