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Does Openbox seem "too" heavy? Ha! Then Awesome can be a good alternative for you. It is highly configurable, very fast, ...

dd is a very "silent" command and therefore sometimes a bit dangerous and exasperating. In this post ...

Gnome 3.4 has been released and it comes loaded with new features. Since their last big release (version 3.2) they have been made ...

The struggle between Argentina and Brazil to impose their software for Interactive Digital TV, according to the official newspaper Página / 12….

Hated by some and appreciated by others, Unity has a disadvantage: not being able to customize Unity for convenience and comfort ...

Various Android subsystems and features have already been merged, and much more will follow in the future. This will make things ...

Changing the resolution on GNOME or KDE based distros is very easy. For those of us who use Openbox and ...

Diskless Remote Boot in Linux (DRBL) is a Debian-based liveCD with XFCE graphical environment that allows us to have ...

Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich announced today on his personal blog that Mozilla has made the difficult decision to…

Most of the most used Linux distributions include by default either KDE or GNOME. Many…

The situation would be as follows: we have several Linux PCs, a router and a multifunction printer and we want to share it with ...

On March 9th Canonical posted a message on Twitter asking users around the world to…

Firefox 11 is finally officially available. The latest version of Mozilla's browser includes new tools ...

OpenLibra is a site that was born in response to the need of users to easily find books ...

The purpose of Collusion is to try to educate those users who are not experts in privacy matters, so that ...

2011 was a year of many emotions. Unity appeared, hated by many and loved by others; also saw the light ...

They say that those of us who use free software do so, essentially, because it is free. Besides that free software does not ...

A new announcement from Telefónica during the Mobile World Congress, and great news for the people of Mozilla, already…

Apparently kernel 3.2.5 includes a patch that allows energy saving of PCI devices through ASPM (Active ...

With the appearance of televisions that can read content over the network, specifically through DLNA. It becomes imperative ...

This is our monthly competition. The idea is that we can show the world that Linux can also be obtained ...

This month we had everything (news, tutorials, new applications, discussions, new distros launches) and we want to share it with ...

As planned in the release schedule, Canonical published the first beta of ...

Migrating from one operating system to another is something that can be tedious for some, especially novice users. A…

We tell people that we use Linux because it is safe. Or because it's free, because it's customizable, because it's ...

A small application called Ubuntu Installer for Android, available on the Android Market, allows you to do just that: install Ubuntu on your ...

EasyTAG displays and edits ID3 tags of multiple formats with a comprehensive and easy-to-use interface. Offers CDDB support using ...

The Document Foundation has announced that the LibreOffice suite is now available in the Intel AppUp Center, the ...

New number of Tuxinfo, in the network of networks. With many news and many articles to read. This month will ...

A few weeks ago Google declared its intention to cross all the data they have about you. Everyone. Till the date,…

Adobe is embarking on a retreat from the Linux world: Last year it stopped releasing AIR updates, and in the ...

On his blog, Mark Shuttleworth made an interesting announcement: the presentation of Ubuntu for Android at the next Mobile World ...

Unity-reboot is a Unity launcher that is placed in the sidebar and with the right button allows us ...

Chakra Linux is a Linux distribution focused on the use of KDE. According to DistroWatch Chakra Linux is one of the 15 ...

Version 2.0 of VLC Media Player has been released, the multimedia and multiplatform player known for playing practically all ...

In July of last year, at the end of the Open Source Conference (OSCON) a rumor emerged that brought a bit of ...

Desura is a platform to buy and play games, it is similar to the well-known Steam. Something that I think is very good about ...

The Document Foundation has just released the new stable version of LibreOffice, with interesting improvements in all the components of ...

In November of last year (2011) a very heated controversy began about how Linux Mint had surpassed Ubuntu ...

Canonical announces the availability of a new flavor of its distribution, this time aimed at companies. Your name…

Polly is a Twitter client for Linux. It's easy to use, fast, and has several cool features, like ...

After several years of absence from the mobile scene, Google has launched a version of its popular browser to ...

Canonical intends to withdraw its sponsorship of Kubuntu after the release of Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin. This means…

Unity lenses are windows designed to display search results for files, applications or other information easily from ...

