Archive : Xubuntu

Ubuntu non LTS was released 13.04 version along with various flavours of ‘buntu‘ families. You can give a try of different flavours of Ubuntu which has rich features to suit your need. Ubuntu GNOME 13.04Ubuntu GNOME 13.04Ubuntu GNOME flavour first ever released after joining hand with ‘buntu‘ family has released it’s 13.04 version with default GNOME 3.6 Desktop environment. Ubuntu GNOME 13.04 HighlightsGNOME 3.6 Firefox...

This article explains how quickly you can learn to install, remove, update and search software packages using apt-get and apt-cache commands from the command line. This article provides some useful commands that will help you to handle package management in Debian/Ubuntu based systems.APT-GET and APT-CACHE CommandsWhat is apt-get? The apt-get utility is a powerful and free package management command line program, that is used to work with Ubuntu’s...

This guide shows how to install Teamviewer 8 on RedHat, CentOS, Fedora and Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Xubuntu systems. Teamviewer is a one of the most popular application for remote assistant, Desktop sharing or transferring files between computers, web conferencing and online meetings etc. Teamviewer is a proprietary application. However, it’s a freeware for personal use. Teamviewer is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Android and iPhone. Teamviewer...

SMPlayer is an open source and free cross platform multi media player for Linux and Windows was released under the GPL license. It’s playback engine was designed using award winning MPlayer as it capable of playing almost all audio and video formats like avi, mkv, wmv, mp4, mpeg etc. It uses own codecs, so you don’t need to download and install additional codecs.Install SMPlayer in Ubuntu, Xubunut and Linux Mint 13The most interesting...

In today’s computer world time synchronization is very crucial to determine when events happened to your system. You may want your system time should be accurate. The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is to keep your system clock updated. It contacts NTP servers around the globe depend upon the configuration or you may configure NTP manually by editing default configuration file in /etc/ntp.conf file and NTP will fetch local time accordingly. NTP...

Thunderbird is an open source free cross-platform web based email, news and chat client application that is designed to handle multiple email accounts and news feeds.Install Thunderbird 17 in UbuntuOn November 20, 2012 Mozilla team announced the release of Thunderbird 17. This new version comes with some cool features and they are: Thunderbird 17 FeaturesA Menu Button is now visible to new users by default. Tabs are now drawn in the title bar...

The latest Firefox 17 release brings a number of new features, including a new social Facebook Messenger integration, improve display of location bar results, larger icons in the awesome bar and click to play warnings on out-dated Firefox plugins. So, for only one social API introduced in this release i.e. Facebook, but Mozilla is also planning to add support for Twitter. For a complete list of features and changes refer to the official release notes.Install...

Xnoise is an open source media player for GTK+ with an excellent user interface, great speed and lots of other new features that allows users to listen music and play videos. Xnoise can able to play every kind of video/audio format data. The Xnoise interface provides a easy search function where you can easily search the library and drag each artist, album or title to the track-list by in any order position.Install Xnoise Media Player in UbuntuThe...