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While Ubuntu offers old versions of CodeLite in its main archive, here’s how to install the latest CodeLite IDE 9.2 in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Mint 18, 17. CodeLite 9.2 so far is the latest stable release of the C, C++, PHP and Node.js IDE. It comes with a large list of improvements and bug fixes. See release note ...

Avidemux video editor has reached the 2.6.14 release a few hours ago with translation updates, platform fixes, and following changes. Avidemux 2.6.14 release highlights: Qt version now automatically check if a new version is available (can be disabled in Preference) Decoding: Deal with corrupted stream in a nicer way (H264/TS) Decoding: Enable lagarith Decoding: Support for flac through libavcodec VDPAU: ...

The development series for the next stable Wine 2.0 has now reached the Wine 1.9.19 release. What’s new in Wine 1.9.19: Initial version of a udev bus driver for HID. Various improvements in joystick support. Initial implementation of DC rendering in Direct2D. Improved metafile support in GDI+. And a total of 19 bugs has been fixed in this release. See ...

Quick tutorial for those who want to install the latest TeX Live 2016 in Ubuntu 16.04 or Ubuntu 14.04 LTS via PPA. What’s new in TeX Live 2016: GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) is used for file verification for update security. There are a lot of changes in LuaTeX backend. pdfTeX and XeTeX got new primitives (fundamental commands). MetaFont got experimental ...

SMPlayer, the graphical front-end for MPlayer and mpv, has reached the 13.9 release a few days ago. SMPlayer 13.9 features option to send audio to specified device, return to Qt4 in Linux due to some Qt5 bugs. There are also a few improvements on the playlist: ability to hide any column (right click to see the options) a new search ...

Oracle VirtualBox 5.1.6, the third maintenance release for the 5.1 series, has been released with Linux 4.8 fixes for kernel display driver issues, various fixes to the Linux installer/additions packages, microphone input support, GUI, etc. VirtualBox 5.1.6 Changelog: GUI: fixed issue with opening ‘.vbox’ files and it’s aliases GUI: keyboard grabbing fixes GUI: fix for passing through Ctrl + mouse-click ...

Vim (Vi Improved) text editor has reached the 8.0 release, the first major Vim release in ten years. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04 via PPA. Vim 8.0 brings some interesting new features, many small improvements and lots of bug fixes. Here are some of them: Asynchronous I/O support, channels, JSON Jobs Timers Partials, Lambdas and ...

Want to change the look and feel of your Ubuntu Desktop? Well, it’s easy to do this by installing and applying new GTK and Icon themes with this simple tutorial. In Ubuntu, GTK themes change the look and feel of your desktop panel, application window, menu, etc. And icon themes change the system-wide icons. Install GTK and Icon Theme in ...

i-Nex is a free and open-source tool that gathers and displays system and hardware components information in Ubuntu Linux. i-Nex offers a CPU-Z like interface that displays information about: CPU model, temperature, cache, usage. GPU model, OpenGL, GLX, Kernel driver, memory usage, etc. Motherboard model and BIOS info Audio info and ALSA driver. System, Desktop environment, Window manager, themes. current ...

NVIDIA Team announced the release of Nvidia 370.28 yesterday as the first stable release for the 370 series driver in their short-lived branch. Nvidia 370.28 adds over- and under-clocking support for GeForce GTX 1000 “Pascal” graphics cards, initial support for PRIME Synchronization to synchronize flipping between an NVIDIA PRIME display source and a separate PRIME display sink (requires X.Org Server ...