Best 4 distributions similar to the Windows appearance

Some of us like to use a similar system to Windows (or similar windows theme which are comfortable to the eye), because some people do not like to go into customization things and decorate their desktop, either because they don't have time for that and want simply a beautiful looking system to work on it and to meet their tasks, or either because they don't want to tamper with it or they don't know how to do the formation of the desktop, fortunately having diversity in the Linux, it contains several distributions which provide different similar looks of the Windows, and in this article we will mention four of them ...

1-ChaletOS

Did you already switched from Windows 7 to Linux? ChaletOS will be the distribution that is very suitable for you especially if you're a fan of Windows 7, this distribution is very similar to that system, as this wonderful distribution contains Style Changer so you can change the colors and shape of the system, also has a program called Start point, which is considered as a starting point for beginners in this system and contains the necessary set of programs to do the most basic tasks. (Download)

2-Zorin OS

This one also considered to be one of the best Linux distributions (and most similar distribution to windows ever used), the last version (12) of this distribution is very similar to Windows 10, and comes with a good set of programs, developers tried to give the impression as if using Windows, It shapes with an utility named "Zorin look Changer" to change the looks and appearances to the following systems: Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Ubuntu, Mac, very excellent distribution. (Download)

3-Kubuntu

Kubuntu is Ubuntu but with KDE desktop and some modifications, Kubuntu has (thanks to KDE) an impressive range of settings and methods of customization and The Settings,you will get lost in the plentiful, despite differences with Windows, but they generally give Windows experience as well as stunning and flat design  . (Download)

4-Feren OS

Newborn distro, based on the popular LinuxMint, containing a large number of features (Themes) already ready, very beautiful, the beautiful distribution in this list, easy to use and customizable and the ability to change on a large scale to the following looks: fereOs Default, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Mac OS X, Ubuntu, Windows Classic and others ... (download)

What is the distribution do you consider the best and most beautiful in this list?

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The release of the final version of Ubuntu 14.10

After months of continuous development, Ubuntu developers announced release of Ubuntu final release 14.10 of which, the new version did not come with any new features to remember it is just a version carries Last updated packages and bug fixes as well as to provide some additional packages to be installed through the official repositories, is not worth the upgrade to in fact especially as it is not LTS.

The new version came with Linux Kernel 3.16, Firefox and Thunderbird 33, LibreOffice 4.4.3.2, interface Unity 7.3, and the interface MATE becomes available for installation from the official repository and so on for the interface Unity 8, It has also updated the appearance a little bit by a new set of backgrounds for Ubuntu 14.10.

To download the Ubuntu 14.10 Click here.

     

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Linux AIO

The Ubuntu AIO which symbolize to All In One and it contains Ubuntu and all its flavours collected into one iso, project has extended and it is now called Linux AIO and it contains Ubuntu AIO ISO, Linux Mint AIO ISO, Linux Mint Debian AIO ISO and Debian Live AIO ISO. You can find new releases and more details on linuxaio.net.

The Download page from here.

     

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Ubuntu expands in India

India is the fastest growing market for open-source operating system Ubuntu, thanks to links \ alliances with leading vendors of computers, and the increasing reliance on cloud applications and web solutions in the country where institutions see the  that Ubuntu is very good at such things and things.

Linux has grown by 50% from last year in India, and perhaps this is thanks to a partnership with Canonical my company Dell and HP, to attach to the system operated with certain models of those Laptops displayed in India.

India is the fastest growing market for us for adoption on Ubuntu, it's definitely one of our main markets globally. - Prakash Advani: Regional Director for Canonical in Asia and the Pacific. 

As many companies have moved to cloud storage, and this means that Ubuntu has become more important for them, and also said: that people are switching to Ubuntu because it is simpler to understand and easy to install and use. - Sanchit Vir Gogia. 

We chose Ubuntu because it is stable, and does not require the struggles of viruses Unlike Windows, it is very safe and cost-effective. - Mahesh Pawar. 

