Posts Tagged ‘Software’
Howto Record your Linux Desktop
There isn’t many softwares out there that can record your desktop to make a presentation or some guide of something. You can capture video of all of the amazing things happening on your desktop with one of Linux’s many ...
Free Software, Do you know?
1. Do you know? Free software means that the program’s users have the four essential freedoms: * The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0). * The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to ...
Blender – free open source 3D content creation
Blender is a free open source 3D modelling and graphics software widely used for making animated movies. Blender is the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playb...
A Windows App That Works Better in Wine Than Windows
Decentralist: “As Microsoft slowly breaks old compatibility, and Wine continues to improve Windows compatibility. it seems only a matter of time before some Windows programs run better in Wine than in Windows. Last week, ...
Dropbox for storing, sharing, sync file online
Dropbox is a Web-based file hosting service operated by Dropbox, Inc. which uses cloud computing to enable users to store and share files and folders with others across the Internet using file synchronization. It was founded in...
Wine 1.3.2 Released
Wine lets you run Windows software on other operating systems. With Wine, you can install and run these applications just like you would in Windows. Wine enables Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, and Solaris users to run Windows application...
apt-file: Locate Missing Package Files
LinuxJournal: “Ever had a source package fail to build due to a missing file? If so, apt-file, a tool that searches online repositories for a specific file, may be the answer. Occasionally, when building a package from so...
Why can’t free software lead to hardware innovation?
FSM: “In the past few years we’ve seen a lot of hardware-based innovation (or at the very least expansion). New products and markets have arisen built around hardware and its use. Smartphones, tablets, netbooks and gami...
11 Free Linux Apps Your Business Needs Now
Pcworld: “Despite the wealth of free applications out there, many small business owners continue to spend an inordinate amount of their all-too-scarce resources on software. Microsoft Office 2010? That’ll be $499.99...
SpiceBird – Instant Messaging, Email, Calendar, RSS Software Review
SpiceBird is a new application that aims to integrate Instant Messaging, Email, Calendar and Task Management, and also RSS reading under one wing. It runs on Windows and Linux and can connect to any standards based email and ca...
Wine 1.3.1 Released
Wine lets you run Windows software on other operating systems. With Wine, you can install and run these applications just like you would in Windows. Wine enables Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, and Solaris users to run Windows application...
Best Linux Rescue Tools
If your hard drive is unbootable due to corrupt partition tables, computer viruses, system errors, and other non-mechanical issues, you may consider using a data recovery tool to save your precious files or data from being perm...
XBMC Media Center
XBMC, recursive acronym for “Xbox Media Center”, is an award-winning free and open source software media-player and entertainment hub for all your digital media. XBMC is a cross-platform software available for Linux...
Ubuntu’s two big advantages over Windows and Mac
Techrepublic: “I’ve been using the latest version (10.04) of Ubuntu Linux since April and there’s a lot to like about it. I announced earlier this year that I was giving desktop Linux another look, and I went with Ubu...
Interesting Gwibber Mockups For Ubuntu!
Techdrivein: “Neil Patel is the Technical lead for Ubuntu Netbook Edition and Unity at Canonical Ltd. With the current drawbacks with Gwibber’s UI in mind, Neil have created some really good looking Gwibber UI mocku...
Avant Window Navigator – A MacOS X like panel
AWN was created by Neil Patel and there is an amazing dock for Linux, and it has lots of features that Apple doesn’t yet. The dock is called Avant released to the public using Google Code in 2007. AWN not only functions g...
GnuCash Free Accounting Software
GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. Designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and fle...
Dell™ OpenManage Server Administrator
H-Online: “Dell has announced the release of its proprietary OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) 6.3 for Ubuntu 9.10 or later. OMSA is a web browser or command line driven system administration tool for servers. The .d...
Virtualization Software for Linux
Techsource: “VirtualBox is currently my favorite virtualization software and used it mainly for trying different Linux distributions, testing codes, and running Windows as guest operating system on my Ubuntu workstation. ...
Nmap – Howto do ip and port scanning
Nmap is a powerfull scanner available in Unix/Linux system. It’s very usefull for network exploration and security auditing. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, although it works fine againts single hosts. Below a...
Peppermint OS
DistroWatch: “Earlier this year a pair of developers put out a new distribution called Peppermint OS. The new distro, which has close family ties to Ubuntu, is an experiment in combining the traditional desktop computing ...
Firefox 3.6.4 and Thunderbird 3.0.5
Mozilla has released Thunderbird 3.0.5 and Firefox 3.6.4. See the release notes (Thunderbird, Firefox) for details, such as tabbed email in Thunderbird and crash protection in Firefox.
Adobe Flash Player vulnerability
Adobe has reported a vulnerability in Flash Player 10.0.45.2 (and earlier), including the Linux version. “This vulnerability could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system....
Do I need an antivirus in Linux?
One of the people who switched to any Linux recently, emailed me asking what kind of antivirus they should have installed. Quite frankly, I’ve used Opensuse, Ubuntu, fedora and other linux for some time and have never had...
Ubuntu lucid lynx review
The recently released 10.04 version of Ubuntu is the third Long Term Support (LTS) version Canonical has released. Most notable in the newest desktop release is Ubuntu’s abandonment of its previous “Earth Tone” color sche...
Moblin netbook OS
Moblin is an optimized Linux platform that provides a modern, engaging user experience for mobile devices, such as netbooks, MIDs, and IVI systems. Moblin has a common core of Application and User Interface services and APIs, w...
How to use phpMyAdmin
PhpMyAdmin is a FREE software tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Internet. PhpMyAdmin supports a wide range of operations with MySQL, the most frequently used being the managing of datab...
Brasero CD/DVD burner for gnome
Brasero is a free disc-burning program for unix-like systems, which serves as a graphical front-end to cdrtools, growisofs, and libburn. Brasero is the default CD/DVD application in the gnome desktop. Brasero is a application t...
Selinux and Apparmor
Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a linux feature that provides a mechanism for supporting access control security policies, including U.S. Department of Defense style mandatory access controls, through the use of Linux Secu...
Detecting rootkits using chkrootkit and rkhunter
A rootkit is a collection of tools a hacker installs on a victim computer after gaining initial access. It generally consists of network sniffers, log-cleaning scripts, and trojaned replacements of core system utilities such as...
Howto keep SSH access secure
In order to enable ssh, you need to install openSSH. Most of the linux based had it installed by default. OpenSSH is a free version of the SSH connectivity tools that technical users of the Internet rely on. SSH is not only the...
Nmap network security scanner
Nmap (Network MAPper) is a network security scanner used to discover hosts and services on a computer network and is a free open-source port scanner available for both UNIX and Windows. It has succeeded to extend its discovery ...
