Nowadays company employees are often dispersed across the globe and collaboration tools turn out to be of current importance in achieving shared goals. OnlyOffice is a platform for small and medium business that enables teams to manage projects, customer relations and documents in one place. Linux users can take advantage of open source version and start to collaborate on projects hosted safely on their own servers. ONLYOFFICE is a cloud business service that enables you to manage projects, customer relations and documents in one place.
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Qterminal is a Qt-based multitab terminal forked from QTermWidget, it is lightweight, open-source, specially designed for LXQt desktop environment. Author of QTermWidget had no time to make it more advanced, thus this fork was created. Unlike Tmux or Screen, it is much easier to deal with it.
"Initially this project was started as an attempt to create relatively light and stable terminal emulator application like Konsole or gnome-terminal but without any dependency from such monsters as KDE or Gnome. The author was looking for such kind of application for a long time but haven't found anything worth while."
It offers features like vertical and horizontal terminal split, zoom in or out, terminal tabs switcher, background color scheme adjustments (choose from predefined schemes) or change background image, font resizing, shortcut keys, hide/show scroll bars and windows borders, and many more from preferences.
Using Multiplexer features you can create as much multi-screens in one terminal window as you want, you can kill the current window, copy text between windows, scroll with in split window using mouse, easily switch between windows, etc. All windows run their programs completely independent of each other. Professional may find it useful and very handy with a lot of features.
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Pinta is an open-source, cross-platform bitmap image drawing and editing program inspired by Paint.NET which aims to work as an simpler, easier-to-use alternative to GIMP. It is easy to use multi-platform painting program. Pinta is lighter, powerful and simpler than open-source image editor GIMP. Well, it cannot compete with GIMP because it doesn't offer much features like GIMP.
Pinta is a bitmap image editor with many features typical of image editing software including drawing tools, image filters and colour adjustment tools. The focus on usability is reflected in several of the main features of the program: Unlimited undo history; Multiple language support; Flexible toolbar arrangement, including floating as windows or docking around the image edge.

Features:
  • Adjustments (Auto level, Black and White, Sepia,  and so on)
  • Effects (Motion blur, Glow, Warp,  and so on)
  • Multiple layers Support
  • Unlimited undo/redo
  • Drawing tools (Paintbrush, Pencil, Shapes, and so on)
  • Full History: Pinta tracks your full history so user can always undo.

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Over the years, the developers behind Linux have made great leaps in order to provide better services and functionality to their loyal users. Before, personal computers that have Linux operating system were deemed to be unusable. But now, a lot of people are starting to become more enthusiastic in giving it a chance because of its improved usability.

But of course, not every technophile is born the same. In addition, you cannot really expect that every Linux desktop that comes out of the box has the same features. If you are quite new to this operating system, it might take you a long time before you finally learn its ins and outs. So to help you out, here are several ways on how you can make your computer more efficient and user-friendly.

1. Familiarize yourself with the keyboard shortcuts

Similar to Windows or Mac computers, devices that run on Linux have several handy keyboard shortcuts that can definitely make your user experience better. Commonly, shortcuts are used for creating word documents, but there are some great ones that are specially designed for the system. To make it easier for you, just long press the Super key, or the Ubuntu’s equivalent of the Windows key. After a few seconds, a list of all the keyboard shortcuts will appear. This will help you become more familiarized with each shortcut.

2. Use the pager

No, this is not the kind of pager that was used by your grandparents before smartphones were invented. A Linux pager is a handy tool that provides multiple workspaces for better organization of your files. Thanks to this feature, you do not have to waste your time in searching for your different virtual working tools.

3. Use drawers

These are slide-out menus for organizing any type of icon and applet that can be found on your screen. If you like to add a lot of shortcuts on your home screen, you can use these drawers to prevent your desktop from becoming too cluttered. You can create several drawers for your social apps, games, most commonly used work tools, and a whole lot more.

4. Package manager

Linux devices usually come with a built-in package management system. The more modern versions of this system are fashioned just like an app store. The Ubuntu Software Center and Synaptic, for instance, features a variety of apps that you can download. That way, you don’t have to open your browser just to search for a program.

