Ubuntu GNOME merged into mainline Ubuntu
Ubuntu has been using the Unity environment developed by Caonical Ltd.
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Devuan 1.0.0 RC Released!
Debian, the father of Ubuntu, the grandfather of Linux Mint, and one of the most popular server distributions of all time, went through a time of turmoil when t
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A Look at Desktop Environments: Notion Tiling Window Manager
Notion was introduced to me by a long time friend on the IRC Network I am staff on, as part of a major gaming community.
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A Look at Desktop Environments: UNITY
Unity, probably the most universally debated DE in the GNU/Linux community; despised by some, yet absolutely loved by others.
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Cinnamon Desktop Environment for Linux Mint
Cinnamon is the flagship, default desktop environment for Linux Mint, designed to provide a modern, polished, and intuitive user experience that is highly famil
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A Look at Desktop Environments: LXDE
LXDE is known as one of the if not the lightest of the main desktop environments available for GNU/Linux.
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A Look at Desktop Environments: XFCE
Xfce is yet another lightweight but highly customizable desktop environment many people use for GNU/Linux, and is the environment of choice for systems such as
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A Look at Desktop Environments: GNOME
Back in the day, what we now know as MATE was initially the GNOME 2.
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A Look at Desktop Environments: KDE 5 Plasma
This time around we will be looking at KDE: powerful, graphically beautiful, and filled with an array of useful software; but the most resource intensive of the
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A look at Desktop Environments: MATE
One of the most amazing things about GNU/Linux is it's customizability, both on a deeper system level but also on the surface with various desktop environments
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5 Things to learn how to do in GNU/Linux via Command-Line
GNU/Linux is powerful, very powerful, but truth be told it can also be a daunting experience when trying to learn to utilize the true power behind a GNU/Linux s
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Setting up CSF Firewall front end for IPTables
Firewalls, commonly underused by home users yet probably one of the most important aspects of securing your machine; ever.
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Review of Manjaro XFCE Edition
Manjaro has always been one of my personal favourite distributions of GNU/Linux, it combines the speed and power of Arch Linux and its Pacman and AUR repositori
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Setting up a Windows / Linux Mint Dual Boot using MBR
Windows is the reigning champion when it comes to operating system share percentages according to NetMarketShare.
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Installing Linux Mint 18.1 Serena MATE Edition 64bit
There are many popular distributions of GNU/Linux to choose from, but it’s generally recognized among the GNU/Linux world that there are a fe
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Linux Mint 18.1 KDE and Xfce released
The Linux Mint team has just released the long term support release Linux Mint 18.
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Wine 2.0 is now available
Wine 2.
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How to upgrade to a new Linux Mint version
The following guide provides you with instructions on how to upgrade a device running Linux Mint to the latest version of the Linux distribution.
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After ignoring Linux for years, Adobe releases Flash 24 for Linux
Adobe has just released the first final Adobe Flash Player stable release, Flash Player 24, for GNU/Linux in years.
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Adobe resurrects Flash for Linux from the dead
Adobe just announced that it made the decision to bring Flash for Linux up to sync with Flash for other operating systems.
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Linux Mint 18 Final First Look
Linux Mint 18 is the latest version of the popular Linux distribution that is a long term support release that is supported until 2021.
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Linux Mint hacked, ISO images compromised
The Linux Mint team revealed today that compromised ISO images of Linux Mint have been distributed from the official website on February 20th, 2016.
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Tails is a privacy focused Live operating system
I have not covered Live operating systems in a long while.
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Linux Mint window customization options outshine Windows
Whenever I'm not at home, I'm taking my ThinkPad laptop with me that I installed Linux Mint on.
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How to install Mono on Linux Mint
I'm using the excellent password manager KeePass version 2.
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What is keeping you from switching to Linux?
I installed Linux Mint on a Thinkpad today to get used to the operating system and Linux in general.
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How to get Wi-Fi working in Linux Mint after installation
If Linux Mint shows no Wi-Fi after installation, the wireless adapter usually needs a proprietary driver that the installer did not add.
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How to install Linux on a computer without DVD drive
The -- very old -- laptop of a friend of mine died the other day and I offered to give her my old laptop as a replacement.
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ExplainShell: Linux command explainer
Explainshell is a free online tool that visually breaks down shell commands into their constituent parts, matching each argument and flag to its corresponding h
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Surprise! DuckDuckGo is Gnome's new default web search engine
Gnome is a long-standing desktop environment and user interface that is part of the GNU project and available for use in various Nix-like operating systems incl
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Firefox 24 for Linux gets native MP3, AAC and H.264 support
Firefox users who use the Windows 7 or Windows 8 operating system benefit from support for H.
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Ubuntu 13.04 released: how to upgrade
Ubuntu 13.
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Ubuntu 12.10: what is new and how to test it
If you take an interest in the Linux world you have probably already noticed that Ubuntu 12.
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Learn Japanese Kanji, Katakana and Hiragana With Tagaini Jisho
When it comes to learning foreign languages, I never came upon a more learning intensive language than Japanese.
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System Rescue CD, Windows Repair and Recovery Tool Collection
Windows users have several options at hand when their system does not boot anymore.
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No More Flash Updates For Linux, Unless You Use Chrome
Breaking News: Adobe just made an announcement on the official Air and Flash Player Team Blog that changes are coming to Flash Player on Linux.
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FreeBSD 9.0 Has Been Released
The operating system FreeBSD 9.
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Linux has "only 10 great apps" according to Gnome Creator
When Microsoft released a late alpha, but generally stable version of the Windows 8 Developer Preview the other week a great many people, including myself, were
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How to Add Keyboard Input Languages to Ubuntu
It is easy to type in multiple languages in Ubuntu.
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Microsoft buys $100 million of support from SUSE
Despite the problematic relationship between Microsoft and Linux vendors over the years, it's not always been a case of frosty relationships.
