March 4, 2015 · General · 1 comment

We’re preparing Ubuntu GNOME Vivid Vervet (15.04) for distribution in April 23rd, 2015. With this Beta 1 pre-release, you can see what we are trying out in preparation for our next (stable) version. We have some interesting things happening, so read on for highlights, known issues and other information.
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March 3, 2015 · General · 6 comments

Problem

After installing Ubuntu 15.04 guest on VirtualBox running on windows 7 host, I am stuck with 640×480 screen resolution. The ‘Detect Displays' button on the ‘Display Settings' Settings screen is not reachable, because 640×480 is too small.
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February 25, 2015 · Networking · 1 comment

wondershaper is a traffic shaping script that provides low latency,prioritizes bulk transfers below normal web traffic, prioritizes interactive shells above normal web traffic, and attempts to prevent upload and download traffic from affecting each other's ack packets.Put simply, the wondershaper makes your internet connection more "responsive"
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February 23, 2015 · General · (No comments)

Bino is a 3D video player with multi-display support.

3D videos are more accurately called stereoscopic videos. Such videos have separate views for the left and right eye and thus allow depth perception through stereopsis.
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February 20, 2015 · General · (No comments)

FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created. It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge. No matter if they were designed by some standards committee, the community or a corporation.
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