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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,...

Kaspersky antivirus use Linux to rescue Windows

Windows doesn't live up to its mainstream usage requirements, especially in the security sector that Microsoft offers few and obsolete tools with which you...

Caramageddon sequel arrives for Linux

Carmageddon Reincarnation, the highly-enjoyable game has been backed by crowd-funding KickStarter, with gamers from the open source waiting for the native client release. Carmageddon is...

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...

Wine 1.5.5 released!

Wine is a free and open source application that allows users to run Windows software on other operating systems. Wine is always under heavy...

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...

VirtualBox 4.1.16 has been released!

VirtualBox 4.1.16 has been released!, this is a maintenance release that comes to fix several bugs. Install VirtualBox 4.1.16 Open terminal and enter the following command: . . . sudo...

Mictlan | Gnome Shell – Cinnamon Theme

Mictlan is one of the most elegant and carefully designed Gnome-Shell themes and Gtk 3 themes I've ever seen. It reminds me of the...

Nmap reaches version 6

Nmap, the widely used free and opensource utility for network discovering and security auditing, has released version 6.00 today bringing major improvements in all...

Geekdom: A World of Multiples

We live in a land of multiples. In the post-modern computer era, geeks were happy with their trusty old computer and a 56k dial-up modem. And...

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...

Pulse Audio 2.0 is here!

Pulse Audio is an advanced network sound server. To put it simply, Pulse Audio is a background process designed to accept sound input from...

htop- A colored alternative to top command

htop, an interactive process viewer for Linux, it is a good alternative to top command. When you run htop, it will show you your...

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...

OSHackers – Find a Linux lover near you!

OSHackers is a website that aims to count GNU/Linux users and place them geographically using their Linux distribution as the marker. You can visit...

Hosting on Linux is the best choice

Linux Web Hosting allows a company to build its web sites by using the Linux Operating System. Unix hosting and Linux hosting are generally...