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Evolvere icon suite is designed for Linux to make desktop more elegant with complete smooth icon set. Initially this icon theme was created for light desktop environments, however, later after user requests the designer enhance this icon theme for all kind of desktops, for instance for dark environments you can use variant "dark fallback". All icons with sizes smaller or equal to 24px are monochromatic, with very few exceptions, such as emblems and some actions icons. This prevents breakage of standardized icons in some situations. So, if you see small colorful icons, is because they have not yet been adjusted, however, they will be. Creator planned to create a totally colorful variant, but that future may not be so close. This icon suite offers following variants (evolvere; evolbuntu; evolbuntu-dark-fallback; evolvere-black-folders-dark-fallback; evolvere-black-folders-vivid-dark-fallback; evolvere-black-folders-vivid; evolvere-black-folders; evolvere-blue-folders-dark-fallback; evolvere-blue-folders-vivid-dark-fallback; evolvere-blue-folders-vivid-sunken-dark-fallback; evolvere-blue-folders-vivid-sunken; evolvere-blue-folders-vivid; evolvere-blue-folders; evolvere-dark-fallback; evolvere-flat-vivid-sunken-dark-fallback; evolvere-flat-vivid-sunken; evolvere-green-folders-dark-fallback; evolvere-green-folders-vivid-dark-fallback; evolvere-green-folders-vivid-sunken-dark-fallback; evolvere-green-folders-vivid-sunken; evolvere-green-folders-vivid; evolvere-green-folders; evolvere-sunken-dark-fallback; evolvere-sunken; evolvere-vivid-sunken-dark-fallback; and evolvere-vivid-sunken) and is compatible with these desktop environments: Unity, Gnome, KDE, Xfce, Mate, and others. This icon set is in active development and open for user requests, which means you can request icon if you found any missing icon or problem in this icon theme, go to this page and report. Radiance colors theme theme used in following screenshots. You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change themes/icons.
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CentOS System Administration Essentials

Readers would be pleased to know that I have teamed up with Packt Publishing to giveaway few copies of their brand new book – CentOS System Administration Essentials.

Overview:

  • Centralize user accounts in openLDAP and understand how Directory can be at the back-end of many services
  • Learning Puppet to centralize server configuration will free up your time as configuration is handled just once on the configuration server
  • A step-by-step guide that covers the very popular Linux Distribution CentOS 6.5 with easy-to-follow instructions.

And 5 lucky winners stand a chance to win digital copies of this book. Keep reading to find out how you can be one of the Lucky Winners.


How to Enter and Win?

All you need to do is head on to this book page and look through the product description of the book.
Drop a line via the comments below this post to let us know what interests you most about this book. It's that simple!!!

5 Winners will get an e-copy of the Book.

We will select 5 winners by generating random numbers based on total number of comments. Don't comment twice or more, you can't win if we detect more than one comment from your side (We have tools to encounter such situation ;) so be fair).


Deadline:

The contest will close on (February. 27th, 2015 - (UTC) Time 10:59 PM). Winners will be contacted by email, so be sure to use your real email address when you comment as guest or use your disqus account! So hurry up and make the most of this exciting opportunity.

Note: Carefully read How to Enter and Win?


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Winners Selected

Congratulations to: Okba, msagovac, Mark Hamilton, Rick Wilson, & Random Explosions

Sorry guys who couldn't win this contest, maybe next time.

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Azure Gtk theme is derived from Paper which is designed for modern GTK3 desktop. Its design is mostly flat with a minimal use of shadows for depth. Originally Paper has dark grey color but Azure is available in blue color for GTK 3.10/3.12 desktops, it requires 'GTK2 pixbuf engine' to get theme work properly. In the early version this theme was developed only for Gnome, later it made available for other desktops. This theme is currently in beta stage so don't expect everything to work perfect, whenever we get new update then we will push it to our PPA. Icons used in following screenshots are Victory icons. You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change themes.
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Malys-ex icon set is designed by Malys from deviantart, he also made some other popular icons (UniBlue & UniBlack) and themes. A guy from gnome-look modified malys-ex icon set and gave a hexagonal shape to icons with new name Octagon, which seems quite unique. This icons theme contains more than 3000+ icons and can be fit with any kind of light or dark theme. It is compatible with most of the Linux desktop environments such as Unity, Gnome, Cinnamon, Mate, and others. You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change icons.
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Ubuntu OS on the desktop is very famous brand and has a long heritage in the open source community, but rather than confine itself to the one platform, Canonical set out on the path to use the same core kernel and deliver the same platform across smartphones, tablets, the desktop and TVs.
Ubuntu Touch is a mobile version of the Ubuntu operating system which is being developed by Canonical Ltd and Ubuntu Community. It is designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. Ubuntu Touch is designed specifically for smartphones to power everything from entry-level handhelds to "high-end super-phones" that double as PCs. The OS is fairly cool, though. You swipe on the edges of the phone to bring up the app launcher, visit your home screen, multitask, and view menus instead of hardware buttons. The home screen is a bit different than what you see on iOS and Android, showing your open apps along the top and your shortcuts on the bottom. Lock screen features include: Missed calls and messages notifications, info-graphic animations, swipe left/right to unlock, lock screen security (Pin/Password), music control, date, time and alarm information.
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There are many dark and light themes available in our drawer. Lhûn-Magol is a dark GTK Theme with combination of light blue color as foreground. This theme is based on Ambiance-Colors theme suite and Boomerang (not in active development) themes, it fits for those users who don't want their eyes to be hurt by bright colors or if you are a fan of dark theme. This dark GTK theme is compatible with Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic/Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca/Linux Mint 17 Qiana/ and other related Ubuntu derivatives. This is very first theme of Tano, he mentioned "This is my first theme. I am sharing it so others can enjoy the theme but also because I want to learn more about theming. If you notice any errors or have suggestions for improval, please inform me.". Ultra-Flat icons used in following screenshots. You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change themes.

