Release of openSUSE 13.2

The community of OpenSUSE distro announced the release of the final version, 13.2 after months of constant development, the new version comes with several updates, such as the Linux kernel 3.16 and GNOME Desktop 3.14, KDE 4.11 and 4.14,XFCE and the latest stable version of LXDE desktop environment.

Btrfs Filesystem has become is the default filesystem in openSUSE 13.2 for the root (/) while XFS is the default filesystem the Home folder (/ home), which is considered a significant change to the level of performance and speed, in fact, also been several improvements made to the package management application of openSUSE so-called "Yast2" such as removing support for GRUB Legacy and focus on supporting the GRUB 2 just as well to restructure Sticky distribution and make it more automatic in the performance of tasks, as well as to improve the formal aesthetic of the overall distribution and update all packets to the latest versions.

Speaking of KDE, Kda plasma 5 became available in the official repositories for anyone who wants to try it, and KDE 3.5 for those who wants to stay on it, GNOME Shell 3.14 is pre-existing and its applications, interface MATE 1.8 is also available official repository, also have been added several scientific applications to their own official repository such as Pythia and Yoda and Cadabra, in addition to many other features.

To download the version of openSUSE 13.2, click here.

     

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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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Start in Linux server management with DigitalOcean

Linux server management is extremely broad, and it is demanded by many companies in recent times, The director of the server is the person responsible for follow-up all his affairs from the ground up and has a wide range of disciplines, it would be good for you as a user to learn a few basic things about managing Linux servers, and today you will learn about DigitalOcean company.

DigitalOcean is one of the leading companies in the field of the VPS servers running Linux, the company offers a lot of features at a bargain price too - just $ 5 a month - as well as the quality of the service, some features include :

Traffic 1 terabyte per month.
20 GB SSD type of space, which means more speed.
512 megabytes of random access memory RAM.
Possibility to install most Linux distributions with a push of a button.
Possibility to make backups and recovery process easily.
Easy and practical control Panel to help to help you with your business.
Many other features.

You can register in DigitalOcean from the following link, once you register, you'll get a free $ 10 credited, is it sufficient for two months in case you choose the first plan.

Also one of the interesting features of DigitalOcean is the presence of a large amount of documentation about Linux server management, you can review all these documents from the following link: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials 

Have you tried DigitalOcean ? How was your experience ?

     

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Netflix on Linux

Netflix now works on Linux with no Wine tricks required. All it takes to start watching Netflix on Linux right now is Google Chrome and a quick user agent tweak, and soon won’t be necessary.

But for now we have to do some tweaks to make it works.

What we need to play Netflix on Linux

- Having the last Google chrome

- NSS 3.16.2 or greater

- Hacking The user Agent by installing and using this extension : "User-Agent Switcher" and pasting these text lines as you see in the image bellow :

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/38.0.2114.2 Safari/537.36

Soon It will not require any tweaking and we will get rid of this extension, so we can watch Netflix without any complications.

     

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MICRO FOCUS buy ATTACHMATE the owner of SUSE LINUX

Nearly two years ago, Attachmate Group announced the acquisition of Novell, sponsors SUSE Linux distro (latter supports the distribution openSUSE) compared to 2.2 billion dollars (and before that, bought Novell SUSE Linux in 2003, compared with 140 million dollars), everything went just fine and did not no change regarding SUSE and openSUSE, as you know, it's the Business.

Now and in the news again, Mirco Focus announced  for the acquisition of Attachmate Group for 2.3 billion dollars and therefore are acquired also projects Novell and SUSE Linux, the new company is a software company based in Britain - London, aims through the process to purchase these to provide products and related services for the Linux system and the field of hosting generally serve the objectives of the company.

Nils Brauckmann general manager of the SUSE Linux calls openSUSE Society , and said :

It is the Business as usual: no changes planned for the structural project SUSE or its administration, as there is no need to take any action by the community openSUSE as a result of this announcement, SUSE will continue to contribute to the open source community and will continue to list the projects in the field of business, and will remain supportive of the openSUSE project and society.

