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Latest news on Linux Mint

After a short period of absence from news, Linux Mint has offered a couple of announcements on its blog ...

Auto-mount partitions with fstab

Sometimes we need a partition to mount automatically when the system is being raised. The correct way to solve this problem is to use ...

Share your Linux knowledge

Writing a blog, keeping all of you updated, every day, without charging a penny, is a very difficult task….

Ubuntu 12.10 available

The day has finally arrived and we already have Ubuntu 12.10, the latest version of this popular Linux distribution, which…

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Programming in bash - part 3

To consolidate our concepts, we will learn 2 very useful tools for programming that work perfectly in Bash. Learn to…

Linux on Windows?

There are not few times that we were forced to work in Windows for various reasons (for example, due to environments ...

Programming in bash - part 2

Second part of this mini-tutorial on Bash programming, where we learn to use cycles and other tools that will help us ...

Programming in bash - part 1

Although we generally use it for administrative or file management operations, the Linux console extends its functionality ...

How to use Skype with Empathy

One of our readers, Luis Sebastian Urrutia Fuentes, member of Devra.cl, shares with us a short tutorial on how to use Skype with ...

GNOME 3.6 available

The Gnome Project announced on September 26 that the expected GNOME 3.6 desktop environment has been finalized ...

Fedora 18 alpha available!

Nicknamed Spherical Cow, Fedora 18 Alpha is powered by the Linux kernel 3.5.3 and adds numerous new features and fixes ...

Lazarus 1.0 available

A few weeks ago we were talking about Lazarus, the free Borland Delphi clone. A few days ago the ...

OpenSUSE 12.2 available!

The openSUSE development team has announced the release of the openSUSE 12.2 operating system. Nicknamed Mantis, openSUSE 12.2 brings several ...

Linux has died as a desktop system?

According to Miguel de Icaza, creator of GNOME, it seems so. The controversial developer returns to make explosive statements. Let's remember that ...

Disney anti-free software

Last week some lines with comments "anti-free software" were broadcast on the Disney Channel series Shake It Up, ...

Firefox 15 available

The new major version of Mozilla's browser is available for download, offering notable improvements in performance and fixing ...

Wine 1.5.11 available

Alexandre Julliard announced on August 17 a new version of Wine, the tool that allows users of…

Calligra 2.5 available

The Calligra team, the multiplatform, free and open source office suite born from KOffice, has launched ...

Goodbye to Unity 2D

According to the latest update of the "ubuntu-meta" package from the Ubuntu Quantal Quetzal repositories, Unity 2D no longer ...

Nokia sells Qt to Digia

Nokia transfers Qt to Digia for an undisclosed amount. Thus, the latter will keep all the activities ...

LibreOffice 3.6 available!

LibreOffice, the most popular free office suite, has just reached version 3.6.0. The Document Foundation has just announced the ...

KDE 4.9 available!

KDE 4.9 is the first version available after the integration of the KDE Quality team, which hopes to improve the appearance ...

AdminFest 2012

For those who are not aware, for 13 years the last Friday in July became the ...

Linux Mint 13 KDE available

Shortly after the release of the version with the XFCE desktop environment, Linux Mint 13 Maya KDE Edition arrives….

Eager to try Firefox OS?

Eager to try out the recently released nightly build of Firefox OS, the mobile operating system that promises to give ...

Latex, writing with class (part 3)

One more episode in this series of writings dedicated to LaTeX. An unmissable delivery because we will start to spread ourselves with code ...

OpenSUSE 12.2 RC available

And finally the OpenSUSE 12.2 releases begin! After waiting for many delays, the Release Candidate version is available. Some…

Rumors about Mageia 3

In moments where Mandriva continues trying to stabilize after the problems that it has dragged on for years, Mageia monopolizes the ...

LibreOffice 3.5.5 released

This new version includes the correction of crashes related to opening Visio files, when saving documents with tracking ...

How to easily customize Grub

Grub Customizer is a handy tool that allows you to customize all aspects of grub. If you want to have a PC completely ...

Plank: an ultra-light dock

Plank is a reimplementation of Docky (developed by the Docky Core Team), completely rewritten in the Vala language and has ...

VLC 2.0.2 available

Version 2.0.2 of VLC Media Player has been released, the famous multi-platform multimedia player that allows practically playing ...

GeoGebra, mathematics in motion

GeoGebra is a dynamic geometry software, that is, it allows you to make geometric constructions and bring them to life (read "animate them") in order to ...

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How to enable hybrid sleep

Between the possibilities of suspending and hibernating, there is an intermediate one, which consists of first suspending, and if after a while ...

Mintbox: the Linux Mint Mini PC

Linux Mint has long attracted attention in the Linux community, providing an operating system of remarkable success and popularity….

LDD: Mageia 2 available

We dive once more into the magical world of "The Twilight Zone (LDD): There is Linux beyond Ubuntu." This time…

Kernel 3.4 is now available

Among all the new features in this kernel, there are improvements in the Btrfs filesystem, as well as the support ...

LDD: Puppy Linux 5.3.3 available

In a new installment of «The Twilight Zone (LDD): There is Linux beyond Ubuntu«, we share a new screencast, this time about the ...

Linux-libre joins the GNU Project

Linux-libre joins the GNU Project, becoming GNU Linux-libre. This version, 3.3-gnu, marks the transition, although future stable versions based on ...

New license for free hardware

Intellectual property attorney Andrew Katz introduced a new license for open hardware. The Solderpad Hardware License is ...

Gimp 2.8 final available!

Gimp 2.8 final is the latest version available of one of the programs that have aroused the most expectation in the ...

Ututo XS 2012 available!

One of the most free Linux distributions has already announced, as it does every year, its new version, whose ...

Firefox 12 available!

Mozilla has recently introduced the new update to its browser, Firefox 12, for Windows, Mac, Linux and mobile devices. The…

Poll of the month: KDE Wins!

I don't know about you, but I was following the last survey with more enthusiasm than the Liga BBVA or the fight ...

Compiz is dead?

Compiz is a desktop composition application for Linux. This means that it brings a lot of attractiveness to the desktop ...

Cairo Dock 3 available!

Cairo Dock 3.0 is an animated application launcher for Linux that runs under GNOME, KDE or XFCE. Cairo ...

Microsoft bought Skype!

There have been many rumors regarding the sale of Skype in recent weeks. Finally, it was Microsoft who acquired Skype for 8.500 ...

Trisquel 5.5 available!

Trisquel 5.5 STS «Brigantia» has finally arrived! This edition has taken longer than expected but it has deserved the ...

MATE 1.2 available!

MATE is a window manager, and its development is a fork of Gnome (that is, it is based on ...

What's wrong with Microsoft?

The strange measures of the Redmond company are food for thought. In recent times, positive data have been known ...

Jitsi 1.0 stable available!

Jitsi (formerly SIP Communicator) is a video conferencing, VoIP, and instant messaging application for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X….

WebGL: 3D on the Web

WebGl (from its acronym in English, "Web Graphics Library") allows displaying hardware accelerated 3D graphics on web pages, ...