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Welcome WPS Office, An Identical Clone of Microsoft Office

WPS Office 9a10 / 2013 Running on Ubuntu 13.04 Since first release, OpenOffice.org (now rebranded as LibreOffice) has been the only one, professional, complex Office Suite application in Linux. It has the whole things we need in professional office task. Even, it well supports Microsoft Office's .doc and .docx. In a simple statement : OpenOffice.org / LibreOffice is uncomparable to other Office Suite applications in Linux (Abiword, Goffice, Caligra  Office etc). But now it seems the LibreOffice domination in Linux will be challenged by a new, complete and very good looking Office Suite called WPS Office . It's a free, Linux version of Kingsoft Office . And so, what is the greatest thing in this Office Suite ? As long I've tried it, I could say this is a full featured, but the best part of this app is in its UI. It is very identical to Microsoft Office 2010/2013 UI and or even it is a clone app just like XMMS to Classic Winamp. So, if we are going to be bo...

How To Replace Nautilus With Nemo in Ubuntu

Nemo 1.8.2 on Ubuntu 13.04 Since 3.6, GNOME team decided to remove one of the most important feature in their default file manager Nautilus : Tree View. I have to say this is probably the most unwise decision ever made by GNOME team because we all know, Tree View is very useful to access our files easily. But there are Linux developers who understand and hear the voice of the end user. Stands at the first, Linux Mint, which is now becoming the most used Linux distro based on Distrowatch database. And in the second place, there is SolusOS, a Debian based Linux distro, that focuses in the ease and usability. Those Distros have decided to fork the GNOME's Nautilus File Manager version 3.4.x into their own name. The Linux Mint team has developed it since the release of Linux Mint 14, and named their own fork of Nautilus 3.4 as Nemo. And in other side, there isn't yet final news for SolusOS about their work to fork Nautilus 3.4.x. Nemo, as I've mentioned abov...