The situation will remain as it was with Suse and Opensuse .. the latest version of openSUSE (13.1) is very mature and you can download it from 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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Turin, Italian city will provide eight million dollars when moving to Linux

State behind the state .. and the city behind the city .. turn to the world of open source, last of these is the city of Turin of Italy, which announced its intention to convert to open-source, to Ubuntu distro precisely, which will gradually convert more than 8300 computer from the Windows system and software closed to Ubuntu and free software, it is expected that the process takes a year and a half to be completed.

If the city remained on Windows and Microsoft Office .. had to pay about $ 29.5 million over five years, but with the transition to free software, it will pay only 21.4 million dollars .. which means providing more than 8 million dollars and this at the level of only one city in 8300 a computer belonging to the local authorities, and that this amount will be reduced too at the end of training sessions for staff and workshops and transport operations for the first time, then will become employees are able on their own to manage devices and run and will not return there are high costs and there is no annual amounts to be paid as in the past.

It is expected that Turin will become the first Italian city fully transmitted to the Free Software and Linux system .. In the case of the experiment succeeds, it is expected to continue to shift to the movements of free software in several other cities in Italy.

     

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Valencia Schools provide 50 million dollars due to LINUX

Valencia is located east of Spain and the largest city in the country, announced that its schools have been transformed into Linux, specifically to the Lliurex distribution created by Spain for those schools, which is based on the Edubuntu educational distribution, and Lliurex is used in more than 110 thousand computer teachers.

The process of transmission of Valencia Schools for Linux to save about 36 million euros (equivalent to approximately $ 50 million) over the past nine years.

Lliurex distribution is managed by the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration; during the installation process, users can choose between several options differ in their suitability for use, there is an option for use in schools or homes, and another for small and medium-sized businesses. The Lliurex and one of the many free software projects in the autonomous region of Valencia, Spain.

Instead, there are about more than 120 thousand desktop computers in Valencia which uses LibreOffice including schools, courts, and have the government said last year that the use of LibreOffice will help provide 1.5 million euros a year (the equivalent of nearly two million dollars) .

Not only this, there is also another area in western Spain called "Extremadura", which also uses her own Linux distribution called linex installed on more than 70 thousand computer teachers in the region.

     

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More games to Linux platform

One of the biggest problems of the Linux system is the lack of games and their weakness, and this of course because of the small number of users and therefore weakness interesting companies to provide their games to the Linux platform, fortunately that this reality is about to change after the support of many manufacturers of games for the Linux platform, and here we will review some new news in this regard.

50 games on GOG.com support a Linux : 

GOG.com is one of the largest websites allocated to the Games in collaboration with the companies that produce them, a few weeks has already announced to provide more than 50 game variety and classic works on the Linux system, including games really beautiful like Flat Out 2 and The Last Federation and many others, for the games, of course, driven Linux platform no dredgers and Cyrilat (no reality, but very few), this announcement is part of a goal to reach 100 Gog.com game supportive of the Linux system.

List of 50 games currently supported can be found here.

600 games driven and supports the free Linux system on the Steam platform : 

There is no doubt that the Steam platform is one of the largest platforms entertainment and gaming in the world today has become the platform provides more than 600 game variety for Linux, some of which is free and most of them paid, which makes Linux usable really by users interested in games.

Visit Steam platform via the link : http://store.steampowered.com 

Awaited Games : 

Of course there are many companies producing games that take individual steps in the provision of their games on the Linux platform, including the game Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, which has not yet issued, is expected to release on October 14 of this year on both the Mac and Windows and Linux, and Xbox 360 and PS3.

Video of the upcoming game :

Another awaited Game Westland 2, thanks to a campaign finance collective created by developers on Kickstarter, which succeeded, the support for each of the Linux and Mac became available, the game has not issued a final after and is still in the pilot phase, you can download from Steam versus $ 60 for the Linux platform from here.