AdaptableGIMP is a GIMP revision focused on making the user's work easier by showing only the tools you need in ...

Many times when we want to download files from servers that have a download limitation by IP, we need to change the IP ...

This is our monthly competition. The idea is that we can show the world that Linux can also be obtained ...

PCLinuxOS, is a very interesting distribution, for its stability, for being a rolling release, for having a large number of packages ...

If you have your entire music library on one pc and want to listen to it on another, without having to copy the files, ...

As some of you may know, I am currently using ArchBang on my laptop. Archbang is based on Openbox and uses xcompmgr ...

This month we had everything (news, tutorials, new applications, discussions, new distros launches) and we want to share it with ...

This time we present a tool that allows you to encrypt sensitive information through a script package to ...

The three major rating agencies that make the world tremble with their decisions have come up with an unexpected ...

A new player has entered the tablet market. Aaron Seigo has revealed a new tablet called Spark, ...

Throughout the numerous Ubuntu releases, the stable Mozilla Firefox PPA has delivered to date ...

Just one year after its launch, Pardus 2011 has been discontinued, this implies that there will no longer be updates ...

Thursday January 26, 2012 will be remembered as the day when the European Commission and Member States ...

As always, every issue of TuxInfo magazine is packed with information. The present has many articles (about Spice, Jamendo, ...

In the Autonomous Community of Extremadura (Spain) 40.000 PCs will be migrated to Linux (Debian). This news comes after being canceled ...

Cinammon, the fork of GNOME Shell for those nostalgic for GNOME 2, has reached version 1.2, which is considered ...

The KDE developers have announced the availability of the final version of KDE 4.8, a new edition of this ...

The following theme for GNOME Shell, developed by tiheum, the creator of the Faenza icons, is inspired by the ...

Mark Shuttleworth just left a blog post announcing HUD (Head-Up Display). This new interface will replace the ...

The creator of the kernel that gave life to the GNU / Linux operating system is usually, in each interview, measured, cerebral but ...

A few days ago the news was released: The Pirate Bay will say goodbye to the .torrent files and ...

Believe it or not, there are also a lot of open source applications for Mac and even for the ...

The user palazzjr has published on Scribd a scan of the full accusation made by the United States Government….

The FBI closed the download page and arrested four executives accused of piracy; in response, hackers of the collective ...

Here are the results of the previous survey: «The best distro 2011 is ...«, with the obvious results, that enthroned a ...

Arch Linux developers have officially announced the inclusion of Pacman 4 fully in the distribution and in ...

The announcement about the global blackout from Wikipedia in English is a huge wake-up call to what we ...

The malicious SOPA bill, which sought to block any website that contains links to content protected by the rights of ...

A new version of Unity is available for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, but not in the official repositories but ...

After the controversy generated by Microsoft's demand to have UEFI enabled for Windows 8 to boot,…

NASA is one of the most important scientific and technological organizations in the world. It's been ...

Clearly, members of the Linux community would like to see more women involved in Linux and free software ...

LMMS (Linux MultiMedia Studio) is an open source program for creating music. It is simple and easy to use and it…

Razor-Qt is a lightweight desktop environment based on Qt, which promises to become an interesting alternative to KDE, especially ...

Trickle is an interesting tool with which it is possible to limit the bandwidth of both uploading and ...

The Canonical company has presented Ubuntu TV, a Linux system designed for television. This is the Ubuntu version ...

KDE is, in my opinion, one of the most complete desktop environments. However, something that ...

Raspberry Pi is a device the size of a credit card, that works like a personal computer, with limited ...

On January 7, the Ministry of Communication approved the prototype of the national software platform (PSN), operating system ...

In recent months it was said that the company could have decided to stop working on its mobile operating system, ...

The Tor Browser Bundle is a package offered by TOR (The Onion Router) that integrates everything you need ...

These are the most widely read articles on Let's Use Linux throughout 2011. Some are repeated as you run ...

On December 31, 2011, the adventure of Linex, the Linux distribution, developed ...

In the previous installment we packed the game engine, now we have to do the same with the game if we want ...

YumEx or Yum Extender is a graphical interface that helps us easily install any package in Fedora. Would come to ...

