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We've all been using Lucid for several days now. Surely it must have happened to you that when you went to drink ...

At least this is the conclusion that I take when seeing the statistics of the survey we carried out here ...

Unity was built in order to create a "light" version of Ubuntu, so that the user can access the ...

Peppermint is a cloud-based, "internetcentric" Linux distribution, elegant, user-friendly and fast, very fast. I suggest you…

Today it is not very common that when installing an application the corresponding shortcut is not created in the ...

Firefox is an excellent internet browser. However, many people do not know how to make the most of it. Before you complain and ...

If you experience problems with the sound in the version of WINE that comes with Lucid and you have Pulseaudio managing your…

Puppy HaroCafe is a Puplet, that is, a derivative of Puppy Linux, the popular Linux mini-distribution, which occupies only 196MB ...

At the beginning of the year, Opera released the new version, 10.5x, of its web browser, but initially only for Windows….

As a fanatic lover and defender of Firefox it pains me to admit it: Firefox is losing more and more and…

Conky is a very lightweight system monitoring system that is highly customizable. The theme for Conky made ...

If you are a programmer, the incredible mockups or diagrams with which Mark Shuttleworth and ...

The recent letter from Steve Jobs about the shortcomings of Adobe's Flash continues to resonate on the Internet. In this editorial ...

This is something I've been fighting since Karmic. Yesterday, I discovered how to solve the problem. If you happen to ...

Lubuntu 10.04, the Ubuntu 10.04 variant based on the LXDE desktop, is now available. It's about a…

If you have several machines (for example, your laptop + one or two PCs) and you have Ubuntu installed on all of them, ...

These are the things I did when I finished installing Lucid on my machine. I assumed they could be from ...

The latest version of this true "life saver" has just come out. Among some new things that it incorporates, some stand out ...

Lucid Script 0.2 Do you remember this script? Basically, it allows you to install codecs, fonts, flash and do all kinds of ...

Finally Ubuntu 10.04 and all its derivatives are out! After an unexpected delay, he announced himself with this message on his ...

Pandorga is a Brazilian distro designed for children. Unfortunately, to my knowledge, there is no Spanish version of this distro, ...

This instruction is used to install any distro through USB. In addition, it is especially useful for those who have ...

Easy Peasy is the name of the distribution formerly known as "Ubuntu Eee". It is a GNU / Linux distribution based on Ubuntu Netbook ...

Thanks to the folks at WebUpd8, we found out about the Pulse Audio Mixer applet. It's about a…

This is an issue that has brought a lot of confusion among users. Even when they think they know the answer, many times ...

The X264 free software project has long allowed the decoding of content in high definition Blu-ray format. The new thing is that ...

Given the imminent release of Ubuntu and the recent confirmation that the release of Fedora will be delayed a week,…

The Shakespearean question of every leader of a free software project is: how can I make other developers ...

An interesting opinion article published in Informationweek reveals a reality that many programmers have been living in recent years: Linux, the operating system ...

The new "improved" version of Nautilus, known as Nautilus Elementary, has just been released, compatible with Gnome 2.3. Nautilus-Elementary 2.30 has ...

Sahana is a "free" system of "disaster management." It is a collaboration tool through the web that ...

Last.fm is a social network, an Internet radio and also a music recommendation system that builds profiles ...

The FSF has highlighted the need for a free software solution in this area as part of ...

Suppose you have a PDF that was created using a scanner, or that it was passed to you but it contains the ...

Oracle has imposed a fee of $ 90 per user to download the plug-in for Microsoft Office that was available ...

42.zip is a 42.374-byte zip file. It contains 16 zips files which in turn contain another 16 zips ...

If you use Firefox and you are tired of Google tracking your activities, you have to try Google Sharing, a new add-on ...

Very interesting article that I found this morning reading Rebellion. It is the translation of an article originally published in English in ...

Dropbox is a well-known cross-platform cloud file hosting service. The service allows users ...

Services are programs that are loaded into memory and running without us seeing them. Some of them, as well as ...

