Valentina is an open-source software for creating clothing articles. Among others, it allows the users to create cloth patterns using either standard sizes or custom set of measurements, using traditional methods to create unique pattern tools.

Recently, Valentina 0.5.0 has been released, bringing the below changes:

• Fixed case with duplicate names of curves if they connect same points.
• Better powerful way creation curved path.
• Improved exporting to dxf. QPainterPath export as Polyline.
• Show additional message dialog if measurements was changed.
• Intersect Curves.
• Added language Chinese (China).
• New icon for VAL file. Updated Tape logo. Updated ico for standard measurements.
• Check pattern for inverse compatibility.
• Add ‘Open Recent’ option in Tape.exe, ‘File’ dropdown menu.

Installation instructions:

While there is no official Valentina repository or PPA, there is a third party one, containing the latest versions of Valentina, as it gets updated.

The below instructions should work on all the supported Ubuntu systems and derivatives: Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.x, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya and other Ubuntu derivative systems.

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dismine/valentina
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install valentina

If you want to remove valentina, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove valentina

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As you may know, uGet is an open-source, lightweight download manager, running on Linux, having good integration with Mozilla Firefox.

Main features:

• Downloads Queue
• Resume Downloads
• Advanced Download Categories
• Clipboard Monitor
• Batch Downloads
• Multi-Protocol
• Multi-Connection
• FTP Login & Anonymous FTP
• Scheduler
• Quiet Mode
• Robust Keyboard Shortcuts
• Computer Shutdown After Completion

The latest version available is uGet 2.0.5, which has been recently released, coming with changes:

• Save and restore width of download column.
• Adjust schedule form for large font size.
• In speed limit mode, program adjust speed when downloading start-up.
• Use filename from RPC request to match category if URL doesn’t contain filename.
• curl plug-in: use posix_fallocate() to preallocate space for a file on Linux.
• curl plug-in: use SetEndOfFile() to preallocate space for a file on Windows.
• Fix: program crash when simultaneously download > 32 files.
• Fix: Can’t save height of summary area.

Installation instructions:

Up to date packages are available via some third party PPA, so installing the software on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.x, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya and other Ubuntu derivative systems is a piece of cake.

Just add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the mumble and uget packages:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:plushuang-tw/uget-stable
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install uget

Optional, to remove uget, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove uget

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As you know, GScan2PDF is an app for scanning pages and exporting them to PDFs. The user can export scans one by one, in separate PDF files, or export scans all together, in one PDF.

The latest version available is Gscan2PDF 1.3.9, which has been recently released, coming with the below changes:

• Fixed warning from Perl 5.10.1 about use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry in Gscan2pdf/Dialog/Scan/CLI.pm
• Store absolute date instead of offset

Installation instructions:

Up to date packages are available via some third party PPA, so installing the software on Ubuntu systems is easy. Add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the gscan2pdf package:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jeffreyratcliffe/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install gscan2pdf

Optional: To remove the gscan2pdf, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove gscan2pdf

The installation instructions should work on Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.x, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya and other Ubuntu derivative systems.

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As you may know, Kodi (previously named XBMC) is a famous open source media hub and home theater PC, being translated in more than 30 languages. Also, its features can be highly extended via third party plugins and extensions and has support for PVR (personal video recorder).

The final version of Kodi 16.0 “Jarvis” has been finally released, along the Android version of the software. The new versions brings a huge list of changes and features, including:

