Tuesday, November 8, 2011

How to install Bodhi Linux [snapshots toor]

Bodhi Linux comes with Enlightenment desktop manager. It is originally based on Ubuntu so it can be installed once in two year. It is lightweight operating system soyou can also run it on 128 MB RAM and 300 MHZ processor. Here the method is shown how to install Bodhi Linux into virtuabox step by step.

1.    First you have to select profile and theme.





2.    Now the desktop is appeared then click on "Install Bodhi" at bottom of your screen. Then enter the required information like language, partition table, location, keyboard layout, username and password and wait for complete the installation.







 







3.    Now restart the virtualbox ane enjoy Bodhi Linux.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

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.













Tuesday, September 13, 2011

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.

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

UNetbootin - A tool for creating Live USB drives

UNetbootin is a tool that is used for creating Live USB drive. It mounts ISO image of any Linux distribution on your USB flash drive or your memory card so you can install your favourite  Linux distribution on your desktop or laptop.





UNetbootin gives you option to choose you Linux distribution and its version then it download it and mount on your USB or if you have the ISO image then it directly mount on the USB.It also gives the option of mount your image onto your hard-disk.Here you can get some idea about it from the above snapshots.