As you may have noticed that there aren't much Gnome Shell themes in development now a days, this is because of quite fast development of Gnome Shell. But there are still some people who are working behind the scene to bring themes to make user experience much better with Gnome Shell. Aurora theme is kind of grayish color theme and it has two GTK versions one is complete gray and other one with dark title bar and there is only one Gnome Shell theme which is transparent. There are three versions of Aurora theme to support Gtk & Gnome Shell 3.12/3.14/3.16 versions, we've added all versions to PPA and version 3.12/3.14 available for Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 17.x/17 and Gtk & Gnome Shell version 3.14/3.16 available for Ubuntu 15.04/15.10 versions. This pack is works perfect under Gnome Shell and Cinnamon, and has some issues under other desktop environments such as Unity but you can still give it a try in other desktops. If you are using other distribution you can directly download theme and install it manually. You can use Gnome-tweak-tool to change icons/themes.

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Pogo is a simple and lightweight audio player that plays audio files, it fast and easy-to-use. Pogo audio player is forked from Decibel Audio Player and supports wide variety of common audio formats. It is written using Python programming language and uses gtreamer and GTK+. The clear interface uses the screen real-estate very efficiently. Other features include: Fast search on the hard-drive and in the playlist, smart album grouping, cover display, desktop notifications and no music library.



Note: There are two official PPAs available both contains stable builds, the 'daily' PPA contains latest auto-builds consider as stable which means there could be problem with builds but could be fixed very soon. On the other hand 'stable' PPA contains stable builds but little bit older.

To Install Pogo audio player using Daily PPA in Ubuntu 15.10/15.04/14.04/12.04/Linux Mint 17.x/17/13 open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

To Install Pogo audio player using Stable PPA in Ubuntu 15.10/15.04/14.04/12.04/Linux Mint 17.x/17/13 open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Which audio player would you recommend to the Linux community?
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The TDE stand for "Trinity Desktop Environment", the TDE project began as a continuation of the K Desktop Environment (KDE) version 3. The name Trinity was chosen partly because the word means "three" and TDE was a continuation of KDE 3. TDE now is its own computer desktop environment project. The TDE project was founded by and is still led by Timothy Pearson. Timothy is an experienced and skilled software developer and was the KDE 3.x coordinator of previous Kubuntu releases.
The TDE project offers desktop environment for Unix-like operating systems, the Trinity desktop environment was forked from KDE a long time ago. KDE 3.5 was great but after some modifications by developers that didn't made please KDE fans, so TDE preserve KDE 3.5 after the developers.
The Trinity desktop environment is for people who really liked how things were in past and now how things are evolving now. So if you were a fan of KDE 3.5 and you missed it, here it's for you again. It can run on any supported version of major Linux distributions such as Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat, CentOS, Fedora, Mageia, OpenSUSE, and PCLinuxOS. If you don't want to install it on your distribution, there is even a Live-CD available.

TDE is a Flexible and highly customizable; Visually appealing; Equipped with a suitable collection of desktop effects that remain compatible with older hardware; Responsive on older hardware, while also being compatible with newer hardware; Compatible with, but not requiring, 3D acceleration; Compatible with freedesktop.org and Linux file system hierarchy standards; Compatible with other desktop environments; Capable of offering maximal HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) efficiency in a mouse/keyboard environment; Traditional panel, task bar, task manager, quick launch; Several text editors, file manager, image viewers, office apps, archive manager; Monitor and Display control center module for system wide single/multi monitor and display configuration; SmartCard support; Supports GTK2/Qt theme engine; tabs, check boxes, menu backgrounds; A built-in X11 compositor; A TDE-specific DBUS notification client for improved integration with common applications such as Firefox and NetworkManager (not dependant on HAL); TQt interface (lays groundwork for selective Qt4 compatibility); Flash plugin support in Konqueror; A repository of TDE compatible software applications, including several text editors, a file manager, image viewers, office apps, an archive manager, and the original and improved classic Amarok music player. You can check full list of applications.

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There are plenty of awesome icons sets are available but when I first time tried Xenlism WildFire, it looks great on my Ubuntu desktop. Basically Xenlism is a programming and graphics project to make and deliver some better quality project, keeping minimalism and realism, and putting material design aside. Xenlism WildFire icon theme is specially designed for Unix desktop environments and released under Creative Common license, it is inspired by Meego and iOS icons. The good thing is that it is compatible with most of the Linux desktop environments such as Unity, KDE, Gnome, Xfce, Cinnamon, Mate, and others too. This icon set has four variant but the only difference between these variants is panel icons, you can choose dark version if you are using light theme and so on. Since this icon theme is in active development and open for requests/bugs/issues, go ahead and contribute in any way you can. You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change icons/themes.