• Start of integration of ADSP (Audio Digital Signal Processing) handling (no add-ons shipped yet)
• Improve image resizing and caching algorithm to improve image quality of images
• Added support for the musicbrainz “ARTISTS” tag in id3v2, ape, xiph.
• Add date added to music library and use it for sorting
• Support saving skin settings as add-on data instead of in guisettings.xml
• Image resource add-ons which provides common image libraries than can be used by several skins and add-ons.
• Don’t mess with the long and short date formats defined in the language files
• Add sort method for albums “artist / year”. This will sort the albums chronological per artist.
•  Moved some add-on categories to “look and feel” in add-on manager
• Series recording added for PVR
• Add a “none” option for preferred subtitles
• Properly handle wired or bluetooth headsets on Android and only use PCM output
• Fix playback of VP9 and VC1 video codecs on Android
• Use best possible icons from other Android apps while browsing these in Kodi
• Enable true 1920×1080 output on AMLogic device without up-scaling
• Add Korean, Chinese and Czech keyboards
• Add multi-touch support for Linux platform
• Improve touch-screen keymapping
• The item that you had previously chosen will now be selected in the selection list instead of just starting at the top of the list
• Decouple Kodi and system volume on Android which removes the double audio volume slider
• Karaoke support has been completely removed as it wasn’t functional
• Various PVR fixes and improvements
• Various improvements to the music section
• The Kodi GUI now supports a new stereoscopic depth effect for users of Kodi on 3D TVs or VR headsets
• Add stereoscopic depth for Confluence skin
• Extended support for browsing movies by country and through UPnP as well as user-ratings which we be added in future version

For more information, study the release announcement for yourself.

Installation instructions:

The latest versions of Kodi available are available via PPA, so installing it on Ubuntu systems is a piece of cake. Just add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the kodi package:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install kodi

Or, use the below command to install audio codecs and other addons as well:

$ sudo apt-get install --install-suggests kodi

Optional, to remove kodi, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove kodi*

The installation instructions should work on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.x, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya and other Ubuntu derivative systems.

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Nomacs is an open-source image viewer, working on Linux and Mac OS X, under the GNU General Public Licence v3. Nomacs is lightweight and fast and has support for all the popular image formats, like JPEG, PNG, GIF, ICO, BMP and RAW.

The latest version available is Nomacs 3.0.0, coming with changes.

Installation instructions:

Up to date packages are available via some third party PPA, so installing the software on Ubuntu systems is easy. Add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the nomacs package:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nomacs/stable
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install nomacs

Optional, to remove nomacs, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove nomacs

The installation instructions should work on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.x, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya and other Ubuntu derivative systems.

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As you may know, Mozilla Firefox is Debian’s default browser, but the Debian developers have named it Iceweasel and kept this name for the last 10 years, due to a trademark disagreement with Mozilla.

Because there are many developers that work for both Debian and Mozilla, the conflict wasn’t real, but despite this, Firefox remained Iceweasel for 10 years. Along with Firefox, Thunderbird was also renamed to Icedove, from the same motives.

The announcement:

“Mozilla recognizes that patches applied to Iceweasel/Firefox don’t impact the quality of the product. Patches which should be reported upstream to improve the product always have been forward upstream by the Debian packagers. Mozilla agrees about specific patches to facilitate the support of Iceweasel on architecture supported by Debian or Debian-specific patches,”

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As you may know, Raspberry Pi is a credit card sized single-board computer (SBC), developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

Recently, Raspberry Pi 3 Model B has been spotted in a FCC (Federal Communications Commission), leaking some interesting features like built-in bluetooth and 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi, permitting the users to access the wireless networks without needing a wifi dongle.

More details about Raspberry Pi 3 should be released soon. Right now, the release date is currently unknown.

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As you may know, Lollypop is an open-source, audio player developed in GTK+3, created as a Rhythmbox alternative. Among others, it has support the playback of the most popular audio formats, including mp3, mp4, ogg and flac, allows the users to visualize the songs via album, artist or genre, can play the files in order or shuffle (random).

It has two UIs, a while one and and a dark one, making the player fit with many designs and interfaces.

The latest version available is Lollypop 0.9.87, which has been recently released, coming with bug-fixes only.

Installation instructions:

Lollypop can be installed easily on a lot of systems, since it is available via either PPA or repository.

How to install Lollypop on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus and Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf  systems:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnumdk/lollypop
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install lollypop

For Unity only, disable the overlay scrollbars:

$ gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal

Optional, to remove lollypop, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove lollypop

How to install Lollypop on OpenSUSE 13.2 and derivative systems:

$ sudo wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/gnumdk31/openSUSE_13.2/home:gnumdk31.repo -O /etc/zypp/repos.d/home:gnumdk31.repo
$ sudo zypper refresh
$ sudo zypper install lollypop

Optional, to remove lollypop, do:

$ sudo zypper remove lollypop

How to install Lollypop on Fedora 22 and derivative systems:

$ sudo yum install dnf-plugin-copr
$ sudo dnf copr enable gnumdk/lollypop
$ sudo dnf install lollypop

Optional, to remove lollypop, do:

$ sudo yum remove lollypop

How to install Lollypop on Arch Linux and derivative systems:

$ sudo yaourt lollypop

Optional, to remove lollypop, do:

$ sudo yaourt -Rsn lollypop

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As you may know, Sylpheed is an open-source lightweight and keyboard-orientation e-mail client written in GTK+2. Having an intuitive interface, it has all the features of a modern email client.

