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Linux Commands list for beginners

An article that will show a basic Linux Commands list for beginners. Linux Commands list for Beginners Linux is one of the most popular open source operating system that is used by programmers around the world. It is easy to install and is loaded with incredible features that work efficiently on any hardware. Linux is also fully customizable and can be modified as per your hardware and software requirements. Whether you’re new to Linux or have been a fan of this operating system for a long time, you should be familiar with a basic Linux command list for beginners that will improve your user experience.

Android Emulators for Linux

Android Emulators for Linux  An emulatoris a program or a hardware device that allows your connected device like a computer to imitate a different system. Usually, an emulator is used for popular hardware devices when they become outdated or are not compatible with the majority of machines in the market. Terminal emulation is a term that refers to the use of emulators to make an older program work with a new device.

Linux Operating System

Linux Operating System Linux operating system (Linux or GNU/Linux) is a free source Unix Type operating system that was initially created by Linus Torvalds and then it developed with the help of developers from all over the world. Its use is similar to that of Unix, but all of the source code has been written from scratch as free software under free license GNU General Public License. That means that it’s source code is accessible to anyone.

Linux Distros Part 2

This is the continuation of our previous article, where we list some of the most popular Linux Distros. You can read the first part here.   Linux Distros Part 2  1. Slackware For many people, Slackware is considered the… Hackers distribution. It is the oldest Linux Distro that managed to “survive” until today, and no, it’s not the first Linux Distro as many people believe. It’s very strong and stable since 1993.

Does Linux needs antivirus

Does Linux needs antivirus?  Using Windows OS without an updated AntiVirus is not really responsible. Many users though who switch to a Linux Distro like Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Manjaro or Fedora, ask them self’s if Linux needs antivirus . The short answer is no, and we’re going to see why. What is a virus, or else, a malware? In order for us to understand why an antivirus isn’t necessary in Linux it’s important to understand first how a virus/Trojan/key logger/work/whatever kind of malware works.

How to install Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux Distros. It is one of the most user friendly distribution and it is also common for a newbie to start with Ubuntu his Linux experience. That doesn’t mean that Ubuntu isn’t good enough fro more advanced users though. In this article we’re going to share a step-by-step guide on how to install Ubuntu 16.04 LTS by either using a DVD either a USB drive.

Recover deleted files in Linux

Since everyone once in while acccidently deletes a file, in this article we’re going to show how you can recover deleted files in Linux. Since there are different ways to delete a file there are different ways to recover it also.    Recover deleted files in Linux Case 1 – You deleted the file using the “Del” key. In that case, just go to the “Trash” and search for the file in order to restore it.

Ubuntu Core 16 Released

The parent company of Ubuntu, named Canonical, released Ubuntu Core 16. It’s a minimal edition for embedded devices, Internet of things and cloud deployments.  What is new in Ubuntu Core 16 The new version released with Update control. This allows publishers of software and also manufactures to make some validations to the updates before they actually apply them. A great Ubuntu Core feature is that its updates are transactional. This means that every failure is going to automatically be rolled back so there are no compromised devices.

How to download and install Steam on Ubuntu Linux

Before we install Steam on Ubuntu Linux we have to open the terminal and install the following packages: When installation is finished just follow this link and press ” Install Steam Now” button.  Next step is to open the file with the Ubuntu Package Center. If it doesn’t prompt you ; just find the file you downloaded and double click it. Accept Steam Terms and you are ready to play.

Manjaro Linux 16.10 Fringilla Released

In a previous post we announced the updates of the rolling distribution Manjaro Linux, but as it seems the update, upgrades the system in to the edition Manjaro Linux 16.10 Fringilla. The edition of Xfce remains the default desktop administrator and according to the post announcement of Manjaro Linux 16.10 not a few can claim to offer such an integrated and innovative experience Xfce.  So, the new distribution comes with Xfce 4.

Manjaro Linux: Update brings Linux Kernel 4.5.8-2

Manjaro Linux operating system updated yesterday, and the update was just announced. For those that don’t know about this OS, the Manjaro distribution is based on Arch Linux and it’s goal is to make things easier for the non-experienced Linux user. The Manjaro installation is simple and it can be done with 2 different ways, one via GUI and one via terminal.   In general Manjaro linux is good for your attention, and it brings a lot of promises for the future.

Repair Restore or Reinstall Grub 2 with Ubuntu CD or USB

In this article we’ll show you how to r****epair restore or reinstall Grub 2 with Ubuntu CD or USB. Grub 2usually gets overridden when you install another OS. In order to make Ubuntu to control the boot process you’re going to need to Reinstall Grub using and Ubuntu live CD.     Warning: By using the “sudo” commant, especially form a live CD you can seriously harm your system.

Skype Alpha 1.11 released with improvements in Video Call

Recently Skype released an update to the Skype for Linux Alpha client. It includes many new features and improvements compared to the previous version as they say, but that is not necessarily true or exact !   Now you can have support for setting an avatar in group chats and there are also some performance improvements during a video call. Some of the early users mentioned that they have already experienced issues, by receiving notifications when skype isn’t in focus.

Fedora 25(Beta) resets Linux performance bar

Fedora 25 beta version released this month by Red Hat. This release gives more to cloud and developer features which makes this Linux distribution more attractive to enterprise users. Fedora Linux is the version of Enterprise Linux(RHEL), and it includes a set of base packages that form the basic foundation of: Cloud, Server and Workstation. Each one of those targets a different group of users.   Fedora 25 Targeted Users So Fedora 25 release is most likely for enterprise users.

Released: Lumina Desktop 1.1

This weekend, a new version of Lumina got released, Lumina Desktop 1.1 . Lumina is a lightweight Qt-based desktop environment. It uses an approach “plugin based” to the whole interface, and this is allowing the user to tune and tweak the desktop according to his personal needs and preferences. You can install it in almost any Linux distribution even though the developer says that it works best with TrueOS, including also Fedora, Arch and ofcourse Ubuntu.

How to have Netflix on Firefox for Linux

If you’re a Firefox user if you run Netflix in the Mozilla browser now, you’ll see the old Silverlight error page. But there is a solution. For a reason , Netflix expects Silverlight when a user is running firefox.  There is a simple solution on this. The only think you have to do is trick Netflix into thinking you are running something like Chrome and you can do it by changing the browser user-agent.

How to fix Linux Kernel from Dirty COW (CVE-2016-5195) – Debian/Ubuntu

Dirty COW (CVE-2016-5195) is a privilege escalation vulnerability that Linux Kernel has and exists since 2005. CVE stands for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). The explanation why this can be referred as Dirty COW is as a result of a race condition that was found in Linux kernels memory subsystem, handled the copy-on-write (COW) breakage of private read-only memory mappings. That means that a local user that did not have the privilege, could use this flaw for gaining access to read only memory mappings.