To install Xenlism Icons in any Debian/Ubuntu/Linux Mint/other Debian based distribution open Terminal and copy the following commands in the Terminal:


To install Xenlism Icons in Arch Linux open Terminal and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
Now Add following text to opened file
[xenlism-arch]
Server = http://repo-xen.rhcloud.com/arch
SigLevel = Never
Update repos and install Xenlism with following commands:


To install Xenlism WildFire in any Linux distribution copy following command in terminal:



What do you say about this icon theme?
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uText is a simple and minimal text editor with markdown syntax, basically focused on writing. It offers all necessary tools and facilities that a user need for basic writing, another great feature it has spell checker. You can find simple operations like copy, cut, paste, text selections, change character case or capitalize, further more you can use HTML format.
It has live preview feature and syntax highlighting, so you can see your document preview on the right side of the editor, features that live preview offers are Live text preview, preview Line code. Another functionality of this editor is night-mode, if white hurt your eyes or you are working at night on your document you can enable night mode and focus on your work. Just like other editor it also has find feature and you can search and replace text too. Basic formatting options are also available like Bold, italic, headings, and etc.. If you are using Unity desktop then it give you quick list on utext launcher icon. You can save and retrieve your documents in to your Dropbox account. It allows you to export file in following formats: HTML, ODT, PDF.

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retroshare
RetroShare is an open-source, cross-platform and free software released under the GNU General Public License, it is a decentralized, private and secure commmunication and sharing platform. RetroShare provides filesharing, chat, messages, forums and channels. You can securely communicate with your friends, it lets you to securely chat and share files with your circles, using a web-of-trust to authenticate peers and OpenSSL to encrypt all communication. RetroShare provides filesharing, chat, messages, forums and channels. Retroshare claims on their homepage that "Nobody can spy on you."
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If you are sensitive about your digital data then you must know about Truecrypt(discontinued), a good utility which is no more available and not recommended to use because there are some security issues and won't be fixed. TrueCrypt was initially released as version 1.0 in February 2004, based on E4M (Encryption for the Masses). Several versions and many additional minor releases have been made since then, with the most current version being 7.1a, released 7th of February 2012. On 28th of May 2014, the TrueCrypt official website, began redirecting visitors to truecrypt.sourceforge.net and telling users to use BitLocker.
After end of life of Truecrypt, we see many forks of Truecrypt came as alternatives. Veracrypt is one of them and seems promising to continue development of the product. All issues have been addressed in Veracrypt which were found in Truecrypt and many others, since it is in development we see releases of Veracrypt from time to time, the most recent release of Veracrypt was on August 9th, 2015.
VeraCrypt is a free disk encryption software brought to you by IDRIX and based on TrueCrypt 7.1a. VeraCrypt picks up from where TrueCrypt left and it adds enhanced security to the algorithms used for system and partitions encryption making it immune to new developments in brute-force attacks. It adds enhanced security to the algorithms used for system and partitions encryption making it immune to new developments in brute-force attacks. It also solves many vulnerabilities and security issues found in TrueCrypt.
This enhanced security adds some delay ONLY to the opening of encrypted partitions without any performance impact to the application use phase. This is acceptable to the legitimate owner but it makes it much harder for an attacker to gain access to the encrypted data. VeraCrypt also solves many vulnerabilities and security issues found in TrueCrypt. It can load TrueCrypt volume and it offers the possibility to convert TrueCrypt containers and non-system partitions to VeraCrypt format.
You can get more detailed info about the Veracrypt on wikipedia

Veracrypt Ubuntu Linux


There is also an unofficial PPA available, which can be used in Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid/14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 17.x/17/and other Ubuntu derivatives (This PPA is not even endorsed by authors of VeraCrypt).

What's your favorite encryption tool?
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Shotcut is an open-source, free and cross-platform video editing software for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Dan Dennedy, started Shotcut project in 2011 and it is developed on the MLT Multimedia Framework. Supports wide variety of audio, video, and image formats via FFmpeg and screen, webcam, and audio capture. It uses a timeline for non-linear video editing of multiple tracks that may be composed of various file formats. You can easily analyze the video frame by frame, adjust every aspect of the video, and mix match frames resolution. Scrubbing and transport control are assisted by OpenGL GPU-based processing and a number of video and audio filters are available.