The latest version available is Sylpheed 3.5.0, which has been recently released, bringing the below Linux-specific changes:

New features:

• Windows / widgets are now adjusted to their optimal sizes by reference to system DPI value.
• Fade effect was added to the notification window.
• The option to specify startup online mode was added.

Improvements:

• Mbox locking became NFS-safe (#202).
• Sylpheed.desktop file was updated.
• The original file names of attachments are kept when opening them, and shorter suffixes are added in the case they conflict.
• TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 will be enabled for STARTTLS when OpenSSL 1.0.1 or above is used.

Component updates:

• GTK+ 2.24.23
• GLib 2.38.2
• GDK-Pixbuf 2.30.7
• Pango 1.36.3
• Cairo 1.10.2
• libpng 1.14.19
• GPGME 1.4.3
• OpenSSL 0.9.8zh

Bug-fixes:

• A bug that reorder of filter rules by DnD was not saved was fixed.
• A fix for ARM architecture was made.
• Other bugfixes and stability improvements were made.

Installation instructions:

Up to date Sylpheed packages are available via some third party PPA, so installing the software on Ubuntu systems is easy. You just need to add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the sylpheed package:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:klaus-vormweg/sylpheed
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install sylpheed

Optinal, to remove sylpheed, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove sylpheed

The installation instructions should work on all the supported Ubuntu systems and their derivatives: Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.x, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya and other Ubuntu derivative systems.

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As you may know, XnConvert is a free image convertion tool, developed by the XnSoft team (the creators of the XnViewMP app). It has support for the most popular image formats, including: JPG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, BMP, RAW, PSD, JPEG and OpenEXR.

Because of its basic image manipulation functions, it allows the user to easily modify the opacity or the color of the photos, add filters or different effects to the photos. The application excels at converting multiple images simultaneously.

The latest version available is XnConvert 1.7.2, which has been recently released.

Installation instructions:

In order to install XnConvert on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.x and Elementary OS 0.3 Freya you have to add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the xnconvert package:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install xnconvert

For Debian, LMDE and Debian-based systems, you can download the deb packages from the project’s and install them by hand. I prefer gdebi over dpkg due to the fact that it also handles dependencies.

How to install XnConvert on 32 bit Ubuntu, Debian and derivatives:

$ sudo apt-get install gdebi
$ wget http://download.xnview.com/XnConvert-linux.deb
$ sudo gdebi XnConvert-linux.deb

How to install XnConvert on 64 bit bit Ubuntu, Debian and derivatives:

$ sudo apt-get install gdebi
$ wget http://download.xnview.com/XnConvert-linux-x64.deb
$ sudo gdebi XnConvert-linux-x64.deb

Optional, to remove xnconvert, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove xnconvert

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Kernel 4.5 RC 7 has been released, the final version of the kernel being scheduled for next week.

Installation instructions:

Because it is very difficult to compile a Linux kernel, Canonical has packed all the kernel releases as deb packages and made them available for everybody that uses Ubuntu or Ubuntu-based systems, via its kernel.ubuntu.com repository.

The below commands are available for all the Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS and other derivative systems.