How to install VirtualBox 5.1 to RHEL/CentOS and Fedora

VirtualBox is a software that created for virtualization and it is open source x-platform. It is possible to be installed in all operating systems and give to user the capability to install and run a lot of “guest” operating systems in the same machine. A simple example is that if you install it in your Linux machine, then, you can ran Windows OS as a GuestOS and also the opposite. Same concept applies to more OS, which means that you can compine more than 2 with only limitation is your hard drive capacity and ofcourse your systems memory.

Fedora 26 removes the synaptics driver

Jan Kurik , Red Hat’s Fedora program Manager informed us about a system-wide change on the fedora 26 release. His proposal is the retirement of synaptics X11 drivers , provided by xorg-x11-dvr-synaptics package. Ferora project’s dev team decided the removal to offer users a better touchpad experience from the default install on Fedora 26 Linux default install that is released in june 2017. For users who prefer synaptics instead of libinput can still install it.

NetBeans IDE 8.2 released, Install on Ubuntu 16.04

<p style="text-align: justify;"> – There are diferent NetBeans IDE <a href="https://netbeans.org/downloads/index.html" target="_blank">download bundles</a> available. Download the desired bundle or download for all bundles. For the purpose of this post, I am downloading for ALL </p> <pre>sudo apt-get purge openjdk* sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer wget http://download.netbeans.org/netbeans/8.2/final/bundles/netbeans-8.2-linux.sh chmod +x netbeans-8.2-linux.sh ./netbeans-8.2-linux.sh<p style="text-align: justify;"> – Follow on-screen wizard to install your IDE </p>

SmartGit 8.0.1 available, Install on Ubuntu 16.04

<li> Log: memory leak if having the Log window open for a long time </li> <li> Refresh, File Monitor: smartgit.fileMonitor.excludeIgnoredDirectories=false does not work properly </li> <li> Stash-on-demand: possible internal error related to progress display </li> </ul>

VMware Workstation Player 12.5 released, Install on Ubuntu 16.04

VMware Workstation Player 12.5 recently released, is a free for personal use piece of software that can be used by anyone to run (or playback) virtual machines that were initially created with the Oracle Virtualbox or VMware Workstation applications and exported as appliances. VMware Workstation Player 12.5 Changelog   What’s New How to install VMware Workstation Player 12.5 on Ubuntu 16.04 Follow on screen installer to complete the installation

cURL 7.50.3 released with cmake and openssl fix

  CVE-2016-7167: escape and unescape integer overflows mk-ca-bundle.pl: use SHA256 instead of SHA1 checksrc: detect strtok() use errors: new alias CURLE_WEIRD_SERVER_REPLY http2: support > 64bit sized uploads openssl: fix bad memory free (regression) CMake: hide private library symbols http: refuse to pass on response body when NO_NODY is set cmake: fix curl-config –static-libs mbedtls: switch off NTLM in build if md4 isn’t available curl: –create-dirs on windows groks both forward and backward slashes  

Wine 1.9.19 Dev released with World of Tanks crash fix

Wine 1.9.19 Dev recently released, comes with a number of new features, improvements and bugfixes. This includes Initial version of a udev bus driver for HID, various improvements in joystick support, Initial implementation of DC rendering in Direct2D, Improved metafile support in GDI and various bug fixes. Wine 1.9.19 Dev Changelog WinUAE settings window reappears after being dismissed PDF Export problem on Delphi 7 applications stamps.com installer hangs The Geometer’s Sketchpad 5.

VirtualBox 5.1.6 released, Linux 4.8 fix for the kernel display driver

VirtualBox 5.1.6 was recently released as a 5.1 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. Some addressed issues includes fixed issue with opening ‘.vbox’ files and it’s aliases, keyboard grabbing fixes and many others. VirtualBox 5.1.6 changelog   GUI: fixed issue with opening ‘.vbox’ files and it’s aliases GUI: keyboard grabbing fixes GUI: fix for passing through Ctrl + mouse-click GUI: fixed automatic deletion of extension pack files USB: fixed showing unknown device instead of the manufacturer or product description under certain circumstances XHCI: another fix for a hanging guest under certain conditions as result of the fix for bug #15747, this time for Windows 7 guests Serial: fixed high CPU usage with certain USB to serial converters on Linux hosts Storage: fixed attaching stream optimized VMDK images Storage: reject image variants which are unsupported by the backend Storage: fixed loading saved states created with VirtualBox 5.

Vim 8.0 released, Install on Ubuntu 16.04

Vim 8.0 released after more than a year since it was last released. This release gives you interesting new features, such as channels, JSON, Jobs, Timers, Partials, Lambdas, Closures, Packages and more. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient. Vim 8.0 Update Jobs DirectX support for Microsoft users Support for asynchronous I/O, channels, JSON New style testing Lambdas and Closures Partials Packages estamp Timers (asynchronous) Support for GTK+ 3 Viminfo merged by tim See changelog for complete lists

qBittorrent 3.3.7 released – New feature delete torrent files with shift

qBittorrent 3.3.7 Open Source BitTorrent Client recently released, is a BitTorrent client that comes loaded with all the modern functionality necessary for daily torrenting which includes an integrated search engine, web interface, sequential download support, bandwidth scheduler, RSS support and other useful features. qBittorrent 3.3.7 Changelog   FEATURE: Delete torrent+files with Shift+Delete (pieniacy) BUGFIX: Fix 6-hour speedplot point push rate. Close #5545 (Daniel Segesdi) BUGFIX: Avoid spawning a new explorer.

How to install XnView MP on Ubuntu 16.04

XnViewMP is the enhanced version of XnView Classic. It is a powerful cross-platform image viewer used for viewing, converting, organizing and editing graphical & video files. Compatible with more than 500 format. In this article we’ll guide you through the process of how to install XnView MP on Ubuntu 16.04 [Bugs] GPS map issues [Requests] QT 5.6.1 [Bugs] Delete in view mode doesn’t work [Bugs] Thumbnail size change thumbnails view [Bugs] Copy instead of Move action [Bugs] Print custom size [Bugs] Thumbnail mode & thumbnail size menu [Bugs] Export after join/Capture

EME – An Elegant Markdown Editor for Linux

EME is an Elegant Markdown Editor recently released for Linux. EME was developed with Electron framework. The goal of EME is to give you teh best markdown editor experience and its available for Windows, Mac, Linux. EME Features It just suits, show editor or preview or both just as you wish. Focus mode, writing without distractions. Exportable, from Markdown to HTML/PDF… You name it. Supporting math typesetting, good for students and professionals.

How to install Node.js 6.4.0 on Ubuntu 16.04

<pre>sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev<ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> Download the nvm installation script from the<a href="https://github.com/creationix/nvm">project&#8217;s GitHub page</a> and run it </li> </ul> <pre>curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.31.0/install.sh -o install_nvm.sh bash install_nvm.sh<ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> Close your Terminal screen and open it again to gain access to the nvm functionality. Then run the following commands </li> </ul> <pre>nvm list nvm ls-remote nvm install 6.4.0 nvm use 6.