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Zorin OS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution designed especially for newcomers to Linux. It has a Windows-like graphical user interface and many programs similar to those found in Windows. As you may know that few days ago Zorin OS 10 released which is based on Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid, so today I brought themes and icons from Zorin OS 10 for Ubuntu 15.04/15.10/derivatives. Themes are available in four different colors Blue, Green, Orange, and Red; then each color has three variants Black, Dark, and Light; so you can easily choose whatever variant you like on your desktop. Icon has four colors same like themes and each colors has three variants, so you can match icon set with your chosen theme. We would like to give all credit to Zorin OS team because they put a lot of effort in their operating system, make sure to check out their OS. You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change icons/themes.
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Square-Beam icon theme is redesigned and developed by the same guy who released Square icons for Linux (Eep Setiawan), this icon theme is based multiple icon themes: Faenza, Nitrux (Previous version), Moka, and Pacifica icon sets. It looks really elegant and offers wide variety of icons for Places, Mimetypes, Categories, Devices, Applications and so on, the good thing is that it contains more than 30,000 different icons. As we tested it can fit with any kind of light or dark theme. You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change icons/themes.
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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. Support and documentation is free from our large, dedicated community of users, contributors and developers.
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Install Ambiance Crunchy themes in Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid/14.04 Trusty/12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 17.x/17/13 (GTK 3 + Gnome Shell)

Ambiance-Crunchy themes are inspired by original Ubuntu Ambiance and Radiance themes. It's an Ambiance like Theme for Fluxbox, Icewm, Openbox, Lxde, Xfce, Gnome2/Mate & Gnome3 (Unity, Gnome-Shell, Gnome-Classic & Cinnamon). Gtk-3.14 and Cinnamon 2.4 compatible. The objective is to have it working very well in all that environnements with a choice of 4 flavours.




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lyx
LyX is a fully featured document processor similar to MS word but freely available under GPL-2(+later) license, it is cross-platform and available for Linux, Windows, Mac, OS/2, and Haiku. It encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM) and not simply their appearance (WYSIWYG). It combines the flexibility and power of TeX/LaTeX with easy to use GUI. This results in world-class support for creation of mathematical content (via a fully integrated equation editor) and structured documents like academic articles, theses, and books.
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NVIDIA is well-known company all over the world regarding gaming cards. Sometimes it is really difficult to configure manufacturer drivers for NVIDIA cards in Linux, there could be many reasons for this such as kernel upgrade, and so. By default Ubuntu use the open source video driver Nouveau for NVIDIA graphics card. This driver lacks support for 3D acceleration and may not work with the very latest video cards or technologies from NVIDIA. An alternative to Nouveau are the closed source unified NVIDIA drivers, which are developed by NVIDIA. This driver provides excellent 3D acceleration and video card support.

Nvidia Drivers Ubuntu

Release Highlights of 352.30 Drivers for Linux:
  • Added support for the following GPU: GeForce 910M
  • Fixed a bug that caused poor video post-processing performance in VDPAU when operating on a large number of video streams simultaneously.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause an Xid error when terminating a video playback application using the overlay presentation queue in VDPAU.
  • Updated nvidia-installer to avoid recursing too deeply into kernel source trees under /usr/lib/modules, mirroring an existing restriction on recursion under /lib/modules.
  • Fixed a rare deadlock condition when running applications that use OpenGL in multiple threads on a Quadro GPU.
  • Fixed a kernel memory leak that occurred when looping hardware - accelerated video decoding with VDPAU on Maxwell-based GPUs.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the X server to crash if a RandR 1.4 output provided by a Sink Output provider was selected as the primary output on X.Org xserver 1.17 and higher.
  • Fixed a bug that caused waiting on X Sync Fence objects in OpenGL to hang indefinitely in some cases.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented OpenGL from properly recovering from hardware errors or sync object waits that had timed out.


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The way people respond to computers' operating systems is eerily similar to how people approach ice cream flavors: Most opt for plain vanilla or chocolate, even when pistachio or buttered pecan is there for the taking, simply because they are afraid to be disappointed with a new taste. Windows and Mac OS X are absurdly popular operating systems, commanding more than 98 percent of the market, and yet there is a supremely delicious alternative, Linux, waiting in the wings.
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