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Just days after Firefox 5 was released, a new version of the best Open Source email client, for ...

Google's master plan to counter Microsft's purchase of Skype includes building a ...

Bad news for the inhabitants of Paraguay: today June 23, the “compensatory remuneration…

Did you think you knew all the Linux distros? Do you have a sister or a teenage son that you want to drag into the underworld ...

UMPlayer is a free media player, with dozens of advanced features and codecs to play virtually any type of file ...

Alchemy is an experimental drawing program that offers us a different way of making sketches by using ...

Many want to leave the social network, but withdrawing is complex. In this post we explain you step by step, how to do it….

Yesterday ICANN approved a measure that will allow putting any type of extensions to domains on the Web, for ...

WTF? Hybrids? Half human and half machine? No. This means that now it will not be necessary to use a special tool to ...

KoverArtist is a graphical interface designed in order to make covers for our CD / DVD in an easy and ...

Come on, we are not fiscal controllers or Microsoft agents, we just want to know how long ago you bought your last program or ...

Here are the results of our latest survey on the problems of spreading free software. I have to admit that ...

In Spanish it has no name but it is surprising as soon as you access and contemplate up to what level it shows the data of each ...

Great news! Just a few moments ago, and still without an official announcement, it is already available on the FTP servers of ...

Excellent, the plan is underway! The malevolent Steve Jobs must be rejoicing in the dark upon learning of ...

Linux provides for everything. Here is a TOP 5 of religious linux distros, for fans. They include special applications, themes ...

A few days ago the news began to arrive from Phoronix, the renowned Benchmarks portal on Linux platform. It is about…

According to Mozilla's development schedule, Firefox 5 will be released to the public on June 24, 2011, opening ...

The Netherlands becomes the first nation in Europe to adopt net neutrality thanks to ...

Last week, Oracle dropped OpenOffice and turned it over to the Apache Software Foundation. In this way, Oracle fulfilled the announcement made ...

If you are using Debian and have trouble changing your login settings, it may be due to a bug ...

David Revoy, illustrator and artistic director behind the short Sintel, gives us a demonstration of digital painting using MyPaint, Gimp-painter ...

The fourth monthly update of the 4.6.x series is now available which, as usual for this type of ...

Our company Malcer, the admin of the excellent Ext4 blog, got his hands on Razor-Qt, a lightweight desktop environment developed ...

Funny campaign from a Linux fanatic ... Since Edward L. Bernays (the father of public relations and nephew of ...

It is truly impressive how restrictive the Windows license is. It's true, we all know ... we have already suffered from Windows ...

The creator of Linux tells how in two decades his invention went from being the heart of an operating system ...

KmPlot is a program to plot functions, just write the function and the corresponding graph will be made. Be part ...

Recently, Kamoso 2.0 “Velázquez” has been launched, an application that allows you to take photos and record videos with your webcam very ...

Wuala provides the online storage service, with the possibility of making backup copies, synchronizing or sharing ...

After the post published about Android-x86, a blog reader asked if with this it would be possible to play Angry Birds, the…

A PPA channel was released to download the latest Beta version of Thunderbird, an email client, in ...

Bill Gates once again speaks bluntly: «To eliminate the problem of global warming caused by emissions of ...

This is already the second version of LibreOffice since its creation, as a result of Sun's purchase by ...

On September 18, 2010, a group of former Mandriva employees, with the support of members of ...

Regarding the free software map that we published a few days ago, some insightful readers pointed out, I think with all ...

This new version of the official Ubuntu theme by ~ simplygreat promises to become one of my favorite themes. The…

A few days ago the "concern" or surprise, or who knows what, about the present and ...

Webian shell declares itself to be "A browser for non-desktop devices."

Have you heard of the Iceweasel browser? Do you know what a Firefox fork is, or why? Well, in this post I explain ...

You don't like Unity? 3D not for you? Does Unity 2D seem like a fiasco to you? Do you miss the old interface of the ...

Daniel Olivera, the creator of Ututo, the first Linux distribution cataloged as 100% free by the Free Software Foundation (FSF),…

With great joy, I just discovered that there are already plugins available to publish our designs made in GIMP and Inkscape ...