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Minitube is a native YouTube client. With it you can watch YouTube videos in a new way: you type a keyword, Minitube gives you an endless video stream. Minitube does not require the Flash Player. Minitube is not about cloning the YouTube website, it aims to create a new TV-like experience. By consuming less CPU, Minitube preserves battery life and keeps your laptop cool. That's because Minitube does not use the Flash Player. Go full-screen and watch HD videos play smoothly. Subscribe to YouTube channels and be notified of new videos. No need to login with a YouTube account: Minitube takes care of it. Just search for something. Minitube automatically plays videos one after another. Sit back and enjoy.
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Now a days most of the Linux desktops have their own Menu/launchers with search option like Ubuntu Unity has Dash, Gnome has Activities, KDE and Cinnamon has its own Menu, and so on. Launchers are used to search applications/files quickly as possible on finger tips. In past when Gnome didn't had Activities Menu then there was application Gnome-Do which still exist for current Linux versions but not widely used now and Gnome-Do is not been actively developed for a while. Native launchers can give you performance but if you want step forward and looking for an alternative for your Linux desktop then Synapse comes in handy.
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Smaragd is unique design icon theme modified version of Menda icon theme by Anex, it is released under license Creative Commons by-sa. It is shaped in hexagonal design, such icon sets are difficult to find. This icon set contains icons from different icon projects such as Numix, Flattr, NitruxSA, and some Manjaro version graphics icons. It contains more than 13000+ icons. The good thing is that it is compatible with all Linux desktop environments such as Unity, Gnome, Cinnamon, Mate, KDE and others. This icon set is in active development and open for user requests, which means you can request icon if you found any missing icon in this set then report here. In following screenshots Ambiance-Blackout-Flat theme used. You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change themes/icons.
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LibreOffice is the power-packed free, libre and open source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and GNU/Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, the word processor, Calc, the spreadsheet application, Impress, the presentation engine, Draw, our drawing and flowcharting application, Base, our database and database frontend, and Math for editing mathematics. Its clean interface and powerful tools let you unleash your creativity and grow your productivity.
LibreOffice 4.4 announcement: "LibreOffice 4.4 has got a lot of UX and design love, and in my opinion is the most beautiful ever," says Jan "Kendy" Holesovsky, a member of the Membership Committee and the leader of the design team. "We have completed the dialog conversion, redesigned menu bars, context menus, toolbars, status bars and rulers to make them much more useful. The Sifr monochrome icon theme is extended and now the default on OS X. We also developed a new Color Selector, improved the Sidebar to integrate more smoothly with menus, and reworked many user interface details to follow today’s UX trends."

