Systemd Might Get Implemented By Default On Ubuntu Touch By The End Of The Month
Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet uses systemd as the default init service manager, replacing Canonical’s Upstart (sysVinit on Debian). But Ubuntu Touch RTM is still...
View ArticleHow To Enable The Support Of H.264 Videos On Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet And...
Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet and flavors do not have native support for H.264 and Flash, but some tweaks can be made, in order to fix this issue. So, for watching...
View ArticleHow To Install Grub Customizer 4.0.6 On Debian 8.0 Jessie
Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Grub Customizer is a nice application, that allows the user to edit the menu entries from the GRUB booting screen, set the default operating system, change the...
View ArticleHow To Install Kernel 4.0.2 On CentOS 7
Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Linus Torvalds has released the stable version of Kernel 4.0.2. The new kernel patch comes with driver updates for Bluetooth, SCSI, USB and ACPI, enhanced NFS...
View ArticleOpera 31 Dev Brings Support For Widevine DRM, Enhanced Bookmarks Bar And...
Opera 31 (31.0.1857.0) Dev has been released, being available for all the major desktop platforms: Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It is based on Chromium 44 and brings interesting new features,...
View ArticleLinux Mint 17.2 RC Will Be Released In June, This Year
As you may know, the Linux Mint developers have previously announced that Linux Mint 17.2 will be code named Rafaela. Recently, the Linux Mint developers have announced that a RC version of Linux Mint...
View ArticleMATE 1.10 Will Bring An Integrated Launcher For Ubuntu 15.10
As you may know, Ubuntu Mate is the newest official *Buntu flavor and has released Ubuntu Mate 14.10, Ubuntu Mate 14.04 and Ubuntu Mate 15.04 (in this order) since it had been adopted in the Ubuntu...
View ArticleThe Ubuntu 15.10 Daily Builds Are Now Available For Download
Not long ago, Mark Shuttleworth has announced that the development of Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf has been officially started. Today, Canonical has just published the first Ubuntu 15.10 Daily Builds,...
View ArticleThunderbird 38 Will Bring Support For Yahoo Messenger (Will Be Released Next...
Despite the fact that the Mozilla developers have neglected Thunderbird lately, they are now working at bringing major improvements to their email client, Thunderbird 38 (currently beta). Among others,...
View ArticleFirefox 38.0 Brings A New Tab-Based Preferences Menus
Mozilla is proud to announced that it has released the Firefox 38.0 ESR (Extended Support Release) internet browser, which brings interesting features. The ESR versions are supported longer than the...
View ArticleKernel 4.1 RC3 Brings A Few Changes Only, But This Is Normal For An Early RC...
Linus Torvalds has released Kernel 4.1 RC3 this weekend. It is a small kernel patch, which includes some ARM updates, updated drivers and filesystem enhancements, among others. Linus is a little angry...
View ArticleErle Robotics’ Ubuntu Core Drone Is The First Drone With Support For Third...
We have previously presented Erle-Copter, the first drone that runs Canonical’s Ubuntu Snappy Core, an Ubuntu version designed for ioT. But the interesting thing about this drone is that it has support...
View ArticleThe Wine Developers Are Discussing On Whether To Implement USB Support For...
The Wine have been discussing at the World Wine News (WWN) on whether to implement USB support for Wine or not. While the Wine development has started 20 years ago and USB ports are 18 years old, this...
View ArticleThe Latest OTA Update For Ubuntu Touch Brings A Huge List Of Changes
As we had anticipated correctly last week, Canonical has released an OTA update for Ubuntu Touch (OTA 3.5), an update which brings fixes for over 15 bugs, some 3G enhancements, fixes for a bunch oc...
View ArticleAtom 0.199.0 (Text Editor) Brings Interesting Changes
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...
View ArticleValentina 0.3.2 (Pattern Making Software) Has Received Small Fixes
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...
View ArticleqBittorrent 3.2.0 Brings An Option To Hibernate Computer In Auto-Shutdown Menu
qBittorrent is a torrent client, similar to µTorrent, which was recently ported to the Linux systems. Among others, qBittorrent has built-in search engine for searching in the popular BitTorrent sites,...
View ArticleCanonical Will Maintain Kernel 3.19 Until July 2016
As a reminder, Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced that Kernel 3.19 has reached end of life (EOL), Kernel 3.19.8 being the last one available from its series. [To install Kernel 3.19 on Ubuntu 15.04, see...
View ArticleGit 2.4.1 Brings Interesting Changes And Improvements
Git is an open-source revision control system, developed by Linus Torvalds, providing a big number of features and an intuitive syntax. It is used a lot by the developers that want to share their code...
View ArticleFedora 23 To Receive An Official Cinnamon Spin
According to this announcement, a Fedora 23 Cinnamon will become reality. Fedora’s default desktop environment is GNOME, but MATE, KDE, XFCE, Sugar and LXDE spins are also available for those who...
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