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) reaches End of Life on July 28 2016

The Ubuntu Release Team recently announced the End of Life of Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) which was released almost 9 months ago, on October 22, 2015. All security related updates wil no longer be made available after the scheduled date “July 28, 2016. According to the announcement posted by Adam Conrad (A member of the release team): As a non-LTS release, 15.10 has a 9-month month support cycle and, as such, the support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 15.

Kodi v17 “Krypton” Alpha 2 released, Install on Ubuntu 16.04

<pre style="text-align: justify;">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/xbmc-nightly sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install kodi<p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Install the encode addon</strong></span> </p> <pre>sudo apt-get install kodi-audioencoder-* kodi-pvr-*</pre> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Remove Kodi v17</strong></span> </p> <pre>sudo apt-get remove kodi*</pre>

How To Install ImageMagick 7.0.1-5 on Ubuntu 16.04 and Derivatives

ImageMagick 7.0.1-5 recently released, is a software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images. It can read and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. Use ImageMagick to resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves. ImageMagick 7.

How to Install Skype 4.3 in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04

Skype 4.3 for Linux was released a few years back and there had not been any further updates. This tutorial is primarily focused on showing those that are currently running Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04 on how to install Skype for Linux on their machine. Quick Highlight of Skype 4.3 An updated UI Our new cloud-based Group Chat experience More reliable file transfer support when using multiple devices at once Greater accessibility by blind and visually impaired users PulseAudio 3.

Install Vuze 5.7.2 BitTorrent Client on Ubuntu 16.04

<ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> UI: Sort order icon was reversed in torrent options dialog </li> <li> UI: Better flushing of cached color resources on scheme change </li> <li> UI: Sort order for file priority was inconsistent </li> <li> UI: When one of multiple instances of a view was closed some menus were lost </li> <li> Core: Don&#8217;t pause incomplete downloads when an aggregate tag&#8217;s share ratio is hit </li> <li> Core: Fixed bug with peer connections for torrents with unlimited peer connection limits </li> <li> Core: Fixed unnecessary rechecking on start of downloads with do-not-download files </li> <li> Core: Don&#8217;t process aggregate share ratio rules while downloads are being deleted </li> <li> Core: Ensure &#8216;on download complete&#8217; actions aren&#8217;t fired while incomplete downloads are in a pending state </li> <li> Core: Backup/Restore now ignores corrupted config and temporary files </li> <li> Core: Fixed broken synchronization in DHT tracker causing 99% CPU usage </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>How to Install Vuze 5.

FileZilla Client 3.17.0 released

FileZilla Client 3.17.0 recently released, is an open source, cross-platform graphical FTP (port 21), SFTP (port 22), and FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS – Port 990) client with lots of features and an intuitive graphical user interface. Among others, the features of FileZilla includes Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), Cross-platform. Chnagelog since v3.17.0-rc1: New features: Recursivly queing local files for upload now displays the progress below the local file list MSW: Use dynamic TCP send buffer sizes to improve upload speeds on high-latency connections SFTP: Use hardware-accelerated AES on x86_64 CPUs if available by using the AES implementation from Nettle instead of PuTTY Building FileZilla now depends on the Nettle library, version 3.

Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS released

Martin Wimpress recently announced the release of Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS which has been in development for nearly 2 years. This latest release features the latest MATE desktop environment, and support for Ubuntu Snappy command-line package manager.  Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS Update: Added ubuntu-snappy-cli to the default install. Updated Ubuntu MATE Welcome to 16.04.9. Updated translations and assorted bugs fixes Updated to install Telegram from a PPA maintained by Martin Wimpress that has fixes Indicator icons.

Firefox 45.0.2 released with fix to video playback crash

Mozilla Firefox 45.0.2 was recently released by Mozilla team. This latest release is purely in relation to some important bug fixes, which Mozilla have deemed necessary to bring the browser to a new client version which requires a physical update. These include a fix for Firefox crashing in relation to video playback with Media Source Extension and also a fix an issue impacting the cookie header, when third-party cookies are blocked.

Scylla 1.0.1 The world’s fastest NoSQL database released

<th> </th> <th> </th> <td> 1.0.1 </td> <td> <a href="http://downloads.scylladb.com/deb/ubuntu/dists/trusty/scylladb/multiverse/binary-amd64/scylla-server_1.0.1-20160411.bacc769-ubuntu1_amd64.deb">Download</a> </td> <td> 1.0.1 </td> <td> <a href="http://downloads.scylladb.com/deb/ubuntu/dists/trusty/scylladb/multiverse/binary-amd64/scylla-server-dbg_1.0.1-20160411.bacc769-ubuntu1_amd64.deb">Download</a> </td> <td> 1.0.1 </td> <td> <a href="http://downloads.scylladb.com/deb/ubuntu/dists/trusty/scylladb/multiverse/binary-amd64/scylla-jmx_1.0.1-20160411.3d39ece-ubuntu1_all.deb">Download</a> </td> <td> 1.0.1 </td> <td> <a href="http://downloads.scylladb.com/deb/ubuntu/dists/trusty/scylladb/multiverse/binary-amd64/scylla-tools_1.0.1-20160411.b9fe89b-ubuntu1_all.deb">Download</a> </td> <td> 0.9.1 </td> <td> <a href="http://downloads.scylladb.com/deb/ubuntu/dists/trusty/scylladb/multiverse/binary-amd64/libthrift0_0.9.1-ubuntu1_amd64.deb">Download</a> </td> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Install Scylla 1.0.1 on Fedora 22</strong></span> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> Scylla packages are available for 64-bit (x86_64) Fedora 22. You can either install from a <a href="http://www.

How to Install zbackup 1.5 alpha on Ubuntu OS

zbackup is a globally-deduplicating backup tool, based on the ideas found in rsync. Feed a large .tar into it, and it will store duplicate regions of it only once, then compress and optionally encrypt the result. Feed another .tar file, and it will also re-use any data found in any previous backups. This way only new changes are stored, and as long as the files are not very different, the amount of storage required is very low.

KeePass 2.32 Password Manager released

New Features: The quick search box (in the toolbar of the main window) now supports searching using a regular expression; in order to indicate that the search text is a regular expression, enclose it in ‘//’; for example, performing a quick search for ‘//Michael|Adam//’ shows all entries containing ‘Michael’ or ‘Adam’. Added ‘Advanced’ tab in the ‘Open From URL’ dialog (easily extensible by plugins); added options: timeout, pre-authenticate, HTTP/HTTPS/WebDAV user agent and 100-Continue behavior, FTP passive mode.