F1 Spirit Remake is a fun racing game for Linux although it is also compatible with other platforms. The format…

There are several tools for downloading songs from Grooveshark. However, there are few that allow us to download our lists of ...

What better way to start the year than with a competition? The idea is that we can show the world that ...

Devilspie is a program for Linux that allows you to specify the behavior of the desktop windows by means of ...

This was the year that supposedly Ubuntu has taken a nosedive and Linux Mint has stolen the ...

Chakra is a Linux distribution based on Arch Linux that uses KDE as a desktop environment and whose principle is ...

Kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman recovered Android drivers removed from Linux kernel 2.6.33 -in the…

ffDiaporama is an application for creating movies, using titles, photos, video clips, music, etc. that we can join using transitions….

Does Firefox "hang" for a few moments when opening many pages at once? Strangely, Firefox "hangs" does not increase usage ...

As always, each issue of the magazine is packed with information. The present has a new social section, integrates several ...

Samsung has launched a devastating blow, announcing that the original Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab will not be upgraded to ...

As published on Web Upd8, Cinnamon is a fork of Gnome Shell started by Clement Lefebvre, leader of the Linux project ...

OpenBox can be modified with themes and GTK engines so that windows and applications look much more ...

An online Software Center has many advantages: it allows you to discover new applications while you are on another computer - even using ...

Pioneer is one of the most complete space simulation games that we can find within the Linux universe. It is set ...

Firefox version 9 is freely available for download on the Foundation's official blog ...

Normally we use a good part of our time to prevent unauthorized access to our computers: we configure firewalls, permissions ...

Some time ago, we had talked about Razor-qt, a lightweight desktop environment developed in Qt, which promises to become a ...

Researchers from the University of Córdoba (UCO), Spain, have created a device aimed at those elderly or dependent with ...

Today I discovered an interesting article from LifeHacker, published in mid 2010, on how to run Mac OSX using VirtualBox. In…

A few weeks ago, the name (Beefy Miracle) and the release schedule of the next operating system were announced ...

Due to the "lock" applied by Oracle to the Java distribution license and recent security vulnerabilities ...

Here is a short post with the best fonts or typefaces, as you prefer to call them, to use in ...

Richard Stallman has spoken and as almost always does, his statements are not wasted. The father of GNU ...

Does Nautilus seem slow and heavy to you? Thunar does not suit your needs? Maybe it's time to try a ...

Sparkleshare is an open source application that can be installed on Linux, Mac and Android devices to synchronize files ...

Building GDM themes from scratch requires some knowledge of the XML programming language. Other…

Finding and replacing text can be a simple task using the most basic text editors. But what happens when ...

We will do the first practice of packaging with RPM, and it will be packaging the engine of the game we want to play. Without him,…

Linux Mint altered code for Banshee, the music player that comes installed by default, to keep 100% ...

By visiting firefoxlive.com, one can see the red pandas at Knoxville Zoo that the Foundation…

Like GNOME Shell, it shows its potential with the different third-party extensions that we can install to take advantage of and ...

Wireshark is a tool that works as a network protocol analyzer, allowing you to capture and analyze in real time, ...

Easylife is an easy-to-use program that allows you to install most of the "extras" packages. It also allows you to set the ...

The Ubuntu Software Center, while still too "heavy" and has a few tidbits that need to be polished, ...

Microsoft's help files come in the proprietary CHM format. Unfortunately, some "geniuses" have used this format to ...

The survey this month is if you would be willing to pay a reasonable price on a mandatory basis to continue using ...

The magic of RPM is that in a single SPEC file all the instructions to build a ...

This month we had everything (surveys, news, tutorials, new applications, discussions, new distros launches) and we want to share it again ...

The site that the GNOME Project announced a few years ago is now available to all GNOME Shell users.

Unity has been criticized, among other things, for not allowing the ability to configure and customize it to taste. However, by ...

Guicavane is a graphical interface for the popular Cuevana website (Netlix's Argentine competition). It allows us to see or ...

With the increase in the use of virtual machines and remote connections, the GNOME developers are working on a…

Although it was already known informally, the first flight simulator developed in Argentina was presented ...

