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Extra Packages For Enterprise Linux (EPEL) for CentOS

Extra Packages For Enterprise Linux (or EPEL) is a Fedora Special Interest Group that creates, maintains and manages a high-quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux. These packages are made available but not limited to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, Scientific Linux, and Oracle Linux. The developers base these packages on their Fedora counterparts and they make sure that the packages will not conflict or replace packages in base Enterprise Linux distributions

Ubuntu 16.10 'Yakkety Yak' Released, Let's See What's New In Ubuntu 16.10

And finally after 6 months of development, Ubuntu 16.10 ‘Yakkety Yak’ has been released today. There is definately something new, improved and fixed in this release. Let’s see what new has been introduced in Yakkety Yak. Ubuntu 16.10 ‘Yakkety Yak‘ was a much talked about Ubuntu distro regarding several features it was expected to come up with. It was expected to release with Unity 8 but later on, declared that Unity 8 will be available to test but not as the default desktop. And

Time To Break Linux Myths

Yes! You read right. While the world is realizing the power of Linux, on the other hand, there are also people found debating in the communities like, Reddit about how bad Linux is due to several problems. Several issues that are raised are actually myths about Linux. So here is a try from LinuxAndUbuntu to cover and clear some of the most talked-about Linux myths. Why Are There Myths About Linux? One might ask that why we are discussing this topic. Why only Linux myths are spr

Remix OS Brings Android For PC

Remix OS is an operating system based on Android-x86(). The OS is developed to provide android for PC. It is developed by Jide Technology. The latest version of Remix OS is based on Android Marshmallow. We hope to soon have the next versions based on Nougat. Testing machine The system which is used in this tutorial for testing Remix OS has AMD Athlon processor, 2 gigs of RAM, and Remix OS is installed on the hard disk. I had no problem in making this device an Android PC.  War

Artificial Intelligence, The Search For The Perfect Slave

Artificial Intelligence, IA, is a fantastic scientific and engineering project whose main purpose is to create a perfect slave. It may sound creepy or disrespecful, but the dream is to make a device clever enough so that one can acquire it, get it out of the box, swiftly ensemble it and ask it “get me a good cup of coffee”, just as the best human assistant, recently hired, would do. Of course, the test would be that one can enjoy a delicious coffee within a reasonable time. The term Artificial

Why Linux? - Some Reasons For Converting To Linux

Many organizations and businesses worldwide are converting their core computer operating system to Linux as opposed to other operating systems for several reasons some of which we shall discuss hereinafter (why Linux), this is mostly because of problems faced in daily computer usage both at home and at the workplace. We are also seeing a shift from commercial software to free software (also referred to as open-source software) here are some of the reasons that fostered this situation:  

Material Design Inspired Paper Theme For Ubuntu

Paper is a material design inspired modern desktop theme suit. Designed by Sam Hewitt, the paper theme provides clear desktop GUI experience with flat icons accompanied by light shadows. The menu lists, options, etc resembles the design that we have seen in vanilla android Lollipop and Marshmallow. Paper theme desktop suit currently works on Ubuntu and its derivatives. Paper theme is supported by most of the popular desktop environment like unity, GTK 2.X, GTK 3.X, Pantheon, Budgie,

Emma A LightWeight Database Management Tool For Linux

Today who does not interact with databases and if you’re a programmer then database management is your daily task. For database management, there is a very popular tool called, MySQL Workbench. It’s a tool that ships with tonnes of functionalities. But not all of us as beginner programmers use all Workbench features. So here we also have a very lightweight database manager in Linux, Emma. Emma is a Lightweight Database management tool Emma is a very basic GUI database manager with

Microsoft Powershell Is Now Available For Linux

Powershell is a Windows command line tool and associated scripting language built on the .Net framework for performing administrative tasks on both local and remote Windows systems. Powershell has been a part of Windows systems for 10 years(November 14, 2006 ). On 18th August Microsoft announced on their blog that they have brought Powershell to Mac OSX and Linux. In the blog announcement post, Microsoft called this move inspired by the fact that customers liked the use of PowerS

Mega 50GB Free Cloud Storage Plus Linux Client

Hi Guys, Today I wanna talk about a storage service that I have been using for a couple of months and I am pretty satisfied so I thought of sharing my experience with you guys. It’s a Mega cloud storage that provides 50GB data for free and an official Linux client. Here is all that I have to say after using Mega in my Ubuntu Linux. Mega Storage I was using OneDrive before and I had a 15GB of space but suddenly the Microsoft changed the policy and now I have only 5GB online stor

'Chrome Remote Desktop' A Linux Remote Desktop App

Chrome Remote Desktop is a Linux remote desktop app that allows users to access any Linux computer remotely. It is developed by Google and is available for Linux systems also. It is very easy to use and let one handle computer remotely using the Chromoting protocol developed by Google. There are so many applications for Linux remote access. I’ll perhaps compile a list of other Linux remote access apps soon in future. To download & install Chrome Remote Desktop, one will require t

Youker Assistant For Linux System Maintenance Cleanup Tool

Youker Assistant is Linux system maintenance software built by Ubuntu Kylin, an official Ubuntu subproject for Chinese users. Youker assistant helps maintain the system by cleaning system trash files, cache, cookies, and all other history traces.  There are a couple of more built-in tools in Youker Assistant. Clean System Trash Files & Save Disk Space Unlike most other Linux apps, Youker Assistant has a very clean and awesome interface. It’s very easy to use application.