Thursday, March 1, 2012

About Linux: Open Source Flash Movie Player Gnash 0.8.10

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From Juergen Haas, your Guide to Linux
Adobe's recent announcement to discontinue the Linux version of its Flash Player puts back into focus the open source alternatives for playing Flash movies, in particular the Gnash project by the Free Software Foundation.

Open Source Flash Movie Player Gnash 0.8.10
The latest update of Flash Player Gnash, not to be confused with accounting software GnuCash, brings various user interface enhancements, efficiency improvements and bug fixes... Read more

Accounting Software GnuCash Version 2.4.10
It's tax time again, and you may have been thinking about starting to use accounting software for your small business or personal finance to help with all the bookkeeping and reporting. There are a number of good open source accounting software packages that you can use on your Linux system... Read more

FlightGear Version 2.6
The developers of the open source FlightGear flight simulator have released version 2.6.0 with major improvements. Aircraft controlled by Artificial Intelligence (AI) modules have been made more intelligent, data loading has been streamlined using background threads, and graphics tuning has been simplified... Read more



 


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Thursday, February 23, 2012

About Linux: VLC Media Player Version 2.0

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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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Thursday, February 16, 2012

About Linux: High Demand for Linux Developers and Administrator

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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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Thursday, February 9, 2012

About Linux: Real-Time Strategy Game MegaGlest

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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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