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LPS Security 1.3.2 has been released! Live cd from department of defense

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

LPS Security 1.3.2 LPS Security 1.3.2 has been released, this is a maintenance release that comes with some new features, updates and bug fixes. Lightweight Portable Security (LPS) is a Linux-based live CD produced by the United States of America’s … Continue reading

Razor Qt 0.4 released:Likely to inspire Pinguy to build a Qt Linux distro

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Linux distributions, opensource

Razor-qt developers have recently announced the release of its latest version, the Razor-qt 0.4, after several months in development. Razor-qt is a desktop environment developed on the Qt technology platform and as the name suggest is razor-quick and very simple … Continue reading

Mozilla now ready for OS

Written by anuradha.shukla on . Posted in News

Looks like Mozilla wants to do it all alone and go the whole vertical. From browsers to version games and now looks poised to play Operating Systems giants Microsoft and Google Chrome at their own game. That both Microsoft and … Continue reading

Peppermint OS Ice- A lightweight, user-friendly distribution with built-in cloud technologies

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in News

Peppermint OS Ice is a lightweight, user-friendly linux distribution with built-in cloud technologies. It is ideal for notebooks and old computers. The default desktop environment for Peppermint is LXDE, Chromium is the default web browser, cloud applications like Editor by Pixlr … Continue reading

Linux From Scratch 6.7 is released! A free book that teaches how to build a base Linux OS from scratch, from an existing Linux installation or from a live CD

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in News

Linux From Scratch 6.7 is released , This release includes numerous changes to LFS 6.6 (including updates to Linux kernel 2.6.35.4, GCC 4.5.1, glibc 2.12.1) and security fixes. It also includes editorial work on the explanatory material throughout the book, … Continue reading

KolibriOS – A tiny operating system on a 1.44MB floppy

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in News

KolibriOS is is an operating system that fits on a single 1.44MB Floppy (many applications are compressed) and  runs with 8MB of Ram !!!  The surprise is that the system come with a graphical environment complete with text editors, system … Continue reading

Almost 90% of TOP500 supercomputers use Linux-Top500 for November-

Written by unixmen_admin on . Posted in News

The list of top 500 supercomputer for the month of November 2009 is available, in the list appears that 89.20% of the 500 supercomputers use Linux, Unix 5%, 4.6% mixed, 1% Windows and 0.2% BSD.    

Download Google Chrome OS .vmdk (Virtual Machine) Image

Written by unixmen_admin on . Posted in News

Mark Renouf has compiled a VMware image of Chrome OS for testing out in your virtual machine environment: This is a ChromeOS image converted to VMware .vmdk file. It was built from instructions provided on the ChromiumOS developers site: http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/building-chromium-os/build-instructionsBuilt … Continue reading

Fedora 12 constantine is out !

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in News

Fedora 12 ‘ codenamed ‘Constantine’ is out. With this release comes with new features and improvments, optmized performance ,Smaller and faster updates, Graphics support improvements , Virtualization improvements, Automatic reporting of crashes and SELinux issues, New Dracut initrd generation tool, … Continue reading