Bumblebee 3.1 tumbleweed

Bumblebee 3.1 tumbleweed has been released and announced by The Bumblebee Project Team.The important news of this update is the integrated support for backend Primus, which can – your choice – go to the backend  VirtualGL default for optirun. For those who does not know, Bumblebee is a unique application that allows you to get in Linux Nvidia Optimus [...]

ubuntu touch developer preview

A few days ago Canonical has been released Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview daily builds for developers and ubuntu enthusiasts. The Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview is a collection of open source projects that bring Ubuntu to multiple devices and form factors. Although it still lacks in some features but for you Ubuntu Fans and ubuntu developer [...]

GoldenDict

Goldendict is a complete dictionary for ubuntu desktop that supports dictionaries in Babylon format,StarDict and Dictd. it is very useful if we have internet connection but what can we do if we do not have internet access. Thanks to Goldendict we search in Wikipedia, Wiktionary, or any other site based on MediaWiki, we can also [...]

hard drive bad sector

How to know if you have bad sectors on your hard drive in Ubuntu Desktop and how to fix them. You can use badblock program to fix this problem. The badblocks is program command line based allow to test your harddrive for, you guessed it, bad blocks. The badblocks program is part of the e2fsprogs [...]

libreoffice 4.0 stable version

LibreOffice 4.0 Stable Version has been released and announcment by Document Foundation on February 7, 2013. It come with new feature, better look and more  improvements. On this release LibreOffice 4.0 now compatible with Microsoft’s Rich Text Format (RTF) and DOCX file formats – the latter being the XML-based Word document format first introduced in Office 2007 and brings [...]

entangle ubuntu

What is tethered shooting?. Tethered shooting is method hook up your DSLR camera to your Laptop/PC and take pictures, you are shooting tethered. You can either trigger the camera from your Laptop/PC or directly from the DSLR camera itself and then view the image on your computer screen. Depending on the camera, you can control [...]

usb login ubuntu

This tutorial will learn a method how to login into Ubuntu 12.10 using USB flash drive. This can be accomplished by use of PAMUSB (Pluggable Authentication Modules USB) and some sort of USB storage device such as USB memory stick, mobile phone with SD card attached. It is compatible with many display managers ((LightDM, GDM, MDM [...]

Configure display manager

The New MDM 1.0.6 (Mint Display Manager) available for ubuntu 12.10/12.04 based distribution. MDM 1.06 is default display manager for Linux Mint 14. MDM 1.0.6 is a new Display Manager developed with code is based on GNOME Display Manager 2.20. It provides UI (User Interface) configuration tools, themeability, remote, automatic and timed login, event scripting, language selection [...]

ubuntu 13.04 raring ringtails

Ubuntu 13.04 with codename “raring ringtails” daily builds ISO image are now available for download. These are early development builds not recommended for production systems. The ISO images available for 32-bit, 64-bit, amd64+mac, PowerPC and Armhf OMAP4 architectures. The first daily ISO images of the upcoming Ubuntu 13.04 bundled with Linux 3.5 kernel, Nautilus 3.6.2 file manager, the Mozilla [...]

gnome shell

GNOME Shell 3.6 allows users to be displayed notifications in the lock screen. By default, Gnome Shell 3.6 disabled feature the lock screen notifications due to privacy concerns. The lock screen plays much the same role as a screensaver – it is what is displayed when your device is idle. The difference between the lock screen and [...]