Opensource

UK Government invests 10 million GBP to growing Open data Institute

Open Data institute is a soon to be launched open source initiative in Data sharing domain. It will be funded by the community (non-profitable...

LibreOffice 3.5.4 comes with significant performance improvements | PPA

Announced today the release of LibreOffice 3.5.4, according to the announcement," this release  offers significant performance improvements over the previous versions of the product,...

GNOME-Shell – Ubuntu Precise Pangolin theme

Ubuntu Precise Pangolin theme is a nice theme based on the default ubuntu 12.04 theme for Gnome shell desktop. Download GNOME-Shell - Ubuntu Precise Pangolin...

The Grand Android browsers Showdown

Your productivity with a smartphone is primarily reliant on your smartphone’s browser, as most of the tasks on a smartphone are done in your...

What’s that sound? Linux Audio Players

Sound is one of those portions of the Linux operating system that is often unappreciated and not even given a second thought. When examined...

OpenOffice – A House of Sand

"When Apache foundation released OpenOffice 3.4, many people wondered what is the point of OpenOffice existence, and what is, or what should be the...

Free and Open-Source Software bring an Open-Community

It’s often associated that open-source is referred to Linux and FOSS (Free and Open-Source Software). But as equally as important is the community. And what...

Power Off comes back in GNOME

Democracy always wins!! It took almost two years for GNOME Developers to release that the majority of users were unhappy with the Suspend option...

Apache OpenOffice 3.4 released!

After having to fight with strange corporate tides, controversial management strategies and finally the danger of completely dying, OpenOffice was "donated" to the Apache...

GNOME's Application Menu. Smart or Dummy?

First off, Application Menu has not any similarity with Unity’s Global Menus. While Global Menus copy the Window App Menu from the usual spot...

Pebble. The smartwatch with Linux at its heart!

Do you think the wrist watch era is over and soon the wrist watches will be doomed to the graveyard of floppy disks, cassettes,...

Cairo-Dock 3.0 has been released!

Cairo-Dock 3.0 has been released, the new version comes with many new features and improvements, so the taskbar has been greatly enhanced, the Log...

Wine 1.5.2 has been released! PPA Ubuntu

Wine 1.5.2 has been released, this is a bi-weekly Wine development build that comes with some improvements and bug fixes. What's new in this beta...

Cars running on Android

Android is now dominating a lot of industries than just smart phones and tablets. I have covered many topics related to Android use in...

Useful Extensions for LibreOffice

LibreOffice is one of the popular office suite software like Open Office and is an excellent alternative to the expensive MS Office. Most of...

The Linux Foundation points out Microsoft as one of the Top...

The latest report by The Linux Foundation, for the year 2012, holds lots of surprises. The top surprise is of course, is that of the most...

VirtualBox 4.1.12 has been released! PPA Ubuntu12.04 LTS

VirtualBox 4.1.12 has been released, this is a maintenance release that comes to fix several bugs, added support to the new Kernel 3.4. As...

Pear Linux Comice OS 4.0 has been released! Screenshots Tour &...

Comice Pear Linux OS 4.0 has been released, the new release comes with some news, improvements and bug fixes. PearOS4.0 comes with Comice OS...