1. Robyn Bergeron Named Fedora Project Leader Unlike Debian, where the project leader is a democratically elected position, the Fedora Project (FPL) has its leaders picked by Red Hat. This past week, Red Hat picked Robyn Bergeron to lead the project, after having been active in multiple levels of the Fedora community since 2009. She has been a Red Hat employee since November 2010 as the Fedora release program manager. Bergeron succeeds Jared Smith who had held the post of FPL since June of...Read Full Story
Today we will show you how to create repository in Linux . We know that we can install packages in Linux by using RPM (Red Hat Package Management) but disadvantage is that by using RPM we can’t install packages wich depend on other packages i.e dependencies. so in order to install packages which depend on other packages, we have to install packages by using YUM (Yellowdog Updater Modified). Actually YUM is added from RHEL5 onwards. YUM uses a repository for installation. YUM automatically...Read Full Story
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Desktop edition Red Hat may be one of the few companies in the world that really get open source. Red Hat builds its products on open source, is very liberal with its source code and actively supports important projects with developer hours. On top of that, Red Hat has proved to be profitable in a market where commercial offerings usually struggle to break even. For years the Red Hat brand was widely viewed as "the Linux", rather than "a Linux" distribution. Even...Read Full Story
In this post i will show how to install Very Secure FTP (Vsftpd) ftp server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL 6). Vsftpd is a GPL licensed FTP server for UNIX systems, including Linux. It is secure and extremely fast and it’s stable. In this example i will install [...]Read Full Story
Super Boot Manager is a boot manager to manage the boot loader for Linux systems, boot-loader in particular is a software that allows us to select and boot different operating system on same computer. Super Boot Manager allows you to manage the three most commonly used Boot loader for Linux ( Grub, Burg and Plymouth ), allowing you to install and remove them safely. You can also customize the splash screen with a certain theme instead of the usual text interface. Super Boot Manager can be...Read Full Story
Macbuntu-XII (Mac OS X gtk3 Theme) Change Display Ubuntu Mac OS X 11:10 So the Lion Related to our previous article, which has us to convey to merge with Unity Cairo Dock 2d panel . Is a breakthrough alternative for most Ubuntu users are uncomfortable with the Unity interface. And that can not be ignored, use Unity with Cairo Dock 2d panel allows the user to run the 3D desktop effects with no difficulty. Complementing the previous steps, after the Unity 2D panel with Cairo Dock is...Read Full Story
Debian package release Macbuntu-XII Theme Not easy to make a tutorial to be accepted and understood properly in all walks of life. Similarly, our tutorial on the use of theme-XII-gtk3 Macbuntu some time ago.In the article we are only providing a theme in the form of source package so as to be able to configure and use it to manually put all the needs. It is our maksutkan so that users can not only use the theme-XII-gtk3 Macbuntu, but also as a learning process for beginners to learn how...Read Full Story
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Canonical is preparing to show off Ubuntu for Android at Mobile World Congress next week. The Linux OS package will dock to a desktop and sync with Android phones' contacts and services. - Linux software
distributor Canonical Feb. 21 introduced a version of its Ubuntu Linux
operating system for Android, a platform tailored for multi-core Android
smartphones that can dock with a keyboard and monitor.
The software,
which Canonical will show...
François Dupoux proudly announced last night, February 21st, a major release of his popular SystemRescueCd Linux-based operating system for rescue and recovery tasks. The SystemRescueCd 2.5.0 Live CD Linux operating system for rescue tasks, includes the ...
Ubuntu is awesome and it’s all about the community — at least if you believe the marketing (from both Canonical employees and unpaid volunteers). But if you start looking beyond the hype, a somewhat different picture emerges. Ubuntu was the first Linux distro I ever installed and I have been following news about the project for about six years now, but in the last two years a new pattern is emerging.
This week in DistroWatch Weekly:
Reviews: First look at Asturix 4 and On desktop
News: Debian's position on software patents, Fedora 17 alpha testing, overview of Cinnamon, FreeBSD package management with pkgng
Questions and answers: End of support for Kubuntu
Released last week: Scientific Linux 6.2, Tiny Core Linux 4.3
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