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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...

Conky_7 and Conky_8- Just Another 2 Stunning themes for Conky

In my previous posts, we saw together many nice themes for conky (Conky Lua, Conky_2, conky_5 and more). Recently was released 2 new conky...

Oracle Vs Google: The issue of copyrighting ideas

The issue of Oracle challenging Google on the use of Java APIs may, on the surface, appear to be a case of IT corporate establishing themselves...

Gimp 2.8 is out! | PPA Ubuntu

Gimp is one of the most important tools we Linux users have in our hands being a powerful application that covers the specialized needs...

The Text-based Web Browser: The Alternative

We live in a flashy world when it comes to the world-wide-web. With most websites carrying a lot of flashy graphics, banners and advertisements....

Blender 2.63 has been released! PPA Ubuntu

Blender 2.63 has been released, The 2.6x series is being targeted at including all work that happened in branches or patches past years. According...

GNOME's Application Menu. Smart or Dummy?

First off, Application Menu has not any similarity with Unity’s Global Menus. While Global Menus copy the Window App Menu from the usual spot...