Ubuntu 17.04 has been released. The new version brings updated applications and various under-the-hood improvements, along with bug fixes. As expected, Compiz and Unity have only received minor improvements and bug fixes. On the other hand, Ubuntu 17.04 includes the GNOME 3.24 stack for the most …
The KDE Connect Indicator (fork) PPA maintainer is not available any more, and I was asked to create a new PPA. Since I’m a KDE Connect Indicator user myself, I couldn’t say no, so I created a new KDE Connect Indicator PPA, which provides packages for …
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will go back to using GNOME as the default desktop environment, instead of Unity. In what comes as a big surprise for many, Mark Shuttleworh, the founder of Ubuntu and Canonical, explains on the Ubuntu Insights website that Canonical is ending their “investment …
Tesseract OCR: Installation and Usage on Ubuntu 16.04 Tesseract is one of the most powerful open source OCR engine available today. OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. This is the process of extracting texts from images. For example, consider the following image which has some text …
How to Install Invoice Ninja on Ubuntu 16.04 Invoice Ninja is a web-based open source software for invoicing, payments, time tracking and much more. You can create Invoices online in seconds, interact with payments gateways like Stripe, PayPal, WePay, and others. Invoice Ninja can show you …
How to Install MySQL 5.7 on Linux CentOS and Ubuntu MySQL is an open source relational database management system developed by Oracle corporation. The source code is released under GNU General Public License, and for proprietary, there is a paid edition that offers additional functions. MySQL …
Cinnamon desktop environment has reached the new massive 3.4 release a few days ago. Though there’s no official announcement published on Linux Mint blog at the moment of writing, you can now install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04 via PPA. Cinnamon 3.4.0 brings over 160 …
Want to change the boring default Ubuntu desktop themes? Well, there’s a script allows to easily install a list of the latest version of nice GTK themes. It supports GTK 3.18 to 3.24, and will install the correct version according to your system. So far, support …
Install Vivaldi 1.10 Web Browser for Linux Ubuntu. Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1.10.834.9 comes with a handy feature that allows you to sort your downloads. You can now sort them in your Side Panel by name, size, date added and date finished. You also have the option …
Calibre 2.84 released. Here’s how to install Calibre on Linux Ubuntu Systems. Learn how to install or update Calibre, via Ubuntu PPA. Calibre 2.84 brings various new features. It can now use the same regular expression engine as is used by the Edit Book tool. The …
