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The big news this week is the release of VLC 2.0, code named Twoflower, adding even more device support to the media player that plays virtually anything anywhere.

VLC Media Player Version 2.0

The hugely popular cross-platform VLC Media Player has been updated to version 2.0. Since version 1.1 VLC has been download 485 million times. The latest version brings significant improvements in decoding speed on multi-core and mobile devices... Read more

WinSCP 4.3.7 Released

If you are using both Windows and Linux computers and are not familiar with WinSCP you may want to check this out. WinSCP is a powerful, yet intuitive and easy to use utility to copy files between a local Windows computer and a remote Linux server... Read more

Prevent Unauthorized File Access with TrueCrypt

The software package TrueCrypt, now updated to version 7.1a, offers easy to use functions for encrypting hard disk partitions, USB drives, and other external storage devices... Read more

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About Linux: High Demand for Linux Developers and Administrator

2012-02-16T09:29:00.000-08:00

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Following last month's announcement by Linux developer Red Hat to hire 1000 people to meet increasing demands for cloud services, a new survey confirms a general shortage of Linux developers and administrators in the work force.

High Demand for Linux Developers and Administrators

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal reports on a survey that shows an increasing demand for Linux skills, which is reflected in an average salary increase of 5% last year for Linux developers and administrators... Read more

LibreOffice 3.5 Released

The Document Foundation has released version 3.5 of LibreOffice with numerous new features and improvements. There is a faster gammar checker for English and some other languages, a new real-time word count display... Read more

How to Write grep Queries

The grep command can be viewed as a simplified database query, where the database consists of plain text files and each line represents a record. The grep command is used to retrieve those lines from a file that match the specified regular expression... Read more

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About Linux: Real-Time Strategy Game MegaGlest

2012-02-09T09:29:00.000-08:00

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While the most popular real-time strategy games, such as Warcraft, Starcraft, and Age of Empires are generally proprietary software requiring large investments for development, it is possible to make great open source GPL licensed RTS games. MegaGlest is one such example.

MegaGlest RTS Game Updated

MegaGlest is a fun open source real-time strategy game where you control armies of factions such as the Norsemen, the Egyptians, the Persians, the Romans, the Indians, and the two original factions called Tech and Magic... Read more

Linux Mint 12 KDE

Following the Gnome version released last November, the KDE version of Linux Mint 12 is now available. The desktop environment KDE is considered a good choice for users coming from Microsoft Windows, which doesn't offer a choice of desktop environments... Read more

MusE 2.0 RC 2

The digital music composition software and audio sequencer MusE has advanced to the second release candidate of version 2.0. MusE is an open source software package for Linux that functions as a feature rich digital audio workstation... Read more

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About Linux: Remote Desktop for Linux: TeamViewer

2012-02-02T09:29:00.000-08:00

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If you have been looking for a user-friendly cross-platform remote desktop software package, TeamViewer may be worth checking out. It is expensive for commercial use, but free for evaluation and non-commercial use.

TeamViewer 7 for Linux

Version 7 of the remote control and online presentation software TeamViewer is now available for Linux... Read more

VJ Tools for Real-Time Audio-Visual Entertainment

In contrast to conventional video editing software, VJ tools have the capability to synthesize video on the fly and simultaneously display the production for an audience... Read more

VLC Media Player Version 2.0

In the latest version the license of libVLC and libVLCcore has changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2+, which makes it possible to use them in non-GPL software. The library libVLCcore has been improved and ported to Android, iOS, and Win64... Read more

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About Linux: New Version of Video Editor LiVES

2012-01-26T09:29:00.000-08:00

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LiVES is an advanced multi-media tool, that not only works well as video editor to produce movies, but also offers a VJ ("Video Jockey") mode for conducting live synchronized music-video performances.