After more than ten thousand direct downloads since the release of version 4.5 two months ago, it's out ...

After the prosecution of the owners of Taringa !, one of the brothers who run the popular site presented his arguments ...

The Free Software Foundation (FSF - Free Software Foundation) has published a high priority list of free projects;…

Although the new version of Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu 11.04, this new version comes without the Unity interface….

Confity is a very practical and easy-to-use tool with which you can configure all the Unity options ...

Today a new version of one of the most popular Linux distros has been released: Fedora 15, Lovelock. This…

Two global Internet providers announced their merger a few days ago for three billion dollars. The 70 for ...

Confirming the new development process for new versions of its flagship browser, Mozilla has released the first beta of ...

Ubuntu users are still fighting to install the proprietary drivers from ATI and Nvidia and we are already ...

Android-x86 is a project that is focused on patching Android so that it can be run on netbooks, laptops and any ...

CrunchBang Linux [#!] Is a Debian-based distribution that offers a mix of "speed, style, and substance" on a desktop with ...

Have you always wanted to integrate Firefox to KDE by storing your passwords in KWallet? Well, there is a fairly simple method that allows you ...

Tint2 is a panel / taskbar for Linux. Its developers describe it as simple, light, and that it does not get into your ...

Mark Shuttleworth himself was in charge of clarifying at the Ubuntu Developers Summit (UDS) in Budapest that the next version ...

Finally, Google has launched its long-awaited Chrome OS multiplatform operating system, along with two laptops made by Samsung and Acer, ...

Here are the interesting results of the latest survey "The best distro for netbooks is ...". Do you want to know what the ...

Dropbox is a mass storage service in the cloud, which we have already talked about a bit here. It is multiplatform, ...

Are you just starting to use Unity and already want to handle it by heart? Well, a good way to do it is by using this ...

Careful money management has become important, if it wasn't before; to help with ...

Several events that have occurred in recent months highlight the need for a neutral network and a free Internet: ...

Today I had to listen to a seminar on the quality of public spending in Argentina and, among other things, detailing ...

The author of the project that would regulate companies that provide Internet services in the country defends himself against the accusations ...

Wikipedia is perhaps the most gigantic collaborative work project. It is, for that same reason, a culture project ...

I honestly think the new version of Evolution has improved tremendously. I originally started using Thunderbird, but for 1 year ...

KCM GRUB2 is a KCM (KDE Control Module - KDE Control Module) that allows you to graphically configure ...

The other day I came across this interesting article entitled "When the word 'free' in 'free software' doesn't matter." Was…

After the much anticipated upgrade to kernel 2.6.38, Broadcom wireless cards probably won't work on Debian anymore ...

Well, you probably already downloaded and installed the new version of Ubuntu that everyone talks about. What now? As already ...

Installing printers in Linux is sometimes just a matter of plugging them in and turning them on, but in the case of Canon, ...

CloudApp is an application that focuses on exchanging files in the simplest and most elegant way possible, the ...

Do you know the difference between free software and open source software? What is the difference between…

It seems very tangled, doesn't it? Actually, it is not. There are situations in which a page or service we ...

This same question can arise when using any type of script, not just the bash ones. Is there a major difference ...

A virtual community of solidarity programmers meets in different cities around the world and creates virtual tools to combat catastrophes ...

Thinking of installing a Linux distro and leaving Windows? If you downloaded an .iso or .img image, before ...

In addition to webOS, iOS, Android and Windows, in the not too distant future KDE will surely become part of it ...

ESET has released version 4 of its award-winning NOD32 antivirus for Linux, but is it really necessary to have a…

The other day when it came out everywhere that Richard Stallman, founding father of the GNU Foundation, does not use a telephone ...

Alejandro Alcalde a friend and admin. of the BashyC blog, he is coordinating a titanic task that requires our help, ...

Honestly, the question raised at the end of this article has led me not to know what title to put to the ...

Tasque is a fairly simple app that focuses on a single goal: organizing to-dos, and it does it quite well. Click to ...

aptosid, formerly known as sidux, is a distribution of the GNU / Linux operating system based on the "unstable" branch of Debian, called ...

