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chown is a Unix/Linux command for changing files and folders ownership.chown become really handy if you want to change the owner for many files or folders using the command line.

Second Beta release of Adobe Flash player 11 has been released, Adobe Flash player 11 Beta 2 provides better performance and more stability in Linux platform.

Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 3 development release comes with the default LightDM display manager login theme, but after installing recently available updates for Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 3 Oneiric Ocelot! it has a new polished theme as we have seen earlier in this post.

Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 3 Oneiric Ocelot development release is out and available to download, check release notes, download options and what’s new in Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 3 Here.

Tiny Core is one of the most smallest Linux distributions, using Busybox as a user interface and comes and Kernel 2.6 based. Tiny Core comes 3.8 comes along with Micro Core and Multi Core. So let’s check the release announcements, changelog and download options.

Amarok is an advanced KDE music player works in cross-platform. Amarok support playing local audio files, podcast “OPML”, internet music tracks from different free music publishers. Amarok 2.4.3 with code name Berlin has been released with enhanced visual design, and bugfixes.

A sneak peek for LightDM ” Light Display Manager ” which replace GDM ” Gnome Display Manager ” in Upcoming release of Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot. Let’s check few screenshots and video preview.

du is a disk usage command allows you to easily know file and directory sizes, also you can view file and directory sizes decreasing starting by biggest file, otherwise increasing by smallest file.

Just 8 days after releasing Opera 11.50 Swordfish and it’s almost hit 34,000,000 downloads. Today Opera desktop team announced new Opera 12 Pre-Alpha with codename Wahoo.

LMMS ” Linux MultiMedia Studio ” is a free cross-platform application, LMMS alows you to easily produce music tracks by creating many melodies and different beats.

I have been using Mozilla Firefox 5 since Mozilla developer announced it, firstly when I decide to add this post I was not going to compare between Mozilla Firefox 5 and Google Chrome 12, just to check Firefox 5 enhancements. But when I used couple benchmarks for checking HTML 5, JavaScript, and CSS 3, didn’t expect this result.

Network World had an interview with Mark Shuttleworth “Canonical founder” over the phone discussed many things about the upcoming releases of Ubuntu the default user interface, and considered package replacements for Ubuntu 11.10 and Ubuntu 12.04.

Ubuntu Developer Diaries with Michael Vogt and Matthew Paul Thomas introducing new features under developing to Software Center For Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. Rating and Reviews are a great way to easily know users feedbacks, reviews, and rating about any application available on the software center before installing it, and you can publish your own reviews and [...]

Illumination software creator allows you to easily create software visually without using single code or having any programing skills. Support cross platforms Linux, MAC OS X, and Microsoft windows. You can simply select which platform you want to create this application for like Python GTK desktop, Adobe Flex, Maemo LIke Nokia N900, N810, Haiku desktop, and [...]

Securing your operating system kinda challenge this days always you want to keep your files and folders safe on your machine if you are connected to network or not. Also if you had installed a web server application on your operating system you have to know how to secure web server applications and databases connected [...]

I have been using Linux Mint since Linux Mint 5 Elyssa always was interesting in Linux Mint Fluxbox editions because it does not require high hardware specifications using a really lightweight window manager Fluxbox based on Blacbox. First installation for Linux Mint 5 on my Laptop with hardware specifications 1GHz and 256 MB of RAM, [...]

Qwit is Qt based twitter client also working for another social network like identi.ca, and you can add custom social network if you know the API source for it. Supporting many link shortener by default using u.nu one of the smallest link shortener.

Finally Google Voice and Video chat available for Linux through web browsers using Google talk plugin. Now you will need to chat directly using your web browsers by Voice with high quality voice, and video webcam chat available. Also you can pop out the chat window with video chat included, and view the video chat [...]

Voice Actions makes your life easier in many ways to have fun with your phone, write text message, email, recognitions for navigation GPS system, search for Music using Pandora, lastfm, mspot, Radio,..

A lot of people was looking forward to use Gnome 3.0 stable release this year on many distributions also known as Gnome shell ”technology part of Gnome 3.0“.