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UI Revamped

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Themes available to change look

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Release Highlights:
  • Digital signing of PDF files during the export process.
  • Installation of free fonts Carlito and Caladea to replace proprietary Microsoft C-Fonts Calibri and Cambria, to get rid of font related issues while opening OOXML files.
  • Addition of several new default templates, designed by volunteers.
  • Visual editing of Impress master pages, to remove unwanted elements, adding or hiding a level to the outline numbering, and toggling bullets on or off.
  • Improved import filters for Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Publisher and AbiWord files, and Microsoft Works spreadsheets.
  • Greatly expanded support for media capabilities on each platform.
  • Writer shapes can now have a Textbox, meaning that it's possible to have complex Writer content and full drawinglayer geometry for a shape at the same time.
  • Inclusion of new buttons in the Track Changes toolbar, along with a new set of icons.
  • The keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+E has been associated with the recording of track changes.
  • The style dropdown now has a split menu to edit or update the selected style.
  • Page number in the statusbar are more easily understood when page number styles are used.
  • Spacing between elements was improved to work better in low-resolution screens and small windows and double-clicking in the blank statusbar field no longer opens the 'Fields' dialog.
  • Click behaviour was unified so that left-click results in an action or dialog appearing and right-click results in the display of a context menu.
  • Tooltips were added to all elements of the statusbar.
  • Word and character count now have thousand separators.
  • Bookmarks in Navigator can be named using any character that is accepted in HTML anchor names. Specifically, LibreOffice now accepts period (.) and colon (:).
  • Improved "Replace dashes" autocorrect feature: double dashes between numbers are replaced with en dash (–) instead of em dash (—).
  • Simplified input of special symbols by default autocorrect patterns: Trademark, copyright, registered symbols, Arrows, Subscript/superscript characters, and so on.
  • Middle Autocorrect wildcard patterns: Autocorrect wildcard patterns (text.* and .*text) introduced in 4.2.x, now possible to add .*text.* like patterns.
  • Formula Engine: Added AGGREGATE spreadsheet function for Excel interoperability.
  • The right-click context menu that appear for managing sheets now has icons for sheet operations.
  • When we have a table in impress, have modified a cell style and then add a new row or column it now inherits the style of the current row/column for the new one instead of using default values.
  • It is now possible to save an Impress/Draw file read-only and require a password to modify it.
  • Draw now uses the paper size specified in page formatting with printing.
  • The View menu was reorganized to better unify its items similar to Writer and Calc.
  • Now Math supports the basic 16 HTML colors.
  • The newly added colors can be inserted from the Elements docked bar.
  • Draw can now import Adobe PageMaker files (v. 6-7), via libpagemaker.
  • Both Writer and Draw can import files from MacDraw, MacDraw II and RagTime for Mac (v. 2-3), via libmwaw.
  • Writer can now import Sony BroadBand eBook (LRF) files, via libe-book.
  • It is possible to connect to SharePoint 2010/2013 directly from LibreOffice.
  • It is possible to connect to OneDrive directly from LibreOffice.
  • Rulers have smaller numbers and are now hidden by default.
  • The paragraph line spacing dropdown that was present only in the sidebar has been reworked so that it can be used in the main toolbar too, and was added there.
  • The "Bullets" and "Numbering" toolbar buttons now have drop-down menus so it easier to change the list style without opening the lists dialog.
  • Cut, Copy and Paste actions are now at the top of the context menu.
  • Writer now has the ability to access the Paste Special dialog via the context menu, reaching feature parity with Calc.
  • Font, Font size and Text alignment formatting options have been removed from the context menu: according to statistics were widely unused and their removal reduces visual clutter.
  • Writer now has an option to change the currently selected image to another graphic via the context menu, reaching feature parity with Impress and Draw.
  • New browser for Firefox themes with search and preview.
  • Images are now scaled proportionally by default in Calc and Impress/Draw as they were already in Writer.
  • New and improved icons have been added to the Tango, Sifr, and Oxygen icon themes.
  • Detailed changes can be found here.



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Ultra-Flat icon theme is flat and beautiful based on Flattr icons. This icon set can work with all kind of themes dark/light/or any other color. There are two variants of this theme Blue and Orange, all icons are same in both variants except folders, so you can choose what fits with your theme. The good thing is that it contain icons for all Linux desktop environments such as Unity, Gnome, Cinnamon, Mate, KDE (KDE desktop is now supported) and others; KDE desktop is not supported yet, it is mentioned on icons page "Kde users : I noticed round icons look ugly under kde. At this time I don't know why but I will try to find a fix. Unfortunately, the theme doesn't support kde, sorry". With in this icon theme offers more than 4,500+ icons which are available as scalable and small size. This icon set is in active development and open for user requests, which means you can request icon if you found any missing in this icon theme, go to this page tell the app name of missing icon and report. Delorean Dark theme used in following screenshots. You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change themes/icons.
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