Matias Vangsnes

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Posts Tagged with "desktop operating system"

myhosting.com Updates Debian and CentOS Linux VPS Offering, Launches … – Virtual

Tuesday, July 31st, 2012

myhosting.com, a leading provider of Linux VPS Hosting and Windows Hyper-V VPS Hosting, Shared Hosting and Hosted Exchange Email services has announced improvements to its existing Linux VPS product line to offer CentOS 6 and Debian 6 to customers, as well as the launch of Ubuntu 12 based VPS Hosting plans. Toronto, ON (PRWEB) July [...]

Looking for a New Linux Distro? 31 More Are Coming Next Month

Saturday, July 21st, 2012

Ubuntu Linux may be all over the news recently, but anyone who’s ever perused DistroWatch has a pretty good sense of just how many other Linux distributions are out there as well, ready to be tried at will. Next month, however, that list promises to get even bigger. Dubbed the “31 Flavors of Fun” experiment, [...]

Linux Mint 13 closes in on KDE edition

Saturday, May 26th, 2012

Fans of Linux Mint 13 can look forward to getting their hands on KDE and Xfce variants before the end of June, if predictions by project leader Clement Lefebrve pan out. Read this Ten factors that make Ubuntu 11.10 a hit Read more The Linux Mint 13 update to the Ubuntu-based desktop operating system, also [...]

Linux Mint 13 ramps up for KDE release

Friday, May 25th, 2012

Fans of Linux Mint 13 can look forward to getting their hands on KDE and Xfce variants before the end of June, if predictions by project leader Clement Lefebrve pan out. Read this Ten factors that make Ubuntu 11.10 a hit Read more The Linux Mint 13 update to the Ubuntu-based desktop operating system, also [...]

Precise Pangolin: Ubuntu Grows Up

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

The latest edition of Canonical’s Ubuntu 12.04 desktop operating system shows considerable maturity. Precise Pangolin is built around the default Unity interface with an optional Heads Up Display (HUD) designed to keep hands on the keys rather than constantly interrupting the work flow by grabbing the mouse. The Unity bar, which debuted last year in [...]

Ubuntu in South African Schools

Sunday, April 8th, 2012

Andrew Craucamp Andrew is a qualified systems engineer and software developer; an avid open source enthusiast; and a keen follower of the information and technology sector. He… The South African highschool IT curriculum is outdated and not adequately preparing students Democratic Alliance leader and Western Cape Premier Helen Zille, recently stated that by 2014 every [...]

Anonymous Desktop OS Released, Hacking Tools Included

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

The hacking group Anonymous now has its own desktop operating system, pre-loaded with tools for finding Website vulnerabilities and simulating denial-of-service attacks. However, some members of the group are already distancing themselves from the software. Anonymous-OS is based off Ubuntu and uses MATE, an alternative user interface. The OS comes pre-loaded with a variety of [...]

LXDE: This Lightweight Distro Isn’t Missing Much

Thursday, March 8th, 2012

It’s no wonder that the Linux desktop operating system is not attracting hordes of new users from Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Windows and the Mac OS X platforms. Linux has almost too many desktop choices, and most of them are far from good. One clear exception is the Lightweight X Desktop Environment, or LXDE. I am [...]

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