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Linux distribution created in India that is suitable for Hindi and Punjabi languages.

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There are many Linux distributions in the world, but are there Linux distros created in India? Yes there are. Hamara Linux is an Indian developed Linux distribution, with good language support. Supported languages in Linux: Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sinhalese, Tamil and Telugu. Website: https://www.hamaralinux.org/blog/. Hamara Linux is based upon … Read more

Linux Mint 16 final is now available for download.

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The final ISO images for the Linux Mint 16 distribution have been released. This is based upon Linux kernel 3.11, and brings many improvements in terms of software and usability. The animated HTML5 login screens should still be there as well as new versions of the packages. This release is based upon the Ubuntu 13.10 … Read more

Choosing an operating system for your desktop computer. Linux is a good choice now.

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The world of computers is dominated by two main players, Apple and Microsoft . These two software giants are competing with each other to be the operating system of choice for the discerning punter. Making a choice of desktop operating system sometimes comes down to what you wish to achieve with your desktop computer. Apple … Read more

New Ubuntu `phone distribution released. The future of the operating system is mobile.

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The Ubuntu phone distribution is soon to be released to the public; this is a Linux distribution that can scale from a phone to a desktop computer with the one desktop interface. This will be a whole new paradigm of operating systems; designed for the desktop and also capable of installation onto a mobile device … Read more

Voyager Linux; a nice Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 12.10 with extra eye candy.

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This is the new Voyager Linux distribution; this is based on Ubuntu 12.10 and includes quite a few extra packages and addons to give far more eye candy than the default Unity desktop. This distribution uses the Xfce4 desktop and is well worth installing if you want some nice eye candy and something different than … Read more

I have just installed the Linux Mint 14 distribution and it is very good indeed. A perfect desktop OS.

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I have just installed the Linux Mint 14 distribution to replace the execrable Ubuntu distribution that is not the best solution when you want to experiment with dual monitors and other things that do not work at all on Ubuntu. Mint 14 comes with Me TV 1.3.7 available in the repositories. This works better than … Read more

My experiences using the Ubuntu 12.10 distribution on the desktop.

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After my experiences with the installation of the Ubuntu 12.10 Linux distribution in Virtualbox; finding that even with the latest Virtualbox 4.22 release the Ubuntu 12.10 Unity desktop is still very slow; I have installed this distribution onto a 2 terabyte hard disk and I am currently downloading the fglrx packages to get the ATI … Read more

The new Manjaro Linux distribution. Based on Arch Linux; but easier to use.

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There is a new Linux distribution available, it is called Manjaro and it is based on the Arch Linux distribution, but with many changes to make the distribution easier to install and use. There is the standard range of open source software available, including Gimp 2.8, Firefox 14 and KDE 4.8.4. There is a Gnome … Read more

Android marketplace taking over from conventional distribution.

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The Google Android application store is taking over from conventional methods of software distribution. The marketplace available on Android devices allows you to install applications such as Winamp for playing music and the Opera Mobile web browser, which is superior to the built in web browser on the Huawei S7, which does not allow image … Read more

Debian distribution awesomely fast and Google eavesdropping.

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The Debian distribution I am using is working very well compared to the Ubuntu and Linux Mint distributions that I was using before. I have installed a 3.3 kernel with the Debian kernel packaging commands and built a kernel tarball and a headers tarball that I was then able to install with the dpkg -i … Read more

Ubuntu 14.04 to run on tablets and cars. And become a smartphone OS?

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The Ubuntu 14.04 release will run on a wider variety of appliances than ever before, with tablet computers and in car computers to be targeted. This would be more reliable and usable than the Windows mobile operating system that is powering the Windows mobile telephone and of course many computers around the world. Tablet computers … Read more