A new version of CrunchBang 10 "Statler" is available for download. For those of you who don't know, CrunchBang is…

The popular digital painting application MyPaint has reached version 1.0.0 and includes many new features, such as: a menu ...

The latest (final) version of the GNU / Linux distribution that seems to be in fashion is now available for download:…

Everyone knows that LibreOffice needs a facelift, to adapt it to the new times and to…

When we install Fedora we see that it needs a somewhat long post-installation process. Many times the time factor is decisive ...

As we anticipated a few days ago, it seems that in the Linux world something is changing, and that change leads ...

The developers behind the openSUSE project announced that version 12.1 of the Linux-based operating system is now available,…

At this point in the game, you probably already have your smartphone, which surely comes with Bluetooth. Thanks to him and ...

Ubuntu is losing a lot of fans. Many of them were encouraged to try Fedora 16, the latest version of ...

Companies, organizations in defense of free software and individuals mobilize against the draft bill presented in Congress ...

Regarding the release of Fedora 16 Verne, the developers of this distribution have announced the launch of a project ...

As a writer for a blog dedicated to guiding Linux users, I always dreamed of finding ...

Today I saw a very interesting video that the people of ZDNET made and that I wanted to share. The experiment consisted of ...

Regarding the article in which we mentioned that the popularity of Ubuntu as a favorite Linux distribution is starting to ...

Adobe has announced that it is discontinuing development of Flash for mobile browsing. The reason is that ...

On November 9, Firefox turned seven years old, and to celebrate, Mozilla not only introduced the new ...

A new issue of one of the best magazines about Linux in Spanish. In this opportunity, we will find interesting articles about ...

Since last Tuesday Linux Mint has broken a 6-year record in which Ubuntu held the first ...

A few days ago the new version of this excellent Red Hat-based distribution, Fedora 16, was released, which in ...

Id Software has had an abysmal weight in the creation and development of the FPS genre, not only with ...

Byzanz is a simple, easy-to-use recording tool. You can record with animated GIF format, Ogg Theora (optionally with ...

Since yesterday Google enabled the possibility of creating pages not of people but of companies, brands, institutions, etc. in…

This time we will face two great distros in the GNU / Linux world: Arch Linux and Debian. We will see some of the pros and ...

Mike Gualtieri, part of the Forrester research group, recently stated that Linux's plan to conquer the…

At Let's Use Linux we are always concerned with spreading and, above all, shedding some light on the issue of licenses….

Many people find the appearance of the default fonts of Linux distributions unpleasant, and ...

As announced on the Fedora mailing list (remember that Red Hat developers occupy important positions ...

The news was confirmed during the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) wrap-up session. But Banshee didn't ...

Thanks to Necessitas it will be possible to run Qt applications on Android. Yes, the kid's dream come true. A few ago ...

This month we had everything (surveys, news, tutorials, new applications, new distros launches) and we want to share it with ...

Faience is the new work from the creator of the Faenza (tiheum) icon pack. It is a complete theme for ...

The philosophy of free software invites us permanently to "fiddle" with all the configurations of the programs and adapt them to our ...

It will be a vice acquired in my years as a Windows user, I don't know, but I always prefer to install from ...

It seems that the death of Steve Jobs has had a deep impact on Apple. It is rare the occasion in which the ...

The intention of the developers of this popular operating system is to expand the use of Ubuntu well beyond ...

The LibreOffice development group recently announced that they have serious intentions to build versions of our office suite ...

NetbootCD is a live CD based on the Tiny Core Linux distribution. The particularity of NetbootCD is that it allows you to download ...

Currently it is possible to find an error that does not allow us to perform the usual update in Arch Linux. This error is ...

When Microsoft announced its new version of Windows, Windows 8, much debate began about one of the ...

This article will help you understand the basics of RPM packaging and how to set up a build environment of ...

Sometimes to collect videos, images of a certain event, etc. we have to rename a large number of files. This…

On October 22, Iceweasel entered Debian Testing. Iceweasel is a 100% free fork of Mozilla Firefox maintained ...

With the birth of the Qt Project, the "free" path for this important project has been deepened, leaving aside speculation ...

Chamber VI of the National Chamber of Criminal and Correctional Appeals confirmed the prosecution of the three ...

