Free Softwares, Linux, Ubuntu, Web Development
Improving the load time for a wordpress blog has lots of benefits – good user experience (faster page loads also results in more pageviews), better rankings in search engines (SEO), reduced cost (due to reduction in resource (RAM, CPU, cycles and bandwidth) usage) etc. So, if you run a wordpress blog/website that needs a little …
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Gnome 3.12 is released with lots of new features, improvements and bug fixes. It’s a great news for those who’re stuck with the default desktop environment : Unity. Gnome experience is becoming better with every major release (with 3.*). The default text editor gedit, got lots of design changes; Now, the UI is more clean …
OpenShift is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) from RedHat. It’s great for deploying web applications as you can setup/scale/manage apps quickly without any hassle, just like Heroku, but the OpenShift platform is available as a free and open source software, so you’re not locked in (you can install OpenShift on your server and create …
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uGet is a free and open source software for managing file downloads (over HTTP/S, FTP etc). It’s the most popular download manager program for GNU/Linux distributions such as Debian, Ubuntu, ArchLinux, Gentoo etc. It’s also available for Windows. uGet is lightweight but still a very powerful download manager. Features Downloads queue Resumable downloads (not always, …
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Krita is a full-featured digital painting software for Ubuntu/Linux. Simple and easy to use!