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Want to Install Mesa 13.0.4 On Ubuntu 16.04? Here’s How

It can be hard to keep track of which version of Mesa is available and where, with various PPAs peppered about the interwebs offering different snapshots at varying degrees of stability! But if you’re wanting to install […]

12 February 2017
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Roundup of Recent App Updates: Harmony, Komorebi, Alduin

Read on for a weekly round up of recent Linux app updates that weren’t quite juicy enough to merit their own dedicated post. Word of warning: if you’re averse to Electron apps, best look away now. […]

12 February 2017
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Xfce’s Parole Media Player Gets First Update In Over a Year

Xfce's Parole media player has just seen its first major update in over a year.

12 February 2017

A Lightweight Screen Recorder for Linux (Updated)

Want to record your Ubuntu desktop for a screencast, video tutorial, or bug report? I highly recommend giving Green Recorder a shot. Green Recorder is a minimal yet perfectly functional desktop screen recorder app for Ubuntu. It’s built […]

10 February 2017
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KDE Neon to Support Snap Apps in Plasma Discover

Ubuntu-based KDE Neon is one the Linux distros we’re most excited for this year — and with good reason. The distro combines the stability of Ubuntu’s latest LTS foundations with the latest (and, if you want […]

10 February 2017

Do You Remember These 5 Linux Apps?

A reader's tweet left us feeling all nostalgic so join us as we go back to 2009 and look at 5 Linux apps we all used to use, but now never do…

9 February 2017
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GNOME MPV is a Sleek GTK+ Frontend for mpv

I recently blogged about my love affair (of sorts) with mpv, the nimble, open-source media player based on mplayer. Stock mpv is, for those used to all-singing and all-dancing video players, a little… austere. GNOME MPV is […]

9 February 2017
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Why I Swapped VLC for MPV

I've changed channel and tuned in to a different video player: mpv. The fork of a fork of player is a surprisingly nimble alternative to VLC.

9 February 2017
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Desktop Dimmer – an Open-Source Screen Dimmer App

If you regularly work in a dark room, and find your dimmed screen is still too bright, you may want to this open-source screen dimmer app a try.

8 February 2017
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Ubuntu OTA-15 Is Now Rolling Out to Ubuntu Phones, Tablets

Ubuntu OTA 15 has been released, and is being rolled out to all supported Ubuntu Touch devices. As we previously reported, Ubuntu OTA-15 is primarily bug fix and security update, and addresses issues with loading […]

7 February 2017
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Komorebi is an Animated/Parallax Wallpaper App for Ubuntu (Updated)

Looking for parallax wallpaper, animated wallpapers, or a cute clock wallpaper app for Ubuntu — why not combine them all in one stunning background?

6 February 2017
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DiRT Rally: Linux System Requirements Revealed

Last week brought word that a DiRT Rally Linux port will launch next month  — but you might have been stalling,  wondering what the system requirements for the racing game might be? Well, we’ve some more information. Or, […]

6 February 2017