The Fedora Linux distribution, to be frank, isn’t meant for all and sundry. Linux veterans who looked forward to a more user friendly desktop Linux Mint 11 will appreciate what Fedora Linux brings to the table far more than anyone else, in all likelihood. The novices to Linux who wish to test the waters of […]
All operating systems have applications, which are essential in the operation of a computer. The very management of the associated hardware and software is only made possible due to the environment provided by operating systems. Linux operating systems are based on UNIX. Computers, servers, game consoles, mobile phones – Linux is ubiquitous in today’s world. […]
Linux represents a revolution, and an independence of sorts against proprietary operating systems. The underlying idea that has gone into the creation of Linux is absolutely contrary to the motives of corporations like Microsoft and Apple. Linux is all about creating an open, transparent system, where users and programmers collaborate to create the products (that […]
Linux has been an operating system in vogue lately, and with good reason. It offers a very viable alternative to proprietary operating systems, chief among them being Microsoft Corporation’s Windows OS, and Apple Inc.’s Macintosh OS. It has moved on from a nascent stage of catering to only open source enthusiasts to a more generalized […]
Linux is a free open source operating system developed by Linus Torvalds. He made it available to general public through General public license (GNU). According to this license, you can alter, modify, develop and redistribute the software with same privilege that you acquired when you download it. Being a open source software, it has been […]
VMware has announced a new technology called VMware AppBlaster, that will allow to remote applications from any OS to any OS using any HTML 5 web browsers. This means when AppBlaster is released you will be able to run any application under any OS you desire as long you have an HTML 5 web browser […]
Dual booting is a common practice with plenty of Linux users. Dual booting refers to the act of installing two separate operating systems on the same computer. Each OS is given its own partition, which tends to be inaccessible for all practical purposes to the other OS. Transferring files between two systems can prove to […]
KDE and GNOME are two of the most popular desktop environments on the Linux operating system. They are developed by two separate communities of developers, with some APIs that are unique and the others, which are common. This makes it easier for third party applications to be developed, as well as there is a common […]
The Apache HTTP server is a software package used to run and maintain web servers. It was and is hugely popular; from the initial growth of the Internet to the current scenario, Apache is said to serve every two out of three websites. Apache is frequently used in tandem with the Linux networking environment, making […]
Ubuntu is a relatively new Linux distribution, based on Debian. It is a free operating system that unabashedly welcomes people to download and share it. Despite being owned by a UK-based company called Canonical Ltd., it retains its open source roots completely, so much as to its very name being derived from an African philosophy […]