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The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock. Debian Linux is one of the most popular and freely available Operating System developed by Debian Developers around the world. They are involved with various activities viz. maintaining software repositories, graphic design, legal analysis, software licenses, documentation, web & ftp site administration etc. Debian supports several Desktop Environment like GNOME, KDE Plasma Desktop and Applications,...

Ubuntu non LTS was released 13.04 version along with various flavours of ‘buntu‘ families. You can give a try of different flavours of Ubuntu which has rich features to suit your need. Ubuntu GNOME 13.04Ubuntu GNOME 13.04Ubuntu GNOME flavour first ever released after joining hand with ‘buntu‘ family has released it’s 13.04 version with default GNOME 3.6 Desktop environment. Ubuntu GNOME 13.04 HighlightsGNOME 3.6 Firefox...

Ubuntu 13.04 non LTS “Raring Ringtail” was released for Desktop, Server and Cloud on 25 April 2013 and made available for download. Also Ubuntu Founder Mark Shuttleworth has already made a announced of ‘Saucy Salamander‘ as code name for their upcoming ‘Ubuntu 13.10‘ release. Ubuntu non LTS support has been reduced for 9 months after Ubuntu 13.04 release onwards, earlier it was 18 months. Download Ubuntu 13.04 ISO...

pam_tally2 module is used to lock user accounts after certain number of failed ssh login attempts made to the system. This module keeps the count of attempted accesses and too many failed attempts. pam_tally2 module comes in two parts, one is pam_tally2.so and another is pam_tally2. It is based on PAM module and can be used to examine and manipulate the counter file. It can display user login attempts counts, set counts on individual basis, unlock...

Fuduntu Linux, based on Fedora distribution released its Fuduntu 2013.2 version recently which has a user-friendly, rolling-release with RPM package management and the classic GNOME2 desktop environment. This release comes with many new features, application and bug fixes. It has released with two flavors. A Full version with lots of software installed by default and a new Lite version which uses 3-4GB less hard drive space depending on architecture....

As promised in our earlier post, in this post we are going to review boot process in Linux Operating System. How Operating system passes through different stage of booting states. This article is written for those readers who has just steps in Linux world. Understanding how Linux boots up is very important in terms of effectively troubleshooting in case of system failure. When a system switched on and after few moment we get a login prompt. Have we...

Google Chrome is a freeware web browser developed by Google Inc.  Google Chrome team finally announced the release of Google Chrome 23.0 for Linux, Mac and Windows operating systems. This new version bundled with some exciting features like a new API for high quality video and audio communication with minor security and bug fixes. If you would like to know more other cool features of this release, please visit at Google’s Chrome Features.Install...

This guide shows how to install Opera 12.11 web browser in CentOS 6.3 Linux. However, it should also works on all Red Hat 6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.8, CentOS 6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.8 and Fedora 17,16,15,14,13,12 version’s as well. Opera Web Browser is one of the most popular and fastest loading browser developed by Opera Software. The latest stable version is 12.11 was released on June 2012.Install Opera in RedHat / CentOS / FedoraUnfortunately, Opera doesn’t...