Category Archives: opensource

Interview with Jonathan Thomas of Openshot

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in interviews, opensource, Software

Openshot is the most successful open source video editing tool right now. On this interview, we meet the founder of the project Jonathan Thomas, to learn the details of the motives behind the creation of this great piece of software, … Continue reading

Wine 1.5 has been released! PPA Ubuntu

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

Announced today by wine team the release of Wine 1.5, this release comes with many improvements and bug fix.

Cinnamon 1.4 has been released! PPA

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

Announced today by Clem the release of Cinnamon 1.4, this new release a total of 267 commits, a new “Expo” Overview : so now there are  two “overview” modes: “Scale” and “Expo”, new “Settings Applet” And “Panel Edit Mode” : This applet … Continue reading

A relook at Sunflower file manager

Written by anuradha.shukla on . Posted in Linux tutorials, opensource, Software

Sunflower File Manager, the dream file manager that integrates into GNOME framework has now reached Alpha phase. Every since thedream twin-panel file manager began two years ago, the development team has made rapid progress with bugs and request made for each … Continue reading

Unsettings- A graphical configuration tool for Unity | Ubuntu

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

Unsetting is another graphical configuration tool for Unity, Unsetting  allows you to change the themes for GTK, window manger, icons, cursors, switch off the global menu and the overlay scrollbars used in Unity, another nice feature is that Unsetting lets … Continue reading

Wine 1.4 final has been released!

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

After 20 months of development, has been announced today the release of Wine 1.4 final, the new release comes with new features and improvements,  the main change in this major stable release are the new DIB graphics engine, a redesigned … Continue reading

Improve your singing, piano, guitar skills with Performous

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Gaming On Linux, opensource, Software

Do you like dancing, singing, playing guitar, piano..? Performous is an opensource software that make you improve your skills and have fun at the same time. No special hardware required, you may play guitar on your PC keyboard, sing on … Continue reading

The growth of LibreOffice over Microsoft Office

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

LibreOffice after one and half-years as an open source office productivity suite has grown from being just a fork of OpenOffice.org (OOo) and emerged as an independent tool for those who prefer the openness and scope of work copyleft offers … Continue reading

XBMC 11 Eden RC1 has been released! PPA UBUNTU

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

XBMC 11 Eden RC1 has been released, this beta release comes 3 weeks after Beta3 release. According to the announcement, this release comes with a number of updated XBMC translations for final release, resolved a number of outstanding Airplay issues,  … Continue reading

FlightGear 2.6.0 has been released!| flight simulator

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Gaming On Linux, opensource

The FlightGear 2.6.0 has been released.  The new released version contain a number of new features, improvements and bugfixes. according to the announcement, “the major improvements from v2.4.0 include reduced AI aircraft load times, easier graphics tuning, more sophisticated AI … Continue reading