Fuduntu 2012.2 has been released

Andrew Wyatt has announced the availability of Fuduntu 2012.2 on 2^nd April, 2012.No major updates are there but some minor changes have been made. It uses Linux kernel 3.2.13, Chromium 17, Mozilla Firefox 11, Thunderbird 11, Pidgin 2.10.2, LibreOffice 3.5.1. And now you can download Fuduntu from their own hosting instead of Sourceforge.

Originally Fuduntu is forked from Fedora but as on now it is independent. It is very easy to use Fuduntu and it also have a dock like MAC OS X in bottom of the screen which increase the speed of work.Its last version was released on Jan, 2012

FreeBSD 8.3 RC1 has been released

Ken Smith announced the availability of FreeBSD 8.3 release candidate 1 on 7^th Mar, 2012. FreeBSD in an independent UNIX-like distribution which support varieties of architecture like i386, ia64, arm, armel, mips, mipsel, sparc64, pc98, powerpc, powerpc64, xbox and many more. 

It comes in three types like desktop edition, server edition and firewall edition. It also supports many desktop environment like GNOME, KDE, LXDE, Xfce, Afterstep, Blackbox, Enlightenment, Fluxbox, Openbox, IceWM and WMaker.

Mageia 2 first beta version has been released

Originated in France and forked from Mandriva, The Mageia is now independent and community based project for developing a Linux based Operating System. Anne Nicolas said the released of first beta version of Mageia 2. The main new features of it are stable glibc 2.14.1, Linux Kernel 3.2.6, KDE 4.8.0, GNOME 3.3 [3.4 will be in final release], PCmanFM 0.0.10, Amarok 2.5, Cantata 0.3.0 music player etc.

It available on both 32-bit and 64-bit architecture. And comes with many desktop environment like GNOME, KDE, Xfce, LXDE, Wmaker, IceWM. Mageia is also available in server and LiveCD mode. This is non-profit organization which aims to provide best Linux operating system.

Release schedule of Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin"

Here is the release schedule of Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin".

Alpha 1	1st Dec,2011
Alpha 2	2nd Feb,2012
Feature Freeze	16th Feb,2012
User Interface Freeze	23rd Feb,2012
Beta 1	1st Mar,2012
Beta 2	29th Mar,2012
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Final Release	26th Apr,2012

Here is the all key dates of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. This time Canonical goes to support this LTS [long term support] version for 5 years. So this time they try to make a better version in their history.

After Feature Freeze no more features and packages will be added and after User Interface Freeze no drastic modification in UI will be done. But any exception make the little change.

Ubuntu TV for human being.

Ubuntu launch their TV project for users. Here is some information about it. Ubuntu TV combined with broadcast, time shift, online box office, personal cloud, application and blu-ray experience without wires, connectors and boxes.

 In Ubuntu TV, there is only one remote which can handle all your things. It also include Ubuntu One so you can access your media when you want. It in-built has box office so you can watch any movie on demand. You can search your favorite channel shows and record them also and can watch when you are free. It also have a second screen for other information and have many application for smart TV.

And it has many new features and technical specification for this check out their website : www.ubuntu.com/tv

Here is the video which gives you crystal clear idea about Ubuntu TV.

Gentoo Linux 12.0 has been released

The 12.0 version of Gentoo Linux has been released on 02 Jan,2012. Originally Gentoo is aimed towards the developers and networks professionals. It originated in USA and it is independent Linux operating system. Unlike other Linux it contain poratge- a package management system which provides dependencies, fine-grained package management, system profile, virtual package and many more.

The LiveCD of Gentoo contain the following features.

• Linux Kernel 3.1.5
• X.Org Server 1.10.4
• KDE 4.7.4
• GNOME 3.2.1
• Xfce 4.8
• Fluxbox 1.3.2
• Firefox 9.0
• LibreOffice 3.4.99.2
• GIMP 2.6.11
• Blender 2.60
• Amarok 2.5
• VLC 1.1.13
• Chromium 16.0

It also support many architectures like i486, i586, i686, x86_64, alpha, arm, hppa, mips, powerpc, spark64. Due to the wide range of architecture and desktop manager like KDE, GNOME, Xfce, Fluxbox, Blackbox, AfterStep, LXDE, Openbox, Wmaker, IceWM, the Gentoo Linux is used by many permanent user and became more famous.

Kororaa Linux 16 : A Fedora-based Linux named "Chum" has been released

Chris Smart announced the availability of Kororaa Linux 16 which code name is "Chum" on 16 Dec,2011. The Kororaa is originally based on Gentoo Linux but after 2010 it is based on Fedora Linux. The main aim of this Linux is to provide the easiness and user-friendly packages.

GNOME 3.2

KDE 4.7

This version is available in KDE 4.7 and GNOME 3.2. It also adds third party repositories like RPMfusion, adobe, chrome, virtualbox. Firefox 8 is the default browser adn comes with some in-built add-ons like DownThemAll, Flashblock, Xclear etc. It also includes microblogging client, multimedia support, video editor, VLC player and many more.

