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Time to Ring In Some Changes
In the last few years, secure text, voice, and video transmission have become major areas of free software development. One of the leaders in this field is Ring. (more)
Dell Launches Five New Linux Systems
Five new systems join Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition that come with Ubuntu pre-installed. (more)
Microsoft Takes Skype for Linux Out of Alpha
The Skype Linux client now has almost the same capabilities that it enjoys on other platforms. (more)
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Add an individual touch to invitations or cards to help your event start with a bang. (more)
LibreOffice Drops Type 1 Font Support
Adoption of the HarfBuzz font-shaping engine led the Document Foundation to drop support for Type 1 fonts in LibreOffice 5.3. User complaints were received without much sympathy, and a bug report was answered with a WONTFIX status. (more)
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Linux Kernel 4.10 Comes with New Security Features
Improved support for GPU in virtualization. (more)
Munich Plans to Ditch Linux and Go Back to Windows
A major setback for the Linux desktop. (more)
Screencast Tools
To make audiovisual content easy to understand, you can use screencast programs, of which Linux has a few. (more)
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