Linux Lebanese Users: Install Gnome 3.8 in openSUSE (it's stable)

samedi 13 avril 2013

Install Gnome 3.8 in openSUSE (it's stable)

Install Gnome 3.8 in openSUSE (it's stable)
VLC Media Player releases version 2.0.6
GitHub turns 5, has over 6 million repositories
LibreOffice 3.6.6 released, fixes over 50 bugs
Jim Whitehurst takes support calls at Red Hat
XnConvert: the big daddy of all batch image converters
Oil Rush on Steam for Linux

Install Gnome 3.8 in openSUSE (it's stable)

Posted: 12 Apr 2013 10:29 AM PDT

While I have been using Gnome 3.8 on Arch for a while, my openSUSE machine was still waiting for it and now I can upgrade it to 3.8 which is a 'major' upgrade from a user's point of view.

There are two kinds of users to whom I would recommend Gnome 3.8 - if you want a simple, elegant and secure (privacy respecting) operating system or if you are already using 3.6 then you must upgrade to 3.8 to get a better Gnome experience.

VLC Media Player releases version 2.0.6

Posted: 12 Apr 2013 03:50 AM PDT

VideoLAN has released a new update of popular open-source media player, VLC. This version is an important release, and all users are advised to update to this release as soon as possibile

GitHub turns 5, has over 6 million repositories

Posted: 12 Apr 2013 03:49 AM PDT

Popular open source code hosting platform GitHub is now 5 years old. The service, which started with just 6000 users and 2500 repos, now has over 3.5 million users and 6 million repositories.

LibreOffice 3.6.6 released, fixes over 50 bugs

Posted: 12 Apr 2013 03:34 AM PDT

The Document Foundation has released a new update of the LibreOffice suite, LibreOffice 3.6.6.

Jim Whitehurst takes support calls at Red Hat

Posted: 12 Apr 2013 03:33 AM PDT

The company has posted a video in Youtube in Red Hat Support Series which shows Whitehurst to take calls and attend customers.

XnConvert: the big daddy of all batch image converters

Posted: 12 Apr 2013 02:09 AM PDT

Accept it: there was at least one point in time when you had to resize a large number of photos in Linux in one go, and you wished you had known a tool that would do that. Well, certainly, you hadn't heard of XnConvert.

Oil Rush on Steam for Linux

Posted: 12 Apr 2013 02:00 AM PDT

Adding to the list of quality Steam Linux games comes an Indie strategy game Oil Rush. If you are a fan of the strategy genre and have a liking for eye-candy graphics, try this one out.