Ubuntu 17.10 Released: Most Exciting Ubuntu In Years Canonical finally announced the release of Ubuntu 17.10, the latest and most modern Ubuntu release so far. However, unlike many other releases, the Artful Aardvark can fairly be considered to be one of the most exciting Ubuntu releases ever. Following Canonical’s announcement few months ago about dropping Unity, Mir, Ubuntu Touch and focusing more on […] October 19, 2017October 21, 2017
openSUSE 42.3 Released, Here’s What’s New After 8 months of continues development. The openSUSE team has just announced openSUSE 42.3. Which is considered to be the latest release of the stable openSUSE branch (called Leap). openSUSE continues to be an enterprise-ready distribution. Since it started to be built again on SUSE Linux base (since 42.1). The new version is based on […] July 26, 2017December 23, 2018
Fedora 26 Officially Released With Updated Software & More After around 8 months of continues development, Fedora project has just announced the official release of Fedora 26; Newest and most solid Fedora release so far. Fedora 26 keeps coming with GNOME desktop and pure upstream components by default. Additionally, a lot of other spins with other interfaces such as Cinnamon, MATE, KDE, LXQt and […] July 11, 2017December 23, 2018
All Debian 9 Live Images Are Broken, Developers Working On a Fix Debian 9 was just released two days ago. Most of us got excited to download the new version and see what’s new. And also to test the new images and whether a safe upgrade can be done at the moment or not. However, there seems to be a bug in all the Debian 9 live […] June 20, 2017June 21, 2017
A New Version Of WPS Office For Linux Was Just Released WPS Office is a well known cross platform office suite which also works on Linux desktop. Its interface is very much similar to that in Microsoft Office and has similar tools as well. We thought – and a lot of other users – that the development of WPS office for Linux has stopped a long […] June 18, 2017December 23, 2018
Debian 9 Stretch Released, Bringing A Lot Of Updates After around 2 and half years of continues development, the Debian team has finally marked the Stretch release as stable. Releasing it as the current Debian operating system. Debian 9 Stretch was announced as the upcoming development release in November, 2014. As of 17 June, 2017, the distribution was released. The following changes were most noticeable: New […] June 17, 2017June 21, 2017
Ubuntu 17.04 Released, Not Much Changed Canonical finally announced the release of Ubuntu 17.04. Codenamed “Zesty Zapus”. In general, there doesn’t exist any new features or important updates. Just newer packages with bugs fixed and problems addressed from previous releases. So, What Was Changed In Ubuntu 17.04? PowerPC architecture support is no longer available in Ubuntu 17.04. Instead of using a […] April 13, 2017December 23, 2018
Green Recorder 2.0 Released, Adding GNOME’s Wayland Support Green Recorder is a simple recording program for the Linux desktop. It was written using Python and utilizes ffmpeg as its core. It also uses the GTK+ library. The initial version of the program was released around 1 month ago. Today, we are excited to announce version 2.0 of the program. The most interesting feature […] March 5, 2017December 23, 2018
Linux From Scratch 8.0 Released, Adding Major Changes Linux From Scratch is a book which can be used to build an independent Linux distribution which doesn’t use any other Linux distribution as a base. It teaches you how things work under the hood and how to compile software and build your own Linux system. The guide is also free for all. BLFS (Beyond […] February 26, 2017December 23, 2018
Linux Kernel 4.10 Released, Adding Virtual GPU Support Linus Torvalds finally announced Linux kernel 4.10. Initially Torvalds planned for it to be a small release with not so many commits. However, he ended up with an “average” kernel release with more than 13000 commits. The new release includes a number of improvements and updates. Probably the most noticeable feature is adding support for […] February 20, 2017December 23, 2018
Be Ready To Attend SCALE x15 Conference in March 2-5, USA We just witnessed the end of FOSDEM 2017; The largest FOSS event in Europe. It held around 660 different events about a lot of different topics and aspects of open source software. You can check their summary here. However, if you were located in USA and didn’t get a chance to attend FOSDEM, don’t worry. […] February 14, 2017December 23, 2018
Meet Green Recorder.. A New Linux Recorder One of the best features that free software provides is choice. You have hundreds of applications to choose. They all offer different functionality and options which may or may not exist in other software. And even better, it’s free. Meet Green Recorder Today, we would like you to welcome “Green Recorder”. A new desktop recorder […] February 6, 2017December 23, 2018
LibreOffice 5.3 Released: The Biggest Release So Far Finally after a long waiting. The Document Foundation announced the release of LibreOffice 5.3. Which fairly can be considered a huge release full of updates and new features for the free office suite. What’s New in LibreOffice 5.3? Probably, the most waited feature was the new toolbar layout options. However, this features is still experimental […] February 1, 2017December 23, 2018
Beware: Lenovo’s Windows 10 Signature Edition Blocks Installing Linux 2016/09/21 15:50 GMT Update: Lenovo speaking to The Register denied any intended blocking for Linux or any other OS. They said that it’s a driver issue on Linux that makes it unable to read RAID on SSD disks. Microsoft opening the source code of a lot of its projects in the last months convinced some people that the company […] September 21, 2016December 23, 2018