There are more games that become supported every week .. Do you think Linux has become a mature for gaming or not yet?

     

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Knowledge and Linux .. one thing, in fact

If you're one of the lucky people who use Linux - without intolerance, of course - you might know that there is a hidden advantage of the features of your use of the system is far from the truth in the technical framework, namely, the love of knowledge.

In past time we used to download cracks and serials for Windows softwares that we use, we are used to download games and movies, but no more, no less, days and hours have been lost without doing anything useful in fact, whether for himself or for others.

Now with Linux the situation is completely different, there are a lot of things that you must explore to be able to use the system and therefore you will not stop using Google to find the answers that you want, we always hear this phrase "Google it" which is told by Linux Geeks, that proves that no one can feed you a knowledge from gold spoon, but you get it on your own, you Linux user not Princess Diana, you don't need someone to hold your hand in order to cut off a street with you.

This trip makes the individual thinking Out of the Box, as soon as the individual begins to search for information he will begin to learn something useful to him rather than to spend all his time in playing games for example, he will start to search for something like interfaces and server of display, programming and development and localization .. In the end, up to the stage of the search for knowledge everywhere, this changes the way of thinking of the individual Overall, his outlook on the way things are different, and the method of analysis of other things also vary even outside the sphere of technical, Linux is not just an operating system, It's also a Philosophy (Open source).

On the other hand this does not mean that everyone who use Windows and Mac are fools (of course not), but the proportion of those differ, of course, for example, every 100 Windows user are not fluent in using their computers and understand the difference between the server and the website, but Linux users : most of them are. This does not mean all of course, there are millions of professionals who use the closed-source applications or systems and there are many newbies who try out Linux just to enjoy the beauty and some effects (like Compiz), but the ratio varies as we said previously.

How about you ? Did your way of thinking has changed after you changed your system :)

     

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Indian state turns to Linux

The State of India which is called "Tamil Nadu" turned to Linux operating system, in the same time as Microsoft announced the end of life of Windows XP .

The management of technology and information of the country proposed to make Linux as an alternative to Windows XP on all computers owned by it, One of the main reasons for choosing Linux over Windows 8 is not supporting old devices.

I have chosen for this task a distribution (BOSS Linux) which is an abbreviation for " Bharat Operating System Solutions " , a distribution developed by CDAC ( Development Center of Advanced Computing ), and it's Indian government initiative .

In fact, many other countries around the world have turned to open-source recently , and perhaps the end of support for Windows XP was a catalyst for that matter , where in the last month, a Spanish island made a transition to open source and the cities of Munich and Berlin , as well as the police of the French capital , as well as that many of the other states considering the move to open source .

Do you think that the end of the Windows XP was a contributing factor in the transition of countries to open source ? Do you think it will contribute to increase the share of Linux on the market ?

     

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Windows XP look and Linux save the old PCs

The end of support for Windows XP is leading many to wonder what to do, and there are many people who would like to keep their computer and simply change the operating system. The advice in these case is often to install Linux , and to make the transition less traumatic than we think now. A new theme for Lubuntu : it's called Lubuntu XP with Three Flavors that make this distribution almost identical to XP.

Lubuntu is an Ubuntu "light" , and therefore particularly suitable for computer now especially for those born with Windows XP. Like other versions of Linux , however , its appearance creates some concern to those accustomed to Windows for a lifetime.

Then why Lubuntu XP Three Flavors is interesting : the operating system is always Lubuntu of course, but those who came from the Windows Xp will feel at home straight away because it will regain color scheme , background, and even the menu icons.

An inexperienced computer user could easily swap Lubuntu for XP , and even those who know the differences might not notice the "exchange" passing quickly in front of a monitor. It would be worthwhile to do a test by installing "Lubuntu XP" to see if you notice the changes.

For the installation, it would be better to have someone expert, or at least not a complete fool . You have to download and install Lubuntu , first of all , and then add the theme Lubuntu+XP - there are others themes besides the one mentioned in this article. These things are not difficult to do, just do some search online and you will find what you look for .

