Software: VoIP, MAAS, Cozy, Calibre, KDE and GNOME
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Best Skype Alternatives for Linux
When it comes to VoIP (voice over IP) calling, Skype is a popular choice. But Skype for Linux has some limitations, its not their premier platform, it comes with a cost and most importantly Skype isn’t open-source. So today we are going to have a look at the best Skype alternatives you can use on Linux. These alternatives will have lesser traffic compared to Skype and could prove to be very useful.
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MAAS 2.4.0 Alpha 2 released!
I’m happy to announce that MAAS 2.4.0 alpha 2 has now been released and is available for Ubuntu Bionic.
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Cozy Audiobook Player for Linux adds HiDPI Support & Dark Mode
A new version of Cozy, the GTK-based audiobook player for Linux desktops, is available to download. Cozy 0.5.6 isn’t a major update, but it does improve some welcome new features, including a new audiobook overview headed by tabs to switch switch between ‘recent’ listens, ‘author’ and ‘reader’ views.
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Calibre 3.19 Supports PocketBook 740 Ereader
Calibre is a free and open source EBook manager for Linux, MAC OS X and Microsoft Windows. Calibre team has announced the new release Calibre 3.19. The New release brought a quick support for the recently released PocketBook 740 Ereader.
Calibre is a well managed EBook manager allows you to organize your EBook collections, edit EBooks with various types of formats, connecting to Ereader devices using wired and wireless connection, sharing and backing up your entire library, check the latest news and magazines from several news sources, and more.
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Initial Plasma Mobile enablement on Librem 5 i.MX 6 test boards
As many of you know, the Librem 5 phone will work with two options for your desktop environment, a GNOME based phone shell and Plasma Mobile. Working closely with the KDE community, we were able to install, run, and even see mobile network provider service on Plasma Mobile! The purpose of this article is to show the progress that has been made with Plasma Mobile on the current Librem 5 development board. Here, the setup steps and overcome challenges are highlighted.
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Qt Creator 4.5.2 released
We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 4.5.2!
This release includes a workaround for an issue in Qt which makes Qt Creator’s summary progress bar and some other controls disappear (QTCREATORBUG-19716).
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Network Stats Makes Its Way to Libgtop
Hey there if you are reading this then probably network stats might be of some interest to you , but still if it doesn’t, just recall that while requesting this page you had your share of packets being transferred over the vast network and delivered to your system. I guess now you’d like to check out the work which has been going on in Libgtop and exploit the network stats details to your personal use.
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Librsvg and Gnome-class accepting interns
I would like to mentor people for librsvg and gnome-class this Summer, both for Outreachy and Summer of Code.
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Slack's bait and switch
We all know the real reason Slack has closed off their gateways. Their business model dictates that they should.
Slack's business model is to record everything said in a workspace and then to sell you access to their record of your conversations.
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