As Pablo did in Soft-Libre, I have to present myself in this huge community of friends / readers. And I don't want to leave ...

While there are already many who speculate about the possibility that the next version of Ubuntu, which will see ...

Icon maker Faenza, our friend tiheum, has created a group of really beautiful GTK themes. Those…

Although this version 2.2 Beta is not the "big" update that many expected, it is still welcome, especially with ...

Linux is the hacker operating system par excellence. This is so not because it is "complicated" to use but ...

At last the final version of GNOME was released, one of the most anticipated projects in free software and ...

Shipit, the Ubuntu disc distribution program at your doorstep at no cost has arrived ...

Well, those of us who use KDE know that it is not suitable for any machine. While it is true that they have made ...

The diaries are those little books that in the past were used to take note of our day to day, you were an explorer, ...

Are you a KDE lover and always envied those beautiful icons that only GNOME users could enjoy? No…

The Elementary Project wowed us all a while ago by creating an absolutely amazing GNOME desktop theme ...

I just read an excellent tip on WebUpd8 to solve a rather annoying problem that had always bothered me: how ...

Linux is a very versatile operating system. This allows us to have several desktop environments in the same operating system, ...

Hurd is the original kernel of the GNU operating system from the project of the same name founded by Richard Stallman. The development…

After a couple of Release Candidates, we already have the first update of the stable version of LibreOffice. 🙂…

FoxTab is an extension for Firefox that allows you to browse the tabs in a different way, adds previews in ...

andLinux is an Ubuntu system that runs on Windows (2000, XP, 2003, Vista, W7; in its 32-bit versions), so ...

The latest version of Comfusion, a distribution based on Ubuntu + Debian +, is now available for download.

For security reasons, all websites when they ask for a password, hide the text written in the box ...

Gtk + is renewed to try to keep up with Qt. Gtk + is not characterized by being updated very often ...

A few days ago Nokia announced that it would abandon MeeGo. The remaining options were to join Google (Android) or ...

Regarding our recent poll of the month on which is the best Linux distro, on speaking blogs ...

We are getting closer to the final version of Firefox and every day it gets better. In this latest beta version,…

This latest version includes a new API that allows a better reproduction of high definition videos, offering a…

We published the results of last month's survey: which is the best distro? And we open the new question of ...

aurvote is a package for voting packages from the Arch Linux AUR repository to be included in the future in the ...

After 24 months of constant development, the latest stable version of Debian: Squeeze is now available. Debian 6.0 is ...

If you are a true geek, you probably want to run the latest available version of Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal). With last no ...

And no more IPv4 addresses. It happened yesterday, February 3, when the last ...

As we are told on the Mozilla blog, the Prism project was born in 2007 with the primary objective of integrating ...

Finally someone deigned to write an IDE like people for Python that any ordinary citizen ...

Attack of the Clones is another one of the incredible GTK themes created by JurialMonkey, who is also behind Divergence ...

XFCE 4.8 is available from January 17th and the first packages for installation are already appearing ...

Bangarang 2.0 final version is now available after a year of development and comes with many new features. Bangarang ("word ...

Ale Alcalde, one of our cybernautic friends, decided to share with all of us one of his latest creations: Pylabra. It is about…

For fans and for those who hate Ubuntu (yes, for you too), Slodive presents us with a list with ...

The Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Suse, and Mageia developers attended a conference last week in which they tried to ...

KDE fans: rejoice! The latest version of this wonderful desktop environment is now available. In addition to the ...

One of our readers, David Martínez Oliveira, invited us to visit this interesting magazine: Occam's Razor. This is a publication ...

A few days ago we announced the release of LibreOffice 4 RC 3.3. Today we find out that it is already ...

One of our readers, José Expósito, wrote to us presenting his latest project. It is Touchégg, a gesture recognizer ...

You've already installed Arch and you miss the way the system reminded you of available updates. Besides that…

Have you just installed Firefox in Arch and can't find a way for Firefox to open the files with the applications ...

The installation of new programs in Linux, although it has HUGE advantages regarding the way of doing things ...

