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Time For Ubuntu to Fork Evolution

No one can deny the current face of Linux to the masses is Ubuntu. It’s massively more popular than any other distro which makes it the flagship for breaking existing market strangleholds.
Take the Enterprise server OS market for instance, a traditionally strong area for Linux anyway, Canonical (the controlling company of Ubuntu) have rightly seen [...]

Ubuntu GNU/Linux Users Reject F-Spot (Mono)

F-Spot poll shows that Ubuntu users are not interested in it
GNU/LINUX users and developers largely reject Mono and these recent poll results, which were extracted from here, show that F-Spot is specifically rejected. The ‘approval rate’ (in terms of percentage) is something like a single-digit number.
Read more at Boycott Novell

Ubuntuzilla – An APT repository to get the latest updates for Firefox, SeaMonkey and Thunderbird

Ubuntuzilla is an APT repository hosting the Mozilla builds of the latest official releases of Firefox, Thunderbird, and Seamonkey. This repository should also work on Linux distributions that are derivatives of Ubuntu, and probably also on any Debian derivative.
When Mozilla release a security patches for example, Always it takes several days to a week [...]

New Software module in the Community website

The “software” module was added to the Community Website.
The old “Software Portal” available for Mint 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 users contained approximately 400 applications. It was integrated with the main website and it was using the .mint format with mintInstall.
The new module contains every single package available in the repositories. So for [...]

Ubuntu Lucid Makes Scanning Simple

Canonical is aiming to make the task of scanning documents super simple with version 10.04 Lucid Lynx. Canonical developer Robert Ancell is working on Simple Scan, a great little program that does exactly what it claims – it makes scanning documents simple! Simple Scan is now the default scanning software in Lucid.
Simple Scan makes scanning, [...]

Install Chromium Web Browser in Ubuntu in 3 Easy Steps(Lucid,Karmic,Jaunty)

So for those who are wondering what Chromium Web Browser is all about, this is the original project from where Google Chrome draws its source code. I would personally prefer Chromium over Google Chrome, because Chromium is devoid of any kind of tracking by Google of different usage statistics, which I think is a breach [...]

The Grand App Writing Challenge

From Jono Bacon’s blog :
Yesterday I gave my talk on opportunistic developers on ustream.tv (which I plan on repeating next week). In that session I floated the idea of having a fun challenge next week when Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week happens. The idea was pretty popular, so I wanted to share it here.
The idea is [...]

Ubuntu MeMenu to Encourage Social Media Broadcasting

It seems that a huge segment of the world’s population has gone Twitter and Facebook crazy. People are busy updating their statuses, sending each other links, and trying to see how many “friends” and “followers” they can get. We are becoming social “broadcasters”, constantly bombarding our “friends” with 140 character chunks of information. In [...]

Simple Lightweight Graphical Latex Editor Ubuntu Linux : Gummi

Most of the research workers and Engineering Students need to make their Project Work and thesis work in Latex. Now Latex is not a nightmare, Lot of Graphical Front end softwares are available for Latex. Here You can See a simple Lightweight Lates Editor for Linux Users. It is written in python
Read more at Linux [...]

Hacking Wi-Fi Password Using Ubuntu Linux

Hacking Wi-Fi Password Using Ubuntu Linux – I know a lot of you out there would love to know how to hack or crack Wi-Fi passwords from coffee shops or just about any place with managed or secured network.
I’ve already featured several hacking software (and more hacking tools) before, and some of which can help [...]

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