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Mixxx is a DJ tool that allows for the playback and mixing of digital music .The basic requirements for Mixxx are a desktop computer or laptop with a reasonable amount of storage space on the hard drive for your music, at least 1 audio card for outputting the sound and a way of controlling the software either by mouse, keyboard or hardware DJ ... (more)

A utility application to catalogue, sort, filter, and play media files on local disk.

LINUX DISTRIBUTION Mageia launched its third and latest release Mageia 3 a few days ago, and that's now available to download directly from the Mageia website and many of the well known mirrors like kernel.org and many university supported mirrors via either Bittorrent, http or ftp.

Software Description: - linux: Linux kernel Details: An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel's crypto API.

WAN consumption patterns have evolved from predictable, point-to-point transactions to bandwidth-hungry, always-on, many-to-many interactions.

Edubuntu 13.04, released April 25, brings the education edition into sync with the latest version of Ubuntu, the popular Linux operating system.

Bary Kauler has announced the release of Puppy Linux 5.6 "Precise" edition, a minimalist distribution and live CD featuring the JWM window manager and built from Ubuntu 12.04 binary packages: "It's out! Our latest and greatest Puppy.

Finally, the long-awaited Skype 4.2 for Linux released by Microsoft with major updates, lots of various bug fixes and some minor features from the previous version, and this update is one of the biggest update as of now.

Among the topics discussed by the developers at Ubuntu Developer Summit 13.05 were the planned new features for Ubuntu 13.10. The next version of the distribution, code-named "Saucy Salamander", could include early versions of Ubuntu's Mir display server and have the Qt-based Unity Next desktop environment for testing.

It assumes that you're using a 64 bit host machine, and doesn't check that you're on Debian as it should .

On this week's FLOSS, Randal Schwartz and Simon Phipps chat with Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager, about where Ubuntu is headed, where its community is going to take it, and much more in a must-listen to conversation if you love Linux on the desktop!

An anonymous reader writes "The open-source Intel Linux graphics driver has hit a milestone of now being faster than Apple's own OpenGL stack on OS X . The Intel Linux driver on Ubuntu 13.04 is now clearly faster than Apple's internally-developed Intel OpenGL driver on OS X 10.8.3. when benchmarked from a 'Sandy Bridge' class Mac Mini.

Properly configured, a Linux system can breathe life into old hardware or finely-tune performance on new gear.

PRAWtools is currently made up of two utillities: * modutils * reddit_alert * subreddit_stats ## PRAWtools Installation ### Ubuntu/debian installation sudo apt-get install python-setuptools sudo easy_install pip sudo pip install prawtools ### Arch Linux installation sudo pacman -S python-pip sudo easy_install pip sudo pip install prawtools ### Mac ... (more)

If you've been in the market for a portable computer, you may very well have considered buying a Chromebook.

These days there are a lot of "user friendly" distros - all with a little different take on what constitutes friendliness.

From the release number, you can probably guess that it is based on Ubuntu Desktop 13.04. But what you cannot guess from the name or release number is that it ships with its own desktop environment called HY-D-V1. It also makes it super easy to test-drive other desktop environments from the same installation, without ever rebooting the computer or ... (more)

Google Chrome/Chromium, Firefox and Opera browser support SPDY networking protocol.

A few days ago, Canonical reiterated its commitment to restoring the Ubuntu "community" Web portal to front-and-center of official Ubuntu websites.

LXer is read by around 350,000 individuals each month, and is an excellent place for you to publish your ideas, thoughts, reviews, complaints, etc.