Software

Browsing the internet with a Jet!

Ever since Costantine Apostolou started the development of JetBrowser, I wanted to evaluate it in terms of speed and responsiveness. Is this browser a...

First Peek at LibreOffice Android port Prototype

That LibreOffice continues to respond to requirements of end-users became truly evident when news of it being developed for Android OS arrived a few months ago....

Red Hat versus The World

What is in the title of a software company? Does the name resemble anything that the company offers? Or do you not care so...

VLC 2.0.2 has been released! PPA Ubuntu

VLC 2.0.2 has been released, this is a major update that fixes a lot of regressions of the 2.0.x branch of VLC. This release...

Linux Kernel 3.5-rc5 Released

If you’re a bog standard Linux user who never even looks at kernel.org and just accepts whatever kernel your Linux distribution pushes down the...

GRUB2 Releases Version 2

GRUB (GRand Unified Boot-Loader) is a very important part of your operating system. Although, technically, it’s not actually part of the OS itself, but...

Keeping Kernels Open

There are a lot of pioneering technology companies. Many of them don’t pay homage, respect or contribute to open-source software. But that’s ok, not...

Tomahawk 0.5 has been released!

Great news for everyone that uses the most promising music player available for the Linux platform, as the Tomahawk developers announced a few days...

Nokia Cutting 10,000 Jobs and Linux R&D Department

Just this week, former pioneering cellular phone company Nokia, announced that it will be slashing 10,000 jobs from its plant in Finland. Or the...

Wine 1.5.6 has been released! PPA

Wine 1.5.6 has been released, this bi-weekly development release comes with an automatic installation of the Mono add-on package,  a control panel applet for...

And then you find just the right thing – Qtractor

Qtractor is a free and open-source Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application that targets at the GNU/Linux platform, as it uses JACK and ALSA as main infrastructures. Qtractor...

Chrome vs. Firefox for Ubuntu

According to the independent web analytics firm, StatCounter Chrome has excelled as the world most popular browser  with the highest browser usage share for...

Nvidia driver 295.59 released! Install in Ubuntu 12.04, LinuxMint13, Fedora17, Arch,...

Announced today the release of Nvidia  295.59,  the new release added suppport to the following GPUs:  NVS 5400M, NVS 310, GeForce GT 620M, GeForce...

emesene 2.12.5 has been released!

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...

Wine 1.5.6 has been 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 development...

Popular Linux Development Software

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

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...

Thunderbird 13 has been released! | PPA

Mozilla Thunderbird is the brother of Firefox that aims to deliver a fast, easy and secure email and news client. The application is free...