The Linux kernel 3.1 arrives, after going through 10 RCs, and it does so with various improvements, among which ...

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot was released a few days ago. As we do with each release of this popular distro, I have…

When people enter the world of Linux they come across terms like repository, GRUB or Kernel that…

In case you have trouble fully maximizing your GNOME windows, leaving a few small pixels to cover… well…

If every time you try to access the pipe-menu (the menu that is automatically created with all the programs installed in ...

If you are not convinced to install Ubuntu 11.10, you do not need to download the ISO to test it. Now they have a tour ...

The other day I received an email from one of our very interesting readers, asking me about the differences between OpenOffice and ...

On October 16, the new version of Rekonq, a web browser written in Qt, was released. It uses the QtWebKit engine ...

Learn some tricks to configure this excellent browser and improve the user experience, which will help you to familiarize yourself with ...

In case Unity 3D doesn't work properly on your computer, there is a way to find out if this is ...

In most cases, the GPU is only used by games and the most demanding graphic applications, ...

BackTrack is a GNU / Linux distribution in LiveCD format conceived and designed for security auditing and related to ...

On October 14th Malcer has released a beta of the new KDE Caledonia theme update. For those who…

Andy (WebUpd8) has published the latest version of GNOME Shell Extensions in his PPA repository. This PPA makes it possible ...

Although many times the browser brings with it the necessary settings to have a good operation by default, it is true that ...

Yesterday I wanted to use ffmpeg again to make a screencast and could not remember exactly the complete command that was ...

One of the developers and packagers of eOS, Sergey Davidoff, came across a project called "compache" that what ...

Some time ago we analyzed TuxGuitar, a project originally from Argentina which is a free alternative to Guitar Pro, the well-known ...

Gimp Paint Studio or GPS is a set of tools, brushes, filters and some extra modification for Gimp. The package…

About a week ago, the Free Software Foundation relaunched its directory of applications, all free to download, use and share:…

Richard Stallman creator and maximum promoter of free software in the world, wrote a note on his site on purpose ...

Ubuntu App Developer will offer tutorials for the creation of applications specifically designed for the Linux operating system, as well as its ...

Gnome Pie is an application inspired by a World of Warcraft add-on called OPie, which tries to offer a…

In this issue you will find a lot of information, since it was a very busy month in relation to free software….

Today, Mark Shuttleworth has published on his blog what will be the name of the future ...

Today a new version of Firefox has been released, known as Firefox 7, whose feature ...

After a long wait, Ubuntu One already has a final version for Windows, which is added to the versions ...

GNOME 3.2 is the first major update to the GNOME 3 platform and offers a much more complete experience with ...

Mozilla makes a new version of Firefox available to its users, for both desktop systems and devices ...

This month we had everything (competitions, surveys, news, tutorials, new applications) and we want to share it with you again, especially with ...

Sometimes it can be very confusing to work with the terminal because we execute several commands and it is not clear where they end ...

BackBox is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu Lucid 11.04, adapted to be used in security tests. It has been…

Ubuntu Customization Kit (UCK) is a tool that helps the user to create a personalized Ubuntu Live CD / DVD like this ...

Flash Doctor is a script to solve problems that may arise when installing or configuring flash on Linux. East…

Mikogo is a tool to share our desktop and control a remote computer in a secure way, but until now ...

Months ago, the world saw the birth of a task management application like never seen before, and ...

Fingerprint GUI is a very easy to use tool that allows you to use your fingerprint reader at login ...

BlueGriffon is available for GNU / Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, it uses the Gecko rendering engine (the same one that uses ...

In an interview without waste carried out in the program "Day Tripper" of the radio "Rock & Pop", RMS ...

According to an article published by ITWorld, Microsoft will require that machines certified to use Windows 8 use UEFI ...

The League of Moveable Type is a new community of users that aims to create a collective movement to drive improvements ...

After a long wait Diaspora opens its doors for registration. Diaspora is an open source project started by 4 American students, whose…

Many of you will know KOffice, those who don't, should know that it is an open source office suite ...

Maqetta is a WYSIWYG editor, (What You See Is What You Get, "what you see is what you get"), of ...

LibreCad, formerly known as CADuntu, is a program to assemble the drawing and documentation of constructions and projects of ...

