Operating Systems

Linux Operating System

Linux Operating System Linux operating system (Linux or GNU/Linux) is a free source Unix Type operating system that was initially created by Linus Torvalds and then it developed with the help of developers from all over the world. Its use is similar to that of Unix, but all of the source code has been written from scratch as free software under free license GNU General Public License. That means that it’s source code is accessible to anyone.

Linux Games – Is it time to try them out?

Linux games started as an extension of Unix games and later evolved to introduce its titles in various genres like racing games, sports games, trading card games, and much more. As the Linux operation system grew by each passing year, open source and free games increased in scalability and complexity. Linux gaming platform began in 1994 with the introduction of Doom by Dave D. Talyor and today there are high-end games like Dirt Rally, Rocket League, and much more.

How to Install Ubuntu Studio

How to Install Ubuntu Studio. Ubuntu Studio is Linux Community’s biggest addition to Linux Operating System and its multimedia applications. This software is dedicated to video and audio editing, along with thousands of other free applications that are available with its package. This multimedia app is used by millions around the globe for editing and publishing their audios and videos, with minimum hardware requirements and cost. It is available in four different languages: English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Linux Distros Part 2

This is the continuation of our previous article, where we list some of the most popular Linux Distros. You can read the first part here.   Linux Distros Part 2  1. Slackware For many people, Slackware is considered the… Hackers distribution. It is the oldest Linux Distro that managed to “survive” until today, and no, it’s not the first Linux Distro as many people believe. It’s very strong and stable since 1993.

How to install Arch Linux (on VirtualBox)

This guide shows how to install Arch Linux on virtual box. In our last guide, we showed just how to install arch Linux as a main OS. We will do this as a step-by-step guide. Once more we would like to say that the most detailed guide is always the official. The guide you’re about to read though, is considered as simplified. The Desktop Environment we use is Gnome, but since it’s the last step of this guide, you can choose your own.

How to install Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux Distros. It is one of the most user friendly distribution and it is also common for a newbie to start with Ubuntu his Linux experience. That doesn’t mean that Ubuntu isn’t good enough fro more advanced users though. In this article we’re going to share a step-by-step guide on how to install Ubuntu 16.04 LTS by either using a DVD either a USB drive.

Fedora 25(Beta) resets Linux performance bar

Fedora 25 beta version released this month by Red Hat. This release gives more to cloud and developer features which makes this Linux distribution more attractive to enterprise users. Fedora Linux is the version of Enterprise Linux(RHEL), and it includes a set of base packages that form the basic foundation of: Cloud, Server and Workstation. Each one of those targets a different group of users.   Fedora 25 Targeted Users So Fedora 25 release is most likely for enterprise users.

Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak Final Beta released

The beta images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of 16.10 that should be representative of the features intended to ship with the final release expected on October 13th, 2016. Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Cloud Images: Yakkety Final Beta includes updated versions of most of our core set of packages, including a current 4.8 kernel, and much more.

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) reaches End of Life on July 28 2016

The Ubuntu Release Team recently announced the End of Life of Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) which was released almost 9 months ago, on October 22, 2015. All security related updates wil no longer be made available after the scheduled date “July 28, 2016. According to the announcement posted by Adam Conrad (A member of the release team): As a non-LTS release, 15.10 has a 9-month month support cycle and, as such, the support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 15.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS unveiled today – featuring the new ‘snap’ package format

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Main highlights: Enable faster and simpler software delivery and operations Adds new “snap” application package format, enabling further convergence across IOT, mobile and desktop The introduction of LXD pure-container hypervisor with OpenStack Mitaka. Support for IBM Z and LinuxONE systems with flat pricing. Steps made towards converged Ubuntu across IoT, phone, desktop and server. The introduction of ZFS and CephFS for large-scale cloud storage. “The leading cloud-based operations and the most advanced robotics run largely on Ubuntu, and this new release is the basis for the next wave of their innovation” said Mark Shuttleworth, Founder of Canonical.

ClearOS 6.7.0 released with upgrade to latest Dropbox CLI

ClearOS 6.7.0 recently released for both Community and Professional Editions, is an operating system for your Server, Network, and Gateway systems. It is designed for homes, small to medium businesses, and distributed environments. ClearOS is commonly known as the Next Generation Small Business Server, while including indispensable Gateway and Networking functionality. It delivers a powerful IT solution with an elegant user interface that is completely web-based. Simply put.. ClearOS is the new way of delivering IT.