To ensure that it comfortable for users, JustDial company began conducting training in the field of basic awareness about Ubuntu.

If some users insisted on the use of the Windows system, we will educate these people how they can use the Ubuntu system more efficient. - Pawar. 

We seek to make important applications running on open source operating systems. - Srikanth Raman: Director of Information Technology at Narayana Hrudayalaya. 

In last two years, Ubuntu was able to penetrate the government and education sectors with some great bargains, such as the deal of 15-lakh where bought Delhi University 61 A computer installed upon Ubuntu also bought the province of Assam Omitron 28 thousand computers; as the company JustDial transferred substantially all its computers amounting 4500 computer to Ubuntu, for their use of the CRM system that works from the browser.

Ubuntu has also seen a growth in the consumer sector of users who opt for cheap versions of laptops pre-installed with Ubuntu, and there are about 850 stores in the country sells Laptops HP and Dell pre-installed with Ubuntu system.

     

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Install the download manager XDM on Ubuntu

XDM or Xdman short for Xtreme download manager, a download application which is very strong and fast, and supports the resumption of the download, and has the ability to download any thing in the web, it also provides a timetable for downloads, and can integrate with your browser.

XDM uses dynamic segmentation algorithm sophisticated and compresses the data and re-use the connection to speed up the loading process, it supports the protocols HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, as well as firewalls, and proxy servers, and cookies, and validation processes and file redirects.

# Advantages: 

Load as quickly as possible
A sophisticated algorithm to segment files, and data compression, and re-use of contact
Download video formats FLV, MP4, HTML5 from across the Web
The possibility of integration with browsers Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari, or even any other browser
Stop \ resume downloads malfunctioning caused by a problem in communication or power outages
The possibility of shutting down the system automatically after the download is finished
Can be set to automatically carry out the examination of the viruses in the files loaded
Written in Java (requires Java installed to run the program)

# Installation 

To install the Xtreme download manager on Ubuntu 14.04 \ 12.04 Open the terminal Ctrl + Alt + T and paste the following commands :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa: noobslab/apps 
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install xdman 

Integration with browsers: Firefox, Chrome, Opera

Firefox 

To make Firefox integrates with Xdman should first have the program open and visible next to the clock, and then you have to open the following link and you install added normally.
http://localhost:9614/xdmff.xpi 

Chrome

For Google Chrome browser, go to: System Settings System Settings - Network Network - the network proxy Network Proxy - Method in the box and then select Automatic Automatic - The configuration URL in the box, then specify the following link :
http://localhost:9614/proxy.pac 

Opera

The Opera browser, you should perform the same way Chrome mentioned above, but there is one more step also must do it, go to Settings, Opera, and follow what you see in the following picture :

     

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Guide to install Java on Ubuntu

Installing Java is one of the few things that people do after installing Ubuntu, and in this post we will guide you to install Java on Ubuntu 14.04 with clarifying the differences between the various copies Java.

OpenJDK against JRE against Oracle JDK 

Before proceeding to install Java, we must be aware of the differences between these copies of Java, let's take a quick look for these versions:

JRE: It is an abbreviation for (Java Runtime Environment), which is the application you need to pan ordinary users to run applications written in Java, this is all you need if you are not a programmer.

JDK: It is based on the Java Development Kit, and this is what you need to do some development processes and programming related to Java.

OpenJDK: It is the application of open-source Java Development Kit, and this version is also suitable for the needs of most casual users, but the advantage back to the JRE in this context.

Oracle JDK: it is the official version of Oracle's Java Development Kit, and the examples that you use, the editor compile Android Studio.

Java installation on Ubuntu 14.04 

# Before starting the installation, you should check whether the Java software installed you actually have to verify the existence of Java in the system, open the terminal Ctrl + Alt + T and paste the following command :

java-version 

- If you see the following output or similar :

The program 'java' can be found in the following packages: 
* Default-jre 
* Gcj-4.6-jre-headless 
* Openjdk-6-jre-headless 
* Gcj-4.5-jre-headless 
* Openjdk-7-jre-headless 
Try: sudo apt-get install 

It means that Java is not installed on the computer, and you'll need to install it, so we will proceed to the installation process now.

