Post on Facebook What You're Listening to on Amarok with SocialRok 1.7

SocialRok, an Amarok 2.0 script which allows users to post what they’re are listening to in the music player on social networks, is now at version 1.7.

SocialRok 1.7 can be used to post on Facebook, Flickr (optional, if you want to send Cover Art along with the post as link format), Twitter, GooglePlus, and Skype.

Highlights of SocialRok 1.7:

• Checking the presence of Python & Curl is now done only once;
• The number of queries on tinyurl…

OTRS Help Desk 3.2.1 Features AJAX and ACLs Full Support

OTRS Help Desk, a software solution that provides an efficient interface between a business and its clients, is now at version 3.2.1. Highlights of OTRS Help Desk 3.2.1: • A test has been added to check if there are problems with the MySQL storage engine used in OTRS tables to bin/otrs.CheckModules.pl; • The new “Customer Information Center” provides a great dashboard-like view on a customer (company); • A new feature, “switch to customer,” …

Distribution Release: Parted Magic 2013_01_29

Patrick Verner has announced the release of Parted Magic 2013_01_29, a Linux live CD with specialist tools for disk management and data rescue tasks: "Parted Magic 2013_01_29. This version of Parted Magic brings all the X.Org packages up to date, adds Spanish language support, and a much improved….

AMD Claims Up to 300% Improvement in Team Fortress 2 with New Driver

AMD have finally started to take their jobs seriously and have released yet another driver update, Catalyst 13.2 Beta 3.

Just as the name implies, this is a development release. Nonetheless, the changes are quite intriguing, if we take AMD’s word for it.

AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta 3 for Linux only has a couple of changes, but they are entirely gaming and Steam for Linux oriented:

• Resolves a Team Fortress 2 performance issue with Ubuntu 12.04/12.10 and …

Mesa 9.1 Delivers Faster Intel OpenGL Graphics

With Mesa 9.1 nearing its release next month and having been branched from master as of this week, here are some new benchmarks looking at the Intel HD 4000 “Ivy Bridge” graphics performance when testing Mesa 9.1-devel Git to Mesa 9.0.2, 8.0.5, and 7.1…

XBMC Media Center 12 Final Released, Features Raspberry Pi and Android Support

XBMC, an open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub for digital media that is available for multiple platforms, is now at version 12. After a few development versions, including three release candidates, the XBMC Media Center, coden…

The Last Round Of Fedora 19 Feature Proposals

Tonight is the deadline for submitting new feature proposals to be considered for the release of Fedora 19…

Install Razor-qt on Ubuntu 12.10

The latest edition is Razor-qt 0.5.2. This article shows how to install it on Ubuntu 12.10 or any other edition of Ubuntu you might be running. Read more ….

Distribution Release: SparkyLinux 2.1 “Ultra”

Paweł Pijanowski has announced the release of SparkyLinux 2.1 "Ultra" edition, a Debian-based lightweight distribution with Openbox as the default desktop user interface: "SparkyLinux 2.1 ‘Ultra’ edition has been released. The system is built on Debian ‘Wheezy’ and all packages have been synchronized with Debian’s testing repositories as….

Join the Premier Club – Now Available until February 4th

Don’t miss out on any of 2013’s updates. Join the Premier Club before February 4th and get a whole host of benefits and bonuses!

Community Round-Up 30/01

Demons have invaded Gielinor this week but that hasn’t stopped the fansites partying! Find out more in this week’s Community Round-Up…

Graphics Card Support For QEMU/KVM Comes Closer

One of the major limitations of QEMU/KVM when it comes to Linux desktop virtualization is that it hasn’t provided any form of support for graphics acceleration — either by passing OpenGL calls onto the host for execution by the host’s driver and graph…

Install XBMC 12.0 Frodo in Ubuntu 13.04/12.10/12.04/11.10/Linux Mint

Install XBMC 12.0 Frodo in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring/Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric/Linux Mint 14/13/12 and Previous XBMC version in Previous Ubuntu versions XBMC is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub for digital media. XBMC is available for Linux, OSX, and Windows. Created in 2003 by a [...]

Geometry Shaders For Mesa Not Yet Ready

While there’s been early code available for several months, Mesa support for OpenGL Geometry Shaders still isn’t ready for merging into mainline Mesa…

AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta Driver For Linux Released

An AMD Catalyst “13.2 Beta 3″ driver has surfaced on the Internet for Linux users relying upon this binary blob for graphics acceleration on Radeon and FirePro graphics hardware…

Fedora 18 vs. Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 13.04 Benchmarks

As the next chapter after the Fedora 17 vs. Fedora 18 benchmarks for the Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution, here are benchmarks comparing Fedora 18 to Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 13.04 on two separate PCs… Read more at Phoronix

XBMC 12.0 `Frodo` Stable Released. Use It On Ubuntu, Raspberry Pi, Android And More

XBMC Media Center 12.0 “Frodo” has been released today with HD audio, Live TV and PVR support and many other enhancements. Also, the application is now available for Android and Raspberry Pi (although there are no official Raspberry Pi builds provided by XBMC).Here are the new features and improvements in the latest XBMC 12.0 “Frodo”:Support [...]

20% off MintBox Basic

In collaboration with CompuLab, we are starting the year with a 20% sale on the MintBox Basic, with a price reduced from $476 down to $379.
For more information on the mintBox please visit: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2055
You can order the mintBox f…

Developers Still Pursue Linux Kernel With LLVM/Clang

Open-source developers are still pursuing the feat of building the mainline Linux kernel with the LLVM/Clang compiler rather than GCC…

FxMovieManager 6.2 Is Based on FFmpeg 1.1

FxMovieManager, an application written to help users manage movie files and video clips, has just reached version 6.2.

FxMovieManager 6.2 includes a twin-panel file manager, a playlist, and a simple frontend to Mplayer. Both the file manager and the playlist can display thumbnails of movie files.

Highlights of FxMovieManager 6.2:

• The code of the internal player has been updated to use version 1.1 of the FFmpeg library;
• The appearance i…