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Ubuntu 17.10 Codename Released "Artful Aardvark"

Recently Ubuntu has been the talk of the town due to Mark Shuttleworth’s announcement on discontinuation of Unity 8 development. But the release of Ubuntu 17.04 also fills some gap of that talk shows. Now there is another news coming from Ubuntu which is the release of codename of its upcoming Ubuntu version, i.e. Ubuntu 17.10. It’s  Artful Aardvark! Yes. Artful Aardvark. But what does it mean? Let’s find out. Ubuntu 17.10 Codename ‘Artful Aardvark’ The codename of Ubuntu 17.10 was

Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty Zapus And Flavors Released Available To Download

I recently wrote an article talking about where the Ubuntu 17.04 is heading. Now Ubuntu 17.04 ‘Zesty Zapus’ is released. You can download and install it to taste things newly presented. Though, there are not major changes but there are. So let’s get started and see what’s new in Ubuntu 17.04 ‘Zesty Zapus’. Ubuntu 17.04 Released Ubuntu 17.04 is released on time with couple of new things. In this article, I’ll be talking about the few new features presented in. Download U

Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus Has Started Taking Shape After Ubuntu 15.10

After the short-term support release Ubuntu 15.10, the next long-term support release Ubuntu 16.04 has been opened for development. The release that is named “Xenial Xerus” has received initials packages. The final release of Ubuntu 16.04 is expected to come out in 30, April, 2016. Ubuntu release cycle is pretty simple. There are two releases, short-term support and long-term support. The long-term support release comes after two years. LTS releases are announced with the support of

Unity8.org To Fork Unity8 Asking What Name Should Unity8 Fork Have

As Mark Shuttleworth announced the discontinuation of Unity8 project, unity users have started asking many questions. One of the questions is ‘Is unity dead?’. We have seen so many projects discontinued and then after sometime somebody else from the community takes the charge and continue the development. The same is going to happen with Unity. Somebody has decided to develop Unity8 fork and looking for a name. Unity8 fork project to start off? Here you go! Like what happnene

The Worst Day Of This Year, Ubuntu To Kill Unity8

When I switched to Linux, I remember the first two months I used Ubuntu. Later on to ease the path of learning Linux, I started using Linux Mint. Today, I use Ubuntu and most of my life is around its derivatves. Yesterday, I was shocked when I read that Ubuntu is no more going to invest into Unity8 development and the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will ship with GNOME. It really broke my heart. Not in my wildest dream I had ever thought that this day would come. I was happily using Ubuntu unity, s

Linux Mint Debian Edition A Spinoff To The Main Edition

Linux Mint Debian Edition(or LMDE) is a Linux distro which is based on Debian. The main edition of Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu which itself is based on Debian. Debian is one of the oldest and most stable Linux distros out there but it’s made for general use and is not recommended for complete newbies to Linux. So Ubuntu takes the Debian code and forks it for ease of access and the main Linux Mint distro takes the Ubuntu code and tries to make it more polished and very beginner-friendly. The

Linus The Man Behind Linux

Well, we all have heard somewhere (if not using it already) about Linux an Operating System that hardly gets a virus, that runs applications created to run only on Linux and can’t run Windows and macOS applications (at least not out of the box), and it’s free, as in free beer or as in speech. But how was Linux created? Why is it free? Who created it?     About Linus Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer born on December 28, 1969. Son of two Journalists named Anna a

NixNote An Unofficial Evernote Client For Linux

Evernote is arguably the most popular and powerful note-taking tool available. You can save notes in different forms like text, pictures, videos, voice memos, and web pages. There are clients available for the web, desktop operating systems (Windows and Mac) as well as mobile devices (Android and iOS) but none for the Linux desktop. There are a few third-party options available including GeekNote, Everpad and NixNote.   NixNote is a popular unofficial Evernote client for Linux desktops.

Whatsapp Now Available To Use In Linux Through Web Browser; Video tutorial

Popular messaging service WhatsApp over 700 million monthly active users has now launched a new service called WhatsApp web. “Today, for the first time, millions of you will have the ability to use WhatsApp on your web browser”, Jan Koun, founder of WhatsApp posted on facebook. Let’s see how to use this on our PC or Chromebook. The article is also available Whatsapp Now Available To Use In Linux Through Web Browser

Vivaldi Internet Browser Continues To Grow With 1.6 Release

So the browser wars continue. What is the best browser available for your Linux desktop? Mozilla Firefox continues to be the default web browser for the most Linux distros but you could always choose Google Chrome which is the most popular browser around. Notwithstanding these, there are a couple of other web browsers which continue to make a point why you should choose them. One of these browsers is Vivaldi. Vivaldi 1.6  version was released not long ago with quite a handful of features

10 Top Companies That Are Powered By Linux

Linux is one of the most popular operating systems used for many companies, in this article you are going to find 10 companies that use Linux.   1. Oracle It’s one of the biggest and most popular companies that offer informatics products and services, it uses Linux and also it has its own Linux distribution called “Oracle Linux”.Oracle is one of my favorites enterprises because it has excellent products like databases, java, virtualization software, operating systems and more.

Samba Linux: The Open Source File and Print Server

Samba is an open-source software suite that runs on Unix/Linux based platforms but is able to communicate with Windows clients like a native application. So Samba is able to provide this service by using the Common Internet File System (CIFS). At the heart of this CIFS is the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol.  Samba does this by performing these 4 key things – * File & print services * Authentication and Authorization * Name resolution * Service announcement (browsing) S