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Kodi 15.0 RC1: Features and Installation on Ubuntu

Kodi needs no introduction when speaking of home entertainment. It is most widely used media player with wonderful features, developed by XBMC, it has emerged into a must-have application for your daily use. Kodi is cross platform application and run fine on every kind of hardware. It supports lot of languages and you can highly customize its functionality to the way you want it. Kodi 15.0 RC 1 has been released, lets review its prominent features and installation steps on Ubuntu Linux. Read more at LinuxPitstop

Distribution Release: 4MLinux 13.0

The 4MLinux project has announced a new release of the independent Linux distribution. The latest release, 4MLinux 13.0, ships with the GNU Compiler Collection 5 and offers miscellaneous desktop improvements. “The status of the 4MLinux 13.0 series has been changed to S. Major changes in the core of….

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Intel President Renee James Steps Down to Take External CEO Role

James is Intel’s highest ranking female executive. She will stay with Intel until January to help with the transition.

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Meet Gello: An Open-Source Chromium Browser for Android from CyanogenMod

The open-source community is bringing another mobile browser choice to Android in the form of Gello: A Chromium browser without the Google bits.

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GNOME Shell & Mutter Just Landed More Wayland Improvements

GNOME Shell and Mutter didn’t see new 3.17.3 releases for last week’s GNOME 3.17.3 development release, but today they’ve released the new package versions…

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Ubuntu MATE Announces A Partnership With A PC Hardware Vendor

Ubuntu MATE, the spin of Ubuntu that ships with the popular fork of the GNOME 2 desktop environment, has announced a hardware partnership in shipping their distribution pre-loaded on a “free software friendly and 100% blobless Linux driver” PC…

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Ubuntu Intel Compute Stick Arrives But Specs Lag Behind Windows

The Ubuntu version of the Intel Compute Stick will be released next week but comes with significantly less memory and storage than the Windows version.

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SELinux at Heart of New Hacker-Resistant Infrastructure

A group of technology vendors at last week’s GEOINT 2015 conference demonstrated a data infrastructure they claim could stop hackers in their tracks.

The Multilevel Secure System (MLS) combines technology and services from Lockheed Martin, Seagate, Red Hat, SGI, Cray, Bay Microsystems, Mellanox, Vion, Altair, Crunchy and Splunk.

The ecosystem is based on Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux), but it adds role-based access control with a policy for each role, so no one can get to the system root and the root can’t see user data. All access is logged, so any attempts to penetrate the system can be traced. Policies are based on roles such as security admin, audit admin and sysadmin, and each file is tagged with a security level so some users can see it while others can’t.

Read more at eSecurityPlanet.

DigiKam 4.11.0 Released With Bug Fixes, Install/Update In Ubuntu 15.04/Linux Mint “Refaela” Or Other


digikam 4.11.0 release with 90 bug fixes

digiKam is an Open-Source project Photos management software, specially for KDE but you can use it on Ubuntu or others distros too. In digiKam photos are organized in albums which can be sorted chronologically, by folder layout or by custom collections. Developers recently released digiKam 4.11.0 with huge list of 90 bug fixes.
 

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