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VLC player by VideoLAN, the popular cross-platform opensource multimedia player, is already a sweetheart for Linux users, particularly. And now to our delight, VLC is available for Android phones!! VLC port to Android paltform will play local video and audio files, also network streams similar to desktop version of VLC. VLC though yet in its beta phase has some impressive features to boast!

A recent distribution that I have seen in the news in recent weeks is one based on Ubuntu. It’s called Zorin OS. And just this week Zorin OS 6 was released. In my Linux experience, I’ve perhaps come across the name Zorin OS once or twice, but I’ve never given it a second thought. It’s a distribution based on Ubuntu. And the fresh new release Zorin OS 6 is based on Ubuntu 12.04.

GNOME Shell customization options may be a little more limited in comparison to its predecessor. But it’s not totally locked down and out of the users control. In this article, we’ll show you a few simple tweaks and extensions that will make GNOME Shell a little more clean-lined, sleek and usable.

GNU/Linux is the greatest global and collaborative effort in the history of computers. Everyone should be able to use it, and to help in the development of it no matter what disabilities or special abilities one has. This week we talk with Mobeen Iqbal from Vinux Project, who gives us an insight on how a distribution for the visual impaired is developed and loved by its users. Enjoy!

Few days ago was released Nvidia 302.17, the new release comes with many new features, improvements and bug fixes, some of the new added features we find a new option, –restore-original-backup, to nvidia-xconfig. nvidia-xconfig creates a backup of the original X configuration file when modifying an X configuration file

When LIMBO became a part of the Linux gaming world through the latest Humble Indie Bundle, I knew I should take the journey right away. This game has won over 90 awards, and many gamers of all platforms consider it to be the best indie game ever. Time to have a more extensive look on this unique platform game…

According to the independent web analytics firm, StatCounter Chrome has excelled as the world most popular browser with the highest browser usage share for the month of May 2012. But does that apply to Linux platform too? Is Chrome the best browser for Linux? The post compares the widely popular Mozilla Firefox browser version 4 with relatively new Google’s Chrome version 16, distinctly for Ubuntu!

In that beautiful moment when your partner has proposed to you and you open your mouth to kiss him, only YOU can understand the massive amount of disaster that could happen when a creepy mosquito gets inside your mouth! It might sound a little funny, but if it really happens, I am sure you will feel doomed.

The open source and adobe flash player alternative Lightspark 0.6.0.1 has been released, according to the announcement, this is a major release that comes with a lot of improvements and bug fixes.

Dick MacInnis is a rock musician and music composer that cares about the tools of creation. He is the creator and maintainer of the DreamStudio distribution that recently released its stable 12.04 version. On this interview, Dick MacInnis explains the uniqueness of his project, and talks about libre music creation. Enjoy!

In this post we will see how to install Flash player in Fedora17

Mozilla Thunderbird is the brother of Firefox that aims to deliver a fast, easy and secure email and news client. The application is free and open source and is developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Version 13 of Thunderbird got released yesterday and the bug fixes are more than many.

Creating your own Linux system can be a rather difficult thing to do and is not usually attempted by anyone other than advanced and power Linux users and veterans. Thankfully, Novell and SUSE has made the task very easy.

Microsoft has shortly released the consumer preview of its flag ship operating system, Windows 8, that is evidently re-skinned to better suit touch-screen devices. Unfortunately, in attempting to revamp the OS, Microsoft has done some serious damages to it’s self and more importantly to the end-users. The post compares the version of Linux Mint 13.

Friday, 1st June, Stat Counter reported that keen speculations during the month of May 2012, reveal that Google’ Internet browser Chrome has finally surpassed the usage share of IE the default browser in Microsoft desktop OS for the complete month of May.

Fedora doesn’t officially offer an easy to use tool for the user to download the needed packages like other distributions like Ubuntu and Linux Mint do. In this article we will see how to download and install all the “extras”, easily and fast.

In this post will show you how to upgrade to fedora17

Seems like the well known Russian company Kaspersky, that specializes in computer security software, found a good way to use the power of Linux live cd’s for the benefit of their customers.

BSD systems are the technological neighbors many of us meet daily, but few know much about. Martin Husemann of NetBSD explains, analyses, compares and refers to everything there is to know about BSD and NetBSD. Meet this fantastic operating system through another Monday’s interview.

Browsers, in many ways are becoming the heart of Mobile devices today. Browsers run every kind of applications, used for gaming, watching videos and much more. Today we are lucky to have an option of selecting a browser from the Android market besides the default browser.However, obviously not all browsers are equally good. They have their strong and weak points. The post evaluates selected browser with respect to performance, interface and usability and finally compares one with the other.