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LibreOffice 3.4.0 is released! This is the second major release of the suite since the announcement of The Document Foundation in September 2010, this new release comes with many new features and improvements.

For people who use an USB stick or mobile phone to surf the Internet on the go, it’s often reported that the connection is slow or unresponsive. This is a script that help speed up your mobile connexion.

Pandora FMS (for Pandora Flexible Monitoring System) is software solution for monitoring computer networks. Pandora FMS allows monitoring in a visual pandora-fmsway the status and performance of several parameters from different operating systems, servers, applications and hardware systems such as firewalls, proxies, databases, web servers or routers

Zenwalk GNOME 7.0 is released!. Based on GNOME 2.32.1. Zenwalk GNOME 7.0 is the last step before going to GNOME 3.0. Zenwalk GNOME keeps the same way as the standard Zenwalk edition, a clean and clear desktop. Hal support is removed, NetworkManager is preferred instead of wicd, Rhythmbox is also introduced as the default music player and CD grabber, Viewnior is used as a fast and quick viewer of pictures, and Simple Scan replaces XSane to scan documents.

Photoshop is one of the most popular image editing proprietary software, with extensive capabilities and a rather un-affordable price! It will be interesting for you to note that most of the Photoshop copies running on thousands of computers are illegal, that seems to be obvious as even professionals cannot afford to buy such an expensive piece of software. On the other hand, GIMP, photo manipulation software is a free counterpart that is fairly popular

Google Chrome web store, an online web store for Google Chrome that houses extensions, themes and web-apps. Some web-apps are particularly worth mentioning. The apps reviewed in this post are free and are not aimed at any particular group (such as developers, project managers, cloud service users or for users from specific etc.) They have a wide-range utility!

The SBM is a gui based on buc with the main aim to manage Grub2, Burg and Plymouth. Using this tool you can install and configure Burg, change burg theme using many beautiful themes from a gallery.

Among the many things to improve for Unity , in addition to searching for installed applications , we find the lack of customization. Now start arriving the first applications for unity that help us to customize our new environment. Here are 2 simple applications that will help you to customize unity the easy way.

Mageia RC1 is released! "Mandriva Fork", This is the last development release before the first stable version of Mageia. This release is mainly about bug fixes andmageia-logo translation updates

Eveinstaller is great tool similar to Ubuntu Tweak, it lets you install the basic applications in Ubuntu 11.04 and LinuxMint with a simple click, also using this tools, you can add Medibuntu, getdeb , Playdeb repositories , or install elementary theme, Mint theme..., for Desktop, install also with a simple click Gnome3, Unity 2D, Unity 3D and more.

Back in the bygone era of 2001, the CEO Steve Ballmer had claimed that Microsoft was being threatened by a cancer called Linux. Fast track to their interoperability strategy team’s general Manager Paoli (who co-wrote XML) to August 2010 as Microsoft now soft pedals to offer interoperability features for key components of cloud networks. The focus of this operability is data movement, improving migration and deployment.

If you are a Fedora user, this post shows you how to upgrade from Fedora13 & 14 to Fedora15.

Released in March 2009, Linux-Libre is in a sense a grandchild of the already established distributions gNewSense and BLAG. Though, UTUTO-e , a Gentoo based Linux distro, is credited to have removed licensed linux source code for the first time, Linux-Libre improves considerably on the entire process and is more pro-active in its features.

This is a biased post. Biased towards FREE people using the FREE internet! And certainly against the blogging policies of being neutral, but no harms! Everyone is changing the policies; Microsoft is being altruistic supporting its ultimate rivals – the open source community; and hence changing its policies. If the IT tycoons are changing their policies then why not tiny bloggers!

With the release of Ubuntu 11.04, at the end of April, the countdown for Linux Mint new release had begun. As Lefebvre, the founder and developer of Linux Mint, announced the release candidate Katya for version 11 of Linux Mint, the moment of discovery is here.

rine is a familiar Alternative Games (for Linux) release as part of the Humble Indie Bundle (third). An original FrozenByte product, it is for those gamers who want the logic of puzzle solving in their hardcore gaming environment. Add to it the fact that it is developed around popular concepts of physics and …that it is today offered as open source Linux game the joy of exploring it visibly doubles, triples!

In this post we would look at how you can edit the default speed dial links and copy from a web-page and use that content. If you have always wondered how to “copy paste” from a webpage then this post is for you!

The post discussed 3 versions of stories Bob Young, co-founder of Red Hat, tells three official versions of the stories about how Red Hat got its name! Each of them is an interesting one to read.

Open Source software development has drawn increasing attention as its importance has grown. Open source communities have been able to challenge and often outperform proprietary software by enabling better reliability, lower costs, shorter development times, and a higher quality of code.

Photoshop is an important tool to many of us here. There are people who stick with Windows or Mac for gaining a native environment to use this tool on. For Linux users, there is Gimp, a perfect alternative to Photoshop . However, there are some users that are used for photoshop and for some reason they can not switch to Gimp