Installing the JRE 

Open a terminal Ctrl + Alt + T and paste the following command :

sudo apt-get install default-jre 

Installing OpenJDK 

Open a terminal Ctrl + Alt + T and paste the following command :

sudo apt-get install default-jdk 

Installing Oracle JDK 

Open a terminal Ctrl + Alt + T and paste the following commands (* Make sure to have high-speed Internet, it will download a lot of files in the case of Oracle JDK).

sudo add-apt-repository ppa: webupd8team/java 
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer 
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-set-default 

(* If you want to install the seventh version of the oracle jdk, replace java8 b java7 in the above commands).

     

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How to install Cinnamon on Ubuntu 14.04 and 12.04

As you know, the repository which enables users to install interface Cinnamon on Ubuntu have been stopped long time ago, and users became unable to install this interface on Ubuntu only through the construction of the source, which it is very difficult for users to non-advanced in Ubuntu distribution.

Fortunately, now, finally a new repository is provided to solves this problem, providing the Cinnamon interface (last version) for Ubuntu 14.04, and for Ubuntu 12.04, to add the repository in order to install Cinnamon on your system run these commands :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa: tsvetko.tsvetkov/cinnamon 
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install cinnamon

     

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Cinnamon will no longer be installed for users of Ubuntu

Cinnamon interface is one of the most popular existing environment in Linux, that has been developed mainly by a team of Linux Mint, which is able to install by a single repository on Ubuntu using this ppa: gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable, unfortunately this repository stooped working and Ubuntu users will not be able to install ot again.

The reason behind stopping the repository is not that the developer does not want to follow the lifting beams, but because Ubuntu will remove older versions of packages gnome and on which Cinnamon depend on it, and therefore it would be impossible to install the interface because the Dependencies that you need will no longer exist, and trying to install old Dependencies means crashing the system to obtain a conflict between the versions of the packages.

There is no solution at present for anyone who wants to use Cinnamon on Ubuntu, if you love this interface strongly you will move to another Linux distribution such as Fedora or openSUSE and others.

     

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The release of The Orange Box device system with Ubuntu

The canonical company in collaboration with the TranquilPC company have produced the first computer cluster running on Ubuntu by default, it has been named The Orange Box.
Before we speak about hardware features, we must first know the meaning of the word computer cluster :The sentence computer cluster used to describe two computers or more that are connect together often part of a network of LAN so that work in parallel to process data, where the data is divided into small parts which every computer from the cluster process its data and have been sent to the central server which receives and collect all Data coming from every computer in the cluster. To learn more, Visit the wiki.

The Orange Box

     

This device provides a great platform and where in just a few minutes you will see the power in hardware provisioning and synchronization service with all of Ubuntu, MAAS, Juju, Landscape, Openstack, Hadoop, CloudFoundry and many other technologies so that it can be a server for Steam. You can think of some other ways for this device or HDK (Hardware Development Kit) Set up as an example of the orange box using MAAS and Juju and receives a cloud service built.

Features :

Hardware features of this device :

10 motherboard of type Intel NUC.
10 processors core i5-3427 2.8 GHz frequencyRandom memory (RAM) and a capacity of 160 Gb DDR3 type.
10 graphics cards, Intel HD Graphics 4000.
10 hard disks with a capacity of 120 Gb and type of SSD becomes totaling 1.2Tb.
D-Link DGS-1100-16 with 802.1q VLAN support.
Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235 WiFi adapter.
Intel Gigabin Ethernet slot.
USB ports and HDMI in the back of the device.

Buy the device :


You have the device through the network. The price of the machine is £ 7,575 and the price change by the change of hardware options desired. To request the device and obtain more information, please visit the following page .

