Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, XBMC was 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). Starting with XBMC 14, the open-source software will …
Hello Firefox OS Enthusiasts. As you may know, Mozilla has announced at MWC 2014 that they have teamed up with Spreadtrum, a chip manufacturer, in order to create $25 smartphones. Besides the SC6821 chip (the one for the $25 phone), Spreadtrum has started work at two new chips: SC7710 and SC7715, both supporting 3G. The …
Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Pragha is an open-source lightweight music player developed in GTK+ and having a simple interface. Among others, it has support for the most popular audio formats, uses SQLite for its music database and a twin-panel design, allows the users to search in the playlist via Ctrl+F, has an …
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Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Subversion (SVN) is an open-source versioning and revision control system developed by Apache, similar to Git. The latest version available is Subvertion (SVN) 1.8.13, which has been released a while ago, coming with the below changes: Use new version-scheme to override incorrect precise-version that I pushed unintenionally. Increase …
What’s new #1: Linux Mint 17.1 will be codenamed “Rebecca”. The Linux Mint developers have recently announced that Linux Mint 17.1 will be named “Rebecca” and will be based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. As you may know, The names of Linux Mint are feminine names, assigned alphabetical. Linux Mint 13 – Maya, Linux Mint 14 …
Zotero 4.0.27.2 brings small fixes only. As you may know, Zotero is a free, cross-platform tool that helps the users collect, organize, cite and share research sources. This software allows the users to add PDFs, images, audio and video content, snapshots of web pages, indexes everything in a library and provides a searchable interface, for …
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Edit: Due to the fact that this article is old, the installation instructions may not work anymore. In order to successfully install the latest version of LibreOffice, please access the libreoffice tag and open the latest article (the one on top). The latest installation instructions for LibreOffice Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, LibreOffice …
As a reminder, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf is scheduled for release on the 22nd of October 2015, for now being in its early development stages, only daily builds being available. While there isn’t much information about Canonical’s upcoming system, the Ubuntu developers have announced that Ubuntu 15.04 will be using either Kernel 4.0 or Kernel …
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 17.2 will be released in June 2015 and will include important new features, updates and bug-fixes. Among others, a newer kernel …
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Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, WizNote is an open-source, multi-platform note application with support for creating interactive notes with embedded images and links and categorize them intro groups for an easier search. Also, it synchronization support and enables the users to create a secured notes server in a private network. The latest version …
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