For 32 bit systems, download and install the i386 debs. For 64 bit systems, download and install the amd64 packages:

How to install Kernel 4.5 on 32 bit Ubuntu and derivative systems:

Download the needed packages:

$ cd /tmp
$ wget \
kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.5-rc7-wily/linux-headers-4.5.0-040500rc7_4.5.0-040500rc7.201603061830_all.deb \
kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.5-rc7-wily/linux-headers-4.5.0-040500rc7-generic_4.5.0-040500rc7.201603061830_i386.deb \
kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.5-rc7-wily/linux-image-4.5.0-040500rc7-generic_4.5.0-040500rc7.201603061830_i386.deb

Install the Kernel:

$ sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-4.5*.deb linux-image-4.5*.deb

Optional, remove the kernel:

$ sudo apt-get remove linux-headers-4.5* linux-image-4.5*

How to install Kernel 4.5 on 64 bit Ubuntu and derivative systems:

Download the needed packages:

$ cd /tmp
$ wget \
kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.5-rc7-wily/linux-headers-4.5.0-040500rc7_4.5.0-040500rc7.201603061830_all.deb \
kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.5-rc7-wily/linux-headers-4.5.0-040500rc7-generic_4.5.0-040500rc7.201603061830_amd64.deb \
kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.5-rc7-wily/linux-image-4.5.0-040500rc7-generic_4.5.0-040500rc7.201603061830_amd64.deb

Install the Kernel:

$ sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-4.5*.deb linux-image-4.5*.deb

Optional, remove the kernel:

$ sudo apt-get remove linux-headers-4.5* linux-image-4.5*

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Wine (Wine Is Not An Emulator) is an open-source compatibility layer software app that enables the Linux and Unix users to run Windows software on their systems, via the Winelib software library.

While the latest version available is Wine 1.8.x, you can also install and test Wine 1.9.5 (Dev), which is the under-development branch of Wine and brings the below changes:

• New version of the Mono engine, with 64-bit support.
• Beginnings of the WineD3D command stream.
• Support for effect states in Direct3DX.
• Drag & drop improvements.
• Various bug fixes.

Also, it brings better support for the following Windows apps: Adobe After Effects 4 PowerPoint 2003, LEGO Island (Mindscape), Jscript, Powerpoint 2003/2007, Process Hacker 2.x, Far Cry 4, ArchiCAD 16, Borderlands, World of Tanks 9.2, Planetary Annihilation, Train Fever, Kontakt 5.4.x, Trainz: A New Era, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate and Heroes of the Storm.

Installation instructions:

In order to successfully install Wine 1.9 on Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr and derivative systems like Linux Mint 17.x and Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, you need to add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index, and install the wine-staging and winehq-staging packages:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install --install-recommends wine-staging
$ sudo apt-get install winehq-staging

Optional, to remove wine and revert the changes, do:

$ sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
$ sudo ppa-purge ppa:wine/wine-builds

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As you may know, Vivaldi is a Chromium-based open-source internet browser, built by the Opera founder. It did not reach a stable version yet, but it is already usable.

The latest version available is Vivaldi Beta 3, which has been recently released.

Highlights:

• A sessions save/load
• Tab specific zoom
• New Tab Hibernation Options
• New options and defaults for tab opening and closing behaviour

Installation instructions:

The Vivaldi website provides both deb and rpm packages of the latest versions of Vivaldi, so installing the browser should not be difficult. Just download the deb/rpm package matching your system’s architecture (i386/i686 for 32 bit systems and amd64/x86_64 for 64 bit systems) and install the package via the default package manager (dpkg or rpm):

How to install Vivaldi Beta on 32 bit systems using deb packages:

$ wget https://vivaldi.com/download/stable/vivaldi-beta_1.0.403.24-1_i386.deb -O vivaldi-beta_i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i vivaldi-beta_i386.deb

How to install Vivaldi Beta on 64 bit systems using deb packages:

$ wget https://vivaldi.com/download/stable/vivaldi-beta_1.0.403.24-1_amd64.deb -O vivaldi-beta_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i vivaldi-beta_amd64.deb

How to install Vivaldi Snapshot on 32 bit systems using rpm packages:

$ wget https://vivaldi.com/download/stable/vivaldi-beta-1.0.403.24-1.i386.rpm -O vivaldi-beta.i386.rpm
$ sudo rpm -i vivaldi-beta.i386.rpm

How to install Vivaldi Snapshot on 64 bit systems using rpm packages:

$ wget https://vivaldi.com/download/stable/vivaldi-beta-1.0.403.24-1.x86_64.rpm -O vivaldi-beta.x86_64.rpm
$ sudo rpm -i vivaldi-beta.x86_64.rpm

The installation instructions should work on all the Linux systems using deb packages: Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pinguy OS, Elementary OS, Deepin, Peppermint, LXLE, Linux Lite, Debian, SparkyLinux, Robolinux and systems using rpm packages: CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, OpenSUSE and ROSA Desktop.