LiVES Version 1.6.0

There is a new development version of the video editing and VJ tool LiVES, a free, yet stable and powerful software package for editing digital videos, creating real time video displays and imagery, and mixing visuals and music... Read more

Desura Games Client now Open Source

A couple months ago developers have released a Linux client for the game platform Desura, which provides services for purchasing, downloading, installing, and running a wide range of games. Now they have made the client available as open source... Read more

How to Write Regular Expressions for Pattern Matching

The regular expression syntax allows you to do more complex searches than the simple Find typically available in software applications. For example, if you are searching for two or more words in a particular order that may have other words between them... Read more

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About Linux: Microsoft Boots Linux from ARM PCs

2012-01-19T09:28:00.000-08:00

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It appears Microsoft has chosen a more literal interpretation of the "Secure Boot" technology and is using it to "boot" competing operating systems from PCs pre-installed with its Windows 8 OS, in particular from the new ARM-processor based PCs.

Microsoft Boots Linux from ARM PCs

Microsoft Corporation apparently is leveraging its desktop OS market share to direct PC manufactures to configure Secure Boot such that it is impossible to turn it off or boot operating systems not approved by Microsoft... Read more

Mad Skills Motocross

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Renaming Files with the find, sed, sh commands

By combining the find, sed, and sh commands using the pipe mechanism you can compose flexible and powerful command lines... Read more

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About Linux: Linux Desktop Market Share Increases by 40% in 4 Months

2012-01-12T09:28:00.000-08:00

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After having stagnated at around 1% for several years, there is movement in the Linux desktop market share.

Linux Desktop Market Share Increases by 40% in 4 Months

While Linux based operating systems in desktop computers have held only a tiny market share of around 1% in the past few years, NetMarketShare has observed an astonishing increase... Read more

Ubuntu TV - The Future of TeleVision?

At this year's CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas, Ubuntu developer Canonical is showcasing Ubuntu TV, a large-scale integration of technologies and services that provides the user with a simple and friendly interface to TV, movies, music, photos, and other Internet and Cloud services... Read more

StepMania 5.0

Developers have released the first alpha version of StepMania 5.0, a popular rhythm video game. With this game you can choose from a large collection of songs and play a kind of video game where you follow the beat of the music and the motion of arrows in the video to tap keys on the keyboard at the right moment... Read more

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About Linux: Red Hat is Hiring

2012-01-05T09:28:00.000-08:00

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Linux companies such as Red Had and SUSE have seen a strong demand for cloud computing products and services and expect solid growth in 2012. This is one area were you can still find jobs, especially if you have Linux expertise.

Red Hat Plans to Hire more than 1000 People in 2012

The developer of Red Hat Linux, one of the top Linux distributions, intents to increase its workforce by almost 25% this year. Much of the growth is driven by the surge in cloud computing... Read more

Scribus 1.4.0 Released

The developers of the open source desktop publishing package Scribus have put in close to four years of work since the last major release. They upgraded the graphical user interface system to Qt4 and made full use of its capabilities... Read more

Pithos - Linux Client for Pandora Music

Pandora Music is a kind of Internet radio which allows you to tailor the stations according to your taste of music. Pithos is a Linux client that connects to your Pandora account and provides a convenient interface... Read more

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About Linux: VNC Remote Desktops

2011-12-29T09:28:00.000-08:00

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Setting up persistent remote desktop sessions on Linux is quite simple can be very useful. Let's review how to do this using VNC (Virtual Network Computing).

VNC Remote Desktops

VNC is a remote display system that enables you to start a desktop environment on one machine and access it from other computers through an Internet connection. You can set up persistent desktops which will be maintained while you disconnect, so you can continue working exactly where you left off when you re-connect... Read more

Be Creative With Ubuntu Studio

Ubuntu Studio has been updated and is now based on Ubuntu 11.10. This distro is tailored to meet the requirements of creative applications that involve audio, video, or graphics processing. It makes it easy for new users to get up to speed on GNU/Linux multi-media software, and makes less well-known applications readily available... Read more

The Awk Command

With the GNU/Linux awk command you can quickly and easily analyze and process tables from the command line. It offers powerful methods for parsing text files, in particular data files that are organized by lines (rows) and columns... Read more

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About Linux: Amarok Updated

2011-12-22T09:28:00.000-08:00

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Reverting a two number versioning scheme, the developers of Amarok have released version 2.5, a big feature release with significant usability improvements and new functionality. Amarok is one of the top music players.

