The Linux kernel is the operating system kernel used by the Linux family of Unix-like operating systems. It is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software. Ubuntu is a computer operating system based on the Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software, using its own desktop environment. [...]

Root user is the master of whole computer – it is the main administrator of the system. With last some Ubuntu releases, Ubuntu team have hidden root user and removed the support to login into root user. If you’re using Linux distros from long time, then you must be familiar with this change. Do you [...]

Ubuntu team developed live file-system which can be booted on system without installing the operating system on hard disk (even with persistent storage which allow you to save changes on pen drive). Most of the Linux systems incorporated this technology in their distributions which allowed people to run Linux distros on CD/DVD or pen/flash drive [...]

Mozilla Sunbird is a cross-platform calendar application built using Mozilla toolkit. Sunbird can be used as a stand-alone Calendar application to create tasks and set alarms for them. You can have your digital time-table (basic, school, college or office schedules) on your system using Sunbird. Though, it’s developed no more but it has all the [...]

Vinux is a Linux operating system, especially built for Visually Impaired people. Vinux have special configuration so that it suits for people who are visually special. It is customized to help people with sight problem by increasing fonts & cursors size and speaking software which uses text-to-speech engine to speak out every happening in the [...]

Kubuntu is a Ubuntu derivated Linux distro using KDE desktop environment. It has stable core of Ubuntu, with KDE packed on top of it. Kubuntu ISO is still under a CD size (700MB). Kubuntu is made for people who are fond of KDE desktop environment but want to use Ubuntu like user-friendly and stable desktop [...]

Operating system (OS) are set of programs which handle hardware and performs user’s requests. It interacts with hardware and complete the meaning of computer or any other computing device. Operating system is a must-to-have and main system software for any computing device which runs other application software. It is designed to run other programs on [...]

Window Maker Live, as called by its developers, ‘Window Manager for X’, i.e., window manager for X window system (a GUI implementation used in Unix systems). Window Maker has pre-built ISOs (Linux distros) using Xfce desktop environment which are highly light-weight on resource usage and have super-fast speed. It’s most suitable to install on pen [...]

Solus OS team released Solus OS RC2 a week before. Last time, when I tested Solus OS Dev#32 some days before, then I found many bugs in it. I reported them to its team and they encouragingly said to improve the distro and remove the bugs in its coming releases. I appreciate their hard work. [...]

Linux Mint 12 KDE is very easy to use and glossy at graphics appeal. Windows users, moving to Linux will find to be pleasantly simple using Linux Mint KDE. This release is based on Kubuntu 11.10. Linux Mint is a developing Linux distribution and for past some releases, Linux Mint has taken KDE, LXDE, Xfce [...]