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Linux Mint 18.1 To Offer a More Useful Screensaver

Linux Mint is making it lock-screen a little more useful, adding music and volume controls and MPRIS track data.

28 October 2016
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Deezer, Hype Machine Plugins Added to Harmony Music Player

Like a Spice Girls' solo career, I'll keep this post wonderfully short: a new version of the Harmony music player is available to download.

27 October 2016

OverGrive is a Google Drive Desktop Client for Linux

If you’re looking for a way to sync your Google Drive to your Linux desktop, the following app may be worth a look. It’s called OverGrive and it’s a closed-source, paid application. But don’t let that […]

27 October 2016
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Linux Marketshare Is Above 2-Percent For Third Month in a Row

The latest stats from analytics companies show Linux is maintaining a marketshare of over 2% — but is it what it seems?

27 October 2016
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Video Call Improvements Land in Skype for Linux Alpha 1.11

Skype has released a new update to the Skype for Linux Alpha client. Skype for Linux Alpha 1.11 includes “many new features and improvement”, with support for setting an avatar in group chats; performance improvements during video call and […]

26 October 2016

Desktop Gmail App WMail Scores a Sizeable Update

There's a new stable release of WMail, the app that describes itself as "the missing desktop client for Gmail".

26 October 2016
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Flatpak Unboxes Major Changes In Its Latest Release

A big update to Flatpak, the fledgling Linux application distribution framework, has been released.

25 October 2016
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Lumina Desktop 1.1 Released With File Manager Improvements

Lumina is a lightweight Qt-based desktop environment for BSD and Linux. We show you what's new in its latest release, and how you can install it on Ubuntu.

23 October 2016
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How To Use Telegram from the Command Line

All weekend I’ve been itching to write about telegram-cli, a command-line interface to the Telegram messaging service. It’s something I’m keen to write about because the Wi-Fi in the coffee shop I regularly visit is a bit… […]

23 October 2016
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New Version of the Budgie Desktop Now Available

The pet parakeet of the Linux world, Budgie has a new release available for download. in this post we lookout what's new and tell you how you can get it.

21 October 2016

The Ubuntu 17.04 Codename Has Been Announced

Less than a day after we asked you to put your collective minds to the task, Mark Shuttleworth has gone ahead and announced the official codename of Ubuntu 17.04.

17 October 2016

Ubuntu 16.10 Flavors Now Available for Download

Filing out alongside the final stable release of Ubuntu 16.10 is the rest of Ubuntu’s extended family. That means download links for community flavors, including Ubuntu MATE 16.10 and Ubuntu GNOME 16.10, are now live. The colorful set of spins each have their own […]

13 October 2016