Pear OS Linux version 3.0 named "Panther" has been released

The Pear OS linux is from France and it is purely based on Ubuntu and Debian. It design and look is mixture of Ubuntu and MAC OS X. The login screen, top panel and window are look like Ubuntu and the Dock at bottom gives you the taste of MAC OS X.

David Tavares has announced the version 3.0 named "Panther" of Pear OS on 14 Dec,2011. It is available on both 32-bit and 64-bit on Sourceforge.  The MAC like view of this OS gives easiness to the endusers. And it supports many populer media codecs as it liked by the people which use multimedia application.

CentOS 6.1 has been released

On 9th Dec,2011, the team of the Community Enterprise Operating System [CentOS] team announced the availability of CentOS 6.1 in both architecture 32-bit[i386] and 64-bit[x86_64]. The CentOS is originally based on Fedora and available with many packages in their repositories. It is totally based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux so if you are in search of enterprise operating system then the CentOS is the best choice.

As it is based on EL 6.1 and contain packages from all variants. And all upstream repositories have been combined into one repository so it make easier to work for users. They recommend to use Candidate Release repository for more bug-fixes and security updates.

Top 5 Linux of 2011

1. Linux Mint :-

                          Linux mint is originally based on Ubuntu and Debian which provides all the stuff that you have to install after installing any operating system. So it is convenient to any user which does not have internet easily available. It provides facilities like media codecs, audio codecs, browser plugins and many other components in-built. It also uses the repositories of Ubuntu.

Website :-   www.linuxmint.com


2. Ubuntu :-

                             Ubuntu is the african word which means "humanity to others". It is freely available for desktop as well as server users. It is handled by a very large firm Canonical. Ubuntu is most popular operating system among user because it is fast and easy to use. It is originally based on Debian.

Website :- www.ubuntu.com


3. Fedora :-

                            Fedora is the project which developed under Ref Hat. Fedora is completely free and opensource. The main goal of Red Hat is to process openly for Fedora. Hence they find more participants from outside rather than this time. It is independent Linux operating system.

Website :- www.fedoraproject.org


4. Debian :-

                            Debian is global Linux operating system which is independent and built on Linux core. Debian comes with more then 20,000 packages free of charge. It is developed many of the desktop manager like GNOME, KDE, Lxde, Xfce, FluxBox, BlackBox, AfterStep.

Website :- www.debian.org



5. OpenSUSE :-

                             The OpenSUSE is the free operating system which sponsored by Novell. It is independent Linux operating system originate from Germany. It is very populer among rpm user. They try to make it more easier and spread it world-wide to more and more users.

Website :- www.opensuse.org




Source :- www.distrowatch.com

The Chakra Project - A Linux Distribution

The Chakra project linux distribution is originally forked from Arch linux. And The Chakra linux is based on K-I-S-S [keep it simple, stupid!] principle. This comes with the KDE desktop environment with better PLASMA desktop. It also available for 32-bit and 64-bit architecture.


Some of the screenshots are displayed here with PLASMA desktop of the Chakra Linux.

Wine 1.3.28 released

Wine is the utility that use to run your Windows applications in your Linux Distro. If you faced that some application you doesn't find in your Linux Distro, you can install Wine and run your Windows application  on it. Wine runs the files having '.exe' extension. In this version 1.3.28 some new features are introduced which are listed below.

It is available for many Linux distro. Here in this image you can see that if it is available for you Linux Dostro or not.

The new features of this release:

• Automatic audio driver selection.
• Device configuration dialog in DirectInput.
• Initial version of the VBScript parser.
• Support for volume information on UDF file systems.
• The OpenGL renderer is now the default for DirectDraw
• SetDIBitsToDevice support in the DIB engine.
• Various Bug fixes.

Linux fever on Wallstreet

Christoph Lameter, the contributor of Linux Kernel will discuss how Linux reach widely to the financial exchange, stock exchange and other financial instruments at the annual LinuxCon conference in Vancouver this week.

The largest stock exchange, the NYSE[New York Stock Exchange] Euronext, is run on a Linux system. So it can generate 1,500,000 quotes and take 250,000 orders every second with the acknowledgement of each transaction in 2 ms.


Earlier the NYSE largely run on Unix, like Sun Microsystem's Solaris and HP's AIX. But because of the success of the Linux they move towards Linux based open source operating system. The another advantage is that the release cycle with Solaris or AIX is long term like 2-3 years but in the Linux this period can be reduced to the 1-2 month.

20 HD Ubuntu wallpaper

Networking:Cisco and Micro-blogging:Twitter join the Linux Patent Group

The famous networking company Cisco and the leading micro-blogging website Twitter have become licensees of the OIN [open invention network]. The OIN created in 2005 to provide a patent pool for linux.The other 33 companies join to the organization in the second quarter of the 2011.

The organizations now will have royalty-free access to the portfolio of patents held by the OIN as long as they agree not to assert any of their own patents against what the OIN define as the Linux System. In 2005, OIN was created as a defensive measure to prevent patent aggression against the Linux Ecosystem.It was created by IBM, Red Hat, Sony, NEC, Novell, Phillips. Canonical became the 1st associate member of OIN in 2010.