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

Ubuntu 12.04 'Precise Pangolin' alpha 1 has been released

Ubuntu 12.04 named 'Precise Pangolin' has been released on 1st Dec,2011. This time Ubuntu 12.04 is based on Linux Kernel 3.2.0 relaese candidate 3. There are many more changes are done in the Ubuntu 12.04. It also support for APLS touchpads.

 Now next step is to see weather the unity interface take Ubuntu 12.04 upside or downside? In this alpha version many bug fixes are done and hence they try to make 'Precise Pangolin' more precise and flawless.The next version Ubuntu 12.04 alpha 2 will be release on 2^nd Feb,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.

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.

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.

How to install Linux Mint 11 on windows[virtual box]

In given video the method to install linux mint 11 on virtual box is shown and after that the step are written so you can easily understand.

1. Open virtual box and press "Ctrl + N" or click on new.
2. Select your operating system and version and click forward.
3. Specify the RAM.512 MB is recommended but 1024 MB is good for easy working.
4. Then create new hard disk and give the size as per your need.4 GB is minimum and click forward.
5. In storage type, select the option "dynamically expanding storage" it will help you to transfer this virtual machine OS into another PC and click on finish.
6. Now start the mint 11 and select your ISO file and click forward.
7. After some waiting desktop will appear then click on "Install Linux Mint".
8. Then select your language and click forward.
9. Now select "erase disk and install linux mint".
10. Select your location and enter your keyboard layout.
11. Then enter your information and password and click forward.
12. After some process the setup will finish and the dialog box appear "installation complete".
13. Now click on restart.
14. Enjoy your linux mint 11 on virtual box.

Gwibber microblogging client for Linux

Gwibber is the social client for the Linux-GNOME shell environment.You can see the updates from various social network simultaneously and also share your post simultaneously on them.It automatically shorten the URLs you entered.

It supports the following platforms:

• Facebook
• Buzz
• Twitter
• Digg
• Flickr
• Identi.ca
• StatusNet
• FriendFeed
• Qaiku

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.

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