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Free Ubuntu Software Centre Games by EA

Tuesday May 15, 2012
Electronic Arts (EA), one of largest video game developers, is now offering free of charge Lord of Ultima and Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances on the Ubuntu Software Centre, which makes the games appear like regular applications on the Ubuntu Dash and Launcher. Read More...

Rosegarden Music Editor Version 12.04

Sunday May 13, 2012
Rosegarden Screenshot The open source music composition tool Rosegarden has been updated. Version 12.04 brings automation of MIDI channel allocation and performance and reliability improvements in the track editor. Read More...

Windows-Linux Connectivity using PuTTY

Saturday May 12, 2012

One of the most popular utilities for connecting to Linux servers from computers running a Microsoft Windows operating system is the open source program PuTTY. It works great as remote terminal for text-based interaction, but is also frequently used to set up SSH connections for supporting remote graphical displays and remote desktop systems. Read more...

Remote Desktop Guacamole 0.6.0

Wednesday May 9, 2012
The latest version of the remote desktop server Guacomole supports Microsoft's RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) in addition to VNC. Read More...

GIMP 2.8 Release

Monday May 7, 2012
Developers have released a major upgrade of GIMP, the open source image and graphics tool. This version brings a number of significant advancements and new features. In particular, you can now toggle between single-window mode and multi-window mode. Your selection will be saved between sessions. Read More...

How to Fix a Broken Internet Cable Plug

Saturday May 5, 2012
This issue has caused a lot of people a lot of frustration. The little plastic spring that holds an Internet cable plug (RJ45) in place and presses the metal contacts against those of the receptacle brakes off easily. Read More...

Steam Coming to Linux

Wednesday May 2, 2012
After a couple of false starts, Phoronix reports that Valve Corporation is now serious about releasing Stream and the Source gaming engine for Linux. Read More...

Ubuntu 12.04 is Out

Sunday April 29, 2012

The Ubuntu team has released the final version of Ubuntu 12.04, also known as Precise Pangolin. This is a Long Term Support (LTS) release, meaning Canonical promises to fix bugs for the next five years.
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Arithmetic in Bash

Sunday April 29, 2012

Although Bash is a scripting language, it has pretty much all the capabilities of a general purpose programming language. This includes arithmetic functions. There are a number of syntax options you can use to evoke arithmetic evaluation of an expression. Read more...

Xming Updated

Wednesday April 25, 2012

The remote access and remote desktop system Xming, which provides easy set-up of X-windows on your Microsoft Windows system with connectivity to Linux servers, has been updated to version 7.5.0.47, and the portable PuTTY version to 7.5.0.48.
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