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لماذا عام 2025 قد يكون عام المصادر الحرة على سطح المكتب؟

قررت ميكروسوفت إنهاء دعم (ويندوز 10)، بعد عشر سنين من الخدمة المخلصة، وذلك في شهر أكتوبر من العام 2025.
اﻷمر الذي يشكل مشكلة كبيرة لقطاع كبير من المستخدمين، الذين اعتادوا على هذا النظام. فما هي القصة؟ ولماذا الموضوع معقد إلى هذه الدرجة؟ وما هي الفرص التي يخلقها لقطاع المصادر الحرة على سطح المكتب؟

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CodeLobsterPHP Edition 5.9 is out, Arabic interface is here!

CodeLobsterPHP Edition 5.9 is out finally, and comes with a ton of bug fixes and security features, this version is special to me because it includes my translation from Arabic to English. (ost is in Arabic).


CodeLobsterPHP Edition 5.9 logo

CodeLobster 5.9 comes with a number of bug fixes and features, I quoted these from the news section on the company’s site:

Codelobster PHP Edition FREE Version 5.9 released!
New version has the following new abilities:

  • Drupal plug-in:
  • Now supports Drupal version 8.x

  • Symfony plug-in:
    • Now supports Symfony version 3.x

  • Phalcon plug-in:
    • Now supports Symfony version 2.x

  •  Improved PHP help and tooltips
  • Autocomplete for PHP functions that return mixed values
  •  Improved Node.js autocomplete
  •  Debuger for PHP version 7.x
  • Arabic interface has been added (Translated by Muaad Elsharif). 
  •  Bugs fixed:
  • For more information visit the website.  I’ve made a blog post with a fully detailed review which you can find on this link.

    FDM 5.1 released, Ubuntu version up for vote?

    I’ve blogged about FDM in this blog before, being the best free download manager, and the alternative for IDM, and that it could replace uTorrent on your computer (and if you are using uTorrent, please remove it, it’s malicious!)< and the continue broken downloads using mirrors even if the server doesn’t support it!

    FDM 5.1 Interface

    It has been redesigned into a more streamlined UI and they made the configuration is easier to use.
    One of the biggest changes noted is the addition of a mac version and dropping the support for Windows XP and Windows Vista.

    Since the addition of a Mac version, I wondered, why not an Ubuntu version? So I e-mailed the contact e-mail, and this is the response they gave me:

     

    Hello!
    Thank you for your feedback.

    Our team is planning to release FDM5 for Linux OS, still, not in the nearest future though. We’ll inform all our users. Please keep up with the news on our blog.

    I will be following them closely for you!

    That means that FDM is one step away from being truly cross platform after being stuck in the Windows ecosystem for years!

    Those are fantastic news! The new version is so awesome, Mac addition is lovely, and I can’t wait to see how does it look on Ubuntu, Will it make it in time for Ubuntu 16.04?

    Update 2

     

    “Dear Muaad,
    Unfortunately, we are not planning to release a Linux build until a stable release for Mac OS X & Windows is out.
    However, we are doing our best to make sure that our source code is compilable under Linux to the extent that it will not be too big an issue when we get to it.”

    Update 3:
    FDM has published a poll for future features, Linux is one of them! So vote Linux!!

    Until this wait is over, be more than welcome to use uGet, it’s that good!
    Let me know what you think in the comments section below.

    Tech news digest January 2016 (Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 8 is dead)

    There has been a lot of news this week, too small for a separate post each, but together you can have a collection of news!

    Ubuntu 16.04, code named “Xenial Xerus” -A fancy word for hospitable squirrel – is just around the corner, and a torrent of cool news and amazing vibe is in the air! Here I have some news about the newest edition to the Ubuntu family:

    Ubuntu 16.04 logo
    Ubuntu 16.04 logo

    • The software center won’t be included in Ubuntu 16.04, instead it features “Gnome Software”.
    • Empathy and Brasero are also retired and won’t be shipped along 16.04.
    • It is announced that Ubuntu 16.04 will have Kernel 4.4 the latest stable kernel published yet!
    • Alpha version of the new 16.04 is available for download, please not that this version is for test purpose only, and not for daily use on your machine!
    • Ubuntu 15.04 support ended already, if you are using it please upgrade to Wily Werewolf 15.10 to continue getting updates and security patches.

    And, a single piece of Windows news ..

    • Windows 8 support ended officially, so if you are still using Windows 8, you have to upgrade immediately or face the terrible consequences! 

    I’m very excited for the new version of Ubuntu, it is going to be awesome! It’s not like we get a LTS version everyday!

    How are you feeling about it? Are you planning on downloading the new version? If so, what’s the flavor you are downloading? Tell me in the comments below 🙂

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