Vivaldi 1.0 Stable version released

<li> Speed Dial Folders <ul> <li> Organize your Speed Dials into folders for convenient access. </li> </ul> </li> <li> Quick Commands <ul> <li> Control everything in Vivaldi with simple text commands </li> </ul> </li> <li> Fast Forward <ul> <li> Jump to the next page in a sequence. Great for search results. </li> </ul> </li> <li> Rewind <ul> <li> Return to the first page you’ve visited at a site. </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <li> Web Panels <ul> <li> View any site in your Vivaldi side panel.

Uptown Funk Parody By OpenSUSE Linux team

I recently came across an interesting OpenSUSE Linux video called – “Uptime Funk” music video (parody of Uptown Funk) from SUSECon 2015 in Amsterdam. This is a must watch video. [youtube height=”HEIGHT” width=”WIDTH”]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbABy9ul11I[/youtube] Lyrics: This bit Uncontrolled A bad bug, Make my system fold This bug, in the kernel My kernel My uptime ceases Freakin’, Spazzin’ My manager’s mad, it ain’t pretty I need caffeine, a big screen Gotta fix this server in a jiffy

Atom 1.6.0 Text Editor Released

Add functionality and API for pending pane items Improvements to multi-pane usage Block Decorations Async Git Top and bottom bar API See release notesfor full change details

Vivaldi Beta 3 is here – Download Now

<li dir="ltr"> Tab specific zoom allows you to set zoom level for each tab, rather than for each website domain. It avoids having all the tabs zoomed when visiting the same website in different tabs and allows you to keep one zoom level while browsing in a tab. </li> <li dir="ltr"> New Tab Hibernation Options <ul> <li dir="ltr"> This new option gives you more control on your resources. If you are like us and want to have many tabs open, simply right click on the active tab and choose &#8216;Hibernation Background tabs&#8217;.

Sublime Text 3 – Build 3103 released

Added new Syntax Definition file format, .sublime-syntax Added a custom regex engine that matches multiple regexps in parallel, for faster file loading and indexing Improved Unicode support, including combining character rendering, character classification in regex searches, and case insensitivity in Goto Anything matching Packages are now on GitHub Incorporates many community provided improvements to the above packages, with significant improvements to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Go, D and SQL

Kadu 3.0 Instant Messenger Final released

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Firefox 44.0.2 released with bugfix

Mozilla Firefox 44.0.2 was recently released by Mozilla team. This latest release primarily focuses on bugfix. A notable update to this release is it fixes an issue where Firefox hangs or crashes on startup. Mozilla Firefox 44.0.2 changelog Same-origin-policy violation using Service Workers with plugins Lightweight themes on Firefox for Android do not verify a secure connection Application Reputation service disabled in Firefox 43 Unsafe memory manipulation found through code inspection Addressbar spoofing attacks Delay following click events in file download dialog too short on OS X Errors in mp_div and mp_exptmod cryptographic functions in NSS Missing delay following user click events in protocol handler dialog Addressbar spoofing through stored data url shortcuts on Firefox for Android Firefox allows for control characters to be set in cookie names Buffer overflow in WebGL after out of memory allocation Out of Memory crash when parsing GIF format images Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:44.

uGet 2.0.5 the Best Download Manager for Linux released

uGet ChangeloguGet 2.0.5:  curl plug-in: Disable SSL verification for host. curl plug-in: Don’t check post and cookie file if no HTTP setting data. curl plug-in: Don’t assign data if plug-in start failed. avoid crash when program re-enter signal handler. (e.g. SIGINT) adjust width of download properties form by width of category chooser. Fix: Can’t stop all task when program into offline mode. uGet 2.0.4: save and restore width of download column.

Calibre 2.51 released with new features and bugfix

New Features Add an action to the context menu for the search bar to paste and instantly execute the search. When adding multiple books from a single directory, added the books in order of the last modified time of the book files. Bug Fixes Fix a regression in 2.50 that prevented a small number of devices from being detected on windows PDF metadata: Workaround for PDF files with corrupted XMP metadata packets, generated by Nitro PDF.

Mozilla Firefox 44.0 Released

Mozilla Firefox 44.0 was recently released by Mozilla team. This latest release comes with a number of new features, improvements and bugfix. A notable new feature is an improved warning pages for certificate errors and untrusted connections. Mozilla Firefox 44.0 changelogNew Improved warning pages for certificate errors and untrusted connections Enable H.264 if system decoder is available Enable WebM/VP9 video support on systems that don’t support MP4/H.264 In the animation-inspector timeline, lightning bolt icon next to animations running on the compositor thread Support the brotli compression format via HTTPS content-encoding Screenshot commands allow user choice of pixel ratio in Developer Tools Fixed

Audacity Audio Editor 2.1.2 Released

Other Changes Upgraded from wxWidgets 2.8.12 to wxWidgets 3.0.2. Restructuring of the Preferences Menu Restructuring of the Track Dropdown Menu (for the Spectrograms) The Noise Reduction “Frequency smoothing” default has been increased to 3 to help avoid metallic artifacts. Resetting Preferences or deleting audacity.cfg will set the new default. (Windows) The location of Audacity’s work-in-progress folder has been changed, to avoid problems where certain disk cleaners treated them as deletable temporary files.

Telegram Desktop 0.9.18 released

v 0.9.19 Choose an emoticon and see the suggested stickers Bug fixes and minor improvements v 0.9.18 Bug fixes and minor improvements v 0.9.17 Crash fixed v 0.9.16 GIFs autoplay and automatic download Inline bots support Automatic download settings added All media redesigned

Atom 1.3.3 Text Editor released

Fixed an exception that would occur when undoing after closing a split pane. Fixed a crash that would occur when closing a full-screen window on OSX. Fixed an infinite loop that would occur when opening multiple files with the same names in different directories. Install Atom 1.3.3 on Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa, Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela, Linux Mint 17.

MuseScore 2.0.2 – Free music composition and notation software released

MuseScore 2.0.2 which was recently made available for installation via PPA, is an open-source music composition and notation software, allowing the users tp create, edit and print music in an WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) environment. This release, focuses primarily on stability, with over 100 more bugs fixed. But we couldn’t resist making a few additional enhancements! New Features Playback of trills and other ornaments as well as glissandi and bends, with controls to customize or disable the effect New templates: various classical chamber groups, vocal ensembles, orchestras, and concert band Palette improvements: clefs, key signatures, time signatures, lines, and other palette elements that formerly required drag and drop can be added to a selected range via double click Search box in Symbols palette Zoom to 100% shortcut (Ctrl+0) Tremolo rendering improvements New symbols: treble clef with parenthesized octave indicator, pedal line with release symbol Improvements to Bravura and other music fonts Improvements to the default FluidR3 soundfont Install MuseScore 2.

uGet 2.0.4 the Best Download Manager for Linux released

Main features: Downloads Queue Resume Downloads Advanced Download Categories Clipboard Monitor Batch Downloads Multi-Protocol Multi-Connection FTP Login & Anonymous FTP Scheduler Quiet Mode Robust Keyboard Shortcuts Computer Shutdown After Completion

Virtualbox 5.0.12 released – Supports Kernel 3.10.0-327.el7 with latest RHEL 7.2

VirtualBox 5.0.12recently released, is a cross-platform virtualization application that installs on your Intel or AMD-based computers, and runs on Windows, Mac, Linux or Solaris operating systems. It extends the capabilities of your computer so that it can run multiple operating systems (inside multiple virtual machines) at the same time. VirtualBox 5.0.12 changelog Fixed the validation of IPv6 port-forwarding rules Improved handling of text selection mouse pointer added LBA64 support for being able to boot from huge hard disks Fixed .

