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Linux Tutorials Oct 2, 2017 5 min read

Timeshift A System Restore Utility Tool Review

TimeShift is a system restore tool for Linux. It provides functionality that is quite similar to the System Restore feature in Windows or the Time Machine tool in macOS. TimeShift protects your system by making incremental snapshots of the file system manually or at regular automated intervals. These snapshots can then be restored at a later point to undo all changes to the system and restore it to the previous state. Snapshots are made using rsync and hard-links and the tool shares com

KDE Sep 30, 2017 8 min read

KDE Neon Complete Distro Review

It’s no secret to anyone: KDE and its latest implementation, Plasma 5, have been my favorite applications and desktop suite for quite some time now. I started GNU / Linux with Gnome 2 that brought Ubuntu Feisty Fawn but quickly jumped to that unknown ocean, full of strange words with the letter K in them, called Kubuntu. Coming and going, distros and more distros, until you end up trapped by the Chakra magic and its unique environment. As much as I have tried to change this fact in s

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System76 Sep 28, 2017 6 min read

System76 Oryx Pro Review

How about we begin with the way this isn’t generally a “portable workstation.” The guts of the Serval Workstation make it more desktop than a tablet. Desktop-class 4-GHz i7 processor. 16GB of DDR3 RAM. 128GB SSD. Also, for the GPU, a 6GB nVidia GeForce GTX 970M Also, that is recently the unit they sent me. You can pack up to 32GB of RAM and 5TB of capacity in this apparatus. In. A. Cracking. Tablet.The show is 15.6 crawls with a 1080p determination. It’s an extraordinary screen. It

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Reviews Sep 27, 2017 6 min read

Eolie Web Browser for GNOME - The Simplest Web Browser

Cédric Bellegarde, the developer behind the popular Lollypop music player, returns with a completely new crazy project: a web browser. From her pretty name, Eolie web browser. A new web browser for the GNOME desktop environment, while everyone else is already leaving the official browser to the benefit of the tenors of Firefox and Chrome? We are therefore curious to try the beast, to try to understand what has passed through the head of its author. Eolie and its tab bar as thumbn

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Reviews Sep 24, 2017 6 min read

Best Photo Editor Apps Free For Linux

Linux has come a long way in terms of the applications that are available for the platform. Whatever your specific needs are, you can be sure that there are at least a few applications available for you to use. Today, we’ll look at 10 free Linux photo editors, and I must say, there are a lot of image editing tools available. This post selects just 10 of these awesome tools and talks about them briefly looking at what makes them stand out. In no particular order, let’s start. 10

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Linux Distributions Sep 23, 2017 5 min read

Endless OS 3.2 Review - The Offline Distro

Endless OS is a free, easy-to-use operating system preloaded with over 100 apps, making it useful from the moment you turn it on. Endless takes Linux to a whole different dimension. It is intuitive and quite different. The developers have come out with a distro that targets mainly developing countries and also computers with no or limited internet access. So even without the internet, you will have access to stuff like Wikipedia. The aim is to provide an operating system that comes w

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Reviews Sep 21, 2017 5 min read

DeVeDe NG Review Create Video DVDs and CDs

Devede is an open source program that allows the creation of video CDs and DVDs from an MPEG, AVI and similar formats suitable for home DVD players. Devede uses Mplayer, Mencoder, DVDAuthor, and VCDimager, so you can use any video playable with Mplayer. It is available for multiple platforms including Windows and Linux. How to install DevedeNG? Devede NG is available in most Linux software stores including the Ubuntu Software app for one-click installation. Alternatively, there a

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Linux Distributions Sep 20, 2017 4 min read

A Quick Review Of PCLinuxOS

Sometimes while I review distros I come across some cool distros that many persons don’t know about. PCLinuxOS is one of them. A user-friendly, stable, and quite cool in features and app selection are the things that made me love this distro. PCLinuxOS comes only in a 64-bit version, so the old PC might not be able to run it. I think nowadays 64-bit thing is quite normal as technologies are advancing. Without wasting much time, I would like to proceed to the review of the distro. As

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Arch Linux Sep 18, 2017 5 min read

BlackArch Linux A Pentesting Linux Distribution

When it comes to penetration testing, the best way to go is Linux. Distros like Kali and Parrot are quite popular. Today we’re going to look at another awesome penetration testing distro known as Blackarch. Blackarch Linux is an Arch Linux-based penetration testing distribution for penetration testers and security researchers. The Blackarch comes with a tool repository that contains over 1800 tools with new ones being added quite frequently. Let us take a brief look at this Linux distro.

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Reviews Sep 11, 2017 4 min read

QOwnNotes A Great Note Taking App For Linux

There are so many awesome open source apps available on Linux for taking notes and managing a to-do list and amongst them is QOwnNotes. QOwnNotes is a fantastic app for doing both. The app allows you to save your notes in plain text format with Markdown support. It has cross-platform support on Linux, Windows, and macOS and works together with the notes application of ownCloud and Nextcloud. The main strength of QOwnNotes is versatility. It comes with some pretty awesome features that

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Linux Distributions Sep 10, 2017 5 min read

Best KDE Linux Distributions For Your Desktop

KDE remains one of the most popular desktop environments available for Linux users. KDE prioritizes aesthetics and modernity with a user-friendly computing experience. It also comes with a host of applications and features that complete the experience. But which distro does KDE best? I certainly do not know the right answer but what I can do is share some of KDE’s best distros in the market now. Some distros certainly do KDE better than others and if you’ve been burnt before, I bet one o

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Reviews Aug 25, 2017 5 min read

Chromium Vs. Google Chrome

Google Chrome is currently the most popular browser on desktop PCs. It has over 54% of desktop users, usually in the Windows world, choose it over the other browsers. In the Linux world, Google Chrome is not the most popular, as most distros prefer to ship to other web browsers. The most popular of these is Firefox, whilst others prefer Chromium. Chromium is identical to Google Chrome for all intents and purposes. They share everything from looks to extensions, engines, and features.

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