A things done the old PC could find a new life and serve its owner for a long time , which would be good for your wallet , the environment and for the open source community - which would gain a few new users. All happy then , except perhaps Microsoft - which probably would prefer to sell a new license of Windows 8.

     

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Intel Graphics Installer tool for Linux

It is rare to find Companies of hardware interested in Linux , well, at least not with Intel , which has recently launched what is known as Intel Graphics Installer, which is a graphical application that Intel itself develops to install the latest version of the Graphic card definition and to make easy to update.

The application is available to work on Ubuntu and Fedora only , and is available for 32 and 64 bits, you can download it from the following link depending on your distribution.

     

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R-Linux : an Application to recover deleted files

Few are those applications that recover deleted files on a Linux system , we review a nice software to recover deleted files easily through Linux .

R-Linux is a free open source with a simple graphical interface which is not complex and has many options .

To download R-Linux :

- Ubuntu 32-bit
- Ubuntu 64-bit

- 32-bit Fedora
- 64-bit Fedora

     

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How to Check Kernel version and other related information in Linux

uname command with the -a option gives an output of some system information, including machine name, kernel name and version, and a few other details.

For example :

04:58 pm nec ~
┗$ uname -a
Linux amz 3.10.27-1-MANJARO #1 SMP Thu Jan 16 20:54:40 UTC 2014 i686 GNU/Linux

     

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Convert from ogv to Any other format in Linux using ffmpeg

I assume you have you have ffmpeg Installed on your machine.

The first thing you do, is calling the Terminal and changing to the path where to the Media you want to convert is .

I chose the home directory : 

cd ~

Now we can convert by performing this command (I n this example I have converted Ogv tp Mp4)

ffmpeg -i input.ogv -vcodec libx264 output.mp4

input.ogv = the original video.

output.mp4 = the changed video format (You can change the name also as you see here, and the path as well) .

ffmpeg -i input.ogv -vcodec libx264 ~/Desktop/output.mp4

In this example, I changed also the path.

     

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Merry Christmas!!

Sorry I was late, but I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. I hope everyone is having a very good time with your loved ones these days. Enjoy!.

     

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Valve joins Linux Foundation

Valve has decided to support the Linux community by joining The Linux Foundation. In this short movie, we catch Valve's Gabe Newell discussing the part Linux is playing in the organization's advancement system, and Linus Torvalds discusses the benefits of this for Linux and the Linux desktop in general.

     

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Linux : how to mount Usb flash drive from command line

It's easy to mount a Usb flash drive in Linux from te bash by typing three Linux commands, I'm sure you will find others do it differently than me (using parameters).

Here, I will show you the simple method to do it (without using any parameters).

First, you need to know the device name (sdb*) after you plugged in the Usb flash drive by typing this command (It needs root permission)

sudo fdisk -l

The results will be :

sudo fdisk -l

The device name here is sdb1. sda1 sda2 ... are partitions of the hard drive.

Now, we need to create a Folder (we will use it later)

sudo mkdir /media/usb

We can mount it now in that folder we created

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usb

The content of the usb flash drive will be in this path /media/usb.
Before you reject it, you need to unmount it first by this command

sudo umount /dev/sdb1

In case, you want to mount it again, you don't need to create that folder again, because It is there.

     

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Linus Torvalds Admits He’s Been Asked To Insert Backdoor Into Linux

Linus Torvalds was asked many questions at the conference in New Orleans with many Kernel developers. One question he was asked was whether a government agency had ever asked about inserting a back-door into Linux.

Torvalds responded ‘no’ while shaking his head ‘yes,’ as the audience broke into spontaneous laughter.Torvalds also admitted that while he as a full life outside of Linux he couldn’t imagine his life without it. ‘I don’t see any project coming along being more interesting to me than Linux,’ Torvalds said. ‘I couldn’t imagine filling the void in my life if I didn’t have Linux.’”

     

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