Street Fighter V to support Linux with help from Valve

Capcom has just announced that the upcoming Street Fighter V game will also be adapted for SteamOS, with the help of Valve. Street Fighter V is an upcoming fighting video game produced by Capcom, which co-developed the game together with Dimps. It is the fifth main numbered entry in Capcom’s Street Fighter franchise. Following a recent post on capcomwebsite: “Hey everyone. I’m excited to announce that Street Fighter V will be officially supporting Steam OS!

PyCharm 5.0.3 EAP released

Install PyCharm 5.0.3 EAP on Ubuntu Linux OS– First install Oracle Java JDK/JRE Install Oracle Java JDK/JRE – Install PyCharm via PPA

KDE Frameworks 5.17.0 released

KDE team recently announced the release of KDE Frameworks 5.17.0. This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner. New in this VersionBaloo Fix date filter used by timeline:// BalooCtl: Return after commands Clean up and armour Baloo::Database::open(), handle more crash conditions Add check in Database::open(OpenDatabase) to fail if db doesn’t exist Breeze Icons Many icons added or improved use stylesheets in breeze icons (bug 126166) BUG: 355902 fix and changed system-lock-screen (bug 355902 fix and changed system-lock-screen) Add 24px dialog-information for GTK apps (bug 355204) Extra CMake Modules

Manjaro Drops KDE 4 for good, Switches to Plasma 5.5

This is one of the biggest updates we did so far. Mostly due the C++ 11 ABI change within gcc. It is recommended to rebuild your AUR packages for this ABI. With this we finally dropping KDE4 for good. All users of this desktop should either switch over to Plasma 5 or any other maintained desktop, like LXQt. So what changed? We have now Plasma 5.5 with all its goodies, updated Mesa and LibreOffice.

qBittorrent 3.3.1 Open Source BitTorrent Client released

FEATURE: FEATURE: New “Set as default label” option in Add torrent dialog FEATURE: Support wildcards for filtering torrent list and torrent content BUGFIX: Fix -1 is displayed instead of the infinity symbol BUGFIX: Fix scan dirs settings saving BUGFIX: Exported torrents now use name instead of hash BUGFIX: Improve upgrade to v3.3.0. Now undownloaded magnets will be migrated too BUGFIX: Fix wrong encoding for listen failed error message BUGFIX: Fix RSS not automarking articles as read BUGFIX: Fix possible deadlock during application exit WEBUI: Cookies support on WebUI when downloading torrent from a URL WEBUI: Modified download and upload windows to allow autocompletion of browsers WEBUI: Fixed the spinner in the WebUI upload page WEBUI: Modified height of the WebUI download page.

ClamTK 5.20 Clam Antivirus released

<pre>sudo apt-get install gdebi wget https://bitbucket.org/dave_theunsub/clamtk-kde/downloads/clamtk-kde_0.16-1_all.deb sudo gdebi clamtk-kde_0.16-1_all.deb<p style="text-align: justify;"> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>Install plugin for ClamTK in Cinnamon’s file manager &#8211; Nemo:</strong> </p> <pre>sudo apt-get install gdebi wget https://bitbucket.org/dave_theunsub/nemo-sendto-clamtk/downloads/nemo-sendto-clamtk_0.02-1_all.deb sudo gdebi nemo-sendto-clamtk_0.02-1_all.deb <p> &nbsp; </p>

Google Chrome 47 update released

Google Chrome 47 update (47.0.2526.73 ) recently released, comes with a 41 security fixes, very tiny UI changes (except for the built-in PDF viewer, which was redone entirely), and the removal of the desktop notification center. The iOS version has added new keyboard shortcuts and support for 3D touch. Google Chrome 47 Highlights: Use-after-free in AppCache Cross-origin bypass in core Cross-origin bypass in DOM Out of bounds access in v8 Out of bounds access in Skia Use-after-free in Extensions Type confusion in PDFium Out of bounds access in PDFium.

uGet 2.0.3 the Best Download Manager for Linux released

Main features: Downloads Queue Resume Downloads Advanced Download Categories Clipboard Monitor Batch Downloads Multi-Protocol Multi-Connection FTP Login & Anonymous FTP Scheduler Quiet Mode Robust Keyboard Shortcuts Computer Shutdown After Completion

Pale Moon 25.8.0 – Firefox Based Browser released

Fixes/changes: Updated LibVPX to 1.4.x to be able to play more kinds of VP9-encoded videos. Updated the JPEG decoder library to 1.4.0. Fixed and cleaned up XPCOM timer thread code to avoid intermittent issues with events not firing (especially after stand-by). Updated overrides to work around issues with Facebook and Netflix. Fixed an issue where too-old system-supplied NSPR and/or NSS libraries would be accepted for use. Security fixes:

GIMP 2.8.16 released to mark 20 Years of it’s General Image Manipulation Program

GIMP 2.8.16 was recently released to celebrated GIMP 20th anniversary. GIMP 2.8.16 features support for layer groups in OpenRaster files, fixes for layer groups support in PSD, various user inrterface improvements, OSX build system fixes, translation updates, and more changes. Our immediate future plans are to release first public version in the unstable 2.9.x series that will feature fully functional GEGL port, 16/32bit per channel processing, basic OpenEXR support, vastly improved color management implementation, new tools, on-canvas preview for many filters, and more.

Linux Kernel 4.4 RC1 released

The driver changes are all over, although staging, networking and GPU drivers stand out (and those three areas account for over half of the driver changes – roughly 40% of the whole patch). On the architecture side, ARM (when counting both 32-bit and 64-bit) accounts for about half the changes, with x86, powerpc, mips, chris and s390 accounting for the other half.

MPC-HC 1.7.10 – Windows Media Player released

<p> Note that you need to select the new renderer in options in order to use it</li> <li> Windows 10 related fixes: <ul> <li> Improved mouse behavior </li> <li> Fixed volume control with scroll wheel </li> <li> Window snapping to desktop edges </li> </ul> </li> <li> Allow hardware decoding of UHD video with AMD cards </li> <li> Big video rendering stability improvement </li> <li> New Indonesian, Lithuanian and Punjabi translations </li></ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://mpc-hc.

