Category Archives: opensource

Cars running on Android

Written by Emily Cartman on . Posted in Android, opensource

Android is now dominating a lot of industries than just smart phones and tablets. I have covered many topics related to Android use in other gadgets like watches, belts, and even mirrors. And since Android is becoming famous in other … Continue reading

Useful Extensions for LibreOffice

Written by Haresh Khemani on . Posted in opensource, Software

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 features available in MS Office and Open Office are also available in LibreOffice, with the … Continue reading

The Linux Foundation points out Microsoft as one of the Top 20 kernel development contributors

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

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 unlikely contributor to Linux kernel development- Microsoft Corp. – at No.17, in a Top 20 list!  The financial figures … Continue reading

VirtualBox 4.1.12 has been released! PPA Ubuntu12.04 LTS

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

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 a good news to Ubuntu users, Oracle also has updated the official repository of Virtualbox adding … Continue reading

Howto- Install Monitorix in Ubuntu, Fedora and Centos

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in CentOS, Linux distributions, Linux Mint, opensource, Ubuntu

Monitorix is a free, open source, lightweight system monitoring tool designed to monitor as many services and system resources as possible. It has been created to be used under production UNIX/Linux servers, but due to its simplicity and small size … Continue reading

XBMC 11.0 – Eden has been released! PPA Ubuntu

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

XBMC 11.0 – Eden has been released, this final release include Addon Rollbacks, vast improvements in Confluence , massive speed increases via features like Dirty-region rendering and the new JPEG decoder, a simpler, better library, movie set scraping, additional protocol … Continue reading

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

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Linux distributions, News, opensource, Uncategorized

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 Shell a theme of Gnome Shell, Pear Appstore a based Deepin Software Center that have a … Continue reading

Darktable- An open source photography workflow application and RAW developer

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

Darktable is an open source photography workflow application and RAW developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw … Continue reading

PlayOnLinux 4.0.16 now can start exe from terminal, support for Desura and more

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

PlayOnLinux 4.0.16 has been released, the new release comes with some exciting now features, improvements and bug fix. PlayonLinux can now start an executable from the terminal (Exp:  playonlinux file.exe), added support  support for Desura, easy access to the virtual … Continue reading

FreeFileSync: Free Folder Comparison and Synchronization Tool | PPA Ubuntu

Written by Haresh Khemani on . Posted in News, opensource, Software

In this age of multiple types of data storage devices and increasing importance of the data keeping the updated data can be confusing at times and the chances of accidently overwriting or deleting important information has become higher. You may … Continue reading