Manjaro Drops KDE 4 for good, Switches to Plasma 5.5

This is one of the biggest updates we did so far. Mostly due the C++ 11 ABI change within gcc. It is recommended to rebuild your AUR packages for this ABI. With this we finally dropping KDE4 for good. All users of this desktop should either switch over to Plasma 5 or any other maintained desktop, like LXQt. So what changed? We have now Plasma 5.5 with all its goodies, updated Mesa and LibreOffice.

Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” Cinnamon Beta features Cinnamon 2.8, MDM 2.0, Linux kernel 3.19 and Ubuntu 14.04 package base

<li> The Update Manager now also performs more checks than before. </li> <li> Drivers in Driver Manager are now sorted by status and the Driver Manager now indicates if drivers are Open Source or not </li> <li> The Driver Manager features both UI and under-the-hood improvements. </li> <li> The Driver Manager now also loads much faster and detects drivers in the background. </li> <li> When a Broadcom chipset is detected, along with the recommended Broadcom STA drivers, the Driver Manager now also lists B43 installers </li>

Cumulative update for Windows 10 released

Microsoft had just release Cumulative update for Windows 10. This update for Windows 10 includes functionality improvements and resolves the vulnerabilities in Windows that are described in the following Microsoft security bulletins and advisory: Windows 10 updates are cumulative. Therefore, this package contains all previously released fixes. If you have previous updates installed, only the new fixes that are contained in this package will be downloaded and installed to your computer.

Linux Lite 2.6 Beta released with Systemback

As usual you still get the latest Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, Wine (via Lite Software) and Gimp. Linux Lite 2.6 Beta Changelog: Features:The Linux Lite Control Center: This was built as one central central location for everything that you needed to configure your computer. Lite Control Center was built much like a web page, Lite Control Center has a menu on the left as categories, and within those categories buttons that launch whichever application you are wanting to use.

Porteus KIOSK 3.4.0 Linux OS released

<p style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="http://porteus-kiosk.org/download.html" target="_blank">Download Porteus Kiosk ISOs</a> </p>

How to Install Ubuntu on your Dell PC

The Preparing to install Ubuntu window appears. Choose the applicable options and click Continue. The Keyboard layout window appears. Select the correct keyboard layout for your system and click Continue. The Who are you? window appears. You want to fill in your information at this point. Ubuntu is now installed.

CentOS 7 Linux now runs on ARM64 (AArch64) hardware

<p style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="http://seven.centos.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Screenshot-from-2015-05-08-155701.png"><img class=" aligncenter" src="http://seven.centos.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Screenshot-from-2015-05-08-155701.png" alt="Screenshot from 2015-05-08 15:57:01" width="300" height="190" /></a> </p>

CoreOS Alpha 612.1.0 & 612.0.0 released

<ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> Revert to systemd 218 </li> <li> Set LimitNOFILE for etcd.service </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>CoreOS Alpha 612.0.0 changelog</strong></span> </p> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> systemd 219 </li> <li> Add volume for SSL certs to flannel </li> <li> Prevent networkd from attempting to configure flannel interfaces </li> <li> TI-RPC 0.2.5 </li> <li> Include TI-RPC configs in all images </li> <li> Linux 3.19 </li> <li> Enable RAM-disk LKM </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://github.

Deepin 2014.2 released

<ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li style="text-align: justify;"> Enabled brand-new Deepin themes, making the system interface more beautiful </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> newly added the feature of drag and drop re-ordering to the residing icons in Dock </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> newly added four kinds of re-ordering modes in the Launcher (by name, by category, by installation time and by frequency of use) </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> newly added the functions of Icon, Cursor and Fonts setting in the Personalization Setting module </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> improved multi-screen display function </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> strengthened the network function and added the function of state memory </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> simplified the operation of choosing time zone in Control Center </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> newly added the function of daylight saving time </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"> For more details, see the <a href="http://planet.

Evolve OS Alpha 3 Released

All updates have been included in this release, bringing the main components of the stack up to date ALSA should now be correctly configured and integrated with PulseAudio – you can verify this by attempting to listen to a flash video in YouTube via headphones. The volume should also stay set now.

Install Evolve OS Alpha 1 with Budgie Desktop on VirtualBox

gnome-screenshot fails to launch, missing schema (workaround: install scrot from repo, sudo pisi it scrot) Stray development files in system: Please report them so these packages can be improved, i.e. the -devel packages need splitting correctly! Budgie Desktop doesn’t “start” until mouse moves. Move it after log in, its really not slow. It just waits until input (weird bug, investigating) No automatic login (Deliberate due to budgie/mouse issue) No automatic partitioning in installer.