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CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat

On January 7, 2014 Red Hat has announced joining forces with CentOS, CentOS a long time copycat of RHEL to build the new CentOS. This...

Trick or treating with the Pandora FMS new version?

We are very pleased to announce the new Service Pack 1 for version 5.1 of Pandora FMS, with many new features and numerous bug...

Firefox 5 leaked Link, Download before its official!

Mozilla announced to release Firefox 5 on 21st June, 3 months after Firefox 4, following the Rapid release cycle inspired by the Google Chrome....

Google Chrome 35 Development Version Has Been Released

Dear unixmen reader, Google has officially released the Google Chrome 35 Dev web browser for Windows, Mac and Linux; bringing many fixes of crashes and...

Meet Linux Viruses

There exists a conventional wisdom that Linux viruses are non-existent entities. For most Linux users this might be surprising that Linux viruses do exist! Though...

Linux in Education and the Automated space

Linux is a family of operating systems (OS) based on the kernel of the same name. There is no single Linux operating system like...

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...

Expressions, Statements, Variables, Data Types in Python [must read]

Expressions The most common expressions in Python are numerical, string and boolean.  All of them are considered as data items or d-item. For example, this is a numerical expression: 1 or another more complex...

VLC: How to Download Subtitles Using VLSub

First off you need to install VLC. Go to videolan.org and follow the instructions there. Why VLC? Because it's one of the best media...

KitKat Is The Name Of Android Version 4.4

Google on Tuesday September 3, 2013 has announced that the name of it's next Android version Android 4.4 will be known as KitKat. Where the...

Precise Puppy 5.7.1 Released

We have another Puppy in the Precise series. The new version of Puppy in Precise series was announced and is called Precise Puppy 5.7.1....

Enlightenment bugfix releases are out!

Some very interesting bugfix releases were made available the last few days for the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries. The fixes concern the 1.0, 1.1 and...

Confirmed. New Facebook Home Service Coming to Android

Less than 24 hours ago, a potentially massive announcement was made by the Founder and CEO of Facebook. The announcement...

Fluxbox1.3.0 is released!

Fluxbox is a stacking window manager for the X Window System, which started as a fork of Blackbox 0.61.1, with the same aim to...

How to Securely Share Files Between Linux Systems

Last week, I posted a “How To” on how to share files using an FTP server. Unfortunately, FTP is not what is considered secure,...

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,...

DoudouLinux 1.0 is released! Great debian based distro for Children

 DoudouLinux is a Debian-based distribution targeting young children, with a goal to make computer use as simple and pleasant as possible. The project's...

VirtualBox 4.3 comes with New Multi-Touch Support, virtual cam and more

Oracle announced the release of VirtualBox 4.3, this is a major release that comes with important new features, devices support and improvements. According to...