Calibre 2.44 released with new features and bugfixes

Allow setting the cover for a book from one of the book’s formats by right clicking on the format in the Book details panel. Allow drag and drop of all file types onto the book details panel and the format list in the edit metadata dialog. Edit Book: When inserting an image into the current document, add a button to paste the image from the clipboard Edit Book: Change the suggested prefix for bulk renaming of files depending on the type of files being renamed.

Tor Browser 5.0.4 is released with important security updates

<li> Bug 16937: Remove the en-US dictionary from non en-US Tor Browser bundles </li> <li> Bug 17318: Remove dead ScrambleSuit bridge </li> <li> Bug 17473: Update meek-amazon fingerprint </li> <li> Bug 16983: Isolate favicon requests caused by the tab list dropdown </li> <li> Bug 17102: Don&#8217;t crash while opening a second Tor Browser </li> </ul> <ul> <li> Windows <ul> <li> Bug 16906: Don&#8217;t depend on Windows crypto DLLs </li> </ul> </li> <li> Linux <ul> <li> Bug 17329: Ensure that non-ASCII characters can be typed </li> </ul> </li> </ul>

Linux Lite 2.6 Beta released with Systemback

As usual you still get the latest Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, Wine (via Lite Software) and Gimp. Linux Lite 2.6 Beta Changelog: Features:The Linux Lite Control Center: This was built as one central central location for everything that you needed to configure your computer. Lite Control Center was built much like a web page, Lite Control Center has a menu on the left as categories, and within those categories buttons that launch whichever application you are wanting to use.

Rendera 1.7 Painting App released

<ul> <li style="text-align: justify;"> Paint preview uses the current color now instead of the ugly pattern </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> Implemented redo </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> Quit dialog </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> Soft edge is hidden when not applicable to the current painting mode </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Install Rendera 1.7 on Ubuntu OS</strong></span> </p> <pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install rendera

ImageMagick 6.9.1-8 – Image Processing App released

<ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> Format conversion: convert an image from one format to another (e.g. PNG to JPEG). </li> <li> Transform: resize, rotate, crop, flip or trim an image. </li> <li> Transparency: render portions of an image invisible. </li> <li> Draw: add shapes or text to an image. </li> <li> Decorate: add a border or frame to an image. </li> <li> Special effects: blur, sharpen, threshold, or tint an image. </li> <li> Animation: create a GIF animation sequence from a group of images.

Doomsday 2.0 Portable game engine released

In version 2.0 we are also applying a number of technical changes that have waiting in the wings. The project’s build system changes to CMake, and distribution packages will be generated by CPack. The Doomsday SDK (foundation libraries and headers) will be included in the installers. The OS X version will be distributed as a plain.dmg disk image, with applications on it that you can launch directly. The Windows version will be distributed as an .

Entangle 0.7.0 “Charm” Camera Control & Capture released

The main features introduced in this release are a brand new logo, a plugin for automated capture of image sequences and the start of a help manual. The full set of changes is Require GLib >= 2.36 Import new logo design Switch to using zanata.org for translations Set default window icon Introduce an initial help manual via yelp Use shared library for core engine to ensure all symbols are exported to plugins Add framework for scripting capture operations Workaround camera busy problems with Nikon cameras Add a plugin for repeated capture sequences Replace progress bar with spinner icon

Tor Browser 4.5.2 released with Latest Tor Anonymity Network Software

Tor Browser 4.5.2 changelog All Platforms Update Tor to 0.2.6.9 Update OpenSSL to 1.0.1n Update HTTPS-Everywhere to 5.0.5 Update NoScript to 2.6.9.26 Update Torbutton to 1.9.2.6 Bug 15984: Disabling Torbutton breaks the Add-ons Manager Bug 14429: Make sure the automatic resizing is disabled Translation updates Bug 16130: Defend against logjam attack Bug 15984: Disabling Torbutton breaks the Add-ons Manager Linux Bug 16026: Fix crash in GStreamer Bug 16083: Update comment in start-tor-browser

Pale Moon Browser 25.5.0 released

<p style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>For 32bit OS</strong> </p> <pre style="text-align: justify;">wget sourceforge.net/projects/pm4linux/files/25.5.0/palemoon-25.5.0.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2 tar -xjvf palemoon-25.5.0.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2 sudo rm -rf /opt/palemoon* sudo mv palemoon /opt/palemoon sudo ln -sf /opt/palemoon/palemoon /usr/bin/palemoon<p style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>For 64bit OS</strong> </p> <pre style="text-align: justify;">wget sourceforge.net/projects/pm4linux/files/25.5.0/palemoon-25.5.0.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 tar -xjvf palemoon-25.5.0.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 sudo rm -rf /opt/palemoon* sudo mv palemoon /opt/palemoon sudo ln -sf /opt/palemoon/palemoon /usr/bin/palemoon<p style="text-align: justify;"> Import Firefox profile like bookmarks, history, extensions, etc </p> <pre style="text-align: justify;">cp -R ~/.

Apple Swift Programming Language to go Open Source

Federighi also announced Swift v2 will be released this year and that will come with numerous new features. Developers will be able to use Markdown in comments, pattern matching in “if,” and synthesized “headers” in Xcode alongside other improvements like a faster runtime and shorter compile times.

Android Studio 1.3 Preview 2 available

<li> The Setup Wizard now longer installs the Android M preview by default; it installs the most recent stable version (currently API 22). You should only install and use the Android M preview (and buildtools 23-rc) if you are also going to use version 1.3.0-beta1 of the Android Gradle plugin. </li> <li> The layout editor and layout preview windows only use the Android M preview layout library if the project is compiled with the M preview library.

Porteus KIOSK 3.4.0 Linux OS released

<p style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="http://porteus-kiosk.org/download.html" target="_blank">Download Porteus Kiosk ISOs</a> </p>

Everpad 2.15.8 now available for Ubuntu 15.04

Everpad Evernote client is well integrated with Linux desktop and the Everpad Client has: unity lens indicator applet unity launcher The Everpad Client supports Notes, Tags, Notebooks, Resources, Places, En-* tags

CentOS 7 Linux now runs on ARM64 (AArch64) hardware

<p style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="http://seven.centos.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Screenshot-from-2015-05-08-155701.png"><img class=" aligncenter" src="http://seven.centos.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Screenshot-from-2015-05-08-155701.png" alt="Screenshot from 2015-05-08 15:57:01" width="300" height="190" /></a> </p>

Telegram Desktop 0.8.11 Messaging app released

Telegram Desktop Features Connect from most remote locations Coordinate groups of up to 200 members Synchronize your chats across all your devices Send documents of any type Encrypt personal and business secrets Destruct your messages with a timer Store your media in the cloud Build your own tools on our API Enjoy feedback from your customers Telegram messages are heavily encrypted and can self-destruct. Telegram lets you access your messages from multiple devices.