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As you may know, Wine Staging is a special version of Wine that provides support for projects like Pipelight. The Pipelight developer forked wine into wine-staging and included some Pipelight-specific enhancements and some other features not present in the regular wine software.

Among others, it brings support for Nvidia graphics cards with support for CUDA, PhysX and NVENC plus CSMT to improve graphics performance and a few others.

The latest version available is Wine Staging 1.9.4, which has been recently released, bringing changes:

• Implement advapi32.RegCopyTree
• Improve WTSQueryUserToken stub
• Use assembler wrapper to call MONITORENUMPROC callback
• Add support for paths on a metafile HDC
• Fix enumeration of display driver properties using setupapi
• Fix calling convention of glDebugMessageCallback callback function
• Forward activate window requests to WM using _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW
• Implement d3dx9_36.D3DXCreateTextureShader with stub interface
• Implement stub for d3dx9_36.D3DXFillCubeTextureTX
• Initial implementation for d3dx9_36.D3DXDisassembleShader
• Improve invalid parameter handling in NtAccessCheck
• Silence repeated FIXME message in Parser_QueryInterface
• MessageBox should be topmost when MB_SYSTEMMODAL style is set

Installation instructions:

Up to date Wine Staging packages are available via the developer’s PPA, so installing the software on Ubuntu is easy. Just add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the wine-staging package:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipelight/stable
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install --install-recommends wine-staging

If you want the 64 bit version of wine-staging also install the wine-staging-amd64 package:

$ sudo apt-get install wine-staging-amd64

Wine Staging can be used along wine because it installs in /opt/wine-staging, while the regular wine can be found in /opt/wine.

The installation instructions should work on all the supported Ubuntu systems and derivatives: Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa, Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Deepin 2014, Peppermint Five, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.

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Avidemux is an open-source, cross-platform tool for video editing, written in C++ and using Qt for its GUI. It allows the user to cut, filter and encode videos easily, having support for the most popular file types, including: AVI, DVD, MPEG, MP4 and others.

The latest version available is Avidemux 2.6.12, bringing changes:

• [H264] Fixed crash when saving h264 annexB in avi (Brundle)
• [Vdpau] Fixed VDPAU resize and deinterlace when height is padded
• [Mkv] Faster loading of VP9 and h265
• [MP4] Supports more flavors of H265
• [i18n] Spanish translation update by ringmaster
• [Edit] Another frame seeking bug fixed, happened rarely
• [All] Slightly better crash handler
• [FFmpeg]Update to 2.7.6
• [Muxer] Basic webm support
• [Jobs] Fixed right click menus with qt5

Installation instructions:

In order to successfully install Avidemux on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.x, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya and other Ubuntu derivative systems, you have to add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the avidemux2.6 package:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rebuntu16/avidemux+unofficial
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install avidemux2.6

Optional, to remove avidemux2.6, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove avidemux2.6

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Atom is an open-source, multi-platform text editor developed by GitHub, having a simple and intuitive graphical user interface and a bunch of interesting features for writing: CSS, HTML, JavaScript and other web programming languages. Among others, it has support for macros, auto-completion a split screen feature and it integrates with the file manager.

The latest version available is Atom 1.6.0, which has been recently released, bringing a few changes only.

• Add functionality and API for pending pane items
• Improvements to multi-pane usage
• Block Decorations
• Async Git
• Top and bottom bar API

Installation instructions:

Atom is available for Fedora 22, Fedora 21 and CentOS 7 systems via the COPR repositories, so installing it on your system should not cause many problems. Unfortunately, Atom is available only for 64 bit (x86_64) systems.

Both Yum (default package manager till Fedora 22) and DNF (the new package manager of Fedora 22) have some pluging that permit the users to easily add and enable COPR repositories to their systems.

