How to draw flowchart or diagram on Linux

There are several well-known commercial flowchart and diagram software available, e.g., Visio on Windows, OmniGraffle on MacOS X. Then what about Linux? In fact, there are a couple of reasonably good Linux alternatives to Visio or OmniGraffle, for example, yEd, Dia, LibreOffice Draw, Pencil Project,...

Ubuntu Touch Coming to the Oppo Find 5 Smartphone

  Work is underway on bringing Ubuntu Touch to the Oppo Find 5 smartphone. The device is made by China-based electronics manufacturerOppo  Digital. Like many 3rd party, community-contributed builds it will be not be formally supported by Canonical. With the Oppo Find 5 sporting...

Nerds Vs Zombies: ZHackers Volume 2 Hits Ubuntu Software Center

  Like a herd of the shuffling, mindless dead, the follow up to 2012′s Ubuntu-themed Zombie novel ‘Zhackers’ has taken a while to arrive. But, over a year after the first instalment became a best seller on  the Ubuntu Software Center, volume 2 is finally upon us… Zhackers, a ‘zombocalypse‘...

WhatsApp Coming to Firefox OS – Could Ubuntu Touch Be Next?

  With over 350 million active users a month across 100 countries, sending a staggering 18 billion messages a day, WhatsApp, the multi-platform mobile messaging service, is undeniably popular.  And, if reports that it’s heading to Firefox OS...

Ubuntu Tablet Will be ‘Key Focus’ During Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Cycle

  Honing the Ubuntu Touch tablet interface will be the “focus” of Ubuntu’s development activities over the next 6 months. For April 2014′s release of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Canonical are aiming to release version 1.0 of the Ubuntu for Tablets for the Nexus 7 and 10 hardware. Ubuntu Touch images...

Linux E-Mail App ‘Geary’ Updated With IMAP Fixes

  Desktop Linux e-mail app Geary has been updated with a number of key bug fixes. In the first update to the popular mail client since October’s major release of version 0.4, a number of issues have been corrected. They include a problematic crash that occurred when an IMAP connection...