I do like some elements of the Gnome Shell desktop environment. The progress indicator in the title bar of the file manager is one. This shows the progress of file copying operations while the user is doing other things. A very good idea that should have been implemented a long time ago. This goes to … Read more
Some of the features of Linux Mint 18 are as follows: 1) Cinnamon 3.0 : Cinnamon 3.0 has received many new features like – improved tiling, Animation effect to menu, Improved touchpad and sound settings, Panel launch now includes application actions. 2) X-Apps : A new project called “X-Apps” was started and its goal is … Read more
Ubuntu Desktop 16.10 Yakkety Yak Daily Build 29-04-2016.
This Powershell command will install a Windows feature on your Windows 8.1 or server 2012 machine. I am only using the telnet server as an example. PS C:\Users\Administrator> Install-WindowsFeature telnet-server Success Restart Needed Exit Code Feature Result ——- ————– ——— ————– True No Success {Telnet Server} This is how easy it is to install a … Read more
The new Ubuntu 14.04 Unity desktop has some cool features. The icons on the sidebar launcher may be re-sized to 16 pixels in size. This allows the launcher bar to take up even less space. And the new 3.13 kernel includes many enhancements over the old 3.12 release. Firefox 25.0 is the standard browser for … Read more
These are the new wallpapers that are available for Linux Mint 15. The railway one is very beautiful indeed. And the new MDM customisation application. This allows you to select new themes for the login manager. The new software manager allows users to select from categories and install software very easily. The Release Candidate of … Read more
There are download links for daily builds of Ubuntu here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/.
The Linux Mint 14 Nadia distribution is available now with new versions of the Linux Mint packages such as the MATE desktop and Cinnamon. MATE has been updated to version 1.4 and Cinnamon is version 1.6. The updated MATE desktop has many enhancements that make this desktop even better as your default desktop choice. One … Read more
The Ubuntu Unity desktop is a good solution for a Linux desktop and appeals to some Linux users. The fact is that Linux is about freedom of choice and if someone wants to use the Unity desktop then that is their choice. I prefer the MATE desktop on Linux Mint myself.
A first look at the Ubuntu Quantal Quetzal Alpha 3 build. The alpha 3 of the Quantal Quetzal Ubuntu distribution is out and this video showcases the new features.
I have just installed Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope once more, and I will see how I go with this, I have just installed the ubuntu-restricted-extras package and I should be able to play just about any format I want to. My Windows XP installation is playing up so I sacrificed the disk space occupied by Windows … Read more