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VideoLAN Team has released the new major version of VLC 2.1.0 “Rincewind”. It comes with many improvements and features such as new audio core, hardware decoding and encoding, port to mobile platforms, preparation for Ultra-HD video and a special care to support more formats. VLC 2.1.o is a major upgrade for VLC.

UberStudent is a free linux distribution developd by students with students in mind. It is intended to be a Linux for learners, linux newbies, students and teachers. UberStudent is the perfect Linux distribution for teaching and sharing knowledge with other people at higher levels.

SteamOS is the new free operating system designed for the TV and the living room which will be available soon as a free stand-alone operating system for living room machines. I think SteamOS will be the perfect choice for gamers because it combines the rock-solid architecture of Linux with a gaming experience built for the big screen. SteamOS developers are working very hard to increase audio performance and now they are targeting reductions in input latency at the operating system level.

SchoolTool is licensed under GPL2 and written in Python using the Zope 3 framework. The main goals of this project are to create a simple turnkey student management and information system, including demographics, gradebook, attendance, calendaring and reporting for primary and secondary schools.

Few days before, We have featured IP Address Management system called “IPplan”. Today i have come up with an another web based IP address managent system called “phpIPAM”. For those who don’t know about phpipam, it is an open-source, simple and light weight web IP address management application. It is ajax-based using jQuery libraries, php scripts, javascript and some HTML5/CSS3 features.

Veetle is a live video streaming, viewing and broadcasting service that allows you to quickly broadcast and share your videos. Unlike other live-streaming sites, you can broadcast to an unlimited number of viewers at any given time in high quality. You can broadcast from PC’s, iOS devices (iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch) and the most popular Android devices.

OpenTeacher is an opensource application that helps you learn a foreign language vocabulary. Just enter some answers and questions in your native and foreign language or download them from internet, and OpenTeacher tests you.

GNS3 is an open source, GUI Network Simulator. It can be used to simulate complex networks while being as close as possible from the way real networks perform, all of this without having dedicated network hardware such as routers and switches.

Scanning and identifying vulnerabilities on our Linux machine is the most important step in our way to protect and secure our private data. In this article I will teach you how to install, configure and start Nessus on Ubuntu.

Oracle VirtualBox 4.2.18 has been released, this is a maintenance release that comes to fixe many important bugs.

Probably you’ve heard about the NSA surveillance program PRISM, XKeyscore and the GCHQ’s Tempora. If you did not, you should start looking up for information, because we have bad news, you are being tracked down.

When AMD64 (AMD) and EM64T (Intel) CPU technology was new and ready for the prime market, there was much talk about whether the real-world was ready for 64bit computing in the consumer sector. At the time, 64bit computing had been around in the server sector for quite some time.

VLC Media Player 2.0.8 has been released. This is a maintenance release that fixes some regressions in the 2.0.x branch. There are also numerous fixes for crashes, dangerous behaviors, ISDB-S tuning and some OS X issues were resolved.

We all at some point in time we all format our USB drives. The question I would like to ask is how do you do it? Is it from GUI or terminal?

Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers. It is decentralized and trust-less, meaning that you need-not inherently trust any entities like root certificate authorities. It uses strong authentication which means that the sender of a message cannot be spoofed and it aims to hide “non-content” data, like the sender and receiver of messages, from passive eavesdroppers like those running warrant-less wiretapping programs.

Unison is a free, cross platform file synchronization tool that enables us to keep two set of file replicas (instances) on two different systems or on different disks of the same system. Unlike simple mirroring or backup utilities, it updates both replicas of a distributed directory structure. It detects and displays the conflicting updates. Unlike a distributed filesystem, Unison is a user-level program; there is no need to modify the kernel or to have root user privileges on either host

Sometimes our internet speed will become painfully slow. We will curiously sit to get things done faster, but our internet speed will irritate us. Today we will see how to choose a fastest DNS servers that accelerates our internet speed a little more than the normal usage.

There are many tools out there to view and control your systems remotely such as Teamviewer and VNC etc. But if you have a Google Chrome browser installed in your system, then you don’t need any extra remote desktop sharing software. Google Chrome has its own extension called Chrome Remote Desktop.

I2P is an anonymity network, offering a simple layer that identity-sensitive applications can use to securely communicate. All data is wrapped with several layers of encryption, and the network is both distributed and dynamic, with no trusted parties. All traffic is encrypted end to end.

As the title suggests, Linux and performance in the same sentence makes for an interesting topic of discussion. Everyone knows there is a multitude of options available to us. In this article, I’m going to attempt to cover a few of them.