Webmin 1.740 released

<pre>sudo apt-get install gdebi wget sourceforge.net/projects/webadmin/files/webmin/1.740/webmin_1.740_all.deb sudo gdebi webmin_1.740_all.deb<p style="text-align: justify;"> &#8211; Now access the url ‘https://localhost:10000/‘. Enter your root user account and password </p>

Thunderbird 31.6.0 browser released

<p style="text-align: justify;"> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Install Thunderbird 31.6.0 on Ubuntu OS</strong></span> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>32bit OS</strong> </p> <pre>wget ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/31.6.0/linux-i686/en-US/thunderbird-31.6.0.tar.bz2 tar -xjvf thunderbird-31.6.0.tar.bz2 sudo rm -rf /opt/thunderbird* sudo mv thunderbird /opt/thunderbird sudo ln -sf /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird /usr/bin/thunderbird <p style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>64bit OS</strong> </p> <pre>wget ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/31.6.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/thunderbird-31.6.0.tar.bz2 tar -xjvf thunderbird-31.6.0.tar.bz2 sudo rm -rf /opt/thunderbird* sudo mv thunderbird /opt/thunderbird sudo ln -sf /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird /usr/bin/thunderbird

Install MyPaint 1.1 on Ubuntu OS

<li> Symmetry mode <ul> <li> An icon on the toolbar allow you to activate the symmetric painting mode. The axis displayed is a bold dotted orange line also part of the new &#8216;on canvas &#8216; feedbacks </li> </ul> </li> <li> Line Mode <ul> <li> Mypaint 1.1 is now really able to do precise drawing, more technical, such as perspectives, or comics frames. This is not aimed to be a feature as flexible as in a vector programs (ex: Inkscape ) , but its now very capable to get the work done and having very cool results for your perspectives drawing, concept art of props , etc &#8230; </li> </ul> </li> <li> New layer blending modes <ul> <li> One of the revolution in the precedent release were the addition of 4 layer blending modes.

FlightGear 3.4 Flight Simulator released

<th> Aircraft </th> <td> <a title="Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II" href="http://wiki.flightgear.org/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunderbolt_II">Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II</a> </td> <td> <a title="Airbus A380" href="http://wiki.flightgear.org/Airbus_A380">Airbus A380</a> </td> <td> <a title="Boeing 747-400" href="http://wiki.flightgear.org/Boeing_747-400">Boeing 747-400</a> </td> <td> <a title="Boeing 707-420" href="http://wiki.flightgear.org/Boeing_707-420">Boeing 707-420</a> </td> <td> <a title="Douglas DC-3" href="http://wiki.flightgear.org/Douglas_DC-3">Douglas DC-3</a> </td> <td> <a title="Robin DR400 Dauphin" href="http://wiki.flightgear.org/Robin_DR400_Dauphin">Robin DR400 Dauphin</a> </td> <td> <a title="Eurocopter EC130 B4" href="http://wiki.flightgear.org/Eurocopter_EC130_B4">Eurocopter EC130 B4</a> </td> <td> <a title="North American P-51 Mustang" href="http://wiki.

TeXstudio 2.9.0 LaTex Editor released

TeXstudio 2.9.0recently released, is a fully featured integrated writing environment for creating LaTeX documents. The goal is to make writing LaTeX documents as easy and comfortable as possible. Some of the outstanding features of TeXstudio are an integrated pdf viewer with (almost) word-level synchronization, live inline preview, advanced syntax-highlighting, live checking of references, citations, latex commands, spelling and grammar TeXstudio 2.9.0 changelog  link overlays for urls close editor tab by pressing middle mouse button more standard shortcuts (in particular for OS X) support optional filename argument in txs:///view-pdf-internal add “expand/collapse all documents” to context menu of structure add tabulary support open correct log file if output filenames are changed due to “%& -job-name=targetfile” (note: changed pdf filename not yet supported) user-defined icons are now portable: if possible icon paths are stored relative to settings dir or application dir windowed pdf viewer now supports –no-focus argument improved detection of label name for “Insert \ref to Next Label” improved context detection for preview (multi-line math, cursor inside multi-char delimiter) improved search for texdoc location improved log parsing including support for LaTeX3 warnings and errors resize with soft line warp: keep vertical cursor position constant support .

Wireshark 1.12.4 released with new and updated Capture File Support

Wireshark 1.12.4recently released, is a free, open source packet analyzer used for network troubleshooting, monitoring, analysis, software and communications protocol development. The latest release Wireshark 1.12.4 comes with a number of vulnerabilities & bug fixes, including new and updated Capture File Support – NetScaler, PacketLogger, and Pcapng. Wireshark 1.12.4 changelog RTP player crashes on decode of long call: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) “Telephony→SCTP→Analyse This Association” crashes Wireshark on manufactured SCTP packet IPv6 Mobility Header Link Layer Address is parsed incorrectly DNS NXT RR is parsed incorrectly IPv6 AUTH mobility option parses Mobility SPI and Authentication Data incorrectly IPv6 Mobility Header Link-Layer Address Mobility Option is parsed incorrectly HTTP chunked response includes data beyond the chunked response.

CoreOS Alpha 612.1.0 & 612.0.0 released

<ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> Revert to systemd 218 </li> <li> Set LimitNOFILE for etcd.service </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>CoreOS Alpha 612.0.0 changelog</strong></span> </p> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> systemd 219 </li> <li> Add volume for SSL certs to flannel </li> <li> Prevent networkd from attempting to configure flannel interfaces </li> <li> TI-RPC 0.2.5 </li> <li> Include TI-RPC configs in all images </li> <li> Linux 3.19 </li> <li> Enable RAM-disk LKM </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://github.

Mozilla Firefox 36.0.1 released

Mozilla Firefox 36.0.1for desktop had been released and available for download and install. This latest release comes with additional issues been fixed, one of which is the “Hello may become inactive until restart”. Other issues fixed in this release includes: Disable the usage of the ANY DNS query type Fixed a startup crash with EMET Hello may become inactive until restart Print preferences may not be preserved Hello contact tabs may not be visible Accept hostnames that include an underscore character (“_”) WebGL may use significant memory with Canvas2d Option -remote has been restored Fix a top crash See releasenotesfor full details Install Mozilla Firefox 36.

Kodi 15.0 alpha 1 released

<ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> Added adaptive seeking through audio and video playback, also know as “skip steps” </li> <li> Android HEVC H.265 support for some chipsets </li> <li> Improve webserver caching control </li> <li> External subtitles over UPnP </li> <li> Allow scanning of new sources and marking as watched during other library operations such as “update library” </li> <li> Allow different sort orders for different sort methods </li> <li> Start of integration binary add-ons and changing the build system around it </li> <li> Improved CC (Closed Captions) support for Live TV </li> <li> ffmpeg 2.