Suppose I am a company and I want to switch to free technologies or I need to hire a service and I want ...

aTunes is a super complete audio file manager and player developed in Java, which allows you to ...

OpenStreetMap provides and allows you to create geographic data such as street maps, etc. freely so that anyone can access ...

The independent director Luca Lucarini has just published his new film "Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system" (Lo…

DjVu (pronounced deja-vu) is a computer file format designed primarily to store scanned images. It is characterized by incorporating advanced technologies ...

New radio based on Free Software, supported by the GNU Project of Venezuela. Since last December 2, 2009, ...

Bazaar (or bzr) is a Canonical project to carry out version control in the development of ...

The OpenGL 4.0 specification was released in mid-March at the same time as the OpenGL 3.3 update. NVIDIA ...

The following wallpapers will be included in the long-awaited version 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) of Ubuntu, which will be released ...

EditShare, the company behind Lightworks, the video editor used in Oscar-winning films, sees the idea of…

If I told you that Google is helping fund an ARM-optimized version of the Theora video codec, probably…

This may seem super silly, but there are many people who do not know this "little trick" that can help a lot, especially to ...

Gstyle is a new themes / themes manager for Gnome that allows you to automatically download and install desktop backgrounds (wallpapers), themes for XSpash or GTK, ...

SystemRescueCd is a Linux distro on LiveCD to repair your system and recover your data after a disaster. It also tries to provide a ...

The excellent Audacious music player is a fork of Beep Media Player (BMP), which is itself a…

Distro based on Puppy Linux 4.3.1, totally in Spanish and created by a Guatemalan. Prepared for low-resource PCs ...

Mozilla is getting closer and closer to taking another step to improve the stability of your browser, isolating plugins ...

You don't like Rhythmbox and you always use Banshee? Well, if you are a music lover and you were wanting to buy ...

They changed the folder icons in the last Lucid update. They are now a darker orange color and ...

SchoolTool is a free administrative software suite for schools. Since it can be installed and used without any payment for ...

On April 1, with the release of the latest firmware (3.21), Sony removed one of the most original features of ...

The Ubuntu One synchronization application for iPhone allows you to make backups and synchronize your calendar, ...

Here is a summary of the 10 main reasons why it is convenient to use free software in state administration. This post…

No, Songbird's "official" developers did not back down from their decision to drop Linux support. Songbird, ...

Converting text files to audio is something that can be useful not only for people with vision problems ...

In this excellent post that came out today on Segu-Info, one of the last and most dangerous vulnerabilities of the ...

The first post of a new series that, although it may not be of interest to everyone, is very necessary: ​​...

No, it's not just another April Fools joke. Unfortunately yesterday they announced the abandonment of the version for ...

A little while ago, the new version of Firefox (3.6.3) came out, now available for Windows users and, thanks to Ubuntuzilla,…

The eternal question ... Whenever you go to buy a laptop, be it a notebook or a netbook, you grab ...

Yesterday, while browsing the web I came across an interesting blog: About Ubuntu. It is a space ...

The second part of this exhaustive analysis on the use of free software in the State, and its advantages regarding ...

Maybe you have your dream home in mind or you are just an architecture enthusiast. An excellent…

Yesterday, scientists from the European Organization for Nuclear Physics (CERN, for its acronym in English) collided two beams of ...

Another interesting contribution from Mukenio in which Vineyard is shown: a new application that allows you to configure wine with ...

Have you ever tried to remove the Evolution email program that comes by default in Ubuntu? If so, you know well ...

An interesting proposal from the friends of Devolución.org: choose "with or without software" when buying a computer….

LiLi USB Creator is a free program for Windows that allows you to create a bootable Live USB from any distro ...

Microsoft Bing has many bugs, but this seems to be one of the most outrageous. If you try to search for OpenOffice, or worse, ...

A simple Google search confirms my personal experience: connecting to WPA / WPA2 in Ubuntu can be a real pain in the ...

Yesterday the Participatory Culture Foundation, the same one that develops the Miro video player, launched the Miro Video Converter, a…

Hardware Compatibility Lists (HCL) are often ignored by Linux users, who should heed these ...

