LibreOffice 3.5.4 RC2 was released yesterday by The Document Foundation developers. This release, as usual, is a QA testing release and is not recommended for production systems. One important bug fixed in this RC release is the “No recent documents” bug, which was causing LibreOffice not to show any recently opened documents. Highlights of the […]
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The operating system claims 20 million people use it a day. Not an insignificant number, but still a drop in the ocean compared to Microsoft’s Windows or Apple’s OS X. Even so, lead designer and one-time astronaut Mark Shuttleworth hopes that last week’s major upgrade to the Linux-based project will produce an outsized splash and
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With the release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, many users have started upgrading to the latest iteration of Ubuntu. Upgrading can be a tricky business, especially if you are upgrading from derivative operating systems like Linux Mint, PinguyOS and other similar Ubuntu based OS. Before you upgrade make sure to do a full backup of your
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A few hours ago, Ubuntu 12.04, the sixteenth edition of the world’s most popular free and open source operating system was released. This edition of the operating systems is an LTS version and hence will be supported for the next five years.The latest iteration of the operating system contains several improvements over its predecessors and a
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS will be out in less than 18 hours from now. Will you upgrade? Take the poll by clicking on the Ubuntu logo below and let us know.
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With less than two weeks left for the final release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, this video shows the performance of Ubuntu 12.04 after 16th April updates. The latest updates stabilizes the OS even more and adds Unity 5.10, which brings a nice little animation during installation (although, for me, the animation is a bit too
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Quicklist before adding bookmark Anyone wishing to add an extra entry to the Unity launcher quicklist (A quicklist is a short-cut menu which you get on right clicking any icon on the Unity launcher) needs to manually edit the .desktop files. This process becomes quite technical for anyone who just wants to use the computer
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Since everyone is using Unity these days, though it would be good to share some tweaking knowledge from AskUbuntu. The solutions to this particular question teaches you how to create quicklists for your favourite programs on Unity launcher. You can find one or two popular quicklists posted by me in the answers section! 🙂 Click
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The second and final beta of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS was released yesterday with the following updates : Unity 5.8- updated search functions for video and music A horrible looking Qt-based Ubuntu One desktop client Application Quicklists for Totem, Rhythmbox and Remmina Updated and Multi-Monitor options New animation support for the HUD LibreOffice updated to 3.5.1 Latest GNOME
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Hi everyone. This is a very quick screenshot post of how to install Microsoft Office 2010 in Ubuntu using PlayOnLinux. I have used the latest version of PlayOnLinux (4.0.16) running on a Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 1 ( updated 24th March) 64bit machine. The screenshots speak for themselves. Please post comments if you have any further
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