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Linux Tips, Tricks & News · 1d ago

LibreOffice 3.5.4 RC2 released, fixes the recent documents bug

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
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Linux Tips, Tricks & News · 3d ago

Virtualbox 4.1.16 released, Linux kernel 3.4 support improved

Oracle released version 4.1.16 of Virtualbox yesterday. This is the monthly maintenance release and only fixes outstanding bugs without adding any significant new features. However, Solaris version gets support for Xorg 1.11 and 1.12 (new feature).  The important fix for Linux hosts is that it h
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Linux Tips, Tricks & News · 2W ago

How to activate Validity fingerprint reader VFS300 in Ubuntu

Validity fingerprint readers are present in a lot of business laptops. Dell Vostro series (3350, 3500) uses the Validity fingerprint readers. Until recently, 138a:0008 Validity Sensors, Inc. VFS300 Fingerprint Reader was not recognized by Ubuntu. A few improvements to the ongoing driver developmen
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Linux Tips, Tricks & News · 3W ago

Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth on shaking up system software

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 w
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Linux Tips, Tricks & News · 3W ago

How to upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS from 11.10?

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
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Linux Tips, Tricks & News · 4W ago

Unity recognizes wine application icons in precise pangolin (12.04)

Ubuntu developers seem to be working hard to make the Ubuntu experience with Unity as smooth as possible. After yesterday's update to my Ubuntu 12.04 daily alpha build, I noticed that my Microsoft Office applications installed via Crossover 10, are being correctly recognized on the Unity launch
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Linux Tips, Tricks & News · 4W ago

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS released. So, what's new?

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 sev
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Linux Tips, Tricks & News · 1M ago

Will you upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04?

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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Linux Tips, Tricks & News · 1M ago

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<a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/6172669/"><b>Will you upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04?</b></a>
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Linux Tips, Tricks & News · 1M ago

Ubuntu 12.04 + nVidia + Unity 5.10 (16th April update)

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 ani
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