Mozilla launched a few weeks ago WebAPI, a set of tools aimed at developers so that they can create ...

What better way to start the week than with a competition? The idea is that we can show the world that ...

Like every month, the day came to know the new survey. In this case the question is: how many ...

Google and OpenDNS, two of the most popular public name resolution services on the web, have proposed e ...

He is the undisputed leader of the movement that supports free software, although his influence goes much further, and one ...

Dx wine is an installer similar to winetricks, which allows you to install DirectX via Wine. At last you will be able to use ...

Here is a list of the best Mexican distros currently in development and that have a community and support ...

On August 23, number 40 of the TuxInfo Magazine was launched, which has already reached ...

A few days ago we discussed and discussed together about a post published by Linus Torvalds himself, which made mention of ...

"With strong consensus, the Music Law advances in the Senate", reports the Argentine National Congress News site. Is…

Apparently, an unknown number of servers hosting kernel.org have been compromised and their security was compromised….

A digital certificate belonging to DigiNotar has been discovered that can be used to carry out Internet attacks on pages ...

Like any good application, Dolphin, one of the best KDE file explorers, has a very important functionality: the ...

As Julian Assange had anticipated two days ago, the WikiLeaks site announced this Wednesday that they already leaked in the ...

The new version of Tuquito is now available, a GNU / Linux distribution based on Ubuntu and of Argentine origin, aimed at ...

The most tedious section of any 3D modeling program is rendering, it can take minutes, hours, or even ...

Has it ever happened to you that you couldn't build a package due to a missing dependency? A similar situation can ...

Grooveshark is a tremendous online music search engine and music recommendation that allows users to…

Giver is an excellent file sharing tool. It is especially useful when we encounter the problem of having ...

Wayland, the graphical server developed by Red Hat's Kristian Høgsberg that is presented as a modern alternative and more ...

Aren't you always with your cell phone on you? Do you have it in your jacket, a purse or a bag and you never hear ...

When I first started using Linux one of the things that stopped me from passing completely was the software for ...

Mozilla released today the new stable version of Firefox 6, both for desktop and mobile devices. In the wake of…

Google has announced through its official blog the acquisition of the Motorola Mobility division for 12.500 million ...

Does the touchpad of your laptop or netbook not have all the functionalities activated that it should have? This trick, for the ...

Sakis3G is a script that takes care of doing the dirty work for us and, after doing its magic, ...

During his stay in Guatemala and as part of the activities of the Congress of Students of Sciences and Systems (COECYS) ...

Are you a terminal lover? Pity PC owner? Maybe you are one of those who know the ...

In Let's Use Linux (uL) we have already seen several programs to manage power consumption in Linux (Jupiter, Granola, Eee-control, powertop, ...

The creator of Eggwm and Touchégg, has created a few days ago a launcher similar to the Mac OS X launchpad ...

GIS (Geographic Information System) allow working with geographically referenced information, managing vector layers, raster (bitmap) ...

Do you use Google reader, but are you tired of its old-fashioned interface? Do you like the style of web readers, but prefer ...

Cdlibre.org is a website where you can find open source software of all kinds. Within the catalog we can find software ...

The other day I was wondering if there was a way to connect my Android phone to my desktop PC to ...

The following appeared on the WebM project website: “Our friends at Skype have added support for video calls…

Hello… the GNOME developers must surely be loving Linus Torvalds. The creator of the Linux kernel wrote pests about ...

Are you one of those who needs to "have shorts" to do things well? Haha! Well, although it seems bizarre and ...

It seems that, contrary to what many thought, Mozilla's are not just thinking about "polishing" and ...

Some time ago, when developers opened the Bank of Ideas to the public to find out what the new features were ...

KDE fans must be more than happy. Complying with the date set for its launch, it is now available ...

Ubuntu One, Canonical's cloud file storage service, originally designed for Ubuntu but ...

Moxie Marlinspike presented an ingenious tool called SSLStrip at Black Hat 2009, aimed at making users believe that ...

Richard M. Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, will give a conference in Guatemala: Copyright vs. Community, on 8 ...

After a while without using the computer, GNOME crashes asking to enter a password. This can be a good ...