QupZilla 1.8.6 released

added TabManager and FlashCookieManager plugins added CTRL+L shortcut to clear download list in download manager allow closing Download Manager and Browsing Library with Ctrl+W revert option to disable SSLv3, it is now correctly handled by Qt fix issue with tabs with empty url were removed from session fix zoom shortcuts with +/-/0 on numeric block fix hiding iframes that have completely blocked contents in AdBlock fix showing navigation bar when typing into locationbar in fullscreen fix visual issues with FTP listing with RTL layouts fix removing profiles from preferences fix crash when moving bookmarks on FreeBSD

Darktable 1.6.2 released

Please note that this release is a new stable point release, no big new features added. The general improvements made in this release are: Better names for key accels (no more ) Local gallery export limited to useful web formats (JPEG/PNG/WebP) Add a way to control the brush size with keys Default X-Trans Demosaic to markesteijn (single pass) get full release notes details

IntelliJ IDEA 14.0.3 update build 139.1117 released

IntelliJ IDEA 14.0.3 build 139.1117has just been released and this comes with long-awaited enhancements and bugfixes. If you’re running IntelliJ IDEA 14 and haven’t received a notification about the update yet, check for it via Help → Check for Updates.  The following are some the key changes, improvement and bug fixes: Android device list contains non-device lines A part of method name is improperly reported as undefined path variable Live template is evaluated inside another live template placeholder (scope: JSON) Intellij does not work with android-maven-plugin 4.

Wine 1.7.35 released

Wine 1.7.35 has been released and this comes various bug fixes including support for OpenGL core contexts, initial support for glyph placement in DirectWrite and some more WBEM objects. Wine (Wine Is Not An Emulator) as we already know is a software for running Windows applications on Linux machines. Wine 1.7.35 update Multiplayer crashes Heroes 4 Screen corruption in Evernote 1.1 3DMark 2001: Nature Test (#4) renders incorrectly around 40th second ProntoEdit NG 2.

SMPlayer 14.9.0.6672 released

SMPlayer 14.9.0.6672recently released, intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more. Notable feature of SMPlayer is, it remembers the settings of all files you play. When you watch a movie and leave, when you open that movie again it will resume at the same point you left it, and with the same settings: audio track, subtitles, volume.

FFmpeg 2.5.3 released

FFmpeg 2.5.3 “Bohr”– is the leading multimedia framework, cross-platform solution that is used to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play any audio or video files. It includes libavcodec – the leading audio/video codec library. The most important new features are AVFoundation screen-grabbing support, animated WebP decoding support, and Animated PNG support. In addition, many exciting features for video streaming are also implemented, including MPEG-DASH fragmenting muxer, HEVC RTP payload muxer, and UDP Lite support.

Android Studio 1.1 Preview 1 Released

<li> There is a new template for creating watch faces for Android Wear: <div> <a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/androidstudio11preview1released/watchface-template.png?attredirects=0"><img class=" aligncenter" src="http://tools.android.com/_/rsrc/1421370620201/recent/androidstudio11preview1released/watchface-template.png" alt="" width="376" height="256" border="0" /></a> </div> </li>

Percona Server 5.6.22-71.0 released

<ul> <li> Queries will run faster and more consistently </li> <li> You can consolidate servers on powerful hardware </li> <li> Sharding is delayed or avoided entirely </li> <li> You can save money on hosting fees and power </li> <li> You can spend less time tuning and administering </li> <li> You can achieve higher uptime </li> <li> Troubleshooting does not require guesswork </li> </ul> <p> <a href="http://www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-5.6/" target="_blank">Download Percona Server 5.6.22-71.0</a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div></div>

Dropbox 3.0.5 released

Fix an issue preventing Dropbox from starting on Windows XP Fix an issue preventing Dropbox from starting on Fedora 20 Fix a rare issue that could cause crashes when using Camera Uploads on Windows Pause icon on Mac is no longer tiny on Retina displays

Deepin 2014.2 released

<ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li style="text-align: justify;"> Enabled brand-new Deepin themes, making the system interface more beautiful </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> newly added the feature of drag and drop re-ordering to the residing icons in Dock </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> newly added four kinds of re-ordering modes in the Launcher (by name, by category, by installation time and by frequency of use) </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> newly added the functions of Icon, Cursor and Fonts setting in the Personalization Setting module </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> improved multi-screen display function </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> strengthened the network function and added the function of state memory </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> simplified the operation of choosing time zone in Control Center </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> newly added the function of daylight saving time </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"> For more details, see the <a href="http://planet.

Install the latest Transmageddon Video Converter on Ubuntu 14.04

First of all if you have the GStreamer VAAPI plugins installed (and be sure to have the driver too) then the VAAPI GPU encoder will be used for h264 and MPEG2 Secondly I brought back the so called ‘xvid’ codec (even though xvid isn’t really a separate codec, but a name used to refer to MPEG4 Video codec using the advanced-simple profile.)

Game – AssaultCube 1.2.0.2 in Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian libsdl-image1.2 zlib1g libogg0 libvorbis0a libopenal1 libcurl3sudo yum install SDL SDL_image zlib libogg libvorbis openal-soft libcurl.

Install/Upgrade Linux Kernel 3.15-RC1 Trusty in Ubuntu

The first release candidate to Linux Kernel 3.15-RC1 is now available for the users, announced by Linus Torvalds. This Linux Kernel version comes with plenty of fixes and improvements. This article will guide you on how to install or upgrade to Linux Kernel 3.15-RC1 in your Ubuntu or Linux Mint system. Click button below for full details of fixes and features: [button link=”http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1404.1/03040.html” style=”tick” color=”primary” class=”sys_btn”]Linux Kernel 3.15-RC1[/button] [hr]

zabbix_agentd cannot run as root

[code lang=”js”] Starting Zabbix agent: zabbix_agentd [10808]: user zabbix does not exist zabbix_agentd [10808]: cannot run as root![/code] [code lang=”js”]groupadd zabbix[/code] <p style="text-align: justify;"> <p> [code lang=&#8221;js&#8221;]chown zabbix:zabbix /var/run/zabbix/[/code] </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <p> [code lang=&#8221;js&#8221;]rm -f /var/log/zabbix/*[/code] </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <p> [code lang=&#8221;js&#8221;]rm -f /var/run/zabbix/*[/code] </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <p> [code lang=&#8221;js&#8221;]service zabbix-agent restart[/code] </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <p> [code lang=&#8221;js&#8221;]chkconfig zabbix-agent on[/code] </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> This should fix the agent start-up problem.

Installing GNOME GUI on CentOS 6.5

 <pre># yum -y groupinstall "FTP server"</pre> <p> <em><span style="color: #000080;">Any questions, please feel free to ask 🙂</span></em> </p>

Installing CentOS 6.4 on VirtualBox

– Lets quickly configure the networking by clicking on Configure Network, highlight appropriate network if you have more than one adapter enabled and click on Edit…

Linux Baby Rocker

This is a great idea for Dads who are currently or about to babysit their kid 🙂 Awesome…