25th of April 2013 08:01 GMT
Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) has been launched by Canonical, and from what we can tell so far, this is the best one yet. We have gotten used to receiving small doses of Ubuntu every six months. The visual changes aren't significant from one version to another (with the exception of Unity), but if we compare 1...
17th of April 2013 03:01 GMT
Banshee is a music player with an old history. It left its mark on the open source community by showing that different concepts could work for the same kind of software. As you can imagine, there are quite a few music players available for Linux. Most of them will offer a standard number of functionalities, but a s...
9th of April 2013 07:51 GMT
SMPlayer is just one of the many media players available on the Linux platform, but it's also the member of a very exclusive club of applications that distinguish themselves from the rest by providing everything a user might need. Just like most players, SMPlayer is actually just a front-end for Mplayer. This d...
27th of March 2013 09:21 GMT
Deluge is a BitTorrent client developed for multiple platforms, which provides full functionality and comes with a vast array of plugins that extend its uses. It's not clear why, but Deluge has lost some of its fans along the way, in favor of other similar solutions. The reasons are not apparent because this is...
30th of January 2013 09:21 GMT
The Linux platform has a lot of download managers and other platforms such as Windows and Mac have taken their inspiration from them, but sometimes things can work the other way around. When it comes to downloading files, Linux can provide many ways to do it, but none of them is pretty or modern. Most of the downloa...