Amarok 2.5

The latest release of the popular music player Amarok for the Linux desktop KDE brings GPodder.net integration for accessing podcasts, addition of an Amazon MP3 store, and more convenient ways to create and manage playlists... Read more

Blender 2.61 with Motion Tracking Support

Blender now supports motion tracking for reconstructing camera and object animation from video footage. A new Movie Clip editor enables loading video, point tracking, and motion reconstruction...Read more

Explore the Stars with Stellarium and Celestia

Now the planets of our solar system and the stars of our galaxy are more noticeable than during other times of the year. If you are struggling to recognize and name the various constellations, you may want to get some help from software applications like... Read more

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About Linux: Red Hat - The Distro That Means Business

2011-12-15T09:28:00.000-08:00

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Red Hat has established a reputation for providing a robust, industrial strength Linux distribution. It is widely used by companies to run large mission critical business applications. Red Hat itself is one of the most successful commercial organizations based on an Open Source product.

Red Hat Linux 6.2

The open source OS developer Red Hat has released version 6.2 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The update delivers improvements in file system performance, availability, and identity management... Read more

CentOS 6.1

The CentOS team has released version 6.1 of the Ret Hat Enterprise Linux based distro CentOS, which can be downloaded free of charge. CentOS is a good choice for people who like to run a Red Hat compatible system without having to pay the subscription fee... Read more

Synfig Version 0.63.03

Synfig is a free vector-based 2D animation program that you can use to produce feature-film quality animation. One of its key functionalities is automatic "tweening", meaning that it generates intermediate frames that are required to produce the illusion of smooth, fluid motion... Read more

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About Linux: Ultimate Edition 3.0

2011-12-08T09:28:00.000-08:00

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The developers of the Ubuntu based Linux distribution Ultimate Edition have done an excellent job creating a free and open alternative to MS Window. Version 3.0 of this distro including the Gamers edition is now available.

Ultimate Edition Gamers 3.0

The latest release of Ultimate Edition Gamers is based on the "lite" edition of the Ultimate Edition Linux distribution to allow room for more games. More than 30 games are pre-installed and emulators provide compatibility for thousands more... Read more

X-Plane Version 10

X-Plane is one of the most advanced flight simulator software packages for personal computers and includes complete scenery of the planets Earth and Mars. X-Plane creates a realistic flight model by computing the forces that act upon each part of the aircraft... Read more

Simulate Linux on Windows with Cygwin

Sometimes you have to use Microsoft Windows, but still want to have access to Linux's handy scripting and editing tools. In that case Cygwin might be the right tool... Read more

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About Linux: Linux Mint 12

2011-12-01T09:28:00.000-08:00

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The Linux distribution Mint has moved up in the rankings and is now number one according the site access stats on distrowatch.com.

Linux Mint Version 12 Available

The official release of Linux Mint 12 is now available. The Ubuntu based Linux Mint has now become the most popular distro of them all, followed by Ubuntu itself, Fedora (a Red Hat variant), and openSUSE... Read more

The Linux Screen Remote Terminal Window Manager

The screen utility is probably not as widely known and used as it should be. This could be partly due to the fact that the name of this program "screen" is kind of unspecific and used loosely for various concepts... Read more

Bash If Statement (Conditionals)

When writing shell scripts it becomes sometimes necessary to perform different sets of instructions depending on some condition. The Bash shell for Linux provides various such methods for branching... Read more

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About Linux: Linux Client for Desura Games

2011-11-24T09:28:00.000-08:00

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