Only one can remain alive and in this case it has been Google's star browser. iPhone, Safari, Explorer and ...

Unlike Windows and MS-DOS, in Linux, in addition to not having a letter assignment -a: b: c: d:…

If, like me, you receive your IP address automatically from a DHCP server and you need to renew it, this ...

Subdownloader is an excellent multiplatform program (available for Windows, Mac and Linux) that allows us to choose a movie or a ...

This is the first of a series of posts related to a theme that I think is crucial for ...

The next version of Ubuntu, Lucid Lynx, has just reached beta, and everything indicates that it will be one of the ...

timekpr is an application that will help us to control the time of use of our compus with GNU / Linux. This program…

Open Video is a broad movement of video creators, technologists, academics, filmmakers, entrepreneurs, activists, remixers, and many others. East…

In another excellent post by jjm66, free software licenses are explained in an easy and intuitive way. Insurance…

The Spanish Council of Ministers will approve today Friday in Seville - in the middle of the San José bridge - that monstrosity ...

Angry IP Scanner (or simply ipscan) is an IP scanner for our network, with which you can know the ...

You always wanted to know what was the "free" alternative to that Windows program that you loved so much ... Well, here is a list ...

GNOME Split is a tool that allows us to divide files and then be able to rejoin them into one. Some…

If you are one of those who usually download large programs, movies, etc., you must know the famous program «Hacha», which is used to ...

Instant messaging (IM) is a form of real-time communication between two or more individuals based on text ...

With ISO Master you can create and manipulate ISO files easily and quickly, without having to complicate the ...

The Ubuntu design team is updating the Humanity icon pack to match the new ...

Buff, this version of Ubuntu will be remembered as the "buttons". That the truth does not seem to me either ...

Canonical has buried the traditional brown color and is adopting a new visual style for version 10.04 that is…

A new version (0.4.3) of KeePassX is now available, an ideal application for all of us who use a lot of ...

Interesting post by Benjamin Humphrey, team leader of the Ubuntu Manual project, who has published an article with 16 ...

Oracle's senior manager assures in a public act carried out over the Internet the survival of the open version of ...

We are always complaining that the Linux video game segment is somewhat poor, especially because of the ...

By default, while we write a command in the terminal we can autocomplete it if we press the Tab key, but if the command ...

Prison Break, House, Prosecutor Chase, Grey's Anatomy, My name is Earl, Family Guy or The Simpsons,… right…

The analysis that they have carried out in Phoronix is ​​very interesting and that allows us to resolve a question that surely many of you ...

It's here. The new revision of Openshot, perhaps already by many considered its salvation in terms of editing ...

Nvidia has decided to remove its new drivers from its servers, the GeForce 196.75 since many users are reporting ...

In just over 2 weeks we have comfortably passed 1000 visits and there are already more than 20 readers ...

Tiger is an application that can be used both to perform system security audits and to detect intrusions….

Sk1 is the result of the Sketch improvement. Its basic characteristics include: CMYK support Color management The…

Simple Image Converter (SIR) is a small program with which we can resize images, rotate them or convert them to other formats….

RAR is a proprietary compression format, belonging to the company RarLabs. Like the well-known WinRAR in Windows, there is also this ...

Open Street Map is a free alternative to the map services of Google, Bing and others, which allows ...

Ubuntu Radiance is a theme for BURG that allows us to select the operating system with which we want to boot from ...

Fantastic article that they have prepared in WebResourcesDepot in which they tell us about the great possibilities we have to ...

Loculinux version 1.1 finally arrived with all the corrected fixes of the previous one. 2…

Most of us are used to using the Windows key on our keyboard to open the start menu, like this ...

Many users install Ubuntu as the second operating system on their machine. It is important then to be able to access the data of ...

TranslatorOOoNote, is a complement for OpenOffice.org that is in charge of translating the text that we select to the language that we have set ...

AMR is an audio compression format optimized for speech coding. It's especially popular on phones ...

Friends of Linuxadictos established 5 levels of Linux users, depending on their experience and commitment to the system from ...

