Cheap Linux Laptops, Best Video Editors & More…

Psst, want a cheap laptop? Philadelphia’s Nonprofit Technology Resources wants to save a pile of laptops from the scrapyard. So Ed Cummings, the president of the organization, said the organization is having a “Linux Laptop Pizza Party” on Saturday in the City of Brotherly Love, according to Juliana Reyes writing in Technical.ly.

Wine 1.7.54 Is Out with Better Video Decoding, Photoshop CS6 Improvements

Alexandre Julliard announced earlier today, October 30, the immediate availability for download and testing of a new development version of the Wine software that lets users run Windows apps and games on any GNU/Linux operating system.

Wine 1.7.54 Has Improved Video Decoding, TransmitFile, More Web Services

Wine 1.7.54 was released this morning as the latest bi-weekly Wine development release.

Wine 1.7.54 offers improved video decoding, an implementation of the TransmitFile function, more of the Web Services DLL has been implemented, and more.

Frameworks keeps proving that KDE project was right

Some time ago KDE project bet on the separation of base libs, on somehing called frameworks, that create a set of libraries to be capable to be used for any other software project.

Free Software Contributions in October 2015

This month began with a super KDE Sprint for KDevelop and Kate. I’ve mentioned the things I did and learned in my previous blog post.

GNOME 3.19.1 Already Baking More Wayland Fixes

GNOME 3.19.1 Released As First Step Toward GNOME 3.20

Javier Jardón announced the release of GNOME 3.19.1 today as the first development release aiming toward GNOME 3.20.

Builder 3.20 development underway

I’ve been busy working on the plumbing for what will become Builder 3.20. We have a really ambitious cycle ahead of us, so getting these core changes in place as soon as possible will help give us time to stabilize.

5 Most Beginner Friendly Linux Distributions

Pinguy Builder Review - Build Your Own Ubuntu OS

Pinguy Builder is a very useful app that can be used by anyone to create an Ubuntu Live CD from scratch or to back up an existing Ubuntu installation. The process should work with all the other Ubuntu-based distributions.

GParted 0.24.0-2 Screenshot Tour

SystemRescueCd 4.6.1 Screenshot Tour

Gentoo-Based Sabayon 15.11 Linux Distro Introduces the Sabayon Server Edition

The Sabayon developers are happy to announce the release of their monthly rolling ISO images, dubbed Sabayon 15.11, which include all the updates that have been released during the month of October 2015.

UbuCon Summit 2016 Preparations Begin, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Daily Builds Out Now

Canonical's David Planella sent in his bi-monthly report to inform us all about the last things that happened in the Ubuntu world. The report includes information about the work done by the Ubuntu Community Team during the last two weeks.