Category Archives: opensource

The naturalness in the evolution of desktop environments

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in Gnome, Software

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I’ve been browsing distrowatch.com lately noticing something that is happening for some time now, but maybe surprised me for the first time because it is still happening. What I am talking about is that there are more Linux distributions releasing … Continue reading

GNOME Shell Essential Extensions

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in Gnome, Software

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Despite the controversy over GNOME Shell and its productivity, there’s no point pretending that it doesn’t exist or hoping that GNOME Developers are spontaniously going to start developing GNOME 2.x further. GNOME Shell is here and GNOME Shell is here … Continue reading

Lightspark 0.6.0.1 released! Adobe flash alternative

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

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The open source  and adobe flash player alternative  Lightspark 0.6.0.1 has been released, according to the announcement, this is a major release that comes with a lot of improvements and bug fixes.

emesene 2.12.5 has been released!

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in News, opensource, Software

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Few days ago was released emesene 2.12.5 , the new release comes with some new features and bug fix,  some of the new features we find a single window mode, like skypetab-ng, direct-connect aka fast file transfers are now implemented … Continue reading

Popular Linux Development Software

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in opensource, programming, Software

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Software developers use a lot of different tools and methods for their hacking. And by hacking, I mean real, good and legitimate hacking. Real coding for real purposes.

Growth in Companies migrating to Open source to beat vendor lock-in

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

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The future of open source is now slated for growth as more business look to the open community for solutions, to overcome the inevitable lock-in with a vendor of proprietary software. This was brought to the forefront in a recent … Continue reading

UK Government invests 10 million GBP to growing Open data Institute

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

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 institution) created to provide training to new businesses and parties in reference to handling large amounts … Continue reading

LibreOffice 3.5.4 comes with significant performance improvements | PPA

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in News, opensource, Software

LibreOffice 3.5.4

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, which are the combined result of the many code optimizations executed during the last months and … Continue reading

GNOME-Shell – Ubuntu Precise Pangolin theme

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in eyecandy, Gnome

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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 theme

The Grand Android browsers Showdown

Written by Ayesha .A on . Posted in Android, interviews, News, opensource

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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 mobile’s browser. This makes job of mobile browsers even more though; after all it’s not about … Continue reading