Author Archives: M. Zinoune

LinuxMint13 RC is available for testing| Screenshots tour

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Linux Mint, News

LinuxMint13 RC is available for testing, this release comes with 2 versions in a separated dvd`s: Mate and Cinnamon. For LinuxMint13 Cinnamon, apart of being very light offers some customization and integration of new applets, extensions and themes that can … Continue reading

Grub Customizer 2.5.5 is available- Customize grub/Burg from a GUI interface

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Linux tutorials, Software, Ubuntu

Few days ago was released Grub Customizer 2.5.5, the new release comes with  an improved kde menu compatibility, translation updates,  preserving quote charachter, replaced update-grub by grub-mkconfig + output_fileGrub.

htop- A colored alternative to top command

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in linux command, Software

htop, an interactive process viewer for Linux, it is a good alternative to top command. When you run htop, it will show you your usage per CPU, as well as a text graph of your memory and swap usage right … Continue reading

Bleeding Edge script is available for Ubuntu 12.04

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Linux tutorials, Ubuntu, Uncategorized

Bleeding Edge is now available for Ubuntu 12.04, this is  a shell script designed for Ubuntu 32 and 64bit. It installs repositories, keys, and software – such as Gimp2.8, adobe reader, dropbox, media players, codecs, MS fonts, drivers, etc with … Continue reading

Gimp plugin registry for Gimp2.8 is available for Ubuntu12.04 | PPA

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in opensource, Software, Ubuntu

Gimp Plugin registry is a package of some very useful plugins for Gimp, it contain a number of extensions like Gimp-FX Foundry (More than 117 effects, including blurring, distorting,Roy Lichtenstein effect, planet render effect and more), Elsamuko (Includes effects such as “Obama Hope”, “Movie 300″, … Continue reading

How to Install Burg in Fedora16 and 17

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Fedora, Linux tutorials

Burg is a brand-new boot loader based on GRUB. It uses a new object format which allows it to be built in a wider range of OS,including Linux/Windows/OSX/Solaris/FreeBSD, etc. It also has a highly configurable menu system which works in … Continue reading

Hosting on Linux is the best choice

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in News

Linux Web Hosting allows a company to build its web sites by using the Linux Operating System. Unix hosting and Linux hosting are generally the most cost-effective web hosting options. Unix/Linux are open source products and virtually free, and Unix … Continue reading

Nvidia 295.49 has been released!

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Linux tutorials, News, Ubuntu

Nvidia 295.49 driver has been released! The new release added support  for GeForce GTX 690, Fixed a problem where starting, stopping, and moving OpenGL application windows was very slow on Quadro FX 4600, Quadro FX 5600, GeForce 8800 GTX, GeForce 8800 GTS, … Continue reading

Conky_7 and Conky_8- Just Another 2 Stunning themes for Conky

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in eyecandy, Linux tutorials

In my previous posts, we saw together many nice themes for conky (Conky Lua, Conky_2, conky_5 and more). Recently was released 2 new conky themes: Conky_7 and Conky_8, two different and very nice themes.

Conky_5 and Conky_2- Another 2 nice themes for conky

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in eyecandy, Ubuntu

In our previous post, we saw together how to install and configure Conky_Lua and Conky next generation themes, today, i will show you another 2 nice and simple ones : Conky_5 and Conky_2 .