Review: Ubuntu 13.04
April 25, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
The Canonical developers seem to present more work onUbuntu touch to be employed than with traditional Linux distribution: The technical innovations that brings Ubuntu 13:04 against the previous version 12.10 include more in the cosmetics category. Had to "Raring Ringtail" not changed some icons of the Unity desktop, most users would probably barely notice the difference. … [Read More...]
Top Ten Sleeper Distros
May 19, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Linux Advocate Dietrich Schmitz makes his "Top Ten Sleeper Distros" picks. What's a sleeper? Read and find out. LXer Linux News … [Read More...]
Desktop Search Tool `Recoll` Updated With Significant Improvements
May 19, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Recoll is a full text search tool for Linux that comes with a Qt GUI, an Ubuntu Unity Lens and it can also be used via command line. The application can find keywords inside documents as well as file names.This featureful desktop search tool can index a huge number of file types. Besides text, html, maildir and mailbox (Thunderbird, Evolution), Gaim and Purple log files, Scribus files, man pages … [Read More...]
DNF Still Advancing As Experimental Yum For Fedora
May 19, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
DNF is the experimental fork of the Yum package manager that premiered in Fedora 18. While much hasn't been heard of this experimental Yum replacement since its debut, work on it has still been progressing and is turning out to be in great shape, is slowly approaching feature-parity with Yum, and is faster... Phoronix … [Read More...]
Video Review: openSUSE 12.3
April 23, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
What do you think openSUSE's target audience is?== A review of openSUSE 12.3 featuring the KDE desktop. Overall, a polished release with some powerful conf... Video Rating: 4 / 5 … [Read More...]
Today’s Linux News
Top Ten Sleeper Distros
May 19, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Linux Advocate Dietrich Schmitz makes his "Top Ten Sleeper Distros" picks. What's a sleeper? Read and find out. LXer Linux News … [Read More...]
Introducing: The Cheapskate’s Corner for Linux gamers!
May 18, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
If in The Funding Crowd we do a weekly review of the Linux games being crowdfunded, here in The Cheapskate's Corner you will find all the current bundles and major sales which include at least a Linux game. … [Read More...]
JULinuXP and JULinOX OS ETPE 2013 Released
May 18, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
It's been a very hard week, putting out two variants of the JULinux distribution. JULinuXP and JULinOX_OS for Mac users. Two different interfaces, for two different types of users, both are very fast, and don't … [Read More...]
Featured Linux Reviews
Review: openSUSE 12.3
April 15, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
I will show you if and how openSUSE 12.3 can redeem itself. Naturally, we will go with the KDE desktop, because Gnome is not an option anymore. My test box will … [Read More...]
Review: Pardus 2013 KDE
April 5, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
After getting past the boot menu, I was greeted by a pleasant boot splash featuring the Pardus name above a spinning progress meter on a dark gray background. … [Read More...]
Featured Linux Hardware
Android-on-Intel accelerates as Clover Trail+ devices debut
May 18, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Lenovo’s Android-based K900, the first phone to use Intel’s dual-core 2GHz “Clover Trail+” Atom Z2580 system-on-chip, began shipping in … [Read More...]
Linux 3.10 Kernel Benchmarks On A Core i7 Laptop
May 18, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
As our latest coverage of the Linux 3.10 kernel comes new comparison benchmarks of the latest development kernel compared to its predecessor from an Intel Core … [Read More...]
Featured Linux Howtos
Securing SSH On Ubuntu Precise With WiKID Two-Factor Authentication
May 18, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Securing SSH On Ubuntu Precise With WiKID Two-Factor Authentication SSH offers a highly secure channel for remote administration of servers. However, if you … [Read More...]
Install Weather Indicator With New Location And Forecast Fixes In Ubuntu
May 18, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Weather Indicator used to be one of the most popular Ubuntu appindicators but unfortunately, it doesn't work properly any more: it crashes when trying to add a … [Read More...]
Featured Android
Hangouts updated to correct tablet compatibility issues
May 17, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Nexus 7 and other tablet users can now update to replace the Google Talk app Following its announcement at Google I/O, the new Hangouts app from Google has had … [Read More...]
How to Bypass AT&T Google Hangout Video Chat Block (Using Root)
May 17, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
A couple of hours ago, I posted a blogpost about how AT&T is blocking Google Hangout video chat on their cellular network and that the only way you can … [Read More...]