Almost two years ago, The Document Foundation announced it was going to bring LibreOffice to the cloud. With the release of LibreOffice 5.3, that day has finally come. LibreOffice’s new MUFFIN-based interface gives users a more flexible document creation experience. ...
Is the Skype Linux app refusing to connect for you? If so I can tell you that you’re not alone. We’ve received multiple reports from readers who say they’ve been unable to log in to Skype using the older Qt-based Skype for Linux ...
Microsoft’s love for open-source community seems to be increasing day by day. After Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s declaration last year, proclaiming – “MICROSOFT ♥ LINUX” Microsoft has come forward with many contributions to Linux and the open-source community. Some of which are, .NET ...
VLC Chromecast support is finally on the way — and that’s official. The feature addition had been long anticipated, with the VideoLAN development team having tagged support for the streaming technology in its roadmap, forum posts and in media interviews. But, until ...
Pop a cushion on the floor to break your jaw crashing from the following news: for the release of GNOME 3.22 later this year GNOME has actually added a new feature! I’m being a little facetious, of course. But news of ...
A good friend who doesn’t wish to be credited passed on a link to a set of scripts found on github that lay claim to “fixing” touchpad and trackpad issues on ThinkPad laptops running Ubuntu. Sad to say that without a ...
Microsoft hasn’t updated Skype for Linux since June 2014. In the nearly two years since then, Skype has been falling apart. The Linux client was already behind other platforms, and it’s only fallen further since then. Even the features it ...
PCSX2 is a Playstation 2 emulator for PC. The compatibility rates for the emulator boast over 80% of all PS2 games as playable. If you own a reasonably powerful computer then PCSX2 is a great emulator. The application also provides ...
OpenToonz, the open source version of the Toonz animation software used by Studio Ghibli, was released to the public this weekend. If you want to get your hands on the software, OpenToonz can be officially downloaded at Github.io. The robust ...
Compared to other technology companies, Apple is known to lock down its code. However, last year the company decided to open source Swift, its rapidly growing iOS and OS X app development programming language. Going one step ahead, Apple has decided to bring ...
Wine is an open source project that, on the face of it, seems to offer something wondrous: the ability to run Windows applications under Linux (or any other open source OS). It does this by attempting to recreate the Windows ...
With one announcement, the animation software game may have changed forever. Toonz, the software used by Studio Ghibli to produce films like The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, Howl’s Moving Castle, Ponyo and The Wind Rises,will be made free and ...
When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella extolled his company’s love for Linux—an open source operating system it previously opposed—it would be natural to assume that commitment came with a few caveats. On Monday, the company doubled down on its love for ...
It is difficult to believe that the first Hadoop cluster was put into production at Yahoo, 10 years ago, on January 28th, 2006. Ten years ago nobody was aware that an open source technology, like Apache Hadoop will fire a ...
Libreoffice is immediately available for Linux, MacOS X, Windows and available in localised version (Maltese version in development) The Document Foundation has announced LibreOffice 5.1, a full featured open source office suite which compares head-to-head with every product in the ...