How to install Atomon on 64 bit Fedora 22 systems:

$ sudo dnf install dnf-plugins-core
$ sudo dnf copr enable helber/atom
$ sudo dnf update
$ sudo dnf install atom

Optional, to remove atom, do:

$ sudo dnf remove atom

How to install Atom on 64 bit Fedora 21 and CentOS 7 systems:

$ sudo yum install yum-plugin-copr
$ sudo yum copr enable helber/atom
$ sudo yum update
$ sudo yum install atom

Optional, to remove atom, do:

$ sudo yum remove atom

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As you may know, Atom is an open-source, multi-platform text editor developed by GitHub, having a simple and intuitive graphical user interface and a bunch of interesting features for writing: CSS, HTML, JavaScript and other web programming languages. Among others, it has support for macros, auto-completion a split screen feature and it integrates with the file manager.

The latest version available is Atom 1.6.0, which has been recently released, bringing a few changes only.

• Add functionality and API for pending pane items
• Improvements to multi-pane usage
• Block Decorations
• Async Git
• Top and bottom bar API

Installation instructions:

The latest Atom versions are available via some third party PPA, so installing an up to date version of the text editor on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr and derivative systems like Linux Mint 17.x and Elementary OS 0.3 Freya systems should not cause too many problems.

You need to add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the atom package:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/atom
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install atom

If you are not happy with Atom and want to uninstall it, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove atom

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As you may know, DeaDBeeF is an audio player written in C and C++, running on Linux. It supports a lot of formats, like: mp3, ogg, flac/oga, ape, wav, wv/iso.wv, aac/m4a, alac, mpc/mpp/mp+, tta, wma, shn, sid, nsf, mod, s3m, vtx, vgm/vgz, psf, midi, audio cds, all formats supported by ffmpeg, dumb, gme, libsndfile, adplug, and more!

The latest version available is DeadBeeF 0.7.1.2, which has been recently released, coming with the below changes:

• fixed GTKUI maximized window layout saving/restoring
• fixed GTKUI maximized window column autoresize saving/restoring
• fixed artwork plugin version checks
• disabled bogus shift-jis detection, which was overriding cp1252
• fixed mp3 bitrate calculation regression
• fixed wrong padding of formatted time
• fixed importing legacy title formatting fields bug
• fixed incorrect output format after resuming paused session
• fixed $ext title formatting bug
• fixed %tracknumber% title formatting bug
• fixed auto-updating title formatting fields
• fixed FreeBSD compile issues
• fixed cache cleaner crash bug
• fixed crash when trying to play GYM files
• fixed importing legacy playlist grouping config
• fixed FLAC metadata field mapping
• fixed FLAC metadata track/total and disc/total splitting

Installation instructions:

To install DeadBeef on Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.x, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, you have to add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the deadbeef package:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:starws-box/deadbeef-player
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install deadbeef

Optional, to remove deadbeef, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove deadbeef

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As a reminder, Debian has replaced its good old sysVinit with Red Hat’s systemd, starting with the release of Debian Jessie. Ubuntu has also adopted the change, Mark’s system being a Debian-derivative, but this under the hood change made a lot of community members unhappy.

Recently, the first UbuntuBSD unofficial flavor has been released, being codenamed “Escape From SystemD” and using the FreeBSD kernel, similar to the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD project.

UbuntuBSD is currently a beta release only, uses Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf as codebase, runs with FreeBSD 10.1 Kernel and uses XFCE as the default desktop environment and ZFS as default file system.

This distro is available via sourceforge.

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As you know, the Classic Menu Indicator is a the notification area applent for the old Gnome. (The default one in Ubuntu 11.10). It provides a classic GNOME-style application menu for those who don’t like the Unity Dash. The latest version is Classic Menu Indicator 0.09, which has been recently released.

Classic Menu Indicator 0.10 has been release, bringing the below changes:

• ported to GTK3, Python3
• Ubuntu Software Center in main menu
• custom logo icon support
• new preference window allows to change menu definitions, icons, and other settings.
• show wine applications, and even Android apps for me.
• various fixes and translation updates

Installation instructions:

In order to successfully install Classic Menu Indicator on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, you have to add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the classicmenu-indicator package:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:diesch/testing
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install classicmenu-indicator

Optioanal, to remove classicmenu-indicator, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove classicmenu-indicator

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