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Audacious Switches Back To GTK2, Adds New Qt-Based User Interface [Audacious 3.6 Alpha 1]

| Date: December 10, 2014 | View Comments | Tags: audacious, gtk3, linux, music player, qt, ubuntu

Audacious is a fast audio player that focuses on high audio quality and low resource usage, which comes with a pretty large plugin list and until now, it shipped with two interfaces: a GTK+ interface and a Winamp 2.x like interface (and so, it supports Winamp 2.x skins).

As we pointed out a while back, the Audacious developers aren't very happy  with GTK3 and for the latest Audacious 3.6 alpha 1, released recently, they've switched back to GTK2 by default. 

Also, since the long-term goal is to completely switch to Qt, Audacious 3.6 alpha 1 includes a new Qt5-based user interface which is already usable, but not as feature-rich as the GTK+ interface. The new Qt interface can be installed alongside the already existing GTK+ and Winamp Classic interfaces.

Canonical Announces Snappy Ubuntu Core, A Transactionally Updated Flavor For The Cloud

| Date: December 10, 2014 | View Comments | Tags: cloud, linux, server, snappy, ubuntu

Canonical announced "snappy" Ubuntu Core yesterday, a new cloud-optimized Ubuntu edition that uses transactional updates.

Fedora 21 Available For Download

| Date: December 09, 2014 | View Comments | Tags: distro, fedora, gnome3, linux


Fedora 21 has just been released, featuring the latest stable GNOME 3.14 along with other interesting changes.

With this release, Fedora is available in three flavors: server, cloud and workstation and below, we'll take a quick look at what's new in Fedora 21 Workstation.


Nuvola Player 2.5 Released With Spotify Web Player And Grooveshark Mobile (HTML5) Support

| Date: December 09, 2014 | View Comments | Tags: cloud, grooveshark, linux, music player, nuvola player, Spotify, ubuntu

Nuvola Player 2.5 was released yesterday, bringing support for new services such as Spotify Web Player, Grooveshark Mobile (HTML5) and others, as well as improvements for some already existing services.

Nuvola Player 2.5

Ubuntu Developer Tools Center Renamed To Ubuntu Make, Sees New Release

| Date: December 09, 2014 | View Comments | Tags: android studio, developer, eclipse, linux, ubuntu, ubuntu make

Ubuntu Developer Tools Center, a project to allow easy installation of common developer tools, has reached version 0.2. With this release, the project was renamed to Ubuntu Make, based on name proposals from the community.

Android Studio Ubuntu Make

Install Cinnamon 2.4 (Stable) In Ubuntu 14.04 Via PPA

| Date: December 05, 2014 | View Comments | Tags: cinnamon, desktop environment, linux, ubuntu

Cinnamon 2.4 Ubuntu 14.04

Quick update for Ubuntu 14.04 users who want to try the latest Cinnamon 2.4 (stable): the two Cinnamon stable PPAs we covered a while back were updated recently with the latest Cinnamon 2.4 (2.4.5).

QLLauncher: Quake Live Launcher For Linux

| Date: December 04, 2014 | View Comments | Tags: fps, games, linux, qqlauncher, ubuntu, wine

QLLauncher is a Quake Live launcher for Linux which comes with various tweaks that should improve the game's performance. Furthermore, the tool supports downloading and updating Quake Live along with other useful features.


How To Get Flash And H.264 To Work In Opera Browser (Ubuntu 14.04, 14.10 and 15.04)

| Date: December 03, 2014 | View Comments | Tags: flash, html5, linux, opera, ubuntu

Opera 26 (stable) was released for Linux today and if you've tried it, you might have noticed that, at least on a pretty fresh Ubuntu installation, Flash and H.264 don't work.

So here's how to get Flash and H.264 (used for instance by the YouTube HTML5 player) to work with Opera on Ubuntu. The instructions below should work for all Opera (26 or newer) channels: stable, beta and developer.

Opera 26 Released, First Stable Linux Release In More Than A Year

| Date: December 03, 2014 | View Comments | Tags: browser, linux, opera, ubuntu

Opera 26 (based on Chromium 39) was released today for Windows, Mac and Linux. This is the first stable Opera version available for Linux since Opera 12.16, which was released almost a year and a half ago.

Opera browser Linux

Syncthing GTK Gets HTTPS Support, Syncthing Daemon Auto-Updater And More

| Date: December 02, 2014 | View Comments | Tags: appindicator, cloud, linux, p2p, sync, syncthing, ubuntu

Syncthing GTK was updated recently with quite a few improvements, such as HTTPS support on Linux, an auto-updater for the Syncthing binary and much more.

Syncthing GTK is a GTK3 & Python GUI for Syncthing, which includes a tray icon / Ubuntu AppIndicator. In case you're not familiar with Syncthing, this is a cross-platform peer-to-peer file synchronization client/server application written in Go, similar to BitTorrent Sync. It can be used to synchronize files between computers however, unlike BitTorrent Sync, Syncthing is open source. 

For more information, see our article on Syncthing.

Syncthing GTK

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