In Linux.com, the portal dedicated to the world of our beloved penguin, they have made a list of the 7 best distributions ...

Much is seen on the Internet about the use of free software in large and small companies, but very ...

BitTorrent is a protocol designed for peer-to-peer (peer to peer or P2P) file sharing. He…

There are legal and other issues, which cause Canonical to make the decision not to place in the installation ...

In this post we will undercut each and every one of the different possible ways to install a program in Linux….

Whenever we want to do a "tutorial" on anything, the possibility of "recording" it comes to mind for ...

In addition to the folders indicated in the directory tree, it may be useful if we know the following folders….

Here is a short guide to converting audio files using ffmpeg. Audio formats MP3 -> MP3 This is ...

Linus Torvalds has released the new version of the Linux kernel hours ago, it is version 2.6.33, which…

Like me, many other people have a hobby to play musical instruments and sometimes one has the hatred ready to ...

GNOME Split is a tool that is written in Java and makes use of GTK + that allows us to divide files ...

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) published an open letter asking Google to release the VP8 video codec that…

One of the main aspects in the construction of a New Law and in the consideration of the "autonomy" of ...

Linux has many options when it comes to playing video; however, multimedia playback in general (this includes ...

Prey is a program that will help you find your PC if it ever gets stolen. Run on Mac, ...

Dia is a cross-platform (GNU / Linux, Unix and Windows) diagram maker based on GTK + with a GPL license inspired by the ...

There are times when we download files from the network with which to work on our system and we see that ...

It is a pc whose hardware works with free drivers. This is guaranteed on the official team site: ...

In the past Montevideo Valley, a Microsoft representative gave a talk about some of the company's products and mentioned ...

The executive director of the "ODF Alliance" has criticized the screen for choosing document formats that Microsoft has ...

Beyond discussions about faster or slower implementation of the new IPv6 protocol (not so new anymore), a…

Recently the new version (1.6) of Covergloobus called "WoW!" Came out. To install we simply open the console and put: sudo add-apt-repository ...

If you know what Gloobus is, you won't want to miss Coverflow. One of the best news that Apple introduced ...

Today we will make a comparison of the most popular Internet browsers on Linux: Firefox, Epiphany, Konqueror, Opera, and Google-Chrome. In…

In a constant battle to keep our computers clean and safe, threats and vulnerabilities multiply at one ...

They added a new "featured" soft section accessible from the USC (Ubuntu Software Center) home page. For the moment,…

The deal is done. Oracle now owns Sun. Oracle's message to Sun customers seems ...

Canonical today announced the launch of 'Ubuntu Single Sign On' - a service designed to create a ...

The thirteenth version of the GNU / Linux Fedora operating system will be released in mid-May 2010. As has been ...

Source Forge justifies the decision to block users that the United States government includes in its lists ...

The world's largest chipmaker and the world's largest mobile phone maker have merged their systems ...

New version of the magnificent Wine, a program that allows us to run Windows applications or games on Linux. In this…

VirtualBox, the excellent virtualization program that is free and multiplatform, has been updated to version 3..1.4 with this ...

If you have the most recent version of Ubuntu, chances are you don't need any of this because ...

xVideoServiceThief is a tool for downloading your favorite videos from a lot of video websites (currently…

Moovida (formerly known as Elisa) Media Center is a project aimed at creating a multiplatform Media Center. Moovida is a lot ...

The current problem with this type of establishment is that due to the initial investment in the purchase of computers ...

With some bug fixes, Simple Scan version 0.9.0 is now available for testing. Simple Scan is ...

If you are interested in photo editing and image manipulation, you've probably heard of the GNU Image Manipulation Program, GIMP….

Yesterday, precisely, we talked about the different ways to use the XMPP protocol in Linux and we mentioned the main clients of ...

Adobe has been receiving harsh criticism lately, notably Steve Jobs himself, for its Flash platform. As…

I have taken the trouble to translate this interesting post that I read yesterday on the Opensourcerer blog. For starters, the ...

Many users complain that there is no version of Google Talk for Linux. This is one…

This is an extension for the nautilus file manager that team members are working on ...