Have you ever encountered a bug in the code of a program and couldn't fix it? Maybe you were ...

LibreOffice 3.3 RC 4 is now available for all those who wish to download it. This version mainly includes updates in the packages ...

Debian 6 is about to come out of the oven. On the Debian mailing list they already announced that for ...

They took their time but the announcement is now formal: the Free Software Foundation, which historically promotes development and ...

MultiSystem is a small but powerful tool that will allow you to create multiboot pendrives, that is, you will be able to start several ...

If you switched to KDE and miss the Ubuntu "look" (more specifically, the Ambiance theme), don't despair: now ...

Unity 2D does not have all the effects of its 3D version, but it goes much faster. Those who want to enjoy ...

Today LibreOffice and OpenOffice do not differ much, but there are many of us who expect to see big changes as we run ...

A good Linux tool is the root password. When we want to install a program, do some system configuration, ...

Do you know what "free hardware" is all about? Well, basically, they are those hardware devices whose specifications and schematic diagrams are ...

Ubuntu made GNOME trendy, but since I'm using Arch + KDE 4.5 I have to admit I'm changing ...

I came across this interesting article written by Patxi Igandekoa on her blog. What I liked about him is that ...

Did you try Simple Scan, the program that comes by default in Ubuntu, but you were disappointed to see that it does not support ...

Well, not as bad as ruining, but sadly Flash has always been a real resource hog on Linux. Every time…

Gourmet Recipe Manager is a complete application with which you will be able to store all the recipes for your dishes ...

MARS is an extraordinary game specially created to face two players, as they try to pilot a complex spaceship that ...

ArchAssistant is an application that is hosted in the system panel and that allows you to have quick access to ...

The hacker's trade includes, among one of its most common tasks, the exploitation (or generation) of bugs in ...

I think of free software not as a means to be more free but as an end in itself; ...

Eager to stay up-to-date with the latest update available to LibreOffice, the "community" fork of OpenOffice that was born later ...

João Teixeira, one of our readers, brought us information about this interesting distro in which he actively collaborates. It is about…

Due to the numerous recommendations received, I was encouraged to try Arch Linux. One of the few problems with which ...

The SIP protocol allows, among many other things, calls over the Internet. To give you an idea, the ...

Many people do not get used to the changed buttons. Yes, the famous close-minimize-maximize, which in Ubuntu are on the side ...

Turns out, I'm kind of a Star Wars fan. My last vice is the Star Wars: The ...

This year there were distros for all tastes and needs. Some were better for servers, others for netbooks, others for ...

Identifying the dependencies of a Linux package (DEB or RPM) or binary file can always be helpful to…

The idea is to have in the system, in addition to the user with administrator permissions and our user «for all ...

In just ten months Usemos Linux became one of the most popular Spanish-speaking blogs about Linux, ...

For better or for worse (I think for better), new Linux distributions appear practically every day and ...

Beautiful Christmas gift the one that the people of Linux Mint prepared for us, launching today ...

The Document Foundation released LibreOffice 2 RC3.3 yesterday. This version comes with a lot of improvements and fixes ...

Impressive improvement between this beta and the previous one. A significant number of bugs have been corrected (1415, to be ...

In another post, we talked about Torrent Episode Downloader (TED), an excellent program written in Java that allows us to add our ...

FreeDroidRPG is a free RPG made with isometric perspective clearly influenced by video games like Diablo, Fallout and even Little Big ...

Maybe you are lucky and your favorite games are in the repositories of the distro you use. Without…

Some tips on how to configure the sound of GDM (the access screen to the system), the sound reproduced when logging in ...

With the addition of new features, visual refinements, and the mandatory speed improvements, this is an update for Opera ...

Isn't Debian a Linux distro and therefore uses a free kernel? Well, in principle yes. The problem…

DockBarX is an applet for the GNOME panel that allows changing the active window and is characterized by ...

This is an old trick but one that some of you are probably still unaware of. What you have to do is go ...

Version 3.1 of the Vinux distro has just been released, specially designed for users with visual disabilities. Vinux 3.1 ...

Fans of the incredible Orta GTK + theme should take note of this fact: there is a new PPA that will allow you ...

