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Elementary OS Luna is based on the long term support release Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin. Which mean it will receive official security updates and packages from Ubuntu until April 2017. Unlike the previous version of Elementary OS “Jupiter” which based on Ubuntu 10.10 “Maverick Meerkat” non-LTS release, it usually received official security updates for 2 years. So, this a really good point to make the base of Elementary OS on LTS release.

XAMPP is free and open-source web development bundle, it includes Apache HTTP web server, MySQL, PHP, Perl, Python. OpenSSL, and many more web modules. XAMPP software bundle “distribution” easily provides all these web modules with a few commands. So, don’t bother installing Apache, MySQL, PHP …etc one by one.

Wine is a free and opensource software allows you to run Microsoft windows applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. The weekly development release of Wine brings some new features and several bug fixes. For further information and download …

The final stable release of Mozilla desktop and Mobile browser version 15 is now available to download. Mozilla Firefox 15 brings several improvements for the desktop and mobile, which will allow you to have a better web browsing experience in desktop …

The second development release “Alpha 2? of Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal has been released. It brings many bug fixes and several updated packages since the “Alpha 1? release.

Bluefish is a free and open-source advanced text editor for web designer and programmers. It support variety of programming languages and service side scripting languages for creating dynamic and interactive web pages. It works on the major operating systems “Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, …

The second issue of the MagPI magazine which is fully dedicated for the Raspberry PI project. In this issue of MagPI, there are many new tutorials for Linux distributions, python tutorials “Python Pit”, basic usage for RaspBerry PI, and the new section command line clinic. Check Download mirrors and quick preview link for the 2nd issue.

Here’s another CCSM [How To]. There are many users prefer to use certain applications always in maximized mode especially if they have a notebook or a small display. I will show you a couple of ways to set all windows or certain applications window’s to start in maximized mode using Compiz Config Settings Manager “CCSM”.

Cairo Dock 3.0.1 has been released, it brings some bug fixes since the last major release 3.0.0 we have seen earlier. It’s recommended to update to this release since it fixes some for application core and plugins. Check the changelog and installation instruction down below.

Shell prompt fans! here’s a microblogging client for Twitter and identi.ca you can use through the command line interface. Twidge allows you to view the recent tweets, add a new tweet, view messages, replies, retweets by those you follow and many other features.

Yorba software group announced the new lightweight email client for Gnome desktop called “Geary”. It comes with a simple and organized user interface to ease the way you browse/read your emails. Also it’s written in Vala programing language.

MagPI is a new dedicated magazine for Raspberry PI will be released monthly for free. This magazine aimed to provide a variety of tutorials, articles, how to setup your Raspberry PI and much more. It has been written by many volunteers with many levels in mind. Check more information about the first issue of MagPI down below.

KDE is a free and open-source advanced desktop environment. It provides a Plasma workspaces and variety of applications for different cross-platforms. Now the latest KDE plasma and applications version 4.8.3 is available to update for Kubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin and for Ubuntu Precise derivatives as well.

Gimp is an advanced image editor application, it works on many operating system including Linux, MAC OS X and Microsoft Windows. We have seen earlier on the development series 2.7.x many features which lands on the final release Gimp 2.8.0. Now, the final release is available to Download. So, let’s check out its highlights and download links.

Finally! The latest stable release 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin is available to download in different flavors, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, UbuntuStudio, and Mythbuntu. Many of the recent changes in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, we already have seen it any many post on the earlier builds of Precise at LinuxNov. However, in this post we will go through the recent major features in a quick review for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin.

Almost there! Day by day we are getting closer to the final stable release of Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin the long term support release. Today the second beta release is available to download for the testing purposes. So, let’s check the recent changes to Ubuntu Precise Pangolin highlights.

Choosing a highly secure password for your email accounts, social networks, wireless networks and any other applications or websites requires a password became a challenge. So, when you choose a password, think about the possibility of cracking it and how long it will take to crack your password. In this post we will have a look at some tips for choosing a secure and strong passwords as much as possible, and we will check a CLI tool for Linux/Unix will helps you to generate a secure passwords in case you can’t figure one out.

Back to January 2012, we have seen the first Beta release of XBMC 11.0 Eden the free and open-source multimedia entertaining center. The Beta releases of XBMC 11.0 came with several new features, better hardware support since XBMC 10.0 Dharma, and improvements to the new default skin “Confluence”. After over a year since Dharma release, here comes the final stable release of XBMC 11.0 Eden. Check what’s new and Download options down below.

Opera web browser is almost available for every device we have these days such as desktop, tablet, mobile devices and it’s available for the major platforms. Now, Opera software ASA will provide a new web browsing experience called “Opera TV Browser”, which will allow you to have a full browsing experience through Linux and Android based TVs.

Wine software allows you to run Microsoft Windows applications on Linux/Unix operating systems. Recently many release candidate of wine 1.4 released in the past few weeks, and here comes the final stable release of Wine 1.4 after 20 Months of development. The latest stable release Wine 1.4 brings several improvements to graphics rendering, added a new DIB graphics engine, improved Direct3D, support for many new applications and over than 16,000 individual changes. Check What’s new in Wine 1.4 and installation instructions down below.