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Install the beautiful text editor ATOM TEXT on Ubuntu

ATOM TEXT is a nice text editor, open-source developed by GitHub, which is currently in beta , Atom is based on the web techniques, and you can customize it easily and add new features to it, either by CSS or HTML and JavaScript ; It is smooth that allow you to use the APIs without the complexity .

# Other advantages :

- Browser for the system disk .
- Fast Explorer to open files quickly .
- The user interface is clean and beautiful.
- Indicators, and options
- Supports importing grammatical rules for TextMate and features.
- Along with more advantages .

# To install Atom on Ubuntu 14.04 \ 13.10 \ 12.04 ( Architecture 64-bit only) , open the terminal Ctrl + Alt + T and paste the following commands :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa: webupd8team/atom
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install atom

* Note : The application may not work well on Ubuntu 13.10 ; for reporting problems via this link .

- For Archlinux users, the application is available in AUR.

     

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Installing Mac OS X features on Ubuntu 14.04

In this tutorial, we will explain how to converse from Ubuntu 14.04 look to Mac format by installing MacBuntu, note that this explanation applies only to Ubuntu 14.04 , and for the other versions search the web.

1 .Download wallpaper Mac OS X

Click here to download.

2 . Install the Docky bar

- Open a terminal Ctrl + Alt + T and paste the following commands :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa: docky-core/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docky

- After installing the dock on your computer , open it , and then download this special feature , and do the same as the following picture shows :

3 . Installation of Mac features, icons and indicators

- For the installation of a feature with all Macintosh icons and indicators , open the terminal Ctrl + Alt + T and paste the following commands :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa: noobslab / themes
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mac-ithemes-v3
sudo apt-get install mac-icons-v3

- After the installation is finished , select the desired attribute , icons and indicators mouse through the Unity Tweak Tool ( available in the software center ) .

- If you want to remove the feature, paste the following commands :

cd / usr / share / icons / mac-cursors && sudo. / uninstall-mac-cursors.sh
sudo apt-get remove mac-ithemes-v3 mac-icons-v3

4 . Installation of boot Mac feature  ( Splash Mac Boot)

- Open a terminal Ctrl + Alt + T and paste the following commands , to install the Splash :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa: noobslab / themes
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mbuntu-bscreen-v3

- In case you want to remove this feature, run the following commands :

sudo apt-get autoremove mbuntu-bscreen-v3

5 . Installation of the Mac login screen feature on LightDM

- If you want to install Mac OS X feature on LightDM login screen in Ubuntu, open the terminal Ctrl + Alt + T and paste the following commands :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa: noobslab / themes
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mbuntu-lightdm-v3

- In case you want to remove this feature, run the following command :

sudo apt-get remove mbuntu-lightdm-v3

6 . Install Instant Search tool for files , folders and programs : Synapse

On the Macintosh system , there is an app called Spotlight, which enables users to search rapidly and immediately all things on the computer ; On the Linux system there is a great alternative called Synapse.

To install Synapse Open terminal Ctrl + Alt + T and paste the following commands :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa: noobslab / apps
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-synapse

* Note: After that you need to log out of the computer, then the application will work.

7 . Replacement of the word Ubuntu Desktop to Mac OS X word in the top bar

- Open a terminal Ctrl + Alt + T and paste the following commands :

 cd && wget-O Mac.po http://drive.noobslab.com/data/Mac-14.04/change-name-on-panel/mac.po

cd / usr / share / locale / en / LC_MESSAGES; sudo msgfmt-o unity.mo ~ / Mac.po; rm ~ / Mac.po; cd

- If you want to undo this, run the following commands :

cd && wget-O Ubuntu.po http://drive.noobslab.com/data/Mac-14.04/change-name-on-panel/ubuntu.po

cd / usr / share / locale / en / LC_MESSAGES; sudo msgfmt-o unity.mo ~ / Ubuntu.po; rm ~ / Ubuntu.po; cd

8 . Change the Slider bar to the classic appearance

- Open a terminal Ctrl + Alt + T and paste the following command :

gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal

 - If you want to undo this, run the following command :

gsettings reset com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode

     

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