Those fans of icons or, why not, those who enjoy building themes, will appreciate this ...

Today I deleted the network manager applet (the one that appears in the GNOME panel and allows you to ...

Question: Hi Pablo! Great blog, you are the best in the world, I love you. I have a question to ask you: I have a ...

Did you think you knew everything about Chrome / Chromium? Ha! Here is a list of its hidden functions, not accessible through the ...

A few months ago, we recommended the use of Grooveshark, a kind of replacement to Last.fm, but totally free. Also, thanks to ...

Everyone probably knows the old trick of pressing Alt + Tab to switch active application. Some others will boast ...

The acpi command allows us, precisely, to check the battery status of our laptop directly from the terminal. Lovers of ...

CloneZilla Live is a Live CD that allows us to clone our disk and / or partitions. This can be very ...

   Our reader and friend Alejandro Alcalde sent us this interesting script to manage users easily. Yes, all this can ...

Nautilus, the file explorer that comes by default with GNOME, allows us to compress selected files simply by clicking ...

Universal Subtitles is an online tool that is responsible for adding subtitles to videos and movies. With a simple interface ...

Richard Stallman, an international leader in free software activism, and the founder of the Free Software Foundation, considers Julian…

Synapse is a Gnome-Do or Kupfer style application. In addition to the impressive speed at which it runs, it should be noted ...

Indicator-VirtualBox is a simple indicator for the GNOME panel that allows launching the virtual machines that we have added to ...

The alpha 1 version of Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" is now available for download. The main novelty that ...

Katana is a Linux distro (multi-boot) that collects the best computer security distros focused on penetration tests, audits, analysis ...

Tabu is an audio player developed by an Argentine, Jorge Kalmbach. It is based on the gstreamer libraries, for GTK. The…

Simutrans is an open source simulation game under Artistic License 1.0 for Windows, AmigaOS, BeOS, Mac OS X ...

Because Google and Adobe signed a partnership agreement, Google Explorer comes with a version of ...

Maybe you have noticed, maybe not, but this is a bug that affects the latest version of ...

Net neutrality, which should not be confused with technological neutrality, is a principle that seeks to ensure free ...

Open Folder is a Rhythmbox plugin that allows you to open the folder where the song is located ...

Some notebooks incorporate a button to do this directly, but many netbooks and some notebooks do not come with this button, ...

There is an aspect, I would say BASIC for a modern internet browser, in which Firefox and even IE have ...

The new beta of Opera 11 includes several new features, countless improvements and, as we are used to, ...

In Ubuntu, when you need to run a command with administrator privileges, just add sudo at the beginning (sudo command-to-run). However,…

QMLSaver is a Noflipqlo-style screensaver that decorates our screen with a very aesthetic digital clock. It works so much for GNOME ...

Attachmate Corporation bought Novell thanks to a nice financing granted by Microsoft that, as a reward, will keep ...

It may happen that, after having put your hand where you should not, your desktop has been misconfigured. To return to the ...

The development of Firefox 4 has been progressing by leaps and bounds: everything we demanded at the time and what it did ...

Mail managers are increasingly rare. On the one hand, they did not know how to adapt to the new systems ...

The latest version of Linux Mint, whose name is Julia, has been available for a few days. This version includes many ...

To make a long story short, a few days ago one of the kernel developers uploaded a patch (200 lines ...

For lovers of dark themes, this is without a doubt one of the most polished and beautiful….

This is a very simple trick that could improve the security of your system. In short, while it is true ...

Evolution may not be the best but it is the default email client on several popular distros, including Ubuntu ...

Many of us have 2 or more compus and generally install the same programs and PPAs in all of them….

Linux has a very important advantage over Windows in a fundamental aspect: you can test it and see if it works correctly ...

This is a fairly simple trick, but I have found that many are still not familiar with it. It is about adding the ...

Many ask and do not find the solution on how to share the data connection that we have contracted with our ...

In this short tutorial, you will learn how to create password protected "private" folders. The advantage of this type of folder ...

It is possible that in some screenshot you have been able to see a terminal with a prompt (Line that appears ...