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LibreOffice Initiates Templates and Extensions Repository for Beta Testing

LibreOffice, the famous office suite, can be improved further- thanks to the countless number of templates and extensions. These goodies are available for download...

LibreOffice and OpenOffice reach the Crossroads – differ by 7.7 million...

Yes, LibreOffice did fork away from OpenOffice in September of 2010. Open Office, then was the default standard in office suites for open source...

A look at Thunderbird Earlybird 8.0a2

The alpha build of Thunderbird is called Earlybird 8.0a2 and is under progress. It is available for installation with the beta as well as...

Use Tor To Maintain Online Anonymity

WikiLeaks and the recent Egyptian political revolution are two great examples of what Anonymity software can do. Tor is a unique virtual tunnels network, which...

Which browser will win? A mathematical Analysis!

Have you ever wondered when would Chrome finally surpass the usage share of Microsoft Internet Explorer? Or when will Chrome exceed the usage share...

Flash Player 11 release condidate is available| PPA Ubuntu & Linuxmint

And the very first contender of Adobe Flash Player 11 is here- finally available for us to download. Flash 11 offers NVidia VDPAU, 64...

Bisigi themes available for Ubuntu 11.04

  http://www.bisigi-project.org/?page_id=8&lang=en#ubuntu

Status Update-Thunderbird 7 reaches Beta

Mozilla, the developers of popular open source software have moved the release of their email product, Thunderbird  to coincide with rapid-release-cycle of its most...

Dream Studio 11.04- A based Ubuntu Multimedia OS

Ubuntu based multimedia software Dream Studio announced the laest release 11.04. As with other Ubuntu distros, Dream Studio release follows the latest Ubuntu release,...

Be there at the Ubuntu App Developer Week, this September 5-9th

The latest edition of Ubuntu App Developer Week is to be held from 5th September to 9th September 2011. Says David Planella, the Ubuntu...

Ofris- An opensource alternative to Deep Freeze application

Many times people go to public places like library and cybercafé where computers are kept with online access. While using the computers at such...

Pidgin 2.10 Relased . PPA Ubuntu mint

Pidgin  2.10  has  been released lastweek , this release is comming with many changes and bug fixes, Pidgin is  reasy  to   work  with  comaptible  chat ...

Zero Install- Run software without the need to install it in...

If you want any software running in your computer, the common process is to download it from internet, extract it, install it and then...

Some console Utilities for Linux

We all know that we can’t practically work on our Linux systems without some console knowledge, so without further ado, I’m going to discuss...

Alfresco- An opensource alternative to Microsoft sharepoint

Alfresco is Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software based on open source platform build for Windows, Linux and number of UNIX based operating systems. Alfresco...

Gimp2.7.3 has been released! PPA Ubuntu and LinuxMint

Announced today by Gimp Team the release of Gimp2.73,  a new development version that brings us closer to GIMP 2.8. This version is packed...

OSCAR Continues to be Beowulf Clusters’ lead support cast

To users of cluster computing, OSCAR is a familiar platform, especially to those who believe in the values of open source software. Commonly OSCAR...

Its now time to look at Argentinian Tuqito, Indonesian Blankon Linux...

Discovering new distros is the fun part of open source software. Here is a very brief list of three new releases and an even...